Loading... Loading...

PHILIP RUCKER

Contributor

Recent Posts

Obama Pushes Economic Agenda on ‘Jobs Tour’

Posted: 5/10/2013 10:58:00 AM

President Obama swooped into the booming Austin area on Thursday to showcase manufacturing growth and technology innovation as he began a series of visits across the country designed to pressure C…

Read More
Obama: ‘We’re Not a Deadbeat Nation’

Posted: 1/14/2013 2:27:00 PM

President Obama vowed Monday that he would not negotiate with Republicans over the federal debt ceiling, warning that Social Security checks would be delayed and the nation could enter a new reces…

Read More
Romney Comment Derails Republican Campaign Again

Posted: 9/18/2012 8:03:00 AM

Nine hundred of Mitt Romney’s biggest benefactors — from Wall Street traders to hedge fund managers — gathered in a ballroom in Midtown Manhattan on Friday morning to send their candidate on the t…

Read More
Romney to Roll Out Details of Economic Plan

Posted: 9/17/2012 12:13:00 PM

Republican Mitt Romney, who last week struggled with his responses to a major ­foreign-policy crisis in the Middle East, will now turn his focus back to the economy with a new offensive aimed at r…

Read More
Romney Says He Paid a 13% Tax Rate for Ten Years

Posted: 8/16/2012 5:29:00 PM

GREER, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Thursday that he has paid a federal income tax rate of at least 13 percent in each of the last 10 years, offering his fullest expla…

Read More

More

TODAY’S BELTWAY BLAST

We've hit the debt ceiling again, and the U.S. is on life support. Are we headed for another blowout?