President Obama pushes his economic agenda and mocks the Republican approach, GOP advocates preserving tax cuts and slashing federal spending, controversy over burning the Koran on 9-11 continues.
Archives for September 8, 2010
‘He’s Got It Wrong’
President Obama says a Republican majority in Congress would return America to the leadership that led our economy into decline. He also says Republicans are being hypocritical in pushing for extended tax cuts that he claims would add to the deficit. Not true, according to Missouri Rep. Blaine Leutkemeyer. He says Obama clearly fails to see that excessive spending – not lower taxes – created huge deficits despite record revenues. He also says the GOP economic strategy is pretty simple – slash spending and freeze the tax cuts. We discuss the president’s economic approach, the Republican alternative and much more with Rep. Leutkemeyer.
BP, Drilling and Obamanomics
In a new report, BP takes some responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon explosion that triggered a three-month gushing of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. However, the energy giant is also quick to blame Halliburton and Transocean for their alleged negligence as well. How is the report playing along the Gulf coast? Will a second explosion on an oil rig in recent days damage efforts to lift a drilling moratorium in the Gulf? We ask Louisiana Sen. David Vitter and get his reaction to President Obama’s latest economic proposals and the president’s plan to allow some Bush tax cuts to expire.
Debate the Koran – Don’t Burn It
Pressure continues to build from every direction against a Florida pastor’s plans to burn a Koran on Saturday – the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. Act for America founder and terrorism survivor Brigitte Gabriel says burning the Koran may well incite Muslims but will also deprive Americans of a genuine debate on the Koran – a debate she says will reveal the radical ideology that is driving our enemies in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond. So what does the Koran say to back up her claims? How was it interpreted by Mohammed and his early followers? And why does outrage in the Muslim world manifest itself so much more violently than protests from Christians, Jews and adherents to other faiths? We ask Brigitte Gabriel.