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seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to
tyrannize over." - Baruch Spinoza, in Theological-Political
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June 13, 2011 -
Obama pushes jobs in trip fraught with politics - Still
pretending that his focus is on creating jobs, rather than destroying
them. He is obviously getting more worried about keeping his own
job next year. |
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June 13, 2011 -
Obama announces plan to cut government waste - The new plan to
focus more spending on the wasteful programs that fit his agenda by
pretending to make significant cuts elsewhere. Biden is put in
charge, just like the stimulus. |
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June 11, 2011 -
2012 troubles ahead for Obama in prized Florida? -
Obama faces more voter anxiety, less excitement - Actually,
voters are pretty excited now about getting rid of him. The
anxiety is about failure to do so. |
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June 11, 2011 -
Obama: Economic recovery is 'going to take time' - Yes, we have
to vote Obama out of office first. |
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June 7, 2011 -
Obama: No fears of double-dip recession - If you think it's bad
now, wait until QE 2 ends this month and interest rates start to climb
to a more realistic level while Congress tries to deal with the debt
limit issue before August. As he continues to posture for his
campaign, rather than exhibit real leadership, the economy will continue
to tank. He should do what his advisors are doing to keep tenure -
abandon his job in government as a complete failure, and go back to
academia. |
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June 7, 2011 -
GOP leader 'cautiously optimistic' on debt talks - Talking about
plans to take more than 10 years to cut enough spending to offset 18
months of debt? Try selling that type of lousy deal to your banker
to refinance your own debts. |
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June 4, 2011 -
Analysis: To keep his job, Obama needs more jobs - Brilliant.
I suppose their next analysis will allege that evil rich people are
conspiring to avoid creating jobs in order to defeat Obama, and must
therefore be punished with taxes. Meanwhile, take a look at this
graphic analysis of the challenge of
getting back to 2007 levels of unemployment. |
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February 20, 2009 -
Analysis: Obama plans eclipsing New Deal spending - This blast
from the past (one month after the Obama inaugural) provides an amusing
contrast to the latest brilliant AP analysis of his performance, as
above. As you may recall, this was at roughly the same time as the
famous Rick Santelli rant which helped to launch the Tea Party movement. |
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June 3, 2011 -
China Has Divested 97 Percent of Its Holdings in U.S. Treasury Bills
- hedging their risk exposure? |
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June 3, 2011 -
Romney points to job numbers as proof Obama fails - Obama: US
economy still facing challenges - Hoping nobody will notice the
continued bad news? Back to 9.1% unemployment despite lowering the
base figure -
Obama, in Ohio, will promote auto industry rebound -
Obama travels to Midwest amid bad report on hiring -
Few jobs added in May; unemployment up to 9.1 pct - Note the
final line - estimating that 25 million Americans are underemployed. |
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June 3, 2011 -
FACT CHECK: Romney miscasts economy in GOP debut - The AP
valiantly tries to defend Obama's record |
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June 2, 2011 -
Obama, GOP differ on medical legal liability - No profiteering
trial lawyer left behind. |
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June 2, 2011 -
House passes $42.3B homeland security funding bill - but you can
expect the Senate to change it |
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June 2, 2011 -
AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort GOP Medicare plan - Mediscare
lies and fear-mongering by Dems |
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June 1, 2011 -
HHS rejects Indiana Medicaid changes - Republicans need to push
for changes to limit HHS power |
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May 31, 2011 -
Palin visits Trump in NYC while on her motor tour - after
Gettysburg and Philadelphia, visiting tourist sites in NYC. This
was obviously calculated to grab headlines and drive her media critics
crazy. Good! |
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May 31, 2011 -
Gov't cuts rates for hard-to-insure patients - trying to avoid
admission of failure |
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May 31, 2011 -
Palin bus tour leaves Washington _ but for where? - Like the
Pied Piper, leading the media critics |
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May 31, 2011 -
Obama gains foothold; GOP autumn surge behind him - The rumors
of his political recovery are about as convincing White House spin as
their many stories promoting the "summer of recovery" last year. |
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May 29, 2011 -
AP source: Obama picks new US ambassador to Russia - The Senate
should review him very carefully. |
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May 27, 2011 -
G-8: Nations, banks to give $40B for Arab Spring - Isn't it
reassuring to see that Obama's focus is back on the economy and job
creation? Oh, wait - it's jobs in Egypt. He wants us to
borrow more money to help Egypt develop. |
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May 23, 2011 -
Tax cheats among recipients of stimulus money - Are you feeling
stimulated yet for 2012? |
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May 17, 2011 -
Homebuilders missing out on economic recovery - Recovery?
