87% percent of Americans find, “reducing corruption in the federal government,” to be “extremely,” or, “very important” according to a new Gallup poll on American’s top priorities for the next president. This is the #2 issue, following only job creation.
Corruption in government usually ranks as an important issue when it is asked about specifically, though it is not as top-of-mind as jobs or the economy.
Particularly, corruption does less well in polls when respondents are asked to volunteer priorities. However, only 2% thought corruption was not an important issue. In addition, corruption, like job …
Ryan Lizza’s much buzzed about recent piece in The New Yorker investigates what Barack Obama might focus on in a second term. Obama could focus on immigration reform, on clean energy and the environment, on shoring up healthcare reform to future attacks from Republicans, on foreign policy. These are all issues that candidate Obama promised to work on in the 2008 election.
But Lizza’s article doesn’t mention another one of Obama’s big 2008 promises. Here he is in 2008, promising to work on getting big money out of politics:
Let me be clear — this isn’t just about ending the …
At Fort Stewart, Georgia, today, President Obama signed an executive order aiming to protect U.S. troops, veterans, and their families from the predatory abuses of some for-profit colleges. It remains to be seen if this new directive will do enough to guide our service members into programs that actually help them build careers — and away from programs that leave them deep in debt. But President Obama delivered powerful remarks, charging that some for-profit education companies “aren’t interested in helping you…. They are interested in getting the money.” He called their conduct “appalling” and “disgraceful” and told the troops …
President Obama unveiled his Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal this week. While it is not expected to be passed into law, it is being used as a statement of Obama’s fiscal and political principles going into the election year.
Included in Obama’s proposal this year is a special tax on financial firms with more than $50 billion in assets. This bank tax would raise an estimated $61 billion in revenue if enacted. To many Americans, taxing these big banks is only fair. After all, their reckless behavior helped cause a recession that impoverished more than 60 million people and …
Though President Obama lashed out at the influence of lobbyists in his State to the Union address, a current advisor to his campaign and administration, former White House communication director Anita Dunn, runs one of fastest growing corporate “public affairs” firms in Washington DC. Dunn left her post as a public servant in late 2009 to return to the firm now known as SKDKnickerbocker. Although she is not technically a registered lobbyist, she has been hired to manage a variety of corporate lobbying campaigns against President Obama’s reforms.
Last month, Republic Report asked Dunn about the ethical …
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