Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.

Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.