How to Defend Offshore Tax Havens From Obama

The conservative opposition to President Obama’s agenda faces a new challenge today when a Senate subcommittee chaired Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) holds a hearing on offshore tax havens. Levin introduced legislation Monday that seeks to recover billions in tax revenue from U.S. corporations and individuals using overseas More…

Talking Points Lite

One advantage President Obama’s foes have in mounting their domestic agenda of obstruct and obscure is the luxury of the content-free talking points. For example, ever since President Obama proposed limiting the tax deductions of the most affluent Americans as a means of paying for health care reform last, a More…

Newt Bets on a Card Check

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) may be a political also-ran, but he is also a genius at repackaging himself for the liberal media. His latest gambit: hiring former Michigan GOP chair Saul Anuzis to run an Internet campaign against the Employee Free Choice Act, More…

Orszag’s Weak Defense of Cap-and-Trade

After President Obama outlined an ambitiously reasonable cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon emissions in his budget proposal last week, the White House made the mistake of sending an accountant to defend it on the Sunday chat shows.

Big Oil’s Ebbing Influence

The oil industry vows to fight President Obama’s budget proposal unveiled yesterday that would raise $32 billion by taxing oil companies that failed to pay royalties on Gulf of Mexico oil leases issued between 1996 and 2000. Whether they can succeed is another question.

The American Petroleum Institute is objecting, and More…

Obama’s ‘Radical’ Health Care Plan

Pharma Times, news site of the drug industry, is calling the emerging outlines of the Obama health care plan “radical.” Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, depends on which sector of the industry you talk to.

Makers of generic drugs, for example, are smiling. Kathleen More…

Education Reform Balancing Act

The Obama budget outline balances a line that was widely applauded by Republicans  from the president’s Wednesday night speech to Congress—“we will expand our commitment to charter schools”—with a line to appeal to teachers unions and other tradional Democratic constituencies who are skeptical of independent but publicly-funded More…

Free Traders for Card Check

Unmentioned in President Obama’s speech to Congress last night was the impending battle over “card check,” which promises to be anything but post-partisan. As conservatives debate how to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act — which, if passed, proponents argue would make it easier for workers to form unions More…

TARP Investment Reaps Just More Than a Penny on the Dollar

Wonder what more than $300 billion in taxpayer money for the Troubled Asset Relief Program has actually paid for? The Government Accounting Office spent close to three months trying to figure it out and today it announced the answer: It’s hard to say.

Fewer Green Transportation Jobs in Stimulus Than Touted

President Obama’s economic stimulus program might be considered green, but it’s still got a big streak of gray.

The $785 billion spending bill that Obama signed Tuesday, shortly after he toured the sparkling solar-paneled roof of the Denver Museum, will save or create 3.5 million jobs over the next two More…