Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama?

Edward Kleinbard, the former chief of staff at the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, is out this morning with a new way President Barack Obama could work around the debt ceiling if Congress does not raise it in the coming weeks.

Across the nation and the world, critics and fervent supporters have accepted an Obama presidency as a fact now. The main message that would stick to the mind of the business minded electorate this election is taxes. Not only Joe the Plumber but many enterpreneurs trying to find safe heaven in the recession now have to think about the new burden "tax-and-spend" policy will bring. Still... what are the facts. Here is the complete Obama tax plan quote:

President Barack Obama has condemned North Korea's third nuclear test, calling it a "highly provocative act" that threatens national security and "undermines regional stability. 

President Barack Obama has claimed that he goes shooting “all the time”, while attempting to reassure American gun-owners that he respects their rights to use firearms. Facing conservative anger over his proposals to ban assault weapons as part of a drastic overhaul of gun control laws, the president said that he was a keen clay-pigeon shooter.

Walter Shapiro argues that Barack Obama should take a page from Jimmy Carter's book, or at least his speeches. Somewhat counterintuitively, Shapiro argues that Obama should look to Carter's "malaise" speech for inspiration. That speech, as some of you know, never used the word "malaise," but did address energy independence, and was wildly popular when it was delivered in 1979.