What recovery? |
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May 16, 2011 -
White House threatens to hold up key trade deals - Threatening
to "work on" Congressional leaders |
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May 14, 2011 -
Redistricting delays 2012 House races - Politicians get to pick
their voters, rather than vice versa |
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May 10, 2011 -
Obama mocks Republican position on immigration - More evidence,
if any were needed, that Obama just wants to use immigration as a
divisive campaign issue rather than to really accomplish anything
useful. |
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May 10, 2011 -
China urges US to lift controls on hi-tech exports - Watch out
for this. |
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May 10, 2011 -
Humbled Iranian president faces tough final years - In case you
missed it |
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May 6, 2011 -
Obama's 'Gangster Politics' - The Russians, Chinese, and others
must wonder why this is a problem, since political corruption and
statist control over business is accepted in so many countries.
Here, however, intimidation tactics by abuse of government power still
attracts resistance from those who recognize that this is an assault on
our individual liberty. |
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May 6, 2011 -
Norway feels sting of China's Nobel anger - Wake up, American
businessmen. The government of China can put your investments
completely out of business, or cause you to lose a lot of money,
whenever they feel like it. |
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May 6, 2011 -
Obama to speak on immigration policy in Texas - Wake up,
Hispanics. He has no real interest in a path to citizenship for
illegal aliens because it wouldn't happen in time for the 2012 election.
If he really cared about the issue, he would have introduced legislation
in 2009 when he could have passed it despite the risk of being
unpopular, like healthcare and reckless spending. He just wants to
organize Hispanic support for his own election campaign. Don't be
suckered again. |
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May 6, 2011 -
Iran’s Defense Minister Doubts Osama’s Death - Maybe this will
annoy Obama enough to ridicule the Iranian leadership as "deather"
conspiracy theorists, even though he refused to support the opponents of
the regime in 2009. |
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May 6, 2011 -
Analysis: Reimagining Obama after gutsy raid - Really? The
following was posted on an open thread of the Gretawire blog of
Greta van Susteren (Fox News), where it was attributed by a reader as a
quote from Victor Davis Hanson: "...It’s also
easier to conduct assassinations abroad if the Commander-in-Chief is
liberal. This neutralizes criticism from the media, universities, the
legal community, and Hollywood. Obama the law professor can assassinate
bin Laden in Pakistan, dump his body in the ocean, and with first-person
emphasis boast of our brilliant mission in a way Bush the Texan could
not get away with—in the same manner that killing the son of Qaddafi,
and the effort to kill Qaddafi himself, are not really forbidden
targeted assassinations under Obama, and in the manner that Guantánamo,
tribunals, renditions, preventive detentions, Predators, wiretaps, and
intercepts that so bothered Senator Obama and others are now deemed
essential. This paradox is just the way it is; the media will report a
liberal president’s Predator drone attack or commando hit as done with
reluctance and without other viable choices. Were a conservative leader
to take the same actions, he would be portrayed as a trigger-happy
war-monger reveling in the violence. Thus, the street celebrations that
ensued when news of bin Laden’s death broke are seen by the media as a
new unity inspired by Obama. Three years ago, they would have been seen
as macabre triumphalism."
Well said! The media keeps talking about how "gutsy"
Obama was to authorize this mission, while ignoring the obvious. If he
had not authorized it, and word had leaked out prior to the 2012
election that there had been a chance to get UBL and he dithered and let
him escape, any chance of a second term would have been over.
If he had bombed the compound, there was a significant
risk of failure as well as far more civilian casualties, such as the
women and children, and the difficulty of proving success through
Pakistani analysis of the rubble. What if the Pakistanis couldn't find
enough of UBL to positively identify him, or chose not to do so because
it might be more to their political advantage to claim that it wasn't
really him? What if they preferred to highlight the dead women and
children to put pressure on Obama to stop drone attacks, and thereby
appease the vocal public critics in Pakistan? The Seal mission was
really his only viable option. Yes, there was still some risk of
failure, but that risk was mainly to the Seals, not himself. |
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May 6, 2011 -
Bin Laden eyed US rails from his secret compound
- Another report suggested that potential targets were in Washington
DC, New York, and Chicago. Missing from any of the reports is mention of
how curiously different from Al Qaeda tactics this threat would be,
unless multiple attacks were staged simultaneously for greater effect.
In short, derailing one train would attract attention by killing some
people, but it's not the sort of spectacular event that they preferred
in the past. Instead, it's a very different tactic which requires almost
no resources and perhaps no more than one saboteur without much training
who isn't even willing to die for the cause. This could well be a red
herring to distract from a real plan. The design of his compound shows
that he expected to be found and killed there at some point, even if he
wasn't really keen to become a martyr and preferred to hide in comfort.
