Countdown to Inauguration – President-elect Obama’s Weekly Address
For the first time, the weekly Democratic address has been released as a web video and will also continue to air on the radio. President-elect Obama plans to publish these weekly updates through the Transition and then from the White House. Today’s address from the President-elect concerns the current economic crisis highlighting details like unemployment insurance claims rising to their highest levels since September 11, 2001 and the loss of jobs for ten straight months — nearly 1.2 million jobs this year and many of them in our struggling auto industry. There’s more….(VIDEO)
Congress Needs Al Franken’s Humor Right Now
The economy is down the toilet, the job market could follow it, the U.S. Congress is full of Democrats and winter’s coming on. Could things get worse? Yes. Al Franken could lose the recount in the Minnesota Senate race. And the thing is….Congress could use the humor of Al Franken right now!