No-bid contract for Sandy cleanup draws flak
Bob Jordan
Asbury Park (N.J.) Press
10:55p.m. EST March 8, 2013
TRENTON, N.J. — The presumed Democratic gubernatorial candidate, kick-starting a high-stakes election year, hit hard Friday at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for awarding of a no-bid contract for Superstorm Sandy cleanup.
At a special legislative hearing Friday, state Sen. Barbara Buono and fellow Democrats claimed cronyism drove up recovery costs, while Republican lawmakers defended both Christie’s [...]
Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming believes President Barack Obama is “comfortable going off the [fiscal] cliff.”
“I think the president is increasingly showing his hand that he is comfortable going off the cliff,” Barrasso tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD, in response to a question about President Obama’s negotiation strategy. “He’s not involving Republicans in the process. He was playing golf this weekend with Bill Clinton, Ron Kirk, and ex-DNC chair Terry McAuliffe. [...]
Although Obama and his fellow Democrats repeatedly call on wealthier Americans to pay their “fair share,” they never specify what percentage of the nation’s tax burden the wealthy would have to bear. As matters stand, the top 1 percent of American households paid 39 percent of income taxes in 2009, according to the most recent data compiled by the Congressional Budget Office, and the top 5 percent of taxpayers paid [...]
DENVER — President Obama and his team woke up here on Thursday morning confronted by the realization that he lost his first debate by passively letting Mitt Romney control the conversation. Then the president and his advisers resolved to do what he himself did not the night before.
Under fire from fellow Democrats, Mr. Obama came out swinging, accusing Mr. Romney of lying to the American people about his plans for the nation. “I met this [...]
via WP:
Despite a growing backlash from his fellow Democrats, President Obama has doubled down on his attacks on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital. But the strategy could backfire in ways Obama did not anticipate. After all, if Romney’s record in private equity is fair game, then so is Obama’s record in public equity — and that record is not pretty.
Since taking office, Obama has invested billions of taxpayer dollars in private businesses, including [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Public opinion about gay marriage has changed so rapidly that President Barack Obama’s historic embrace of it may pose as many political risks to Republicans as to the president and his fellow Democrats.
The president’s dramatic shift on the issue – a watershed moment in U.S. politics, even if many people felt it was inevitable – is the latest sign that Democratic hopes increasingly rest on younger, college-educated [...]
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama, leading in the polls among women voters, said on Friday he wants to help working women fight discrimination and juggle the demands of motherhood but stopped short of making promises on gender equality if he wins re-election.
At a White House event on women and the economy, Obama noted “there has been a lot of talk about women and women’s issues lately,” a nod to the [...]
The Washington Post’s David Nakamura, today’s White House pool reporter, had these odd lines in his last dispatch, just as the president was returning from a speech in Maryland:
POTUS arrived back at WH at 12:45 pm after uneventful ride. POTUS was greeted in Rose Garden by Bo. POTUS didn’t reply when another pooler asked:
“Does Bo think you should release the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?”
So a gallon of regular is today costing Americans $3.82. And [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Most people like President Barack Obama’s proposal to make millionaires pay a significant share of their incomes in taxes. Yet they’d still rather cut spending than boost taxes to balance the federal budget, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows, giving Republicans an edge over Democrats in their core ideological dispute over the nation’s fiscal ills.
The survey suggests that while Obama’s election-year tax plan targeting people making at least [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court rejected on Monday a free-speech challenge to the longtime ban on campaign contributions by foreign citizens who temporarily live and work in the United States.
The justices affirmed a ruling by a three-judge federal panel that upheld the ban adopted by Congress to keep foreigners from financially influencing U.S. elections.
The court’s last federal campaign finance law ruling was in January 2010, when it gave corporations [...]
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is threatening to ram through a sweeping new land use plan that imposes an environmentalist agenda on the state’s sprawling rural populations — a move that could spark a tax revolt and mass exodus unless it is rewritten, county officials and state legislators told The Daily Caller on Monday.
O’Malley has indicated that he intends to impose what some lawmakers are calling a draconian new environmentalist agenda, [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four years ago, Senator Claire McCaskill was one of Barack Obama’s biggest boosters in his presidential campaign. But when he recently visited her state of Missouri, she did not have time to join him.
Many of McCaskill’s fellow Democrats in Congress may also decide they are too busy to be with Obama, whose approval rating of about 40 percent as the economy struggles threatens to be [...]
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama faces deep skepticism from swing voters who see the Republican party as more in tune with their concerns about government spending, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
These undecided voters, who could determine whether Obama wins re-election next year, believe Republicans are more serious about reducing budget deficits and more aligned with them ideologically, according to the centrist Democratic [...]
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signs his first budget in front of supporters gathered at Fox Valley Metal Tech in Ashwaubenon, Wis., on Sunday, June 26, 2011. The budget helped save the struggling Kaukauna Schoo
“This is a disaster,” said Mark Miller, the Wisconsin Senate Democratic leader, in February after Republican Gov. Scott Walker proposed a budget bill that would curtail the collective bargaining powers of [...]
President Obama is opting not to visit the tornado-ravaged areas of the South, choosing instead to embark today on a three day tour out West where he will try to boost his political standing by talking up his approach to the deficit and raise millions for himself and fellow Democrats.
The tornadoes, part of a storm that rampaged though six states Saturday, resulted in one of [...]
President Obama is opting not to visit the tornado-ravaged areas of the South, choosing instead to embark today on a three day tour out West where he will try to boost his political standing by talking up his approach to the deficit and raise millions for himself and fellow Democrats.
The tornadoes, part of a storm that rampaged though six states Saturday, resulted in one of [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs will attend a meeting in California on Thursday with President Barack Obama, a source familiar with the meeting said.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt, Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will also attend the meeting, the source told Reuters.
The timing of the meeting coincides with a report in the National [...]
by Rich
You and yours have been in control of Congress for much longer then you admit.
Say at least 2007.
And do not expect any mercy come November….
Expect the same cold shoulder we American got when you and your passed
the Healthcare bill without any regard for us.
No mercy and you damn right it’s your Fault..
Obama says he “inherited” the big federal budget deficits and that he has to “clean up the mess” [...]
The Democrat Economic Storm
www.halfwaytoconcord.com/democrats-create-perfect-economic-storm/
President Obama has announced the recession is over; (See http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/the-recession-is-over-obama/ ) but he and his fellow Democrats fail to recognize the economic storm that is forming to create an even bigger financial crisis. They also failed to recognize how their policies to force banks to relax rules to unqualified lenders created the sub-prime mortgage crisis which led to the original economic crisis. When Republicans questioned the policies [...]
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