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May 5, 2011 -
Info from Osama raid shows interest in US trains - Perhaps
Biden's favorite Amtrak line? Given Obama's interest in high-speed
rail projects, this should not be surprising, but it could just be
disinformation to distract us. The design of UBL's compound
suggests that he fully expected to be discovered and attacked there
someday, and he was a polished liar. |
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May 4, 2011 -
Boeing slams labor board over complaint - This blatant NLRB
abuse of power is intolerable. Those of us who live in "right to
coerce" states like Illinois need to stand up for those who are lucky
enough to live in "right to work" states. |
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Nikki Haley in WSJ:
Obama's silence on Boeing is unacceptable - April 29, 2011
opinion |
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May 4, 2011 -
US urges China to lift restrictions on investment Compare
this to the former Chinese position:
China urges Obama to respect free trade, defends currency policy
- Don't hold your breath for more open policies |
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May 1, 2011 - Congratulations to the Obama administration and to
the CIA and military team which finally tracked down and killed Osama
bin Laden near
Abbottabad, Pakistan. Good riddance. For those
unfamiliar with this region of Pakistan, this city is a short distance
north of Islamabad beyond the Margalla Hills at the start of the
strategic Karakoram Highway to Gilgit and Hunza (and the border of
China). Rather than a location in the tribal areas of the
northwest frontier near Afghanistan such as Peshawar or Waziristan or up
in Swat, this is not terribly far from the disputed region of Kashmir in
the north. Although there is a military academy
and many military residents in the community, and it certainly is
suspicious that bin Laden could hide in such a town, it should be noted
that military officers have run Pakistan for much of its history, and
have invested in real estate developments in almost any community of
significant size. The homes of the wealthy and powerful stand in
pretty stark contrast to the rest of the population, and Pakistanis
learn to not ask too many questions about them.
This compound should certainly have attracted the
attention of ISI as an unusual development, but such homes would
typically belong to wealthy, powerful, and well-connected people about
whom ordinary people would be cautious about asking too many questions
without knowing who they are, and who may be protecting them.
"Hiding in plain sight" is certainly not an automatic indicator of top
official government collusion beyond any local corruption to not ask
questions, but some local people were probably paid off with a cover
story about this property. After all, the government would
otherwise want to know where the money came from to build such a home,
even though tax fraud is pretty common in Pakistan. Indeed,
communities such as this in which retired military and government
officials may reside can be expected to have large homes about which few
questions are asked about the source of the wealth behind them. It
made sense for bin Laden to hide in such a place.
In any case, it is worth noting that Obama did Pakistan a
favor by removing the body, instead of just bombing the site or leaving
him there for the ISI to identify, bury, and deal with any resulting
angry mobs or shrine as a martyr. Why not leave him? We were
finished with him once he was dead and we had whatever intelligence
materials we could gather. Although the helicopters were able to
sneak into Abbottabad by evading air defenses, it seems odd that they
were able to escape after 45 minutes on the ground and a helicopter
crash without being challenged by scrambling the Pakistani air force. |
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April 30, 2011 -
Tax, spending divisions laid bare in public forums - Isn't it
remarkable how all the hecklers across the country had the same talking
points this month - but not previously? This is Dem "astroturf" as
the campaign season begins. |
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April 29, 2011 -
Democrats launch outside fundraising group - Pay to play with
progressives = Priorities USA. See the
Hot Air blog commentary on this. |
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April 29, 2011 -
Obama pledges help for illegal immigrant grads - back to the
serious business of deceptive pandering |
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April 28, 2011 -
Obama assembles all-star cast to talk immigration -
Immigrants' fingerprinting program under scrutiny Will
Obama be able to sucker Hispanics again into thinking that he really
cares about their interests? |
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April 27, 2011 -
Obama releases birth form, decries "silliness" - For once, he is
right. There are far more important issues which deserve
attention. This has been a pointless distraction - which he could
easily have avoided years ago. We need to focus on the hard work
to defeat him in 2012 because of his obviously destructive policies,
rather than this nonsense. |
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April 26, 2011 -
US, China human rights talks set amid clampdown -
China in no mood to listen in U.S. rights talks |
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April 21, 2011 -
Obama to supporters: I understand your frustration - Message:
get used to it, but support him anyway. |
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April 21, 2011 -
Labor Board Tells Boeing New Factory Breaks Law |
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April 21, 2011 -
Airport screeners need runoff vote to choose union - American
Federation of Gropers? |
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April 21, 2011 -
Angry truckers in China protest rising costs - Is the statist
model starting to unravel? |
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April 19, 2011 -
New-home construction increases 7.2 pct. in March - This is
supposed to be impressive recovery news? It's not yet back up to
one half of the pre-recession construction levels. At this rate,
it won't be strong again for over a decade. |
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April 17, 2011 -
Obama’s $2 trillion stealth tax hike - interesting opinion piece
about Obama's latest obfuscation |
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April 18, 2011 -
High court takes no action on Va. health care case - Deferred
action, but no decision yet. A week later, it declined to expedite
the case, thereby leaving all Americans in limbo for over a year while
wasting many millions of dollars. |
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April 18, 2011 - Obama is still in denial about the need to
dramatically reduce spending without raising taxes
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April 18, 2011 -
Republican legislative gains tug nation to right |
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April 18, 2011 -
Paper: Documents show US funding Syrian opposition - "If Syria's
turning to Iran for help, it can't be very serious about real reform,"
State Dept spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. Hello? Who
thought they were serious? Is this a direct admission of how
clueless John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama have been in
their dealings with Syria?
