Donald Lambro from CaglePost.com Columns by Donald Lambro from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Donald+Lambro Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Obama's Breaking Promises And The Bank WASHINGTON -- President Obama's domestic agenda is losing steam in an increasingly contentious Democratic Congress amid growing public doubts about the veracity of raising taxes in a deep recession. The economy remains sick. The stimulus plan isn't ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/aa405720-1053-4384-8154-d4c85b2cd705.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Dems' Healthcare Plan Just Plain Sick WASHINGTON -- President Obama's original plan to pay for his healthcare reforms was to limit charitable contributions and mortgage-interest payments that people can deduct from their taxable income. But both proposals were nonstarters from the moment... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0110624a-829e-4736-9449-cc5332cc8cf1.html Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Your Silence Is Deafening, Mr. President WASHINGTON -- President Obama, known for his soaring oratory, has been having a hard time finding the right words to respond to the Iranians' struggle for political change and freedom in a repressive society. The reason: He has so much invested in hi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/60a44ddb-4274-447f-bf44-025b2d572fa6.html Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Cornyn Seeks GOP Senate Seats WASHINGTON -- No one envies John Cornyn's job as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in a daunting election cycle when the GOP will likely lose more Senate seats in 2010. Soon after the two-term Texas senator took over the No. 4 ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/283f807b-2be9-4ef3-aff8-27d8fbb1fca1.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Time To Rein In Unspent Stimulus WASHINGTON -- Nearly five months into Barack Obama's presidency, his stimulus program is failing to produce the jobs he promised. And voters are souring on his big spending, deficit-driving policies. A nationwide Rasmussen poll found that nearly... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1c6583e1-9cc7-4afe-98b6-57dcb8aab7c8.html Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT White House Offers Soft Math, Sleight Of Hand WASHINGTON -- For a president who promised that his actions would be the most transparent in U.S. history, key details in Barack Obama's economic-stimulus program have been frustratingly opaque. Some might call them invisible or illusionary, certainl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/01e2076d-8ad4-46b0-861d-5a60a8edd78b.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Economy Improves, But Liberals Still Gorge On Stimulus WASHINGTON -- Something quite hopeful has been happening to the economy, but it's not getting the credit it deserves and little notice from the national news media in terms of its policy implications. The American economy appears to be showing signs ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/584be4f0-6b0c-494c-80bc-b0024114e7a0.html Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Numbers Don't Add Up For Obama's Health Plan WASHINGTON -- Nearly four weeks after President Obama met with health-industry officials touting a "watershed" cost-cutting agreement, the goal of slowing the sharp rise in medical-care spending is elusive as ever. Appearing with executives of six in... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9d3fee1e-ef00-463b-8bec-4e9331d05ecc.html Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT For GOP, Hearings Will Bring Opportunities WASHINGTON -- After all is said and done in Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation proceedings, the fact of the matter is that she will not change the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court. The appeals-court jurist will replace retiring Justice David... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ce014e1d-515a-4996-a58c-2043765133aa.html Thu, 28 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT For GOP, Fertile Ground In New Jersey, Virginia WASHINGTON -- The Democrats and their friends in the national news media never miss an opportunity to report how unpopular Republicans are in the Age of Obama. And clearly, the GOP has a lot to prove if they are to regain majority status again. But w... