David Remer: Current Political EventsCommentary, analysis and context of political events and news.Greenspan Speak - President & Congress Irresponsible- February 26, 2004 by David Remer, Political News & Analysis, WatchBlog Allen Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Banking System, dropped a time bomb in the Republican's laps. Greenspan is appointed and retains his position at the discretion of the President and answers regularly to the Congress. So, Greenspan is never going to come out and say his boss is missing the boat, or the Congress is cheating Americans now paying into the Social Security. At least he would never say so overtly. He did...http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2004/02/26.html#a4828 Republican Gov't: Hard at work!- February 25, 2004 A week in review Consumer Confidence Drops in February &133; Nah, all Americans believe Bush &150; the economy is in great shape and going to be fantastick by December. Note that is only a couple weeks after the election. Hmmm&133; why didn&146;t he say it would be fantastick before the election &150; it only a couple weeks Jobs Expected to Continue to Lag Economy &133;Only one who didn&146;t seem to know that was Bush before he stuffed his foot in mouth claiming millions of new...http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2004/02/25.html#a4782 Looked like good news for a couple seconds.- February 24, 2004 Army Cancels Comanche Helicopter Program AP Politics Finally, our Federal Government does something RIGHT for the American people. Oh wait, I forgot to ask if they were giving us our money back on that program. Oh, well, made a nice headline though didn't it. Posted by David R. Remer, Political News & Analysis, WatchBloghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2004/02/23.html#a4756 Bush's no brainer choices.- February 24, 2004 Bush Launches More Aggressive Campaign With Speech. WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, battered by his Democratic challengers and slipping in the polls, answered back on Monday, arguing that his opponents are hesitant in combatting terrorism and that their policies will raise taxes. By The Associated Press. New York Times: NYT HomePage Now this is an interesting tactic. Bush argues his opponents might hesitate and contemplate a bit, come up with an exit strategy, and a plan that will minimize..http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2004/02/23.html#a4754 Kerry Steamroller Unstoppable- February 22, 2004 Great article on why the Kerry Steamroller is unstoppable, can be found here at WatchBlog.http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2004/02/22.html#a4715 Why McAuliffe - DNC's attack dog, shouldn't tell Nader not to run.- February 22, 2004 Great article on DNC's Terry McAuliffe's call for Ralph Nader to not run for President on the basis that it will help Bush and hurt Democrats. Insightful treatment of the subject.http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2004/02/22.html#a4714 Ralph Nader throws hat into race.- February 22, 2004 An excellent article about Ralph Nader's announcement of Presidential candidacy and what it means can be found at WatchBlog. Democrats, take heed.http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2004/02/22.html#a4713 Kerry Steamroller: Part II- February 18, 2004 By David R. Remer - ( Political News & Analysis - WatchBlog ) Kerry wins Wisconsin by an apparent single digit margin, but exit polls indicate it was a landslide. Polls show Kerry received a large majority of the Democratic vote. The primary was open to Independents and Republicans as well. Edwards got a majority of the Independent vote, but, lost large to Kerry amongst Democrats. As I pointed out in a previous article, Kerry provided voters the one overriding...http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2004/02/17.html#a4658 Kerry Affair Rumored - Nothing to it so far.- February 12, 2004 Posted by David Remer -- Political News & Analysis WatchBlog, a political debate site, broke a story 6 days ago about a rumor of Kerry and an affair. Apparently Drudge "broke" the story today and now it is making the circuit around the net. There is nothing so far to substantiate the rumor. Check out the objective coverage of this story here at WatchBlog. We are still nine months from the election and the "dirty political tricks" are already so deep it is hard to breathe.http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2004/02/12.html#a4600 Beauty of being an Independent- February 6, 2004 Why would a Texan, such as myself, be sending a campaign contribution to Wisconsin and Arizona Senator's campaigns As an Independent voter, I am able to choose to support candidates regardless of party based on their record and positions which reflect my values and interests. This year is the first that I am sending campaign money across the political spectrum to the Green Party, Democrat, and Republican Senators. This year I am supporting John McCain (R) and Russ Feingold.(D) I choose these...http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2004/02/06.html#a4511 |