A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.

In America, small business is a big deal.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!

The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.

Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.

What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.