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e90b7346-4580-4e46-9d68-c1446fec12cf.html Tue, 26 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Will Dems Sink Obama's Ambitious Agenda? WASHINGTON -- Not long after President Obama was sworn into office, he faced a monstrous $1.8 trillion budget deficit that analysts said would force him to sharply curtail his big-spending agenda. But Obama saw the economic recession he inherited as ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5540921a-e133-4370-b8e9-44eb0dfaee32.html Thu, 21 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Is The Stimulus Superfluous? WASHINGTON -- The biggest unasked question in today's economy is whether it has started turning around before President Obama's spending-stimulus program has fully gotten under way. There is growing evidence that the U.S. economy is showing signs of ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fe547081-e8e1-4a52-a6e7-7c2fd41ea50e.html Tue, 19 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Tea Parties Just The Beginning WASHINGTON -- Last month's nationwide "Tea Party" demonstrations -- protesting massive government spending increases and rising taxes -- were minimalized by the national news media. Liberal big-government groups dismissed them as the work of right-w... http://www.caglepost.com/article/35589797-7f81-428a-a000-b2920fda10cc.html Wed, 13 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's 'smart power' not yielding results WASHINGTON -- The world's terrorists and rogue nations have clearly become more dangerous since Barack Obama took office, and analysts say they're testing him to see how much they can get away with. North Korea, Iran, Al Qaeda in Iraq and the Afghan ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/de695d17-7317-4f31-b64f-12b380729f87.html Thu, 07 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama Tax Breaks May Confuse Seniors WASHINGTON -- Social Security beneficiaries will get a one-time $250 bonus payment this month from President Obama's economic-recovery program that works out to $4.80 a week. What the administration's "good news" notification letter didn't tell worki... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1afe629c-e233-4ad8-97fb-e9775405a995.html Tue, 05 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Capitalism Becomes A Victim Of Recession WASHINGTON -- Capitalism has taken a beating lately, as it often does in a prolonged recession, even though government precipitated the crisis in the first place. But this time the enemies of capitalism have grown bolder, maybe more persuasive, and a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/43008a99-0231-4e72-a9db-632d4d0f4ef6.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The First Hundred Days: FDR, He Is Not WASHINGTON -- The national news media has been treating Barack Obama's first 100 days as a historical landmark, as if he's done great things instead of doing what we routinely expect from our presidents. That is, to submit the major items on his camp... http://www.caglepost.com/article/244b0482-17f7-40b5-84e6-b35ac5ae0a3f.html Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Team O's Stance On Torture Memos A Painful Mess WASHINGTON -- The White House's smoothly run message-making machinery broke down last week in contradictory statements that have reignited the terrorist-interrogation controversy. In the space of a week, the West Wing turned into a Tower of Babel as ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6c6c510f-676c-4278-aa9d-eff87b156fde.html Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Tea Parties Send A Powerful Message WASHINGTON -- Days after several hundred thousand angry Americans rallied to protest President Obama's big-spending agenda, he asked his Cabinet to find ways to cut $100 million from the budget. It was a defensive, seemingly symbolic move to blunt th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/332ae640-5c0a-4214-afba-5cdd82851ecc.html Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Cuomo's Ambitions Take A Back Seat To Paterson WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose aggressive pursuit of wrongdoers on Wall Street has made him New York's most popular Democrat, wants to be its next governor. But one man stands in his way: David Paterson, the first black, and legal... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c9a66eba-2589-4877-ab10-6e069b870129.html Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama And Cuba: A Baby Step In The Right Direction WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's decision to allow unlimited travel by Cuban-Americans to visit family members in Cuba is a smart, long-overdue step aimed at steering that country toward democracy in the post-Castro era. His decision to let Cuban-America... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4ffa8b5f-133c-43e5-859b-21d7608e6dd4.html Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Budget Supports Failed Bush Policies WASHINGTON -- When President Obama delivered his record-breaking $3.6 trillion budget to Congress, it was front-page news and led all the television broadcasts -- with little or no critical analysis. But when the Republicans brought forth their alter... http://www.caglepost.com/article/43d42c8e-8556-429a-8314-c7e1918dafca.html Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Too much humility in the Age of Obama WASHINGTON -- President Obama set great expectations for himself on his first European diplomatic trip to test his new get-along-by-going-along foreign policy. And it was a complete success, according to the gushing reports from the news media. Not e... