Barack Obama reached the high point of his 2nd term just 19 days before he is sworn-in for his 2nd term. The passage of Obama’s $620 billion tax increase bill will be the zenith of his remaining 4 years in office.
Obama will sign nothing of substance into law unless conservatives in the House of Representatives -- who suffered a temporary setback on the first day of 2013 -- approve of that law.
Indeed, Speaker John Boehner will not allow any major legislation that conservatives do not approve of to reach the...
Republicans should let Barack Obama jump off the “fiscal cliff” if he wants, but they can also do something productive for the American taxpayers. That is why the American people gave them huge majorities in the House of Representatives in both the 112th Congress in 2010 and in the 113th Congress in last month’s election. The Republicans in the House of Representatives should pass a permanent extension of President George W. Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, leave town and have a Merry Christmas.
On October 30, 1975, the “New York Daily News” had a headline in 3 inch bold print over a photograph of President Gerald R. Ford blaring: “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.” That headline became one of the most famous political headlines in American history. It encouraged the weak and discouraged conservative movement demoralized after several years of big spending by the nearly-impeached President Richard Nixon during his disastrous time in office. President Ford had given a speech the day before the attention-getting newspaper headline in which he denied federal...
