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Opinion: Harry Reid Dares to Talk About Angry Old White Men
Every time I think I may have figured U.S. Senator Harry Reid out, he says something else completely outrageous that convinces me that I haven’t even come close in figuring him out yet. Of all of the...
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Opinion: Bachmann’s Muslim Brotherhood Concerns In Obama Administration...
Hold it! Don’t drop last week’s controversial headlines regarding U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and four other GOP House members who said that President Barack Obama’s administration has connections to...
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Opinion: Billions Are Being Spent On This Election, But Will It Change Anything?
As the polls stand today the biggest question of the 2012 election is: (a) what happens in the House of Representatives? And (b) is it possible, after billions of dollars in ads and two years of...
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Opinion: Four More Years Of Gridlock
The 2012 presidential election results gave the United States Congress little reason to end the gridlock that has plagued President Barack Obama for the past two years. After all, the politicians who...
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What’s This Fiscal Cliff Lawmakers Are Talking About?
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Leaders in Washington and on Wall Street are calling it the “Fiscal Cliff,” automatic tax hikes and domestic and military spending cuts in January if Congress fails to act....
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Opinion: Quit Gloating And Whining
Even though it’s only three days after the presidential election of 2012 and a certain amount of gloating on the part of President Barack Obama supporters and a certain amount of whining is expected...
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Opinion: Elections Have Consequences
President Obama won an Electoral College landslide on Tuesday. He held on to every swing state that Romney needed to win. Obama defeated Romney in his home states of Massachusetts and Michigan and in...
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Opinion: Pelosi Stays On As Leader, Continuing To Defy The GOP War On Women
Depending on how leadership elections go in the minority party in the House and in the Senate, it looks as if all the party leaders will be the same as they were in the last Congress. Unless House...
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Opinion: Grover Puts Himself Before Party And Country
In the Presidential debates, Mitt Romney targeted Big Bird as a place to take the knife when cutting the federal budget. But it turns out that Grover, and not Big Bird, has the most to lose following...
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Opinion: The Fourteenth Amendment Solution
With one month to go before the U.S. goes off what is being called by some the fiscal cliff and others, more accurately, the fiscal slope, the president and Democrats hold all the cards. Absent a...
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Opinion: GOP A Party Without A Plan
Yesterday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner brought the President’s $2 trillion deficit reduction plan to the Senate. It included $1.6 trillion in new revenue and $400 billion in entitlement...
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Opinion: GOP Too Extreme
A majority of Americans think the GOP is too extreme. According to new polling by CNN, 53 percent of Americans think that the Republican party’s policies and views as too extreme. Nearly a quarter of...
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Opinion: Sore Losers
Once again, House Republicans have taken their ball and gone home. Members of the House of Representatives bolted town on Thursday after rejecting a plan advanced by House Speaker John Boehner. It is...
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Sen. Casey Calling For Quick Action To Fix Local Locks & Dams
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Sen. Bob Casey sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner on Friday asking for quick action on a bill to repair locks and dams in this region. Sen. Casey, whose bill has passed the...
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Congress To Investigate Affordable Care Act Website Snafus
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The multiple problems associated with the Affordable Care Act’s website have brought elected officials of all parties together, from President Obama to House Speaker Boehner....
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Social Security In 1935: How Today’s Health Law Should Evolve
“If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period.” – President Barack Obama speaking before the American Medical Association on June 15, 2009 The president’s...
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Obama Vows To Flex Presidential Powers In Speech
WASHINGTON (AP) – Seeking to energize his sluggish second term, President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday night in his State of the Union address to sidestep Congress “whenever and wherever” necessary to...
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