U.S. says not working to undermine Syrian government Why
not? Why is it funding an opposition TV network? |
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April 18, 2011 -
Fidel Castro: New leaders must fix Cuban economy - Socialists
don't readily admit failure. Instead, there is always a new master
plan which is supposed to fix all of the mistakes and make everything
work better someday. Entire generations are deluded into thinking
that they have a better future ahead, while other countries actually
develop quickly. |
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April 13, 2011 -
Obama: Cut spending, raise taxes on the wealthy - Go listen to
the Beatles "Taxman". Is 95% OK? |
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April 13, 2011 -
AP-GfK Poll: Are your taxes fair? Most say yes - What a
coincidence. Just in time for Obama's speech about raising taxes
rather than getting serious about spending cuts after massive increases
during his brief tenure. |
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April 11, 2011 -
AP IMPACT: BP buys Gulf Coast millions in gear - looting of
business with government complicity |
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April 9, 2011 - AP -
Analysis: GOP won first round of budget battle -
Analysis: So much for change coming to Washington -
Obama, Boehner each earn wins in budget pact -
Long meetings, dashed hopes _ but finally a deal |
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March 28, 2011 -
Time short, tempers flare in budget showdown - It's time to call
the bluff of Reid and Schumer. Let the deadline pass since they
didn't agree to the $60 billion in spending cuts proposed by the House,
or present any viable alternative budget plan over the last year when
they were fully in charge. Trust voters to recognize who is
fighting against the will of the people as very clearly expressed in the
latest election, and then start working to elect new leaders in 2012. |
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March 16, 2011 -
Task force favors 2-vote process for Puerto Rico
- This looks like a rigged game, like last year, when the Democratic
Congress tried to design a process which would assure statehood prior to
the 2012 election despite past elections which firmly rejected such an
outcome. A year ago, the new governor talked of 30,000 job cuts in
Puerto Rico because it had an unsustainable
$3.2 billion budget deficit. That's what you get when 7.5% of
the workforce is government employees - a larger percentage than any
state. Why is statehood for Puerto Rico a priority for the White
House? They're looking for votes. |
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March 16, 2011 -
Republicans say new consumer bureau too powerful
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March 15, 2011 -
Indoctrination U: Union thugs using kids as shields in Wisconsin
- See the outrageous video of kids being used as pawns by teachers to
support their union protests |
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Before and after:
satellite images in the New York Times show the earthquake and
tsunami devastation in Japan. |
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American Healthcare Education Initiative - See what's happening
in the states. Other recent
healthcare news. There is also a new
petition by Rep. Michele Bachmann against funding the hidden
cost of Obamacare implementation. |
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March 14, 2011 -
Education Secretary Can't Say Where Constitution Authorizes Education
Department - ducking the $106.9 billion question about why the
Department of Education even exists |
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March 14, 2011 -
Obama prods Congress on education law renewal - pushing his
federal education agenda again
Later version of the story |
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March 14, 2011 -
PROMISES, PROMISES: Little transparency progress |
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March 13, 2011 -
Openness in state gov't? AP survey shows obstacles - Politicians
in both parties still favor opacity. This should be an area for
bi-partisan agreement among voters, even if not among politicians.
Taxpayers need better information about what our government officials
are doing at all levels, because they have lost our trust through
irresponsible actions. |
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March 12, 2011 -
Obama tells GOP: Nice try on health care records - Forget about
transparency in healthcare debate |
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March 12, 2011 -
PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama shies away from protests - afraid to
stand up for his union friends now |
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March 12, 2011 -
On high-profile issues, Obama keeps a low profile - Profiles in
cowardice - not exactly the next JFK |
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March 12, 2011 -
Obama, new spokesman share 'no drama' approach - the artful
dodger |
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March 8, 2011 -
NPR exec blasts tea party in hidden-camera video - See also:
Schiller: NPR Has ‘No Particular Bias’ and Accusations of Being Liberal
is a ‘Perception Issue and
NPR Puts Exec Ron Schiller on 'Administrative Leave' Following Comments
About Tea Party - It is long past time to pull the plug on
federal funding of NPR |
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March 7, 2011 -
China challenges US predominance in Asia-Pacific |
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March 1, 2011 - WSJ -
Why Koch Industries is Speaking Out - interesting OpEd by
Charles G. Koch |
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February 28, 2011 -
Obama lends support to states' health alternative - Artful
deflection of alternatives until after 2014 |
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February 28, 2011 - AP SPIN METER: Industry jobs studies are
imprecise - So, we are supposed to infer that Obama's job creation
projections are more precise and reliable? Where is there any
evidence at all to support that hypothesis? |
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February 27, 2011 -
Tea Party Freshman Return Home - (vidieo) Rep.
