The draconian tax increases on the segment of the population that pays most of the taxes, generates most of the jobs, employs most of the workforce, and accounts for much of the consumer spending will chill whatever small warmth the stimulus package can generate. How can Obama pretend that he wants to encourage confidence among [...]

Published in the New York Post on February 25, 2009 With a speech to match the most eloquent os State of the Union Addresses, with strains of FDR and JFK and a touch of Winston Churchill thrown in, President Obama has clearly staked his presidency on the outcome of the economic crisis. Whether or not [...]

Published on TheHill.com on February 24, 2009 Ultimately, all recessions and depressions resolve themselves into crises of confidence. The instant, global, 24/7 communications of today make them ever more so. President Obama, in his pursuit of liberal big-government spending, has totally neglected the role of the president of the United States in reversing global panic. [...]

President Barack Obama’s record in battling terrorism has proven so weak that one wonders if he really takes the issue seriously. Since he has taken office, the president has: Announced closure of Guantanamo. Declined to prosecute the mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing. Closed all overseas CIA interrogation centers. Appointed an Attorney General and Justice [...]

Published on TheHill.com on February 17, 2009 It’s rare to criticize a politician for being all action and no talk, but that’s one of the big things that’s wrong with Obama’s battle against the economic crisis. One of the key variants in any stage of the economic cycle is what the president says is happening. [...]

Published in the New York Post February 17, 2009 News broke last week that Rahm Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, lived rent- free for years in the home of Rep. Rosa De Lauro (D-Conn.) – and failed to disclose the gift, as congressional ethics rules mandate. But this is only the tip of [...]

The stimulus package President Obama is signing on Tuesday in Denver is a Trojan Horse. Labeled a bill to help the economy, it is really just an amalgam of the Democratic Party’s spending priorities over the past thirty years with some extra pork barrel items thrown in for seasoning. It will not — it cannot [...]

Published on TheHill.com on February 10, 2009 Because of the concentrated efforts of millions of Republicans all over America, Susan Collins (Maine) was reelected to the Senate, surviving a challenge once thought to be serious. She won, in large part, because she was able to drown her Democratic adversary in a sea of campaign spending [...]