…— want taxes to go up for folks making under $250,000 a year,” Obama said. “So let’s not wait.” Adele M. Stan, Obama throws down gauntlet on fiscal cliff, Salon.com…

…each state Obama won and under 50% for each state he lost. Wow. Now this isn’t the whole story. The overall probability of Obama victory does not just depend on…

…on Romney’s record of an employment decline followed by a slow increase (Via American Bridge Via Daily Kos) Five minutes searching for Romney on Obama’s record of an employment decline…

……After threatening to filibuster the Obama tax cut proposal, Mitch CcConnell pulled back. See Lori Montgomery, McConnell pulls back from filibuster on Senate tax-cut vote, Washington Post, July 25, 2012….

…at the elimination-of-union-workers thing, while actually advertising that ‘liberals’ got ‘Obama’ to save the auto industry. Seriously.” Seriously. The ad begins with photos of from the 1950s. One is of…

…Prof noted the Wall Street Journal editorial titled Cash for Clubbers(Oct. 17, 2009), which suggests that “thanks to President Obama’s stimulus plan”, the government is now “paying Americans” to buy…

rdan Transcript of speech via CBS News. Economist View points to Peter Orzag in Financial Times….

…before the Supremes on the 25th. There is a push to get Obama et al to change this ruling. WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the past four years, the OCC has…

Post lifted from Barkley Rosser at Econospeak How Bruce Webb And I Helped Save Social Security (Maybe) A few days ago Obama was quoted as saying that “getting entitlement spending…

by cactus Is Obama Starting Poorly? One of the things that worried me about Obama was that he (like McCain) supported the ridiculous bail-out bill. As I noted when it…