congress

As a senior citizen drawing Social Security, which is the biggest part of my income, I never thought I would see the day Congress would turn against us seniors. Well they did exactly that when they voted against two bills that would have given us that COLA increase we depend on each year to...

For a while now I've become more and more frustrated with the current political environment where nothing substantive is being accomplished. Both parties are spending too much time wrangling and in-fighting so that little or nothing is being accomplished. Although a life-long democrat I think...

Yesterday night Obama gave his first official address to Congress (not quite a state of the union), what do you guys think? I thought it was a typical speech from him, well delivered as usual. While it wasn't as partisan as most of Bush's speeches, it had some contradictions and of course...

I think Congress has really dropped the ball with these bailout bills. The first round, with AIG was a travesty. And after it became apparent they had fouled it up, and many members admitted they had fouled it up, they continued to drop the ball with the auto industry. And this week they...