Obama budget plan weighs in at $3.8 trillion
President Obama’s proposed budget predicts the deficit will crest at a record-breaking $1.6 trillion in the current fiscal year, then start to recede in 2011 to just below $1.3 trillion.
Despite setbacks, Obama’s aims unchanged
For a president in political trouble, the State of the Union address seems the ideal launch site to tweak one’s agenda. But not so for President Obama.
Boosting Small Businesses with Obama’s Plan, Is It Too Late?
Earlier this week, President Obama decided to refocus his agenda on Americans jobs, especially small businesses.
Keep the focus on health care and taxes
From my new column for National Journal:
President Obama says he gets the message from Massachusetts. Expect a new focus on jobs and living standards. Expect fresh attention to overgrown public borrowing. The country’s pressing concerns, he says,…
Democrats confused about path ahead
A day after President Obama called on them to renew efforts to pass his ambitious agenda, congressional Democrats remained in disarray about how to move forward.
Fact check: Obama and the ‘hatchet’ job
President Obama, who once considered government spending freezes a hatchet job, tells Americans it’s now part of a solution to the deficit. But he doesn’t explain the changes.
NYT: Obama calls team from 2008 for fall races
President Obama is reconstituting the team that helped him win the White House to counter Republican challenges in the midterm elections.
Combative Obama pushes job creation bill
A combative President Obama exhorted Congress Friday to pass a new job-creation bill with tax breaks for small business hiring and people making their homes more energy efficient.
Where Obama went wrong, according to Krugman
In a recent column, Paul Krugman says:
The conventional wisdom seems to be that President Obama tried to do too much – in particular, that he should have put health care on one side and focused on the economy.
I disagree. The Obama administration’…
Puzzling over Massachusetts election scenarios
Massachusetts voters on Tuesday could change the political landscape, by putting at risk President Obama’s signature first-term legislation, insurance reform. Here are four scenarios for what might follow from Tuesday’s results.