Joe Walsh (R-IL 8th) on ABC News This Week as
he met with constituents this week. One mistake - they said it was
the "first time". He has been doing such events in the district
almost every week every since the election. On the panel
discussion: SC Gov. Nikki Haley rocks! |
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February 27, 2011 -
GOP governors undermine Obama's agenda in states - Memo to
AP: These governors and all the new state legislators and members of
Congress were elected for a reason. They're doing what they said
they would do. |
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February 27, 2011 -
Tea party members vow to hold GOP accountable - AP summary of
Tea Party Patriots summit |
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February 26, 2011 -
Tea party uses Ariz. summit to scope out 2012 role |
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February 25, 2011 -
GOP House freshmen draw mixed response at home The point
of this AP story is to convey the idea that all the GOP freshmen are
facing criticism already - while no mention is made of Dems doing any
town halls or facing any criticism. See the final paragraphs about
the left and DCCC pushing this narrative to attack the GOP freshmen. |
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February 25, 2011 -
State and local budget cuts are slowing US economy - 4th quarter
2010 was revised lower, so now the spin is that Republican spending cuts
after that (as in Wisconsin and Congress now) are a threat to growth.
Really? It just means that the recovery has been weaker than
reported, and more still needs to be done to free up the private
sector rather than to perpetuate unsustainable government
spending and debt as illusory growth which really destroys value. |
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February 25, 2011 -
Gov. Christie says trade not a partisan issue |
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February 25, 2011 -
House GOP detail plan to cut $4B in spending |
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February 25, 2011 -
GOP House freshmen draw mixed response at home - How curious
that no mention is made of Dems doing town halls recently. A few
quotes are just being used to try to discredit the GOP freshmen already.
Note the bit at the end about leftist groups and the DCCC "targeting"
these officials. What happened to Obama's appeal for civility? |
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February 21, 2011 -
For compromise in Wis., 3 GOP senators are needed - Trying to
find 3 RINO's to sell Walker out |
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February 19, 2011 -
Madison, WI rally updates -
Herman Cain speech video -
Andrew Breitbart video interview |
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February 18, 2011 - Washington Times editorial -
Obama’s war on democracy - Declaring open war on taxpayers |
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A Brief, Illustrated History of the Public Sector Unions - hat
tip to Mark Levin for sharing this link recently via Facebook |
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January 31, 2011 -
Judge: Obama's health overhaul unconstitutional
- Does contempt of court not apply at HHS?
February 17, 2011 -
Obama admin. asks judge to clarify health ruling - In short, can
they keep ignoring his decision? |
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The Heritage Foundation -
Top Ten Charts of 2010 - well worth a look |
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February 18, 2011 -
Wis. lawmakers flee state to block anti-union bill -
Democrats flee Wisconsin to protest union curbs |
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February 18, 2011 -
Government shutdown? GOP, Democrats swap charges |
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February 18, 2011 -
House Republicans seek to block FCC Internet rules - Stopping
"net neutrality" rules |
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February 17, 2011 -
US seeks to avoid UN vote on Israeli settlements - If they push
for it, the US should veto it. |
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February 17, 2011 -
Democrats turn 'Where are the jobs?' chant on GOP
- Answer: in the private sector, not government |
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February 17, 2011 -
Battles continue on House GOP spending bill |
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February 17, 2011 -
Obama on sideline as senators tackle entitlements |
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February 16, 2011 -
Obama: Talks on entitlements 'have already begun'
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Reid wants no cuts to Social Security |
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February 16, 2011 -
Obama pushes effort to protect public lands -
Obama admin. promotes 'Great Outdoors' program |
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February 16, 2011 -
Obama, GOP freshmen win in jet engine budget
fight |
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February 15, 2011 -
Obama, GOP steering onto budget collision course |
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February 15, 2011 -
Analysis: Obama budget lays down opening bid |
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February 15, 2011 -
Obama defends his new budget of 'tough choices' |
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February 15, 2011 -
GOP mocks Obama budget, House weighs spending cuts |
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February 15, 2011 -
GOP budget chairman assails Obama's spending plan |
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February 15, 2011 -
An optimistic outlook fuels Obama's new budget - Forecasting
higher economic growth to raise tax revenues while predicting continued
low interest rates despite growing debt and money supply. In
short, delusional. |
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February 15, 2011 -
Scouring the government to save some loose change - Diverting
attention from real cuts |
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February 15, 2011 -
Wis. GOP poised to cut worker rights in budget fix |
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February 15, 2011 -
Calif gov. freezes hiring, drops minimum wage suit |
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February 14, 2011 -
Obama sends Congress $3.73 trillion budget |
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February 14, 2011 -
How the Obama budget might fall on your shoulders |
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February 14, 2011 -
Obama budget resurrects rejected tax increases |
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February 14, 2011 -
Obama: Spending cuts, but at expense of future -
Agency Spending Proposed by Obama for 2012 -
Obama budget focuses on
short term - No, his focus is on evading any political
accountability for failed policies |
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February 14, 2011 -
Obama official says new budget won't be pain-free
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AP Source: Obama to seek changes in Pell Grants |
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February 14, 2011 -
Eurozone agrees funding for future bailout fund |
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February 11, 2011 -
House GOP unveils $61B spending cut plan |
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February 11, 2011 -
Analysis: Welcome, GOP says to tea party - What a difference 2
years and an election make |
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February 11, 2011 -
White House wants less gov't in mortgage system |
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February 11, 2011 -
House tells committees to hunt for harmful rules |
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February 11, 2011 -
Tunisians fleeing unrest arrive in droves in Italy - A happy
ending is not inevitable in revolutions |
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February 11, 2011 -
Obama salutes Egypt change, says tough days ahead -
Mubarak leaves and Egypt celebrates - Obama: Mubarak's
resignation starts transition - Obama: Egyptian military has acted
responsibly -
'Egypt is Free' chants Tahrir after Mubarak quits - and
updated version -
Egypt's Mubarak: a survivor comes undone
AP Analysis: Military coup was behind Mubarak's exit - Really?
