The Obama Administration, Congressional Progressives and Democrats, and the mainstream media have done a fantastic job of controlling the narrative in the debt ceiling/budget debate. They have hammered home, in an almost Goebbels-esque manner, the false notion that Republicans have
Highlights of Speaker John Boehner’s appearance on Fox News Sunday. The Speaker talked tough on the GOP efforts to reduce federal spending in exchange for a raise in the debt ceiling. Video clips in this compilation include the Speaker saying
From The Associated Press: The roller-coaster debate over raising the nation’s debt limit has forced the White House to explain away, brush aside or even ignore declarations by President Barack Obama and aides that no longer served much purpose in
From the Associated Press: House Speaker John Boehner abruptly broke off talks with President Barack Obama Friday night on a deal to cut federal spending and avert a threatened government default, sending compromise efforts into an instant crisis. Within minutes,
From the Associated Press: The Senate on Friday blocked a House Republican bill to require Congress to slash spending and pass a balanced-budget amendment before raising the nation’s borrowing powers. The vote left unresolved, with just days to go, the
Terrible how that Tea Party forced the Republicans into the largest sweeping victory in the history of the party and pushed John Boehner into becoming Speaker of the House.
For weeks, we have been treated to comic opera in D.C.’s theater of the politically and economically absurd. On the stage, the actors–President Obama, the Secretary of the Treasury, congressional leaders–hop about, shouting moronic lines about the national “default” that
From the Associated Press: With the clock ticking toward an Aug. 2 deadline, congressional leaders return to the White House Monday for another round of budget bargaining with President Barack Obama, who has warned top lawmakers he will call daily
From the Associated Press: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor pulled out of talks with Vice President Joe Biden on a deficit reduction-debt ceiling deal, saying they had reached an impasse over Democratic demands for tax increases to be paired with
From Accuracy in Media‘s Betsi Fores: Keith Olbermann, America’s favorite ex-commentator, recently appeared on late night with Jimmy Fallon, criticizing the media, particularly the political media, for their response and coverage of the Anthony Weiner scandal. In the segment, he
Once the light bulb represented ideas; today, its shoddy, government-mandated replacement, the compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), has come to represent everything that is wrong with the GOP leadership in Congress. It’s time to get rid of the dim bulbs, figuratively
A few weeks back, Hollywood movie stars and groups such as the Creative Coalition stormed Washington, D.C. to lobby for increased taxpayer funding of the arts. Most memorably, Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey told Hardball‘s Chris Matthew that Abraham Lincoln was
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Yemen’s president Saleh wounded in mortar attack TV screen during Saleh’s radio address (Al-Jazeera) As the civil war in Yemen spreads, forces of president Ali Abdullah Saleh are having armed clashes with tribal forces
Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor react to the increase in the most recent unemployment numbers, calling on the White House to work on new plan to create economic growth
From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: The Washington Post noted that House Speaker John Boehner’s commencement speech at the Catholic University of America (CUA) was non-political. But the Post story about the speech was entirely political. The story slammed Boehner’s
From Accuracy in Media‘s Cliff Kincaid: A Washington Post story about Catholic professors challenging Rep. John Boehner’s Catholic faith with an open letter to the House Speaker ignores the role of one of the key signers in a George Soros-funded
There’s a lot of buzz about a Wall Street Journal interview with Stanley Druckenmiller, in which he argues that a temporary delay in making payments on U.S. government debt (which technically would be a default) would be a small price
House Republicans who once considered Rep. Paul Ryan (Wisconsin) to be a brilliant and courageous rising star of the party, one who could put the nation on a more sound fiscal path by tackling entitlement programs, are now abandoning his
Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to address the U.S. Congress next month and deliver what has been billed as a major Mideast peace policy speech. It’s widely assumed that Netanyahu will bring new offerings to the PLO as a way
The state of our national government is in shambles. We are so far removed from the traditional political divide. To explain what is going on in Washington would require use of a metaphor such as The Mariana Trench to explain
From Associated Press: Perilously close to a government shutdown, congressional leaders reached agreement with the White House late Friday night on a deal to cut tens of billions of dollars in federal spending and avert the closure. House Speaker John
Speaker John Boehner of Ohio reacting to the sounds of the camera shutters begin his press conference Thursday with the question, “how many pictures of me in a suit do you need?” The answers is, Associated Press shot 519 frames.
House Speaker John Boehner says spending is the only thing keeping a budget deal from being reached. He’s calling on the White House and Congressional Democrats to “get serious bout cutting spending.”
President Obama says late-night budget talks have helped to narrow the issues, but there is no deal yet to avert a shutdown. He spoke after a late-evening meeting with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The Tea Party held a rally outside the Capitol Building last week to demand that congressional Republicans demand significant cuts in federal spending. The outlook is bad. House Republicans are fighting to hold on to the $61 billion in spending
