by drjmcurtis | Oct 2, 2023
Pinning up his dirty laundry in public, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fl.), 41, said he would ask for a “motion to vacate” on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), 58, for brokering the Sept. 30 continuing resolution [CR] that kept the government funded for 45 days before...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 1, 2023
President Joe Biden, 80, signed on to an 11th hour, 45-day stopgap funding bill without Ukraine to keep the government running until Nov. 17. For some unknown reason, Biden has made funding a proxy war against the Kremlin his top foreign policy priority, spending...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 1, 2023
Removed from a bipartisan stopgap funding bill Sept. 30, $6 billion in Ukraine funding, showing that at least among some conservative and progressive Democrats it’s not a top priority for everyone. President Joe Biden, 80, makes it his top foreign policy priority on a...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 30, 2023
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), 58, pulled a rabbit out of his hat, passing a 45-day stopgap spending bill to give the government new life at least for another month-and-a-half. McCarthy battled at least 21 members of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus led...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 30, 2023
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jeorme Powell, 70, sees economic storm clouds on the horizon, raising interest rates to battle the worst inflationary spiral seen in the United States in over 40 years. Powell can’t give markets any assurance that he won’t stop raising...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 29, 2023
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), 60, said on X (formerly Twitter), that he would not sign onto Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) stopgap spending bill to prevent a government shutdown unless he removed all $6 billion in Ukraine War funding. White House officials...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 29, 2023
Battling over a 2024 fiscal spending bill, the U.S. government is due to shut down Sunday, Oct. 1, largely because the White House, House and Senate Democrats have a take-it-or-leave it approach to the U.S. budget. Communication between House Republicans and the White...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 19, 2023
President Joe Biden, 80, told the U.N. General Assembly today that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be stopped in Ukraine or all U.N. member states would be vulnerable to territorial aggression. Biden doesn’t admit to provoking the Feb. 24, 2022 Ukraine War by...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 19, 2023
Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky called today at the U.N. for Russia, a permanent member of the Security Council, to be expelled because of the Ukraine War. Zelensky has gone mad with his self-aggrandizement, losing all perspective for a former TV...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 18, 2023
How much more smoke blowing can the world take from Ukraine? Ukraine’s 45-year-old slick salesman President Volodymyr Zelensky comes to Washington and New York to try out his new sales pitch that if Ukraine loses the war, WW III starts. With the help of his...