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Obama: Even If You Didn’t Vote For Me You’re Gonna Want Obamacare (VIDEO)

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A very confident President Obama came out swinging today. He took no prisoners. It is the Obama many have been waiting for. It seems he is no longer going to play nice in the attempt to have Republicans work with him on the debt ceiling, the budget, or Obamacare. He understands they simply want him […]

Republicans Pass Student Loan Bill Detrimental To Students & Families

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America needs student loan relief One knows a city, a state, a country’s interests and priorities based on where it puts its money. Unfortunately more and more in America, it isn’t education. During the budget crisis in Texas, education bore the brunt of the cuts even as Texas doles out $19 billion per year in […]

Civil War In Republican & Democratic Party–Guess Who Loses

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It was bound to happen. The reality is the parties are more the same in one respect; they do not govern for those who elected them. President Obama ran on protecting and saving the social safety net and creating the environment for job creation. While he has been stymied by the intransigence and obstructionism of […]

Obama Falling Into Trap Again–It’s Not The Debt–New Occupy Movement Needed

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Middle Class and Poor America must be climbing the walls. President Obama ran a middle class centric campaign and won handedly. He not only won the election but he added to the Senate and the House.  Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s policies were soundly rejected. President Obama’s 2nd Inaugural Speech gave the impression that he […]

Republican’s Balance Budget Concern A Myth–It’s Only About Low Taxes On The Wealthy (VIDEO)

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Both parties must use facts, real math, and honesty while compromising on budgetary issues, in order to achieve the ultimate goal of reducing the deficit. MSNBC’s Martin Bashir had an excellent panel that described the entire budget deficit debate relative to what the parties want and proposed. The panel had no acrimony or negative superlatives […]

President Obama Throws Down Gauntlet on Sequester–Congress Must Act (VIDEO)

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This is a different President Obama. This is a President Obama that seems liberated and willing to go toe to toe with Republicans. This is the President Republicans apparently knew was in there waiting to come out if re-elected, a president that will not cower at the end but still leaving a window of opportunity […]

Job Report Proves Austerity Fails–GOP’s Path To Depression

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One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Britain elected a conservative government that immediately adopted an austerity policy. They are now entering their 3rd recession since the economic crisis, a triple dip. Spain attempted austerity and as reported in the Bloomeberg’s piece “Adios Austerity, […]

Republicans rejecting Republican ideas major cause of Washington dysfunction

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It is easy to throw all politicians in the same boat when describing the gridlock and dysfunction that is afflicting Washington today. The simple fact is that it isn’t so. Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein wrote about it in their book “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the […]