The military has largely been in charge since 1952. |
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February 11, 2011 -
Freshman GOP claims victory - pushing for larger budget cuts, as
promised |
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February 11, 2011 -
Energy budget calls for cuts in several programs |
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February 10, 2011 -
Govt defends union rights for airport screeners |
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February 10, 2011 -
GOP invites business to vent about regulations |
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February 10, 2011 -
Defense leaders warn of impact of big budget cuts |
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February 10, 2011 -
Obama promotes plans for wireless expansion - More billions for
his latest big idea |
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February 9, 2011 -
AP sources: House GOP looks for deeper budget cuts |
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February 9, 2011 -
Conservatives' clout flummoxes House GOP leaders |
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February 9, 2011 -
IG: IRS not stopping billions improper tax credits |
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February 9, 2011 -
Republicans: Halt taxpayer aid for Fannie, Freddie |
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February 9, 2011 -
Global warming heats up Republican attacks on EPA - it's not
just cap and trade |
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February 9, 2011 - House GOP Chairman outlines sweeping spending cuts |
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February 9, 2011 - Lawmakers oppose federal bailout for states |
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February 9, 2011 - PROMISES, PROMISES: 'Widows' tax' lingers -
Bizarre bureaucratic logic victimizes veterans' widows |
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February 8, 2011 - House rejects extensions of Patriot Act provisions
- more opposition than expected |
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February 8, 2011 - Hatch says his goals are not unlike tea party's
- touting the potential value of his seniority on Finance |
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February 8, 2011 - Bipartisan support for modified line-item veto |
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February 8, 2011 - Employers could face higher taxes for jobless aid |
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February 8, 2011 - Obama to call for $53B for high-speed rail -
Getting railroaded. |
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February 8, 2011 - US: No electronic flaws in Toyotas - Remember
how the politicians vilified them with no evidence? |
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February 7, 2011 - Obama to CEOs: Ask what you can do for America |
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February 7, 2011 - Republicans out front of Obama on regulations |
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February 7, 2011 - By one measure, federal taxes lowest since 1950 |
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February 7, 2011 - Obama says White House, CEOs must work together |
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February 7, 2011 - Analysis: Political gamble in GOP budget-cutting |
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February 7, 2011 - Working class hero Lula says capitalism is dead
- Once again, the World Social Forum tries to grab headlines as the hard
left socialist response to the World Economic Forum in Davos (not
exactly a gathering of conservatives) |
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February 6, 2011 - Obama and business community seek to ease tensions |
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February 6, 2011 - Obama's budget director: 'Tough choices' in store |
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February 5, 2011 - Obama: Government, business help shape US future
- Absolutely clueless. Destroying our future. |
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February 4, 2011 -
EU talks competitiveness, saves details for later - The Eurozone
bailout is now about competition? |
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February 4, 2011 -
Feds to let airport screeners gain union rights - As mentioned
briefly in the article, there was also a recent decision to reject all
requests by airports to allow private companies to provide security
services. Competition will not be tolerated, even in accordance
with TSA rules! Unions only - even in "right to work" states!
Later spin:
Airport screeners gaining limited union rights This is an
outrageous case of rewarding the labor unions for their campaign
support. Maybe it is time for the Republicans in
Congress to finally insist upon measures to implement the "Beck
decision" of the Supreme Court, which should allow union workers
to opt out of union dues which pertain to political activities.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1998/02/the-worker-paycheck-fairness-act
See more on labor issues. |
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February 4, 2011 -
US intelligence on Arab unrest draws criticism -
Ignorant political leadership has
consequences. This administration continues to treat intelligence
as a scapegoat for their own failures. That makes a bad situation
worse. |
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February 4, 2011 -
AP SPIN METER: Not much savings from stimulus money - Every
little bit helps. |
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February 3, 2011 -
House Republicans move to slash domestic programs |
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February 3, 2011 -
Europe aims to boost innovation
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Egypt crisis - Do you remember the
Obama speech in Cairo of June 4, 2009? There was a misleading article in the UK by The Telegraph: January 28, 2011 -
Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind
uprising The allegations seem very dubious, at best. If
true, the cable in question would have been far more highly classified
than merely "Confidential", and there are other problems
with the story as well. Let's not get distracted into chasing
after every stupid conspiracy theory which somebody spreads.
