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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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“This Guy Is Amazing” – Democrats Bill Clinton, Erskine Bowles and Ron Wyden on Paul Ryan
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, August 16 2012
“Have any of you all met Paul Ryan?  We should get him to come to the university.  I’m telling you, this guy is amazing.” That was Erskine Bowles, former White House Chief of Staff during the Clinton Administration.  More recently, he co-chaired the Bowles-Simpson deficit commission that Barack Obama appointed but then proceeded to ignore.  Perhaps this explains why.  Speaking last September at the University of North Carolina, Mr. Bowles was unrestrained in his praise for Mr. Ryan:  “I always thought I was okay at arithmetic, but this guy…
 
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“You Didn’t Build That!” – New Gallup Poll Shows Business Owners Aren’t Buying What Obama Is Selling
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Notable Quote   
 
"Democrats swept elections coast to coast on Tuesday night and seized control of Congress and prized statehouses in the deep red South, as Americans punished Republicans for failing to finish the job of taming inflation and fixing an economy about to be transformed by artificial intelligence.Hispanic, young and independent voters who powered Donald Trump's improbable comeback in 2024 markedly…[more]
 
 
— John Solomon, Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News
 
Liberty Poll   

Do you believe that two years of a deeply divided Congress will produce the stimulus for more civil and collaborative government change or an even greater political divide?