Rhett Wilkinson is a senior at Utah State University. He is studying journalism and political science. The opinions expressed are his own. The feds ought to follow the lead of a certain rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, who famously said “I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date!” The first problem with this […]
Sequester: a trip down the rabbit hole to Wonderland [Contributor]
March 1, 2013 by Rhett Wilkinson
Filed Under: Entitlement Reform, Fiscal Reform, Laws and Lawmakers, Tax Policy Tagged With: Barack Obama, budget, Harry Reid, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Sequester, United States, Washington DC
Is the union stronger? [Contributor]
February 20, 2013 by Rhett Wilkinson
President Obama’s State of the Union address was in trouble hardly after it began when he said that “we can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger.” Economically, that’s hardly believable, with a $16.5 trillion national debt and annual budget deficit topping $1 trillion for the fourth consecutive year. Neither […]
Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Congressional Budget Office, Mitt Romney, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, SOTU, State of the Union
The Obama majority? [Contributor]
January 25, 2013 by Rhett Wilkinson
Rhett Wilkinson is a senior at Utah State University. He is studying journalism and political science. The opinions expressed are his own. American Prospect editor Harold Meyerson opined for the Washington Post that there is “an Obama majority in American politics, symbolized by Monday’s throng on the Mall, whose existence is both the consequence of […]
Filed Under: Entitlement Reform Tagged With: Barack Obama, Harold Meyerson, inauguration, Welfare state
Obama’s surreal fiscal cliff speech
December 31, 2012 by Daniel Burton
After a refreshing vacation to Hawaii for Christmas, President Obama took the stage this afternoon (EST) to make a speech on the impending fiscal cliff. Driving home during lunch, I listened to KSL’s Doug Wright describe the scene, and I arrived home just in time to watch the President speak.
Wright was describing the scene while waiting for the President to take the stage, and since Obama was late, he tried guessing where they were at. He could see a podium, but he after listing through the typical rooms where Obama addresses the nation from the White House, he concluded that he didn’t know where they were.
Filed Under: Leaders Tagged With: Barack Obama, congress, fiscal cliff, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, taxes, White House
Our problem isn’t the taxes, but the spending
December 10, 2012 by Daniel Burton
Is it time for Republicans trying to avert the fiscal cliff to give up on protecting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy in exchange for entitlement reform?
Maybe a better question would be: do Republicans still have a choice?
In many respects, the debate over taxes–raise them on the rich! Lower on the poor! Middle class! Get rid of deductions! Close loopholes! Reform the tax code!–is important, but really misses the point of what is behind the fiscal problems our country is facing. At the root of it all, the problem isn’t the tax code–though I’m all for reforming it, simplifying it, and making it more flat–the problem is that we are spending more than we are paying in taxes. And I mean, ALL of us.
Filed Under: Education Reform, Fiscal Reform Tagged With: Barack Obama, Bob Bennett, culture, Democrats, entitlement reform, John Boehner, Medicaid, Medicare, Republicans, Social Security, taxes
The Never Ending Campaign
November 21, 2012 by Daniel Burton
Is it me, or does it feel the campaign for President might never end? Especially when I see things like this:
Filed Under: Elections, Republican Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, Bob Portman, Bobby Jindal, Chris Christi, Election 2012, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Michelle Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Nikki Haley, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum
Come after me on Benghazi says Obama [video]
November 14, 2012 by Daniel Burton
In a press conference today, President Obama said that people should “come after me,” not his Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, who has taken a much of the heat for the Obama Administration’s response on Benghazi.
Oh, we will, says Senator Graham…
Filed Under: National Security/Intelligence, Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, Benghazi, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Obama, Press Conference, Susan Rice
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