“At times, leaders lead,” said Sen. Annette Dubas, who sponsored one of the bills. “But other times, the people lead. And I think especially on this issue, the people led.” Sen. Chris Langemeier, who chaired the committee that examined both bills, also noted Nebraska’s Unicameral Legislature, an officially non-partisan one-house body created to be more
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Leppert, a businessman and pro-business, fiscal conservative, has been questioned about social policy including ties to organized labor groups and his presence, as mayor, at a gay pride parade. Leppert, in response to the parade, said, as the figurehead of the city, it was his responsibility to support every group. In a July interview with
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Photos: President Barack Obama gigs ‘em with Texas AM women Scores march on Dallas Fed to protest corporate greed Husband divorces Texas death row inmate Darlie Routier Big 12 votes in favor of inviting TCU to join league Irving police seek suspect in weekend hit-and-run that seriously injured woman, 7-year-old girl rss Read the Original
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Those who are impressed by words seem to think that President Barack Obama made a great speech to Congress this month. But, when you look beyond the rhetoric, what did he say that was fundamentally different from what he has been saying and doing all along? Are we to continue doing the same kinds of
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In the summer of 1971, the nation was in the doldrums. Inflation was rising, and unemployment was uncomfortably high. The stock market was sinking. Polls indicated President Richard Nixon could lose his 1972 re-election bid. He decided major changes were in order. On the evening of Aug. 15, 1971, Nixon went on TV to announce
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“Jobs Plan Tanks,” screamed the Drudge Report the morning after the president’s much-anticipated speech. The headline linked to reports of the drops on the various stock markets, which are based, it appears, as much on global uncertainty as they are on the support, or lack thereof, of the president’s plan. But does it matter? The
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President Barack Obama’s latest speech about creating jobs missed a grand opportunity to do something new, effective and bold. Instead, the president offered another tired and failed Big Government solution that has helped bring 9 percent unemployment and multitrillion dollar deficit and debt. He gave little hope for change anytime soon. The president’s jobs speech
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For Barack Obama, economic prosperity for 14 million Americans seeking a job is just a matter of borrowing a few more dollars, and printing yet more money. And of course, paying your fair share — by Obama’s rules. It is Obama’s “story of America,” where the only solution for government’s unsustainable spending is to reach
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The 2012 presidential election may boil down to who has the best solution to the jobs problem. People with jobs are worried about losing them. People without jobs are more numerous — and have been unemployed longer — than any time in decades. Employers are reluctant to hire because the economic future is so uncertain.
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Maybe our country is mired in debt, hobbled with less-than-excellent credit, because our chief executive has no experience beyond that which he has gained on the job. President Obama is smart and well educated. He has a gift for public speaking. He has the intellectual prowess for what some consider the toughest job in the
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