Big News!

By Sharon, 8 March, 2010, No Comment

We’ve got big news. Very soon Nancy will be launching a new daily national conference call for her listeners called The Quantum Call– “The QC.” You can participate on the call every day by phone or computer, and download a podcast that captures the best of the QC and much, much more each night.

The Supreme Court, in its outrageous “Citizens United” decision, has inspired the gang at nancyskinnerlive.com to get creative, and The QC will deliver on that!

We will also be adding a new feature to the site called “Prep Me!” As you know, Nancy has been doing lots of TV these days and she wants your help. We are going to put our topics out there and ask for your two cents before the food fight. Nancy gets so many good e-mails after an appearance, she wants to hear from you beforehand. The spin wars are heating up and we want you on the team.

Also, we’ve moved our e-mail service to Constant Contact to manage all the communications from nancyskinnerlive.com. This is your chance to sign up and customize your e-mail subscription opt-ins to be sure you get just the details you want on The Quantum Call, TV appearances, blog posts, Prep Me, radio news and more.

Please sign up at the right and let us know what your preferences are.

2010 is a pivotal year in politics. The stakes are enormous. Will we move forward or regress to a dark place we worked so hard to get out of? Join the conversation – sometimes wacky, sometimes maddening, Nancy looks forward to sharing it all with you in 2010.

We hope you’ll decide to subscribe to our lists. Nancy has a lot in store for you in the near future!

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Obama’s Bud Lite Budget Freeze

By Sharon, 26 January, 2010, No Comment

The news that President Obama will announce a three-year spending freeze has set off the usual fire storms on both the right and the left.

It’s like the beer commercial for Bud Lite.  Too light.  Too heavy.  Just right.

It’s Too Lite Crowd

Boehner and the boys are screaming that it’s not enough, a measly $250 billion over the decade and they should really be manly men and do something about the entitlement costs exploding the deficit.  Uhhmm you mean like healthcare?  Even the meek Senate bill was scored by CBO as reducing the deficit by $127 billion over the first decade and $650 over the second and the GOP went ape-do do over that.  A more muscular bill with a public option would have dramatically lowered healthcare spending by both the public and private sectors.  To my friends and deficit hawks on the right, the only way to stabilize debt to GDP to 60-70% over the next decade is through healthcare spending reductions. Your favorite “do-nothing” iTune will result in long-term mayhem – like seriously freaky fiscal territory of debt to GDP by 300% of GDP by 2050.  (The highest was 110% during WWII). So, Dick, deficits do matter.  Robert Greenstein, of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities testified in very simple terms (it was for congress) so you can get a primer on our history and future on debts and deficits if you care to face the facts.

But here’s some simpler math: Deficits = Revenues – Expenses

If you don’t think President Obama’s spending freeze of $250 billion is enough, then we have a way bigger hammer on the deficit called the Bush tax cuts.  Even the Heritage Foundation concurred that the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts resulted in about $1.8 TRILLION dollars in revenues. Letting them expire would mean that revenues would increase by $4.4 TRILLION dollars over the next decade and now we’re talking serious deficit reduction. (For beginners: The right wingers always say that letting tax cuts sunset, which was their idea in the first place just in case we had a big deficit, is really raising taxes, even if you had to borrow from the taxpayers (because we were running deficits at the time) to pay for it and add lots more interest to the debt. I know it’s kooky logic but you need to know this stuff.

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Clips of Nancy vs. Ann Coulter on Kudlow 3-5-10

By Sharon, 5 March, 2010, No Comment

Nancy and Ann Coulter discuss why federal pay is fifty percent higher than the private sector.


Nancy and Ann Coulter discuss whether the stock market depends on a political regime change.


Nancy on Happy Hour 3-4-10

By Sharon, 4 March, 2010, No Comment

Nancy on Happy Hour taking on the whole gang over the jobs bill. Why would the GOP vote against a paired-down, pork-free, paid-for Jobs Bill?

