…because today the Washington Post features an editorial called “Sequester offers President Obama a time to lead,” which suggests that Obama offer a grand bargain that includes … additional tax…

…end he wouldn’t just sell us out! But Obama did. And along the way showed additional contempt for Liberals by agreeing to a Catfood Commission almost as loaded to the…

…current-account deficit, and find that in 2022 the U.S. net foreign asset position crosses -100% of GDP, with a current-account deficit of 7% of GDP, a trade deficit of 3%…

…turn was illustrated with the following graph: Fiscal Year Totals Now in the normal course of reporting CBO gives figures for any number of ‘deficits’ including ‘on-budget deficit’, ‘off-budget deficit’,…

RJS, MarketWatch 666 Summary: Trade Deficit Rose 22.3% to Record High in March on Higher Imports of Industrial Supplies & Materials and Consumer Goods Our trade deficit was at another…

…2023 federal deficit. CBO projects that the deficit in 2024 will be 5.8 percent of GDP and that the primary deficit (the deficit excluding interest payments) will be 3.0 percent…

…appointed by Obama to serve on the “National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility Commission” he established by executive order on Feb. 18, 2010, with co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, with…

This letter via Counterpunch to the Deficit Commission makes a clear statement on broad issues of accountability for the DoD, our contracting system, and the huge drain on our resources….

…column under his own name entitled, “A critique of Obama catches on.” The critique amounts to Obama being “too passive” in foreign policy, with this supposedly punctuated by the recent…

…be sincere — the extreme partisanship of Republicans means that in the Conservabubble it was generally agreed that Obama exceeded his authority. Many of the conservative attacks on Obama were…