Whether people blame President Obama for growing deficits or not, his job approval rating is holding its own. A new Bloomberg poll of 1,004 adults conducted between September 10 and September 14 shows Obama with a 56% job approval rating. The same survey says that 61% of those asked still feel favor ... Read more

Tonight President Obama did what he had to do - deliver a powerful speech on health care. The Huffington Post has full Text and Videos of Obama's Health Care Speech for those who missed it. Bear in mind this is NOT an endorsement of Obama's plan. Indeed, president Obama does not even have a plan ... Read more

Obama’s Clean Energy Agenda President Obama has made global warming one of the key issues of his administration and it’s an extremely ambitious agenda he’s bringing to the table. Included in his agenda is a pledge to eliminate oil imports from the Middle East and Venezuela within a decade ... Read more

The Issue Congress passed a $787 billion stimulus package on February 13, 2009. The measure passed in the House with no Republican votes. Three Republican senators, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter joined the Democrats to pass the bill, by a vote of 60-38, in the Senate. President Ob ... Read more

I’m always interested in how a leader at the top of an enterprise communicates with regard to his own business. A lot depends on the corporate structure, however there are some leaders that can speak intelligently about any aspect of their company.  Others have a broad understanding ... R ... Read more

One of the bloggers I spent some time with at the Kauffman bloggers forum was Sramana Mitra, who writes for Forbes . She adds her voice to the growing chorus of those who have concerns with the Obama administration's agenda for the economy.  She is worried that advice they are getting ... ... Read more

It seems the market has lost all confidence in the Obama administration’s policies, and rightfully so.  Every time he opens his mouth and moves his silver tongue the stock market shudders.  Tim Geithner doesn’t help, Bernanke comes off as the smart one in the group, and Press Secretary ... Read more

| Mike Sykuta | Lest anyone think I (or, by association, O&M) am just a disgruntled Obama-basher, let me applaud the Administration’s announcement today of its intent to overhaul the ways in which the government contracts for goods and services , particularly in the Department of ... Read ... Read more

| Peter Klein | Assuming this is not a joke, Obama has unveiled a new stimulus-plan logo. Projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — primarily roads and bridges, I presume — will sport this handsome emblem. It lacks the 1930s-era fascist style of the NIRA ... Read the f ... Read more