Nancy on MSNBC 3-4-10

By Sharon, 4 March, 2010, No Comment

Nancy on MSNBC with David Schuster and conservative radio host Jerry Doyle. Nancy says doing the right thing on healthcare will be good politics for Democrats too in November. Lead on good policy and the polls will follow.

Nancy on TV Friday, March 5

By Sharon, 4 March, 2010, No Comment

Nancy will be on Bulls & Bears tomorrow, Friday, March 5, at 4 p.m. ET on Fox Business.

Check back here over the next few days for a clip of today’s appearance on MSNBC if you missed it.

Sharon

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Nancy on TV today

By Sharon, 1 March, 2010, No Comment

Hi, everyone

Nancy will be on Cavuto on Fox Business at 6 p.m. ET today. Today’s topics, with Nancy’s comments, are:
Topic 1: The Dems are going ahead on health care with Speaker Pelosi deciding how to spend taxpayer money despite polls. Could anyone in the financial industry spend client money like that? (Nancy will certainly have a lot to say on this topic in support of moving ahead!)

Nancy’s comments:
First – huge majorities supported the plan (including 50% of Republicans, 3/4 of independents, and 9/10ths of Dems) before it was systematically demonized by the GOP, who sought its demise.

July – 09: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/health/policy/21poll.html

2. Now a Gallup poll shows that it has just become a partisan divide.

Feb 2010: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/02/09/gallup-poll-health-care-reform-now-america-s-most-divisive-issue.aspx

3. But even still, individual parts of reform are still supported including the public option (by every age group except seniors).

Feb 2010: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1487/millennials-lukewarm-support-health-care-reform

The conclusion is that congress is elected to represent their constituencies. The majority party has a responsibility to represent the majority’s interests. This is not like a paid financial adviser who does the bidding of his clients. Not to mention that the so-called responsible financial managers managed to lose 4 trillion dollars in net wealth for their clients, not exactly a stellar track record.

Topic 2: Warren Buffett admits he was wrong on Geico offering its own credit card: could the Commander-in-Chief learn something from the stockmarket-in-chief?

Buffet: “Your chairman closed the book on a very expensive business fiasco entirely of his own making…Geico’s managers, it should be emphasized, were never enthusiastic about my idea…I subtly indicated that I was older and wiser. I was just older.”

Nancy’s comments:
What has Obama bet on that turned out wrong like Buffett/Geico? Stimulus worked. The CBO said that it ended the recession, added 2.1 million jobs and grew GDP by 3.5%.

Sharon

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Nancy on Fox Business Talking Toyota recalls and gas prices

By Sharon, 25 February, 2010, No Comment

Nancy takes on the Fox Business All-Stars, who say that rising gas prices expected this summer will redeem Toyota in the wake of massive recalls. Nancy says, now that the US automakers have a wide offering of super fuel efficient vehicles, that all things being equal, Americans will prefer brakes. It’s just sad that Toyota was the top beneficiary of Cash for Clunkers. Had Americans known that it was Cash for Crashers maybe taxpayer dollars would not have supported them.

Nancy on Fox Business talking Obama dining with Bank CEOs

By Sharon, 25 February, 2010, No Comment

Nancy takes on the Fox Business All-Stars who are defending Big Bank CEOs who are mad at Obama for taking them to task. Nancy called them a big bunch of ingrates, given that they would be out of business period had the administration not stepped in to rescue the entire banking system. How soon they forget!

Clip of Nancy on MSNBC 2-22-10

By Sharon, 23 February, 2010, No Comment

Glenn Beck said it best at C-PAC: Republicans have to admit they have a problem, a spending problem. Nancy thanks Glenn Beck for finally admitting that it was George Bush who spent us into the current economic crisis. The politics of rescuing the economy with a fiscal stimulus are bad for President Obama, but it was what he had to do. Governing is so much harder than being a bombastic TV host.

Clip of Nancy on CNBC 2-12-10

By Sharon, 12 February, 2010, No Comment

Nancy debates Jerry Doyle on Larry Kudlow’s show.


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