Alert: Craig Becker Goes Down (Scott Brown Voted NO!)
Via Daniel Foster at the Corner:
The nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board was just defeated on a cloture vote 52-33. Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.), Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D., Ark.), and Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) all voted against cloture.
And in an update, we learn that Senator Brown said of his [...]
The President and Vice President Together on Easing Burdens for the Middle Class
President Obama and Vice President Biden held a Middle Class Task Force meeting during which they discussed key initiatives for middle class families. Topics of discussion previewed the major themes of the President’s State of the Union address, which include creating good jobs, addressing the deficit, changing Washington, and fighting for middle class families.
After travelling [...]
Re ‘Obama, the Overmatched President’
In reading Peter Wehner’s piece at Commentary this morning in which he suggests that “No Drama” Obama has been replaced by Barack “Melodrama” Obama and that it would perhaps be beneficial to us all if the president and his staff eased up just a bit on the whining, blame-shifting, and feeling sorry for themselves, and [...]
Obama to help laid-off workers
The Obama administration is considering steps to ease the burdens of laid-off workers, including possible extensions of unemployment and health benefits, officials said Saturday.
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Obama Has a Mandate - but with Whom?
President Barack H. Obama was all over the broadcast map yesterday, reading the usual litany of whoppers, floppers, and gobstoppers that flows from the Teleprompter of the United States. (TOTUS — I picture an object like a Dalek from Dr. Who… “Exterminate! Exterminate!”)
Having nothing better to do (I mislaid my toenail clipper), I [...]
Coming Soon: Higher Taxes
Tim Geithner and Alan Greenspan were on ABC’s This Week this morning; both talked about the need to bring down the federal deficit, which is soaring to unprecedented levels under President Obama. Here is George Stephanopoulos’s exchange with Geithner:
GEITHNER: … Remember the critical thing is people understand that when we have recovery established, [...]
