Just when New Year’s Eve could not get worse with the fiscal cliff, Treasury Secretary Geithner announced we will hit the debt limit, too. He did say, however, his department will try to avoid the debt limit, and might be able to for at most two months. In a letter […]
The failure on Speaker John Boehner’s part to pass his “plan B” has increased the upper hand of the Democrats. Instead of shifting the blame to Democrats, as Boehner had hoped, it put more pressure and blame on him as he made it appear that he could not control his […]
Speaker John Boehner pulled his “plan B” from consideration late Thursday night citing a lack of support from members of his party. This comes after Majority Leader Eric Cantor assured reporters that the plan had the support of enough members to pass. Even anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist gave his blessing, […]
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series called ‘After 2012’ which looks at what the campaigns are doing now that their primary mission has finished.After the election ended, the emails from the Obama campaign seemed to end too. Unlike the 2008 election, which had a constant source of […]
There are two major opinions from Republicans; one can make compromise easier, the other could make it more difficult. The first opinion is that Republicans should concede on taxes for the richest and focus on other topics, such as entitlement reform. The other opinion is that Republicans can use the […]