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a1dde856-79ea-4187-8deb-736bdb6a87a4.html Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Tax Proposals Cap Economic Growth WASHINGTON -- I recently predicted that President Obama's cap-and-trade energy taxes would be the first casualty of his ambitious legislative agenda. A bipartisan group of Senate Democrats and Republicans drove the first nail into its coffin by addin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/11db1793-018d-4897-ac15-c2a7fc8dd5ff.html Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Outlier Zogby Poll Reveals Hard Truths WASHINGTON -- Most media polls are showing President Obama's job approval in the 59 percent to mid-60 percent range, but not pollster John Zogby, who says Obama's rating has dipped below 50 percent. Contrary to many of the other major presidential su... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bd3c36e1-0c84-48ea-8d10-33685a922e3e.html Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Choking On Hypocritical 'Green' Legislation WASHINGTON -- President Obama's anti-oil cap-and-trade legislation that will effectively levy a carbon-emissions tax on businesses and on all Americans will likely be one of the first casualties of his liberal agenda. But its Republican opponents won... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e84c4faa-9ed0-4e21-a71d-6c5997a0c4ed.html Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Geithner's gambit a tough sell WASHINGTON -- This week's $1 trillion question is whether Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's public-private bank bailout plan will lure enough investors into buying up bad assets to end the nation's lending paralysis. Wall Street cheered the plan -- a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/276e98d0-797e-4cad-b6bb-55fb114b39a5.html Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT GOP Far From RIP WASHINGTON -- Despite a badly damaged Republican brand that won't be in the majority anytime soon, independent campaign analysts say the GOP may make gubernatorial and House gains during the 2009-2010 election cycle. The reasons have more to do with ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f2b060f1-4ab2-4a4b-ae29-1fd028ed1b02.html Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama embraces the free market -- finally WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama is learning a psychological lesson from a former president about the economy and what happens when you keep comparing it to the Great Depression. For almost two months of his presidency, he has been persistently and politic... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e36c9fa9-2fb0-4b77-b6e2-3e70b89f2954.html Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Pork, anyone? WASHINGTON -- When President Obama boasted that there wasn't "a single pet project" or "single earmark" in his economic-stimulus bill, he was using a slightly different definition of pork-barrel spending. In fact, there were a number of pork projects... http://www.caglepost.com/article/60265757-c351-4a68-b8d3-7e87e92c10fb.html Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Weighing The Damage WASHINGTON -- A deepening pessimism is taking root in the American economy as joblessness rises inexorably toward 9 percent, businesses are failing, U.S. exports have tanked, and Wall Street is in a depression. Billionaire investor Warren Buffet decl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b38a90f8-eacf-4943-9fbd-16ca526d150c.html Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Gaffes Start To Pile Up WASHINGTON -- President Obama and his White House staff are making mistakes that continue to worsen an already deflating U.S. economy. As the stock market plunged below the Dow's 7,000 mark -- a loss of 1,500 points since his inauguration -- Obama ca... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5390eca0-a51a-4e54-828c-fd5d41dc45e4.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Tax Hikes Threaten Main Street WASHINGTON -- President Obama's big-spending 2010 budget is filled with tax provisions that will stunt economic growth, job creation and new-business formation. It's bad enough that his soak-the-rich tax increases will have a negative impact on ordi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ce30e09f-28ba-4862-9150-39f36637fcbc.html Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT If By 'Change' Obama Means Economic Collapse ... WASHINGTON -- There were 9,000 pork-barrel earmarks buried in the $410 billion omnibus budget that passed the House last week -- giving bureaucrats 9 percent more money to spend in the remainder of this fiscal year. President Obama told Congress the ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b9c3d912-666d-47b5-ac2d-6ddb630a0714.html Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Investors Unimpressed With Obamanomics WASHINGTON -- The old saying that money isn't everything seems to epitomize President Obama's inept attempts to jumpstart the economy by throwing $2 trillion to $3 trillion at it. Nothing appears to be working. First, he signed a nearly $800 billion ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b1cc758b-4fc1-412b-9ccd-673fc664267f.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Toothless Blue Dogs Roll Over On Stimulus Bill WASHINGTON -- The House's Blue Dog Democrats like to pretend they are the deficit tigers of Congress, determined to stop runaway spending and stamp out waste, fraud and abuse. But when push came to shove, as it did in the pork-crammed $800 billion ec... