February 8, 2011

by Rob Prince A bit of disconnected, but not irrelevant, history. Many years ago – 43 to be exact – Phil Jones and I, both Peace Corps volunteers stationed in Tunis at the time, walked into a reception in the garden of the U.S. embassy there where Hubert Humphrey was …

Why did the President cross the road? To kneel before the corporate throne of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. And here’s what he had to say there on Monday.
President Obama again stressed that he wanted to freeze non-war/military spending well into the next president’s tenure:
“That’s why I’ve proposed that we freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years. Understand what this means. This would reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade, and bring this spending — domestic discretionary spending — down to the lowest share of our economy since Eisenhower was president. That was a long time ago.”

House Republicans are scrutinizing a wide array of existing and proposed Obama administration regulations in areas as diverse as the environment and Wall Street, and they are taking guidance from industry groups that say the rules threaten jobs.