Tax cuts aren’t key to creating jobs 0
Neil, one of my neighbors on Capitol Hill, recalled this story to me the other day after watching President Obama’s town hall meeting: “She was recently widowed, about 93, having lost her husband of over 60 years. When I came upon her in a darkened church hallway, standing alone, staring at the floor, I wanted to know what was wrong.
Read MoreMiddle Class Exhaustion Sets In 0
It all started with this simple question at a Town Hall meeting featuring the president of the United States: “Quite frankly, I’m exhausted,” said the questioner. “I’m exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now.”
Read MoreGOP Pledge: Weak Tea 0
This year, the Republican Party has embraced out of the mainstream candidates and ideas, but when it comes to their agenda for America & well, lets just say their agenda is pretty weak tea. Today, Republicans released that agenda, a Pledge to America that simply recycles warmed-over versions of the same failed policies Republicans pursued during the Bush era and injects them with steroids to make their negative consequences even worse.
Read MoreWhat Democrats Have Done for the African American Community 0
In a recent New York Times op-ed, Bob Herbert asks an important question and one that a lot of African American voters are asking this election season: what have Democrats done for our community?
Read MoreWill the Tea Party help or hurt Obama? 0
The Post asked political experts whether the Tea Party will help or hurt President Obama. Below are responses from Robert Shrum, Ed Rogers, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Dan Schnur and Donna Brazile.
Read MoreTea party taking no prisoners 0
Let me tell you an election-night true story.
Three days after the devastating Republican loss of 2008, Steve Schmidt, campaign manager and chief strategist to former GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, offered this blunt assessment to the defeated Republican Party: “The party in the Northeast is all but extinct; the party on the West Coast is all but extinct; the party has lost the mid-South states (and) is in deep trouble in the Rocky Mountain West…there has to be a message and a vision that is compelling to people in order for them to come back…”
Read MoreGOP measuring the drapes 0
Today’s pundits are sagely pointing out that Nov. 2 is not going to be a great night for Democrats. They say the conventional wisdom is that, in an off-year election, the party in power (the Democrats) would be expected to lose about 15 to 20 seats.
Read MoreGlenn Beckons Return To What Nearly Destroyed Us 0
They came in the tens of thousands to the “Restoring Honor” rally, believing every word conservative Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck told them about the rally being nonpolitical.
Read MoreRemembering Katrina, Rebuilding New Orleans 0
This weekend marks the fifth August since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. It is a solemn anniversary, one marked by still empty New Orleans homes and still scattered New Orleans neighbors. Yet it is also a hopeful anniversary, one marked by the tremendous progress made since the levees broke and the water washed so many peoples homes and hopes away.
Read MoreFive Years After Katrina, Let’s Remember Our Common Humanity 0
It’s been five years since Hurricane Katrina turned the streets of my beloved hometown of New Orleans into an array of devastating rivers. I was there a week after the hurricane killed hundreds, destroyed homes and historic buildings and eroded everyone’s confidence in government.
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