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7a2882bc-e6cc-4b49-9757-0cdf99e1c7ff.html Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Protectionist language Stirs Controversy WASHINGTON -- Just as the Democrats were getting ready to pass the $800 billion stimulus plan, President Obama gave the green light to water down the bill's "buy American" trade provisions. Labor leaders were up in arms over what they saw as a betray... http://www.caglepost.com/article/83f26d12-df11-4979-983a-1278c0cc17d5.html Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama, Stop Killing Job Creation WASHINGTON -- There are two fundamentally entrenched sides in the debate over the best way to get the American economy growing again. One is to spend nearly $1 trillion (including interest on the debt) through hundreds of federal, state and local gov... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3ea64ed1-7261-41a3-a189-2335996c84be.html Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama: Still Not Ready For Prime Time WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama seems unwilling to acknowledge that reasonable and principled people oppose his stimulus bill because they believe another approach will yield significantly better results. Throughout his Monday-night news confere... http://www.caglepost.com/article/083a7ef9-3b9b-4c2c-bc11-c3665258ae2e.html Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Rescue Package Stimulating Opposition WASHINGTON -- Public resistance to the Democrats' big-spending economic-stimulus bill has risen sharply as Americans continue to learn, and dislike, what they see in it. A recent national Rasmussen poll reported that just 37 percent favor the pending... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a8c5da52-b8ae-4deb-9834-a232d20ea99a.html Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Tax Cheats Put White House On The Defensive WASHINGTON -- It's safe bet that President Barack Obama will not be getting any awards from H&R Block for his administration's ability to sniff out tax dodgers among his Cabinet nominees. Three nominees in a row, at last count, have run into trouble ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/910575f1-66af-49f1-887e-ccb8ae9a48b8.html Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Rescue Plan Fails Taxpayers WASHINGTON -- The Democrats love the anti-tax-cut attack line "trickle-down economics." Well, guess what? That big-spending, government-stimulus bill that passed the House fits that description perfectly. Most of the $820 billion-plus bill, which wil... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c8fe2456-1aab-42e6-b399-86b241e528c4.html Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Newsflash: GOP's Economic Proposals Make Sense WASHINGTON -- If you've been watching how the nightly news shows have been reporting (promoting?) President Obama's economic-stimulus plan, two things seem abundantly clear: No one questions the wisdom of his recovery package except the Republicans, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ae41e291-3208-463c-b406-a3a3b2290976.html Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Jobless 'Jolt' WASHINGTON -- It's going to take a lot longer than almost anyone thinks for the Obama administration to get the $825 billion stimulus money into the economy. Don't believe me? Read the Congressional Budget Office's recent analysis of the Democrats' p... http://www.caglepost.com/article/472a4689-5538-4786-b789-e90dfbe9e93f.html Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT TARP Windfall In The Pipeline WASHINGTON -- President Obama will receive a huge deficit-reducing windfall in a few years when the U.S. Treasury recoups about $500 billion from its investment stake in the $700 billon economic bailout. Who says so? None other than the nonpartisan C... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f25477de-b428-46ed-b913-56c07e1c2cf2.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Historic Trend May Stem Gop Bloodletting WASHINGTON -- Senate Republican prospects in next year's midterm elections are looking bleak, with nearly a half-dozen seats on the critical list and Democrats envisioning their majority will swell to more than 60 seats. The source of their biggest w... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0fc007f8-e637-4337-9d49-2cc4d26328d5.html Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT From Bad To Worse: Obama'S Math Doesn't Add Up WASHINGTON -- Even economists who agree with Barack Obama that we need another stimulus are questioning his exuberant predictions that his spending plan will produce or save 3.7 million jobs. That number was contained in the upwardly revised job-crea... http://www.caglepost.com/article/601467a2-6c65-4f25-a9a9-7b5d4c904994.html Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT No Honeymoon For You, Mr. President WASHINGTON -- It's a time-honored tradition in American politics for a new president to have a "honeymoon" before he experiences the rough and tumble of partisan combat that occurs during every administration. But President-elect Barack Obama has bee... