(Article first published as A Little Pawlenty Is Plenty on Blogcritics.) If you’re one of the millions who doesn’t have a clue about Republican Presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty, and you want to change that, watch this. It’s a video from a Sunday news show recorded earlier this month featuring an interview of the former Minnesota governor. In it, Pawlenty bobs and weaves his way through defending his questionable “Better Deal” plan for fixing our deep national debt problems. He also…
If past voter behavior is any indication, President Obama will have difficulty winning the next election with the gargantuan economy millstone hanging around his neck. The unemployment rate today stands at 9.1 percent, up from earlier in the year. But, that figure doesn’t include everyone who is out of a job or has to settle for part time work when full time is needed. When those people are counted, the percentage rises above 16 percent of the labor force…
The election chatter among political pundits these days centers on their belief that, come 2012, the White House is Obama’s to lose. These opinions are hardly surprising. Elections with an incumbent running are typically all about the officeholder’s performance. Opponents are often bystanders, their fortunes rising or failing on how voters feel about the state of their lives during the incumbent’s term. So, according to the experts, Republicans in 2012 can run the elephant and hardly anyone will…
Given the path that led to Osama bin Laden’s hideout, attention is beginning to refocus on Eric Holder’s seemingly endless criminal investigation of CIA interrogators. We now know that the successful search for the World’s most wanted terrorist began years ago with information offered up during several “harsh” interrogations. No kumbaya coffee klatch those, they raised the considerable ire of the ACLU and other Obama supporters. As a result, during the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama, in a bow…
It’s becoming one of the most clichéd phrases in American politics. Everyone’s saying it. Just the other day, Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York City, agreed with it. And, it’s pretty hard not to agree with him. The rich must pay their fair share of taxes. But, what does that actually mean? No one really says. It’s pretty much whatever politicians want it to mean at a given time. That works for them, of course. They never…
We’ve got debt problems coming out of our ears. Everyone knows it and most of us have our own ideas about how to deal with it. Even politicians are finally, albeit very reluctantly, making noise about the yawning ugliness of our massive federal money pit. But, that’s only because they can no longer run away from it. Everyone also knows there’s very little agreement across the political spectrum on what to do about it. Tax and keep spending or…
