Mother Jones came to President Obama’s rescue with an urgently needed distraction from the meltdown of his foreign policy.  A surreptitiously recorded video of Mitt Romney addressing a private dinner meeting of high-end donors back in May includes some controversial remarks.  Predictably, sanctimonious indignation thundered from the establishment media, accusing Romney of arrogant contempt for half […]

The September Jobs report published Friday by the labor Department was a deep disappointment. Only 96,000 jobs created in August, a pathetically small number, about a third fewer jobs than the monthly increase in the working age population. President Obama and his supporters, hoping for a positive response from recession weary voters, rushed to the […]

Does the President deserve reelection because the 2008-09 recession, like every previous recession in history, ended? On the Today Show Obama Campaign Spokesperson Stephanie Cutter was asked to answer the question the Romney Campaign has been asking voters, are you better off today than you were four years ago?  Ms. Cutter answered, in part: Lets […]

One of President Obama’s continuous campaign attack lines is the claim that Mitt Romney has, in Obama’s words: …a plan to give trillions in new tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy, a plan that could cost the typical middle class family $2,000 a year. In his convention speech former President Bill Clinton said Romney […]

Within minutes of Mitt Romney’s announcement that he had picked Paul Ryan for his running mate the Obama campaign launched a replay of Medi-Scare, the Democrats’ perennial election year strategy.  The usual tactic is to hold Medi-scare until the final weeks before the election and then tell seniors via sinister direct mail pieces that those […]

Shortly after Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan A friend sent me an email that opened with “You wanted an in-your-face guy, here he is.  You wanted an in-your-face debate, here it is.”   The following started out to be a private note back to him.  But I got carried away and turned it into a […]

Forget everything you thought you knew about the 2012 Presidential Campaign.  Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate turns a dreary, negative, small-ball campaign into a once-in-a-generation, articulate attack on the beliefs and assumptions underlying the Democratic Party’s core articles of faith. Predictably, a herd of smug liberals breathlessly share the news […]

Mitt Romney has signaled a significant change in campaign strategy. The Republican ticket is now complete.  Mitt Romney announced his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan, who told a cheering audience he was proud to be on America’s comeback team. Mr. Ryan is the Republican Party’s most able budget and policy innovator and a passionate advocate […]

In a recent campaign speech about taxes, jobs and the economy the President bellowed: “Just like we’ve tried their [Republican’s] plan, we’ve tried our plan, and it worked.  That’s the difference.  That’s the choice in this election.  That’s why I’m running for a second term.” How, in the face of America’s ongoing economic misery could […]

During his first two years, with the support of commanding Democratic majorities in Congress, President Obama placed the biggest bet in US history on centralized government power.  We lost.  We’re still losing. The Commerce Department reports that the US economy grew at a rate of 1.5% during the second quarter.  The first chart compares the […]