President Obama Delivers on American High-Speed Rail
Cross-posted from the DOT’s Fast Lane blog.
I have looked forward to this day for a long time.
It is a great honor–a great honor–to have President Obama and Vice President Biden in Tampa, Florida, to announce our American Recovery and Reinvestment Act High-Speed and Inter-city Passenger Rail grants.
The investments we announce today make rail a viable transportation alternative [...]
A modified, limited course correction, Part Three
President Obama is expected to propose “a three-year freeze on federal funding that is not related to national security.” He will unveil this proposal tomorrow night in his State of the Union address.
The “freeze” appears to be something of a phony. According to the Washington Post, it would not apply to “entitlement [...]
A Year Taking on Unprecedented Challenges Abroad
Ed. Note: Join Ben Rhodes for the next in our series of online video chats, which will be at 3:00 PM EST today. Watch the chats here at WhiteHouse.gov/Live, or join the discussion through Facebook.
President Obama inherited unprecedented challenges at home and abroad. Facing a global economic crisis, two wars, and diminished American standing in the world, the [...]
A Weatherized President
Given all his talk about weatherization and climate change,
perhaps President Obama should have borrowed Jimmy Carter’s
frayed cardigan for his Oprah Christmas Special. But then again,
Carter donned that sweater for his 1977 energy-sacrifice address
due to global cooling. Obama enjoys the plenty of global warming.
No [...]
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Sanity Clause
From the Washington Post — which seems to be edging ever so gingerly away from the One They Have Been Pining For:
Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, Democrats at the national level are laying the groundwork to blame a loss in a key swing state on a weak candidate [...]
No class, bad character, Part Two
The Obama administration has apparently given up hope of a Democratic victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race and is, in the words of the Washington Post, “laying the groundwork to blame [the] loss of a weak candidate who ran a poor campaign that failed to fully embrace President Obama until days before the election.” [...]
