10/19/20
Democrats have worked tirelessly to put universal healthcare in place, and they will ultimately prevail unless Republicans unite behind a viable counterproposal. Read More...Tags: Afffordable Care Act, Tax Cut and Jobs Act, GovCare, Medicare for All , Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Scott Atlas, LMCC insurance, Health Savings Accounts , Medicare, Medicaid, private retail clinics, malpractice lawsuits, Food and Drug Administration, Biden Plan, public option, President Donald Trump , Chris Wallace, Judge Amy Coney Barrett
10/05/20
The first presidential debate was ugly but revealing, allowing Americans to observe the two candidates in action and draw their own conclusions. Read More...Tags: President Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Chris Wallace, COVID-19, Hillary Clinton, Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Obamacare, Affordable Care Act, Bernie Sanders, Trump healthcare plan, public option, Medicaid, individal mandate eliminated, packing Supreme Court, International travel bans, swine flu, COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Redfield, Dr. Siaoui, Operation Warp Speed, Sen. Kamala Harris, wearing masks, large political rallies, Biden economic agenda, tax increases, Obama jobs record, Trump income tax payments, Hunter Biden, Charlottesville, Abraham Lincoln, white supremacists, troops to clear out White House protestors, 1994 crime bill, Brianna Taylor case, racial sensitivity training, racist dog whistles, mayor of Portland, Kellyanne Conway, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Proud Boys, greatest economy in hisotry, Space Force, Veterans Administration, climate change, forest fires, Paris climate accord, Clean Power Plan, Brazilian rain forest, Green New Deal, Biden energy plan, unsolicited mail-in ballots
08/31/20
Two national political conventions were conducted within a span of ten days, providing a striking contrast in both style and substance.
Read More...Tags: Sen. Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Doug Emhoff, President Donald Trump , Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Fort McHenry, Christopher Maccio, unspoken rule of politics, the swamp, Chris Wallace, coronavirus pandemic, testing, supplies, support schools, heed the experts, economic crisis, Affordable Care Act, call for racial justice, Charlottesville, Nazi-like behavior, George Floyd, John Lewis, climate change crisis, Trump tax cut a giveaway, civil unrest, terrible trade deals, endless wars, energy Independence
06/15/20
The upcoming election campaigns will be hard fought, with a paucity of objective reporting and more emphasis on personalities than on policies. Read More...Tags: Joe Biden, Ross Perot, David Walker, Fiscal Wakeup Tour, HEROES Act, Sen. Chris Coons, George Floyd, Sen. Mitt Romney, President Ronald Reagan, President Donald Trump, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Chris Wallace, President George W. Bush, Tulsa Trump Rally, Hillary Clinton, Roy Cooper, President Barack Obama
12/16/19
SAFE seeks to enlist Sen. Rand Paul as an ally who could help to build support for our suggestion that balancing the budget should be the top issue in the 2020 presidential race. Read More...Tags: Sen. Tom Carper, balanced solution, Fiscal Commission, Bowles-Simpson commission, President Donald Trump, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Chuck Schumer , Sen. Chris Coons, Chris Wallace, Russell Vought, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Mike Enzi, Joint Select Committe re budget process, Democratic primaries debates, Republican tax cuts, special tax breaks, USA Today, Joe Biden, Ross Perot
08/26/19
Many people view fiscal responsibility as passé, but SAFE continues to support the quaint notion that government budgets should be habitually balanced. Read More...Tags: US gov't fiscal history, deficit spending, President Bill Clinton, Jim Thomen, Sen. Tom Carper, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Sen Mitch McConnell, Sen Chuck Schumer, Sen. Chris Coons, Chris Wallace, Russell Vought, President Donald Trump
12/10/18
Elections are about power, and a “win at all costs” mindset seems increasingly common. If this trend is not reversed, we may have reason to regret it. Read More...Tags: voter fraud, voter turnout, updating voter rolls, voter suppression, russian election, Vladimir Putin, early voting, all-mail voting, same day voting, absentee ballots, President Donald Trump, Chris Wallace, peaceful transition of power, Presidential Advisory Commission on Electoral INtegrity, Vice President Mike Pence, Kris Kobach, Matt Dunlap, Hans Spakovsky, ballot harvesting, Jerry Brown, sole loser syndrome, Stacey Abrams, Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Hillary Clinton
10/31/16
Trump says he wouldn’t automatically accept election results; pushback suggests elitist insecurity. Read More...Tags: 3rd presidential debate, Donald Trump, Chris Wallace, Hillary Clinton, Dick Morris, voting fraud, rigged election, Al Gore, 2000 election, Election Day violence, Patrick Buchanan, John Stossel, Kurt Schlichter, Democratic National Committee, Republican National Committee
10/24/16
No one has seriously engaged the presidential candidates on the fiscal problem; it keeps getting worse. Read More...Tags: 3rd presidential debate, Chris Wallace, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, debt & entitlements, debt as % of GDP, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, sustainable deficits, Trump economic machine, trade deals, tax cuts, War on Poverty, Clinton tax increases, "fair share" for the wealthy and corporations
10/17/16
Trump wasn’t wrong to play the special prosecutor card, but doing so may not pay off for his campaign. Read More...Tags: 2nd presidential debate, Donald Trump , Billy Bush of NBC, Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, birther controversy, Sen. Joseph McCarty, Roy Cohn, Clinton e-mail server, FBI Director James Comey, General David Petraeus, AG Loretta Lynch, Sen. Barack Obama, Sen Ted Cruz, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Supreme Court, judicial appointments, Constitution , judge Richard Posner, Chris Wallace