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Likely GOP Presidential Candidates Slam Obama Budget Plan
By not in system - AOL NewsCONCORD, N.H. -- The Republicans vying to challenge President Barack Obama next year are universally panning his budget proposal as political gimmickry and another example of his inability to lead. The likely candidates lined up Wednesday against Obama's budget proposal, which would cut the federal deficit by $4 trillion over 12 years by eliminating health care fraud, raising taxes on the wealthy and paring defense spending. Republicans cast it as a hollow response to spending outline proposed earlier by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. "It was as if Ryan was the president and (Obama) was a desperate ...
Georgia Lawmaker Is Asked: When Will Someone Shoot Obama?
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyTalk about lack of civility. Georgia Rep. Paul Broun couldn't have expected this question as he opened the floor for discussion at a recent town hall meeting in the college town of Athens. One unidentified man in the crowd reportedly asked him: "Who's going to shoot Obama?" The Republican lawmaker said Friday he was "stunned" by the remark and chose "not to dignify it with a response." He said the culprit was an elderly man in the audience. An Athens Banner-Herald reporter covering the event Tuesday couldn't make out the precise wording in the crowded Oglethorpe Couty Commission chamber, but ...
Opinion: Who Has the Courage to Lead on Spending Cuts?
By not in system - AOL NewsLast week's release of President Barack Obama's budget left many Americans scratching their heads. They'd made clear their demands for a dramatic change in Washington's overspending ways; they'd also made clear their expectation for President Obama to lead in that charge. And certainly, the president fueled that expectation. During his State of the Union address, Obama said: "We have to confront the fact that our government spends more than it takes in. That is not sustainable. Every day, families sacrifice to live within their means. They deserve a government that does the ...
Opinion: 2 Ways to Win the Future
By not in system - AOL NewsWhen the latest job numbers came out, they continued to deliver bad news. Just 36,000 jobs were added last month, far short of what analysts predicted. Fortunately, the president has finally -- and wisely -- shifted his focus away from the issues that sent his party plummeting in the polls and put it back where it belongs: on the jobs Americans need and the way to create them. "At stake is whether new jobs and industries take root in this country, or somewhere else," Obama declared in the State of the Union. "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American ...
Obama: Medicare, Social Security Demand Compromise
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Defending his new budget as one of "tough choices," President Barack Obama said Tuesday that more difficult decisions about the nation's biggest expenses - Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security - will have to be tackled by Democrats and Republicans acting together, not by White House dictates. "This is not a matter of, 'you go first, I go first,'" he said. "It's a matter of everybody having a serious conversation about where we want to go and then ultimately getting in that boat at the same time so it doesn't tip over." The president pitched his $3.73 trillion budget as a ...
Opinion: Obama's Underpowered Energy Policy
By not in system - AOL NewsIf President Barack Obama's budget proposal tracks the broad game plan for energy policy that he laid out in his State of the Union address, be prepared for a letdown when the numbers come out on Monday. For all of his "big ideas" -- from Sputnik to job creation, high-speed rail to high-speed Internet -- Obama offered underpowered solutions. Another View on Obama's Energy Plan Raising taxes on gas and oil will only hurt consumers, says Charles T. Drevna of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association. For starters, the president did not even mention the ...
Obama's Wager on Clean Energy: The Right Role for Government?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThere he goes again, picking winners and losers. That would be President Barack Obama, who visited Penn State University this week to shower love and money -- yet again -- on the clean, green energy sector. This is not a mere crush. Obama has been promoting green energy and green jobs on the national stage since he announced his presidential candidacy four years ago. The terminology has changed (Democrats now prefer "clean energy") but Obama's commitment has not. The 2009 stimulus package contained more than $80 billion in spending and tax incentives for the clean energy sector. Obama's trips ...
Opinion: State of the Union -- Boffo Smash or Miserable Flop?
By Will Durst - AOL NewsOnce again, in terms of political theater, President Barack Obama has managed to flummox both critics and angels alike. Reviews of his State of the Union address have been more mixed than a Kansas Cuisinart stuck in a tornado on puree. Notwithstanding the ritualistic 79 applause breaks by his Geek Chorus, the production could best be described as a work in progress. Nowhere near Pulitzer Prize Luncheon territory; but not destined for a trip to Joe Allen's flop wall either. Think "Tony & Tina's Wedding" with added intellectual posturing. Producers of the rival big show in town, "Burning Down ...
Opinion: Democracy Is Calling in Egypt -- Can Obama Hear It?
By not in system - AOL News"We do big things," President Barack Obama said of Americans in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. But as he presented his presidential laundry list of domestic policy ideas, big things were afoot in the Middle East. And he had nothing to say about them. The morning of Obama's speech, the Egyptian people took to the streets to protest the 29-year dictatorship of President Husni Mubarak. Tens of thousands, encouraged by the ongoing protests that prompted the ouster of Tunisia's 23-year dictator Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali earlier this month, defied Mubarak's security forces in hopes of ...
Opinion: The American Dream Decoded, at Last
By not in system - AOL NewsThe American Dream is back! It was last seen doing cocaine on a yacht in 1989, and went completely underground soon after. Since then, it's been derided as everything from a cruel joke to a naive fairy tale. But on Tuesday night, Barack Obama brought the Dream to the podium during the State of the Union speech, and it looked surprisingly good. It had clearly lost a little weight and thankfully shaved off that silly mustache. The Dream talked about what it's been up to -- helping a student in Scranton, starting small businesses, getting Obama elected, the usual. The Dream then asked what we'd ...
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