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4b90d6e1-9451-47b2-9b26-0af7a3c72a12.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Tax Cuts Leave Logic Behind WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama's proposed tax cuts to get the economy moving again may look good on the outside, but if you lift the hood, there's not much inside to get us where we need to go. Obama's plan includes $300 billion in tax cu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b58d7d78-b718-479b-a7e7-b02a1c170e52.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Bumpy Middle Road WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama's risk-adverse, centrist-leaning Cabinet appointments suggest that there may be a lot less "change you can believe in" coming out of his administration. There are dyed-in-the-wool liberals in this pack, to b... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f0297c8d-6b37-4e8d-9ea9-61e22a6e3358.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT States Ring In The New Year With Increased Taxes WASHINGTON -- As Barack Obama lobbies for his aid-to-the-states economic stimulus plan, governors are preparing to sharply raise taxes and fees that will hurt the low-to-middle-income families he wants to help. A review of budget proposals being coo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6f5562d4-f5a5-4601-bf08-ade6580092b5.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT A Blessed Land, An Optimistic Future WASHINGTON -- As gloomy as our economy seems now, we still have plenty of reasons in this season of hope and goodwill to be grateful and even optimistic about the future. We live in a blessed land where we are free to voice our grievances about polic... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f587ad4b-e1e6-431b-953e-000b36cdf55c.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Economic 'Jolt' Has No Power WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama is fixated on the size and cost of the infrastructure spending package he will propose next year, believing that the bigger the price tag, the more effective it will be. His stimulus plan will be "big," it w... http://www.caglepost.com/article/94f40d14-902c-45db-b87f-ac957486cc40.html Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT History Points To GOP Gains In 2010 WASHINGTON -- Signing the Republican Party's post-election death certificate is risky business, but Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg did so last month -- predicting the GOP will remain in the political graveyard for many years to come. Perhaps ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e965d5b6-d032-4f7f-abc2-e7b88bf262e0.html Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Taint Of Scandal Envelops Democrats WASHINGTON -- Over the past four years, the Democrats blamed the Republicans for ushering in "a culture of corruption" that they charged had infected every nook and cranny of the government. The lobbying payoffs and influence-peddling scandals did in... http://www.caglepost.com/article/66955c72-0f99-4552-bfa4-678f0b9a8ebc.html Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Big Three Automakers Hand Keys To The Government WASHINGTON -- A burst of bailouts that has led to increasing federal control and ownership of big businesses has set off alarm bells among free-market critics who fear that it's putting America on a slippery slope to a government-run economy. The re... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a91c9ab9-02f6-4b1d-9ed8-e61e6e9db1ad.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Critics Doubt the Wisdom Of Obama's 'Jolt' WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's massive infrastructure spending plan to jump-start the economy isn't being criticized just by conservative critics. His chief economic adviser once called the idea one of the "less effective options" the president-elect i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e298029a-280b-40e1-b1bc-4afb04731dd3.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Bush's Legacy Will Be One Of Protection WASHINGTON -- As George W. Bush's wartime presidency enters its final weeks, there is increasing speculation about his legacy and how his two terms in office will be seen throughout the course of history. But history is a funny thing that can dramat... http://www.caglepost.com/article/56f091d2-f055-41a6-81ca-72d641668c6a.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT For Obama, A Team Of Insiders WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama had to sign a lot of prenuptial agreements before he was able to put together the national-security team he announced this week. Before Hillary Clinton agreed to be his secretary of state, she wanted assuran... http://www.caglepost.com/article/90aaa007-1bba-4ed0-9ac2-38fe4ec310c7.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT For America To Survive, Obama Must Be Economically Flexible WASHINGTON -- As America fell deeper into the Great Depression after the 1932 presidential election, president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted nothing to do with Herbert Hoover's economic recovery efforts. FDR, who would not be sworn in until earl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/81f68279-9eab-4c9d-b156-34f13f2e76a2.