[Friday Musical Interludes] Advocacy chief among Obama recess appointments

As a general matter of principle, I don’t much like recess appointments. I’ll admit, I also don’t like the way partisan politics has caused any number of Presidents to have trouble filling critical posts in the government, either.

But I digress.
In this particular case, however, I have to applaud President Obama for his decision to make [...]

August Poll: Which political party is the better friend to small business?

You may recall that I closed out last month with a post about a certain set of silliness in Washington and, specifically, a few nuggets of competition between Democrats and Republicans over who gets to wear the Friend to Small Business laurel wreath.
That post inspired my August poll. And even though we are halfway through [...]

Partisan squabble in Senate: who is true friend to small biz?

(Photo by cliff1066, via Flickr)
In some ways, this is all really very funny.
Heading into the midterm elections, Democrats and Republicans are playing tug of war with the rights to the title Small Business’s Best Friends on Capitol Hill.
Of course, neither bunch is uniformly wonderful. Each party’s candidate will make its best pitch over the next [...]

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