President Barack Obama is now taking credit for ending the U.S. war in Iraq when the reality is that President George W. Bush did so in 2008 by approving the Status of Forces Agreement arduously negotiated between the U.S. and Iraqi governments.
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Among the most frequently heard criticisms by Democrats about President George W. Bush and the pre-2006 Republican majorities in the House and Senate was that corporations were being coddled even while they were sending American jobs overseas. Then President Barack Obama proposed his $787 billion economic stimulus program and promised that it would bring unemployment down to 8 percent or less while saving or creating up to 3.5 million jobs.
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Here’s something to think about: Since passage in 1935 of the National Labor Relations Act, federal law has required recognition of every worker’s right to decide whether to join a union. Yet an estimated 90 percent of the members of unions today never had a say in the matter because current law only requires unions to win one election to gain representation rights forever.
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Justice Department documents made public yesterday by Judicial Watch exposed quite a contradiction — a secret meeting on transparency in government. It happened on Dec. 7, 2009, and was convened by the Office of Information Policy in the Justice Department headed by Attorney General Eric Holder.
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Sneer though many of them did, liberals envied the success of the tea party in 2009 and 2010. Eager to embrace an authentic populist movement of their own, they have been buoyed by the results of a Time magazine poll this week, purporting to demonstrate that the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, at 54 percent approval, are more popular than the tea party.
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Now that Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb.; Jon Tester, D-Mont.; Jim Webb, D-Va.; Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.; and Joe Liebermann, I-Conn. have either voted against President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act, or said they would if it came up for final passage, it is safe to say that the chief executive’s second stimulus program is dead.
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When President Barack Obama addressed the U.N. on Sept. 21, he knew he would be followed on the dais the next day by Iran’s madman president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Republicans are often accused of being ideologically inflexible. But President Barack Obama stubbornly refuses to budge on his belief that Americans must be forced to stop using fossil fuels such as oil, gas and natural gas as soon as possible and instead begin depending on clean energy. In his own words, this policy means “electricity prices must necessarily skyrocket.”
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For more than two centuries, the U.S. Senate has been labeled the world’s greatest deliberative body because of its rule ensuring the right of every senator to force consideration and a recorded vote on any issue. The rule made the Senate unique as the world’s only legislative entity in which the rights of majorities and minorities were equally protected.
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