62nd Term News Today

Reagan scored a landslide over walter mon dale. in july, 1986, his approval rating is a goddy 63%. its the president at the peak of his popularity. but now, lets look at the "time" magazine cover just five months after that, five months after reagan stood on that ship and tickled americas sweet spot. there it is, it is an ominous photo of the white house. how far does it go in to it there is the iran contra. it was an illegal scheme in which the administration throughouted arms embargo to sell w...

Media love, a narrative. the story of a pretty losing steam. but heres what im wondering, is there really anything do it? is anything really changed in how obama is doing his job and how he is perceived to be doing his job. for all the criticism on syria, he did get assad to fess up on missiles. are we in the condition so conditioned to look for second term slumps that were bengd over backwards to create one to fit a few weeks of bad headlines into something bigger, something doper? are we force...

Presidency. there were congressional hearings. there were criminal investigations. there were criminal convictions. reagan was forced to go on national tv and admit that he traded arms for hostages. at one point the articles of impeach e peachment were introduced. with that finally settled, reagan kept his job. -se a lame duck. he coasted through the final days of his presidency on fumes t. thing is the story of reagans second term is more or less par for the course when it comes to the modern p...

At the start of this week, we are reminded of accelerated passage of time. in congress, lawmakers have seen to it the clock is kicking down to another government shutdown. the deadline is now only days away. they are the ones that activated the detonator. we will have full details on that in just a moment. we will also be looking at the calendar for the time president obama has left during his second term to get things done to meet the promises of his 2012 re-election campaign. you may think he ...

>> yes. >> your lawyer. >> this is the thing. >> they ban together when democrats passed the fiscal cliff dole. it was something. it wasnt what democrats wanted but did include some tax increase for some people. then the last time the debt ceiling happened the last time we hit it, he ended up blinking. we ended up suspending the debt ceiling which technically allowed republicans to basically bypass having to vote for increasing the debt ceiling venlth effectively the same thing. why not suspend ...