Today in Washington – July 22, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | July 22nd at 10:20 AM |
So much for President Obama’s promises of economic stimulus. The New York Times reports that moments after the President signed a new law to expand regulation over the financial sector, one business group complained that the new law will discourage job growth. The Business Roundtable complained in a statement that the law “takes our country in the wrong direction” and may discourage investment and job growth, echoing | Read More »
Today in Washington – July 21, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | July 21st at 10:30 AM |
President Obama may be one of the most divisive presidents of our lifetime. The President is set to sign a Financial Services Reform bill full of racial and gender preferences today. Clearly the lack of racial and gender preferences (and quotas) in the financial sector had nothing to do with the financial meltdown of 2008, yet the legislation set up a huge bureaucratic mechanism to force racial and gender preferences on | Read More »
This Week in Washington – July 19, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | July 19th at 11:00 AM |
Last week, WH Press Flack Robert Gibbs declared the House is lost and this week it was up to Vice President Joe Biden to bring a happy message to Democrats. Biden declared his opinion yesterday on This Week. “I don’t think the losses are going to be bad at all. I think we are going to shock the heck out of everybody.” AP reports: Vice President Joe | Read More »
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Today in Washington – June 8, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | June 8th at 06:30 AM |
Last month, Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) called President Obama “thin skinned,” because of the President’s intolerance of criticism. Trait came out in an interview with the Today Show interview posted on Real Clear Politics yesterday: I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf. A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, | Read More »