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Obama's Budget Proposal -- and the Coming War With Republicans
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyAfter several weeks warming up the decks for his Valentine's Day offering, President Obama presented on Monday his proposed 2012 budget of $3.7 trillion, which he said will cut the federal deficit by $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years. Not surprisingly, Republicans, and many Democrats, were not feeling the love. "The president's budget will destroy jobs by spending too much, taxing too much, and borrowing too much," Speaker John Boehner said in a release Monday morning, repeating what he said a day earlier on the NBC News program "Meet the Press." Paul Ryan, chair of the House Budget ...
State of the Union Preview: The New Drive to Eliminate Partisan Rancor
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIt began in 1983 as the congressional version of a high-school gag. Frustrated that once again they would be reduced to extras in the over-produced spectacle of a Ronald Reagan State of the Union address, House Democrats secretly plotted their revenge. When the advance text of the president's remarks circulated on Capitol Hill the day of the speech, Tip O'Neill's merry pranksters highlighted an innocuous sentence towards the end of the speech: "We who are in government must take the lead in restoring the economy." When Reagan read this line on cue, House Democrats erupted as if the ...
Obama's Nuclear Moves: Good for America, Bad for Democrats?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyPresident Obama is setting new priorities and new directions for the country as he tries to curb nuclear proliferation and prevent nuclear terrorism. What could be bad, right? He's following in the tradition of Ronald Reagan. Yet there is the depressing possibility that Obama's efforts to make the world a safer place could feed doubts about whether he and his party are macho enough to protect the country. The promise and the peril were summed up in an exchange on Politics Daily's Facebook page. "I trust our president to work for peace," wrote Erica Kirchner-Dean. Retorted Grant Miller, no fan ...
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