There are a number of points Americans should keep in mind when they try to decipher the so called “fiscal cliff” hype: first, the “fiscal cliff” is self inflicted, has nothing to do with balancing the...

Leadership is out of grasp.Obama yielded ground, offering to raise taxes on those earning greater than $400,000 instead of $250,000 in income. Boehner’s ‘Plan B’ set the limit higher at $1 million. The...

Today, as our nation continues to grieve in the aftermath of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, top leaders in the U.S. House spoke to reporters and signaled that real progress has been made in reaching...

As the January 1 fiscal cliff deadline approaches, Capitol Hill intrigue continues to grow over when, or if, a legislative solution will be reached to prevent automatic year-end budget cuts and tax increases.  Every day competing Democratic and...

The big news today, Sunday, is that President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) met at the White House. This is the first private meeting with the two men since election day. The White House released little...

On Thursday, aides to President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner confirmed the President had agreed to the Speaker’s request that key elements of the final agreement to avert the year-end fiscal cliff would be negotiated...

 Republicans finally may be confronting reality. The Washington Post reports “a growing chorus of Republicans is urging House leaders to abandon their staunch opposition to higher tax rates for the wealthy,” while The New York Times...

While Washington D.C. political leaders battle on Capitol Hill and in the White House over the approaching ominous fiscal cliff, it appears House Speaker John Boehner has shoved conservative House Tea Party members over another type of cliff. In...

While the shock of the election defeat was still fresh Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said Obamacare was “the law of the land” and he hinted in an interview the days of repeal vote after repeal vote might...

 Deja Vu is defined as the feeling of certainty that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the prior encounter are unclear and were perhaps imagined.  It comes from...

Last August the United States nearly went into default as Congress nearly failed to raise the debt ceiling in time.  Today, Speaker Boehner (R-OH) is threatening to reignite the conflict next year, when the Congress will once again...

To ‘Govern like Grown Folks’ seem to be the missing piece amongst today’s CongressIt was almost 16-years ago to the day when the Gingrich-led House assumed a position of political posturing that left American...