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Americans Say Reagan Is Greatest President, Poll Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyNumber 40 is No. 1. Just in time for Presidents Day, Ronald Reagan tops a list of the nation's greatest chief executives, ahead of Abraham Lincoln, according to a new survey out Friday. The Gallup Poll puts Reagan, with 19 percent, in the top spot for the third time. Reagan also occupied the position in 2001 and 2005 -- and he has been in the top three eight times since Gallup started asking the "greatest president" question 12 years ago. Lincoln garnered 14 percent, followed very closely by Bill Clinton, with 13 percent. John F. Kennedy, who was on top in 2000 and tied with Lincoln in ...
Putting WikiLeaks in Historical Context
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe WikiLeaks story has spawned an understandable amount of debate. It has also proven to be a rare area of bipartisan agreement. Most responsible people -- regardless of political party or ideology -- believe the leaking of secret government documents is harmful to America, and must be stopped. A nation facing so many potential international problems as the U.S. currently faces (see Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea -- just to name a few), simply must be able to maintain confidentiality with foreign leaders and diplomats. Still, it may be hard for some to appreciate the impact these ...
Obama's Economic Message: We Can't Hear You
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyOn Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released September's Employment Situation Summary -- the latest stats on American employment (and unemployment), and the last such data before the November elections. The results? Unemployment is stuck at 9.6 percent and the country lost 95,000 jobs. In what has become a monthly exercise in seeing the glass half full or half empty, the White House will defend its steps to rescue the economy and create jobs, while the GOP will use the very same figures to show just how far the country has been run off course. In the days before last month's jobs stats ...
Rahm Emanuel's Misguided Mantra: 'No Crisis Should Go to Waste'
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyDuring the heady days after the 2008 election, as Democrats basked in their Wordsworth moment ("Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive"), Rahm Emanuel embodied the governing philosophy of the new administration. "No crisis should go to waste," Emanuel told the Washington Post for its post-election edition, stressing that he was speaking for himself as an Illinois congressman -- and not Barack Obama. Two weeks later, having been named White House chief of staff, Emanuel gave his mantra the presidential imprimatur as he told a conference of business leaders organized by the Wall Street ...
Opinion: Is Obama Spurring Growth, or Knocking It Down?
By not in system - AOL News(July 8) -- Government can spur the private sector. That's the gist of the argument that's in the air this summer. This week, for example, President Barack Obama said, "we've got much more work to do to spur stronger job growth and to keep the larger recovery moving." Such spurring is often said to occur in a technical way, when government outlays have a so-called multiplier effect that invigorates other economic participants. The Obama administration has a second meaning for "to spur." It is that government entering an industry as a competitor will strengthen that industry and make it more ...
Calvin Coolidge Has Become Hero to Tea Partiers
By not in system - AOL NewsPLYMOUTH, Vt. (July 3) -- In the Vermont hamlet where Calvin Coolidge was born, folks will celebrate his star-spangled birthday the way they always do. A Vermont National Guard contingent and a color guard will gather at noon on the village green and walk down to the Plymouth Notch Cemetery, where Coolidge is buried, trailed by hundreds of people - Coolidge descendants, presidential history buffs and locals. There, Brig. Gen. Matthew McCoy will lay a wreath provided by the White House, a U.S. Army bugler will blow "Taps" and McCoy will lead the procession back up the road to the village, ...
Coup to 'Resolve the Obama Problem': Shades of 1933
By Sally Denton - Politics DailyWhen conservative online magazine Newsmax recently posted a column suggesting that a military coup to "resolve the Obama problem" was a distinct possibility, the resulting uproar led to its immediate removal from the magazine's Web site."Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation," wrote columnist John L. Perry. "Skilled, military-trained nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the ...
Obama and His Enemies: The Once and Constant Opposition
By Lou Cannon - Politics DailyA young physician refers to the president of the United States as "the crackpot in Washington who is ruining the country." A businessman decries his "socialistic tendencies," another denounces him as a "despot." A banker claims the president is wrecking the banking system. The Republican Party proclaims National Debt Week and reminds Americans that deficit spending is passing a mountain of debt onto future generations. It is, one prominent Republican maintains, "the crime of the century." The target of these overheated condemnations is not President Barack Obama. Rather, these were routine ...
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