Washington is broken, but it is not because of a lack of ideas. Rather, it is because some prefer obstruction and demagoguery over substance and solutions.
2:23 PM 11/07/2011
It was just over three years ago that President Obama hailed Spain’s renewable energy subsidy program as a model that the United States should emulate. And it was just two years ago that his administration applied billions from our ill-fated trillion-dollar stimulus program to fulfill a similar vision here at home. In the process, Congress gave the president the leeway to fund everything from alternative energy loan guarantees --- like the $535 million awarded to now-bankrupt solar panel provider Solyndra --- to subsidies for renewable energy technologies that would otherwise fail commercially.
11:01 PM 06/14/2011
Experts in the art of negotiation will tell you never to take a hostage you are not willing to shoot. And it appears President Obama has identified his latest legislative hostage -- the pending free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
11:42 AM 08/02/2010
Last March, 34 Democrats stood on the side of the majority of Americans and opposed President Obama’s government takeover of health care. Since that vote, the case against Obamacare has not changed – indeed, it has only gotten stronger. To date, 170 Republicans have taken action to stop the implementation of Obamacare and repeal the law by signing onto Discharge Petition #11. Why haven’t any Democrats?
