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Obama: It Doesn’t Matter Who I Run Against
December 12, 2011 By West Wing Report Leave a Comment
It doesn’t matter who the GOP nominates next year, President Obama says. He tells 60 Minutes whoever it is will have values and a vision that are starkly different than his own. If Americans buy into that GOP vision more than his own, “I’ll lose,” Mr. Obama adds. Ahead of last night’s wide-ranging interview, a [...]
Jobs: Encouraging, but…
December 4, 2011 By West Wing Report Leave a Comment
A drop of four-tenths of a percent in the nation’s unemployment rate – to 8.6% from 9.0% - is unquestionably good news for President Obama. The rate had been hovering around 9.0% for months, so this dramatic move down could be a big deal politically – with the usual caveats. If you’re a glass half-full kind [...]
Americans Don’t Want Meaningful Spending Cuts
December 3, 2011 By West Wing Report Leave a Comment
By now the sound of metal on asphalt is well known to Americans. It’s the sound of the can being kicked down the road by our feckless lawmakers. The latest can to be booted, of course, is that $1.2 trillion in debt reduction the super committee was supposed to have come up with by Thanksgiving. [...]
A “Super”-fluous Congress
November 21, 2011 By West Wing Report Leave a Comment
As this Thanksgiving week begins, it’s clear that Washington has more than its share of turkeys. The 12-person (and horribly misnamed) “super committee” has failed to come up with $1.2 trillion in cuts. We’re so conditioned to a dysfunctional, hyper-partisan political system that it comes as no surprise. That the atmosphere is this probably meant the committee [...]
One Year to Go
November 7, 2011 By West Wing Report Leave a Comment
ELECTION COUNTDOWN Exactly one year to go now – ’til the Presidential election – how are things shaping up for the President & his Republican rivals? Make NO – mistake – this is a pocketbook election — more than anytime, probably, since Jimmy Carter 1980. And we know how that turned out. The numbers President Obama [...]