Haven't we learned not to trust everything we read in the media yet? |
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Milton Friedman on JFK's inaugural speech - interesting post on
The American Spectator |
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Chinese pianist at the White House - see
Don’t Shoot the Pianist? Do you believe the official
party propaganda? |
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Herman Cain exploring bid for White House.
Details
on Facebook. |
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January 2011 news headlines and comments |
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January 31, 2011 -
Democrats push aviation bill as jobs program
- Every dime they spend is allegedly for "jobs" now. |
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January 30, 2011 -
Clinton: Egypt must transition to democracy |
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January 30, 2011 -
Daley asks GOP to detail its proposed budget cuts |
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January 30, 2011 -
In turnabout, Dems say GOP has dropped job focus
- Is George Orwell the Dems new spokesman? |
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January 29, 2011 -
At midterm, Obama tries can-do slogan, details TBD
- WTF - more meaningless rhetoric. He may talk about winning the
future, but he's losing the present, and his progressive policies are
failed relics of the past. |
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January 29, 2011 -
Obama: Innovation is building block to more jobs
- Since when do innovation and productive jobs come out of government
spending? That would indeed be a remarkable and unprecedented
innovation in all of world history.
Next week
is innovation week at White House -
Obama: Innovation key to economic recovery |
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January 29, 2011 -
In Obama's reorganization plan, is Commerce first?
- Be wary of the Center for American Progress. Later version of
the story -
Commerce cuts coming in Obama's reorganization? |
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January 28, 2011 -
FACT CHECK: Did gov't stretch health care stat?
- No. It's not a stretch. It's a complete lie. |
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January 28, 2011 -
Obama open to 'tweak' of health care, not repeal |
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January 28, 2011 - Clinton: Egypt must respect citizen rights, reform
- Contrast this rapid reaction to Obama's response to the Iranian
protesters after their opposition to a fraudulent election. He's
like Carter, but worse. |
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January 28, 2011 -
Next week at White House is innovation week
- Another WTF moment |
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January 28, 2011 -
House GOP considers privatizing Medicare |
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January 27, 2011 -
States rebuff federal threat over union laws |
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January 27, 2011 -
Obama: Even program that work face budget cuts |
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January 27, 2011 -
Social Security fund slides into permanent deficit
- and earlier -
CBO: Social Security to run permanent deficits -
2016 arrived early? Nice to know that CBO estimates are so
reliable and non-political. Of course, there was no way to foresee
this a few months ago, such as before the election, when the news might
have alarmed some voters. |
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January 27, 2011 -
Senate to vote on secret 'holds', other changes |
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January 26, 2011 -
Medicare official doubts health care law savings |
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January 26, 2011 -
US takes tougher line with Egypt, Arab allies |
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January 26, 2011 -
House votes to end subsidies for candidates |
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January 26, 2011 -
Admiral calls for counterterror approach to piracy
- What, come up with a nicer name for it? |
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January 26, 2011 -
US budget deficit to hit $1.5T - Why the
cowards in Congress provided no budget before the election. Note
the CBO projection of 8.2% unemployment on election day in 2012.
That may reflect optimistic growth assumptions. |
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January 26, 2011 -
Obama: Lower corporate tax rates, close loopholes |
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January 26, 2011 -
AP FACT CHECK: Obama and his imbalanced ledger |
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January 26, 2011 -
Republicans back at work cutting spending |
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January 26, 2011 -
Cantor says GOP wants to work with Obama on jobs |
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January 26, 2011 -
Jobs, deficit, war: top issues in Obama's address
- and -
AP Analysis: Echoes of '08, preview of 2012 in speech - AP
coverage of the State of the Union address -
Obama State of the
Union: Spending, but restraint |
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January 25, 2011 -
Obama calls for overhaul of corporate taxes -
"Revenue neutral" means to not expect any cuts |
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January 25, 2011 -
Reid dismisses Obama's call for ban on earmarks
- Another misleading promise, as in the past |
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January 25, 2011 -
Republicans urge Obama to join in cutting spending |
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January 25, 2011 -
Administration readies transportation plan |
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January 25, 2011 -
Officials: US reconsidering its aid to Lebanon
- like aid to Hamas in Gaza? Cut it off completely now. |
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January 25, 2011 -
Adviser says Obama backs 'targeted investments' - still trying
to rationalize more spending |
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January 25, 2011 -
AP sources: Browner leaving as Obama adviser - Don't assume too
much. The focus is just shifting away from the White House
and Congress to the regulatory bureaucracy and state initiatives.
