Nothing is beneath this president. He#39;s lowered the office of the presidency of the United States lower than any president before him, but that won#39;t stop him from trying. From the article: . . .

It has become a United States ritual more predictable than the date of the next presidential election. Barack Obama proposes a budget — and Republicans in Congress declare it dead on arrival.

Indeed, when the United States sneezes, the Philippines catches a cold. When Standard and Poor’s downgraded the US debt rating from AAA, the best possible credit rating, to AA+ (still very good though not like the first) we did not just catch a cold. We may soon be under the weather.

A slow-motion train wreck known as the raising of the United States debt ceiling has been averted at the 11th hour.Senate leaders, followed by a sombre President Barack Obama who spoke from the White House, announced that the US...

President Barack Obama says in a televised statement that if the United States loses its AAA credit rating it won't be because the country can't pay its bills. It would be because we didn't have an AAA political system to match our AAA credit rating.