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama Can't Spend His WayTo Prosperity WASHINGTON -- Most of Barack Obama's economic-stimulus plan is beginning to look like the public-works jobs programs that Franklin D. Roosevelt tried 75 years ago in the Great Depression. In fact, a number of economists are comparing Obama's job-crea... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9b22a476-9189-42bc-afa7-7b87398894c6.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Shultz To Obama: Follow Ronald Reagan'S Approach STANFORD, CALIF. -- Former Secretary of State George Shultz has a few words of advice for Barack Obama about how to deal with Russian provocations: Negotiate without appearing weak. "President-elect Obama has to consider what kind of relationship do... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7723de9b-86f9-484e-af80-f372d726d731.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT For Obama, A Game Of High-Stakes Fiscal Poker STANFORD, Calif. -- Barack Obama will likely be forced to scale back his spending plans and perhaps slow his middle-class tax cuts next year because of massive deficits from the recession and the economic bailout. That is the prediction from top econ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/20bf51c7-5644-407a-805c-93e62aed5c43.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama Won The Election Using The Gipper's PlayBook Ronald Reagan's legacy is being kept very much alive here at a time when Republicans have lost their way and are looking for a new voice to lead them out of the political wilderness. The richly detailed testament Reagan left behind in his archives a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/03992ca7-d176-4f02-bf85-ec80223bb4cd.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama Not Garnering Financial Confidence Internationally WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy is shrinking, unemployment is at its highest level since 1994, manufacturing is at its lowest point in 26 years -- and Barack Obama is pushing a stimulus bill to rebuild bridges and roads. Whatever the long-term infras... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9e4fbfe5-84b7-46df-9538-5878bbd5d778.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Word Of Warning To Dems: Do Not Overreach WASHINGTON -- Within hours of Barack Obama's historic election last week, a chorus of media analysts were predicting that the Democrats had at last built a permanent majority that would keep them in power for many elections to come. The Washington P... http://www.caglepost.com/article/960774f6-57f4-4de4-ac4a-e107faf57602.html Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Tax-Cut Fluctuations Deceive Voters WASHINGTON -- Those who think conservatism is dead need to look at how Barack Obama skillfully played the tax cut issue like a Stradivarius. The freshman senator is about as liberal as they come, but unlike other Democratic presidential aspirants wh... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a7808f02-7b1b-4e74-98b6-5317277c1c15.html Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Joe Biden's History Lesson WASHINGTON -- The Democratic nominee for vice president uttered a rare bit of campaign candor the other day when he told us what we should expect in the first six months of Barack Obama's presidency -- an international crisis. Specifically, Biden see... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cc9dd222-33d8-44f9-9146-9a7aa5524dd1.html Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Redistribution Plan A Taxing Fantasy WASHINGTON -- Joseph Biden recently blew the whistle on Barack Obama's specious claims that he would cut income taxes for 95 percent of Americans by raising them for people earning more than $250,000. The Obama's gaffe-prone running mate, who has bec... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5dca1969-28af-4e30-8a91-6d22fc98697d.html Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Bank on America's Inexhaustible Resilience WASHINGTON -- The bad news is that the economy probably contracted in the third quarter and will likely shrink further in the fourth, plunging the country into a sharp recession. The good news is that the government has put in place all the tools nec... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dde58e42-edce-4974-a2a3-dbe604ba03af.html Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama And The Kingfish WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama, who became rich with his best-selling books, seems to have a problem with wealth creation. It isn't in his lexicon, it isn't on his agenda, and it isn't in his campaign message. He never talks about creating wealth, which ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9dc8b916-f394-46fa-b5ed-d9d98cdc8bad.html Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Congressional GOPers Will Drown In Dems Election Tsunami WASHINGTON -- Democratic majorities in Congress will become a lot bigger in January, as Americans are expected to vote based on their economic fears and frustrations on Nov. 4. 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