So who will blink first?

The Speaker suffered an embarrassment by failing to have the votes to pass his Plan B which would have raised taxes on income over$1million dollars. Polls suggest the republicans would get blamed if thee is no deal. Regardless of any deal the bottom line is that we need to cut spending. A tax increase might even be necessary because the fact of the matter is that both sides have been benefiting from the taxpayers for decades. The democrats have used federal money to promise money for their constituents and the republicans have given tax subsidies to companies who were already profitable. At some point the public trough was going to dry.

Romney concedes to Obama

Romney reaches out in town hall debate

Mitt Romney continued his campaign of demonstrating that Obama is not doing his job and that he understands the plight of the middle class.
Romney told the college student that he would have a job by the time he graduated from college. Romney also said that Obamas policies have Hirt the middle class which has been crushed by the administration. Romney also touted his reaching to hire women in his administration. He challenged Obamas claim that he declared the attack on Benghazi a terrorist attack.
Romney most importantly demonstrated that he understand the plight of the middle class and that with his business experience and as governor to guide the country back to prosperity

VP debate tonight!

Romney responds to embassy attacks

Mitt Romney criticized the Obama administration about a statement issued by the US Embassy in Egypt about its defense of the free speech when the embassies in Libya and Egypt were attacked.  The embassy in Egypt issued a statement that the protesters were excersing free speeech when the protesters invaded a sovereign piece of property.  Romney criticised the statement stating that this is not free speech when they attack our embassy and kill Americans. 

President Obama also distanced himself from the statement when the White House issued a statement condemning the statement from the embassy in Egypt.

Intelligence sources believe that this was not an accident and was a part of a planned, coordinated attack by Al-Qaeda. 

US and Israel at odds with Iran?

There have been many conflicting reports about the realtionship or tension between the United States and Israel over Iran. Tensions at a time when it is important that both nations have a united front considering that both consider Iran's development of unranium to be a threat to Israel and a path to destabilization of the region.

Israel wants the US to decide red lines.  In other words, Israel is asking the US to decide specifically when specific actions will happen if Iran continues on the road to to develop uranium for military purposes.  This is important to Israel because they only have a certain capacity to respond to an Iranian threat and they also want to strike Iran before it has the ability to make nuclear weapons a political and military threat. 

The administration has countered that there is no tension in the US and Israeli relationship but several high level sourcesin the Israeli government have stated that the Israelis are not happy with the US plan and that the president refused a meeting with the Israeli P.M. during a time of increased concern about Irans development of uranium for nuclear weapons.

Suffice it to say that the US and Israel believe that Iran is a threat but the issue is that the two countries differ on strategy on how to resovle this sensitive and complicated matter.

Obama surrogates claim better off. Really?

Surrogates for the Obama campaign claimed the American people are better off than 4years ago. With 23 million people unemployed or underemployed..