Americans put two tax issues — preventing the return of the estate tax and extending the Bush tax cuts — at the top of the priority list for the lame-duck Congress, but when the numbers are broken down along party lines, there are sharp differences among Republicans and Democrats, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — James Zogby, founder and president of the Washington, D.C.-based Arab American Institute (AAI), joked that he is “the son of a Lebanese merchant, and I’ve got a book and it’s for sale.” But in the rest of his speech to the World Affairs Council of Charlotte on Monday, he got serious about [...]
While President Obama and the Republican congressional leadership have put off their Thursday get-together until later in the month, most Americans don’t have much faith anyway that the two sides would do much to bridge their differences or find areas of compromise, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Nov. 8-15. Those surveyed expressed the [...]
If this week follows the normal pattern, the public stock offering Thursday by a resurgent General Motors will not be seen as evidence that presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama made wise decisions to help the tanking auto industry. No, it will probably just remind Americans that the federal government is really, really big [...]
Much of the speculation about the impact of tea party movement successes in the election has been over what role and influence the new lawmakers will have among Republicans, so it is interesting that most Americans — although Republicans and Democrats disagree on the point — see the tea party as separate from, rather than [...]
This is the perfect time for the Republican Party to make good on its claim that it wants to recapture the loyalty of African-American voters. Yes — recapture all those lost Lincoln Republicans put off and run off by the 1960′s and 1970′s antics of the architects and beneficiaries of the Southern strategy. In the [...]
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