Krauthammer to GOP: make your own budget, force Obama to sequester
Charles Krauthammer turned his attention to the Republicans after President Obama’s proposed budget still exceeded projected revenues. The conservative was on Fox News offering his brand of advice. BRET BAIER: More...
President Obama State of the Union address promises to raise taxes on rich, spend more
Poised to battle Republicans in Congress, President Obama will begin 2015 with a State of the Union address which announces a call for increased spending and raising taxes on the country’s top earners. “Obama More...
FreedomWorks highlights John Boehner’s bad votes: Obamacare, IRS, debt
The battle over the House heats up as Congress swears in new members and nothing is getting to the headlines like the movement to remove John Boehner. FreedomWorks lists the “worst” of the Boehner votes: photo More...
Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn announces his retirement
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said late Thursday that he will leave Congress at the end of this session, two years before his term expires. The Oklahoma senator who is known for battling to cut the budget, has been More...
Libertarian Lucas Overby discusses Florida issues headed into race with Alex Sink, David Jolly
Now that the candidates are set, The Global Dispatch set out to include the third candidate in the race for Florida’s District 13 Congressional seat. Libertarian Lucas Overby was asked to address the key issues More...
New Budget Deal: Spend now, call taxes ‘fees’ and save $2 billion per year over ten years, it’s ‘Mickey Mouse’
FOX News calls the new budget agreement as a “step in the right direction” as the $20 billion is being reported as an impactful step in the right direction against the massive $17 trillion dollar debt.photo/donkeyhotey More...
Food stamps cuts coming in November as stimulus expires, more cuts planned
Food stamps recipients may be surprised to learn they will be experiencing a cut in November as the boost from the 2009 stimulus bill will expire. The USDA projects that the average monthly food stamp payment of More...
Thomas Roberts asks GOP Rep if she hates ‘Obamacare more than’ she loves the country
MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts tried Tuesday to back Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn into a corner by asking her an inflammatory and partisan question. “Let me ask you, when it comes to Obamacare, do you More...
Rep Louie Gohmert says GOP brand ‘hurt by TARP’ as he is constantly interrupted by Fox host VIDEO
During a tense interview between Fox News anchor Arthel Neville and Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, Gohmert responds to the assertion that Republicans have done nothing to resolve the government shutdown. photo donkeyhotey More...
Government Shutdown: Scenic overlooks are being closed
The National Park Service is expanding their closures, even after the publicity surrounding the WWII Memorial, now closing scenic overlooks along the George Washington Parkway. Considered some of areas of amazing More...
Rand Paul opposes ‘shut down,’ ‘funding Obamacare’ and says compromise may be coming ‘to make it less bad’
Senator Rand Paul signaled that a compromise on Obamacare to would make it “less bad,” rather than pushing the government into a shutdown over conservative demands that the healthcare law be defunded, More...
Thom Hartman blames suicides on conservatives, noting austerity and GOP ‘bragging’ about bad economy
The liberal talk radio host Thom Hartmann who on Saturday actually wrote an article wherein he claimed that conservative economic policies are driving people to suicide and blamed economics. photo /tyler eugene More...
Government spending critics point to $385K ‘duck penis study’ in Stimulus Bill as federal waste
The National Science Foundation may be taking some heat over a study on the “Sexual Conflict, Social Behavior and the Evolution of Waterfowl Genitalia” – aka ducks which is costing taxpayers nearly More...
Paul Krugman, NY Times ‘Consuming Wealth Actually is the Same as Producing Wealth’
With the Big, Bad Sequester looming as the Crisis of the Week and all of the media and political angst accompanying it, I have come to understand that how one responds to the prospect of the government being forced More...
Sequester deadline looms as politicians battle over $85 billion in reduced spending
The mandatory sequester starts hitting Friday, and the White House offered state-by-state details Sunday of the impact. In Texas, the cuts will mean less border security and longer lines at airports and for cargo More...
President Obama calls for gun control, minimum wages hikes and more spending in State of the Union address TRANSCRIPT
President Barack Obama outlined an ambitious agenda in his State of the Union address Tuesday that included raising the minimum wage, increasing spending on infrastructure, attacking climate change and passing gun-control More...
Kick that Keynesian Habit
One think I do like about Paul Krugman’s columns extolling Keynesian theory is that they are predictable and easy to follow. I cannot say they really constitute economics, given that Krugman seems to believe More...
Paul Ryan explains why he voted ‘Yea’ on fiscal cliff deal
Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee and former GOP VP candidated explained on Tuesday why he voted in favor of the “fiscal cliff” deal. donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com “We’ll More...
Jerry Brown proposes California budget solution: raise taxes
Governor Jerry Brown signed a new budget for California on Wednesday that relies heavily on voters approving his proposed tax hikes in November. donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com Democrats passed 21 budget More...
Massive federal spending, face it, is ‘ludicrous and cruel’
In his April 8th column, Paul Krugman takes his cue from the Democratic National Committee and writes yet another one of his partisan screeds on the Republicans’ federal budget proposals, calling it “ludicrous More...
