Now that President Barack Obama has embraced his inner populist, he’s finding all kinds of weapons lying around to beat Republicans with. The payroll tax cut is getting a lot of attention. If his success with conservative appellate court judges is any indication, the constitutionality of ObamaCare will be another. The latest weapon Obama is [...]
There is enough bipartisan support in Congress to extend a payroll tax holiday first introduced by President Obama along with an extension of unemployment benefits. If nothing is done, both will expire early next year. So, what’s the problem? The debate over how to pay for it has devolved back into the same squabble Republicans [...]
Between Kermit the Frog’s antics and the christening of a new National Christmas Tree Thursday night, you may have missed the moment President Obama preached on immigration reform. And unlike his Thanksgiving address that did not mention God at all, this sermon was unmistakably biblical.
Stick around long enough in Washington, and everything does happen. The party of Abraham Lincoln eventually rallied against the Civil Rights Act. The individual mandate eventually became a left-wing idea. Democrats eventually argued for a cut in payroll taxes, depriving Social Security of its much needed revenue stream. Today we see another headscratcher: The Republican [...]
My colleague Mark Thompson, a devoted reader of FedBizOpps, points out this new job opportunity from the Obama Administration. Call it the boob tube stimulus. The purpose of this Statement of Work (SOW) is to obtain the necessary television clip service for the Executive Office of the President (EOP), Office of Administration (OA). The service [...]
Awkwardness ensues:
On Wednesday, the Obama Administration held an “African American Policy” conference in Washington, hosting leaders from state and local governments, academia, business and media to discuss a range of topics: how the President’s jobs bill, if passed, would extend unemployment insurance benefits to millions of Americans–particularly relevant for blacks, 15.1% of whom are unemployed. And [...]
A few months ago, I wrote a controversial column about the Head Start pre-school program, in which I cited the Department of Health and Human Services’ own study that showed Head Start wasn’t making much of a difference. I quoted an Obama Administration official acknowledging the problem, especially in the Head Start programs run by [...]
The Obama Administration’s latest windmill tilting on its plan to juice the economy takes the form a colorful infographic posted to the White House blog under the heading “What a Jobs Plan Looks Like.” The two columns provide a comparison of Democratic and Republican stimulus proposals in the Senate, replete with the rosiest poll numbers [...]
Whether or not Congress’s deficit supercommittee succeeds in finding $1.2 trillion in savings by Thanksgiving, one likely result is that sometime in the next 18 months, Congress will tackle tax reform.
