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Written by VASS - political commentary
The Keystone XL pipeline project was, in a manner, a dare. The project was started under President Bush, is focused on fossil fuel, and Republicans love it. When it was placed before Democrats, they balked, insisting on EPA review. It got 2 of them, and was place before President Obama. [...]
Preview of the State of the Union Address - 2012
Written by VASS - political commentary
Once again President Obama will stand before America and define his vision for the nation in the coming year. Once again, grand promises will be made. The question that stands at this moment is if the State of the Union Address will be about the re-election of President Obama, or [...]
Commentary - Charles Babington thinks 2012 will be close Presidential race, why?
Written by VASS - political commentary
We read the artilce by Charles Babington of the Associated Press, 2012 race likely to be close, tough, maybe brutal, and had to wonder about the 2012 Presidential election. A year to go, without a clear frontrunner in the Republican Party, and already Mr. Babington is foreseeing a battle that [...]
The best comments and answers by the Republican nominees at MSNBC debate
Written by VASS - political commentary
The following video contains what we believe are the best performances of each of the 2012 Republican candidates during the MSNBC/Politico debate. Due to issues from the severe flodding in the Binghamton area, the last 15 minures of the debate were not included in the video. Even so, we believe [...]
The MSNBC 2012 Republican Debate - or the ‘all about Perry show’
Written by VASS - political commentary
The thing the news media was flying before the debate was that the MSNBC/Politico Republican debate was going to be defined by only 3 things: Mitt Romney, Gov. Perry, and any arguements between the 2 current frontrunners. Since the debate ended, the news media has focused almost exclusively on: Mitt [...]
Obama supporters ask, ‘What could President Obama have done differently on economy’?
Written by VASS - political commentary
This was essentially the question that Bloomberg View’s Jonathan Alter and the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein asked recently. It’s not a new question, and supporters both famous and common have asked it many times. The core of the question implies that all that could have been done was done. But [...]
Alternative Energy + “shovel ready” + $814 billion = bankruptcy
Written by VASS - political commentary
The promise was to end America’s dependancy on foreign oil. The promise was to solve the financial crisis. The promise was to create jobs. These promises were made before and after the 2008 election by President Obama.
Then came the action. Buoyed by a supermajority, a guarantee that no matter the [...]
Libya - Gadahfi out? Well then thank President… Sarkozy
Written by VASS - political commentary
Moammar Gadahfi is hardly anyone that will be missed in the UN or the world. He was a vicious dictator who ruled Libya with a bloddy iron hand. He was a friend to terrorists, and a constant threat to America. The world would surely have been better off if the [...]
Stimulus - “I don’t think that means what you think it means”
Written by VASS - political commentary
We keep hearing the term Stimulus, being used by Democrats so much that we could not help but come to the same conclusion as did Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) in the modern classic film The Princess Bride. Like that character, we know the meaning of the term, but the way [...]
The race of President Obama - pro or con, it still amounts to nothing
If we are honest, and set aside political preferences, then we all realize that race is not important when discussing President Obama. His race does not make the Health Care Reform better or worse. His skin tone does not influence the number of people unemployed. His permanent tan does not alter the number of people that have had their homes foreclosed. His birthright of color has not stopped a bullet fired at a single soldier, nor altered the increase in food prices due to ethanol production. The Blackness (or Whiteness as he is bi-racial lest we forget) of President Obama has not removed a single dollar from the interest of the debt that is being accumulated right now.
What the DCCC attack on Speaker Boehner hides
Written by Michael Vass
Sometimes we just have to wonder if it’s the politicians that are myopic, or that they expect the voters to be senile. We wonder this when we see things like what the DCCC recently has done.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has paid for and built a site targeting House Speaker Boehner, [...]
Review Republican 2011 presidential candidates on taxes
Written by Michael Vass
Since Tim Pawlenty presented is plan for a new simplified tax code today, we felt that it would be fair to present a bit on the past views of some of the other contenders for the 2011 presidency.
