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Somewhere, there’s a whiplash lawyer who runs his law office out of a van down by the river who watches the congressional Republicans attempt to negotiate the fiscal cliff crisis and has to turn his head away. John Boehner and his inept coterie of GOP establishment cronies have made every mistake in the book. It’s professionally embarrassing. Frankly, if these hacks were my associates, they’d be on a street corner with signs reading “Will litigate for food.” Congress is famously full of lawyers, but what people don’t understand is that it is really full of bad lawyers. Good lawyers tend...

Channeling his inner Teddy Roosevelt, President Obama on Tuesday gave a feisty speech in Osawatomie, Kansas that sought to rebut Republican arguments that he is waging class warfare...[Snip] We’ll leave the politics to others, but how accurate were some of his facts?  “I mean, understand, it's not as if we haven't tried this theory. Remember in those years, in 2001 and 2003, Congress passed two of the most expensive tax cuts for the wealthy in history. And what did they get us? The slowest job growth in half a century...[Snip] Inserting the words “for the wealthy” was interesting phrasing by...

Following is a text of President Obama’s prepared remarks in Osawatomie, Kan., as released by the White House on Tuesday:Good afternoon.  I want to start by thanking a few of the folks who’ve joined us today.  We’ve got the mayor of Osawatomie, Phil Dudley; your superintendent, Gary French; the principal of Osawatomie High, Doug Chisam.  And I’ve brought your former governor, who’s now doing an outstanding job as our Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius. 

Ken Langone Flips Out On Obama, Accusing Him Of Long Lasting "Destruction" Katya Wachtel Jul. 28, 2011, 9:45 AM Ken Langone, the former director of the NYSE and a veteran of Wall Street banking, had some harsh words for President Obama. Langone lambasted Obama's leadership during the debt ceiling crisis to CNBC, saying it has been "unpresidential." Langone opined: He is dividing us as a nation. He's not bringing us together. He's willfully dividing us. He's petulant. He is not acting presidential. He is behaving in a way designed in my opinion to divide us, to make us look at...