Does GOP want to own Obama’s 20,000 lost Keystone jobs?

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  December 20th at 02:05 PM  | 

Claiming fatigue from kicking cans down the road, Speaker of the House John Boehner engineered a rejection of a Democratic Party-controlled Senate-passed bill that would have cleared the way for the Canadian Keystone Pipeline project that President Barack Obama has delayed for three years of “study”. The bill, which also extends unemployment benefits and the payroll tax cut for 60 days, would have authorized construction on the | Read More »

Make Obama payroll and Bush income tax cuts permanent

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  December 10th at 02:38 PM  | 

Congressional Republicans should take President Obama up on his sudden concern for taking money out of the pockets of Americans, across the board. This past week, President Barack Obama defended his push for extending the federal payroll (Social Security/FICA) tax cuts for a second year and unemployment benefits for a third year, thusly: Independent economists, some of whom have in the past worked for Republicans, agree that if | Read More »