Obama Administration Flexing its Muscles

10/22/09 12:22 PM

 With the Balloon Boy debaucle safely behind us, and criminal charges forthcoming, so the sheriff of the boy's Colorado hometown says, and the Senate feverishly working to combine Health Care legislation into one comprehensive bill that successfully encompasses all that health care reform advocates have envisioned throughout the past few months this week has been business as usual in the political realm with a few minor derivations from the norm.   For example, while Senators struggle to determine what should stay and what should go when it comes to health care legislation, the "Pay Czar" Kenneth R. Feinburg has been looking into the banks and large companies that recieved government bailout money also referred to as TARP funds.  Many of these companies have been...

The President This Week

10/15/09 11:52 AM

    If you've watched the news recently you are fully aware of the seemed boycott the White House is staging against Fox News Channel.  A few weeks ago, when President Obama made his Sunday morning news rounds he purposefully avoided Fox News and now the White House and Democrats alike are speaking out defending the choice to visit every news network except Fox News.  Democratic congressional members such as Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois are speaking out saying that people need to know that Fox News has become a voice for the Republican Party not a voice for the entire country as a whole.  Republicans however find the President's snub "childish" and "immature".  What do you think?        Today,...

Wow

10/13/09 3:47 PM

The past week has been exciting if nothing else for political pundits across the country.  From President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize to the Senate Finance Committee's vote on the Baucus Health Care Reform Bill, things have been anything but boring.   On Friday, the members of the Norwegian committee that determines the winners of the Nobel Prizes announced that President Barack Obama is the 2009 winner.  Since that announcement, there has been heated debate among both parties regarding what exactly the President did before the February 1st nomination deadline to warrant winning such a prestigious award. In an article published by the Washington Post, the Nobel Committee stressed that the President's work for peace throughout the globe is what led them to give him...

This Week Oct. 1, 2009

10/5/09 12:17 PM

From everchanging debate on healthcare reform to China celebrating 60 years of "communism" (I will explain the quotation marks in subsequent paragraphs) this week has proven to be business as usual in political life both in Washington, D.C. and throughout the rest of the world.     Olympics 2016     The President jets off tomorrow, Friday, to Copenhagen, Denmark to rendez-vous with his wife and Oprah and various others who are campaigning for Chicago to host the 2016 Olympic games.  It is my understanding that prior to the initial word of the President's pending visit to the bargaining table, this was unprecedented.  The sitting President of the United States has never before gone to lobby for a city to host the Olympic...