So the official story here is that President Obama says he wants to cut the country's corporate tax rate by seven percentage points, dropping it from 35 percent to 28 percent, which gives him a nice tax-related headline on a day when similar stories are cropping up about the competition.
Although the outcome of this fall's midterm elections didn't suggest great possibilities for the last two years of President Obama's term, he would like to suggest, as he does in this speech after Wednesday's START vote, that .
This week's episode of "Left, Right & Center" features a double dose of commentary from the right, making the conversation about Obama's strategy in Afghanistan, the death of Richard Holbrooke, the future of health care reform, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's findings .
In Internet-ese, one possible response to a couple of President Obama's more intriguing justifications on Friday for the passing of the contentious tax-cut bill might be O RLY? This is because the president declared later that same day .
The sight of Bill Clinton back at the White House podium defending tax cuts for the super-rich was more a sick joke than a serious amplification of economic policy.
California Sen. Barbara Boxer is one of a group of purportedly left-leaning politicians who is choosing to throw in with President Obama in his plan to preserve Bush-era tax cuts that give the wealthy a break along with Americans hailing from lower-income brackets.
That pronounced blast of disapproval from the left-leaning ranks in the House of Representatives last week may not be enough to blow President Barack Obama's tax-cut proposal down, as the Senate gave it a strong vote of confidence Monday.
From the "White House White Board" to Glenn Beck's blackboard, it seems like everyone's trying to spell out fundamental political concepts using methods usually reserved for elementary school teachers. Does this say something about their opinions of American voters?
What are we to make of Obama's concessionary tax-cut move this week? Politically savvy or just another sign that what some of us bought isn't what we got in our president? There's definitely some disagreement about this point among the panelists .
This just in: The rich get richer President Barack "Hope ’n' Change" Obama ticked off a lot of people Monday by helping the affluent and entitled stay that way with his GOP-appeasing tax cut plan .
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