Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Politico reports this morning that President Obama will nominate Sen. Judd Gregg “as the new Commerce secretary Tuesday morning.”
Please count this liberal small business owner as among the not impressed. Judd maybe a fiscal conservative, which I take no issue with, but at one point he actually voted in favor of abolishing the Commerce Department.
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Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll has found that Barack Obama is earning “high marks” with the American public for his “handling of the transition and his choices for the Cabinet.”
Even with the bleak outlook over the economy and the news that we are officially in a recession, the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows that “[M]ore than [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2006 by Nick
Sure it’s good that the budget was balanced in the late 1990s for the first time since 1969, and it’s bad that Bush has run deficits as far as the eye can see. But balancing the budget is not the holy gail of economic policy making. And while Democrats were right to call [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2006 by Nick
Let’s face it folks, no matter how much we care for our neighbors if we’re gonna vote for a candidate, there’s gotta be at least something in it for us. I’ve written before how folks making less than $50,000 a year voted for Kerry 55%-44%-and how Kerry won the under 50K crowd in as [...]
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Posted on September 7th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
A Congressional Budget Office assessment of the first government estimate of Katrina’s economic impact obtained by AP News looks bleak, very bleak. “Hurricane Katrina will reduce employment by 400,000 people in coming months while trimming economic growth by as much as a full percentage point in the second half of this year.”
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