The following are statements, on the 2008 election trail and in general, that we believe [...]
Tim Pawlenty tax rate proposal
Transcript of speech on June 7, 2011 as per Wall Street Journal
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The hurdles to an Obama-Biden re-election in 2012
Written by VASS - political commentary
It may be early, but the re-election process has started. Which means that political strategists are looking to emphasize the benefits and deflect the negatives of anyone who seeks the presidency in 2012. Currently all the attention is being focused on the growing field of Republicans. But that does not [...]
Sober facts that the Obama Administration wants you to ignore
Written by Michael Vass
Like most Americans, we were relaxing for most of the day enjoying the holiday. After puttering around the yard and recovering from the recent storms that knocked out power lines and caused havoc in the Central New York area (and many other regions across the country) we started to clean out some [...]
Racial politics in the 2012 Presidential election
Written by VASS - political commentary
In one of the first moves to secure his re-eletion bid, President Obama is going to the National Action Network convention. It’s a move that is deliberate, and indicative of the situation in which the President finds himself.
National Action Network is the national organization headed by the media proclaimed “Black [...]
The 2011 budget - a battle of words meaning nothing
Written by VASS - political commentary
Today President Obama announced that yet again, Democrats and Republicans failed to come to terms on the 2011 national budget. The difference between the 2 sides is largely $40 billion dollars. A huge sum, unless you are speaking about the amount of the American budget (roughly $1.6 trillion dollars).
The hypocricy [...]
The national budget - in real numbers
Written by VASS - political commentary
Ask anyone to envision $1 trillion dollars and you will likely get a blank stare. It is quite likely that any such mental image would be akin to a sea of money, with a depth and breath of unknown dimensions. Which is not too far from the truth.
Given such an [...]
Unemployment - the lie continues
Written by VASS - political commentary
Imagination is more important than knowledge… ” Albert Einstein
Such a statement might be the best way to describe the continued misreading of the unemployment results. The situation has been framed as an improving one, with the numbers creditied to the Obama Administration and its Stimulus plan. Sadly the truth of [...]
Who is leading the race for President among the Tea Party
Written by VASS - political commentary
As the election season continues to move forward, more and more of the names to be watching for are aligned with the Tea Party. This group of American citizens that have been maligned by the media and top Democrats (from the local Press and Sun newspaper in Binghamton, to former [...]
Leadership or politics - with homes in the balance
Written by VASS - political commentary
Mortgage forclosures are a problem. The sub-prime fiasco led the nation into a crisis that remains as problematic today as it was during the Presidential election of 2008. The only difference today is that the problem has expanded far from just sup-prime mortgages into all aspects of the housing markets. [...]
Unemployment rate hits 9% and pigs fly
Written by VASS - political commentary
The unemplyment rate for January 2011 has come in and it was astounding. Though all analysts projected an increase of unemployment, from 9.4% to 9.5%, the actual numbers came in vastly different. The latest figure is now 9%.
Such a huge and dramatic drop should be wonderful news. It should have [...]
Obama’s Health Care Reform takes another blow
Written by VASS - political commentary
The Health Care Reform. It took 14 months of debate, the abandoning of town hall meetings by elected officials across the nation (like our New York politicians Sen. Gillibrand and Rep. Maurice Hinchey), a super-majority of Democrats in Congress, and several very special deals made in the middle of the [...]
A forecast of the 2011 State of the Union Address
Written by VASS - political commentary
It’s always interesting to listen to the polispeak just before a major political event. The rhetoric always goes out and spins everything for or against whomever is involved with the event, pundits have a field day making predictions. And by the time a month has passed everyone forgets what was [...]
Illegal aliens gain jobs as Americans are unemployed
Written by VASS - political commentary
Over and over again, supporters of illegal aliens like to ask what proof is there that illegal aliens take jobs away from Americans. Any debate about illegal immigration always winds up including a request of proof. Never mind any requests for converse proof, but that is another matter.
The Center for [...]