The pressure to get out now rather than later is interesting. Clearly
Obama doesn't want to be perceived as losing key people closer to the
2012 election. |
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January 25, 2011 -
Obama is latest president to push competitiveness - Recycled
rhetoric |
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January 25, 2011 -
House GOP to endorse pre-Obama spending levels - Not
"endorsing". It's just a start for deeper cuts. |
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January 25, 2011 -
Republican lawmakers taking aim at UN |
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January 25, 2011 -
State of the Union: It's the economy, again - It always was the
economy. Obama was just clueless about how to make it better, and
proceeded to make a bad situation worse. The words have changed, but not
the reality that he has no real plan other than to do more harm. |
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January 25, 2011 - Report: Bush administration broke law in '06 races
- Later version of the Hatch Act story below |
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January 24, 2011 -
Report finds Bush White House violations - Getting ready to
defend Obama against any Hatch Act violations? By a remarkable
coincidence, this story came out on the same day as the director of
Obama's Office of Political Affairs was reported to be the new executive
director of the DNC:
New DNC director led socialist party offshoot |
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January 24, 2011 -
GOP turns to budget guru to respond to Obama - Rep. Paul Ryan to
give the GOP response |
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January 24, 2011 -
GOP list of programs for ax loaded with survivors |
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January 24, 2011 -
Scalia addresses tea party-organized event - with Rep. Michele
Bachman - and Jan Schakowsky?? |
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January 24, 2011 -
Renewed Push to Give Obama an Internet "Kill Switch" - Who
defines a cyberemergency? Executive action with no judicial review
or legislative check on this power? It's like declaring martial
law electronically. |
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January 23, 2011 -
At Obama's midpoint, an altered State of the Union |
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January 23, 2011 -
Tea partiers say defense in mix for budget cuts |
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January 23, 2011 -
Republicans press for Senate vote on health care |
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January 23, 2011 -
GOP lawmakers look for signs of new Obama approach |
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January 23, 2011 -
US diplomacy embracing Twitter amid global crises |
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January 23, 2011 -
Federal center hopes to spur drug research |
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January 22, 2011 -
Obama's economic agenda: Boost US competitiveness - The new
buzzword narrative. No real plan.
Obama goal: 'Putting the economy into overdrive' and
Obama pitches open markets as key to jobs |
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January 22, 2011 -
Health care overhaul debate now shifts to states |
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January 21, 2011 -
Wisconsin's new GOP gov., lawmakers in hyperdrive - taking the
state in a new direction |
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January 21, 2011 -
AP-GfK Poll: Obama popular but doubts on progress - Do nice guys
finish last? Hope so. |
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January 21, 2011 -
Democrat urges Obama to target minority hardships
- pushing for preferential treatment of minorities |
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January 21, 2011 -
Obama seeks to highlight economic successes -
GE is far too close to Obama. -
Obama names GE's Immelt head of new economic panel - and
Obama seeks to highlight nation's econ potential |
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January 20, 2011 -
Conservatives want spending cut $90 billion more
- Why not aim for 2000 spending levels, not 2006 or 2008? Since
the Democrats attacked George Bush for spending increases, roll all
non-military spending back. |
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January 20, 2011 -
House GOP conservatives set to unveil $2.5 trillion in deep spending
cuts - over 10 years |
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January 20, 2011 -
Obama ramping up 2012 reelection campaign
- two years after inaugural; campaigning never ended |
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January 20, 2011 -
Generous tax breaks make tax reform difficult
- Time to simplify - Fair Tax or similar. |
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January 20, 2011 -
2012 election map precarious for Senate Democrats
- We need to flip around 15 Senators in 2012 so that there is a solid
filibuster-proof majority without reliance on a few RINOs who have been
prone to cut deals for themselves. We should aim for a 2/3
majority in both the House and Senate. That certainly won't be
easy to achieve, but it is possible. |
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January 20, 2011 -
GOP's health care repeal: Now for the hard part
- If it passes the Senate, would Obama really veto? If the Senate
doesn't at least hold a vote and vote it down, then Democratic Senators
will be even more vulnerable in 2012. |
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January 19, 2011 -
House Votes to repeal Obama's health care law
- Two years after his inauguration, voters finally had a chance to
peacefully repudiate his agenda through their new representatives. After
2012, when we flip control of the Senate and White House, we can finally
rid ourselves of this atrocity. Note that another version of this
story had a different headline - House Votes to repeal year-old
health care law - as though Obama had nothing to do with it. |
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January 19, 2011 -
GOP spending cuts would affect millions of people - So does
unsustainable spending and debt. |
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January 19, 2011 -
Union head: More spending, not cuts to spur growth
- Clueless commitment to failed policies. |
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January 18, 2011 -
Endangered Dems sound alarms about redistricting - Of course, we
can all expect the Dems in Illinois to be completely fair in the
redistricting process, which they control completely. Right?
Hoist on their own petard. |
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January 18, 2011 -
Obama orders review of rules that hurt job growth - updates
earlier version -
Obama wants to shed rules that hurt job growth - Perhaps
ordering a review doesn't mean he wants to shed such rules? |
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January 15, 2011 -
Tea partiers keeping an eye on those they backed
- and earlier version:
For heady tea party, now the hard part begins
- The AP is still trying to portray Tea Party supporters as
politically naive, clueless and unrealistic. Memo to DC
journalists: We won. Maybe we aren't all as clueless as you assumed. |
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January 15, 2011 -
Record $14 trillion-plus debt weighs on Congress
- Note that the lame duck Congress which created this mess chose to
ignore this obvious problem while it pushed ahead with the growth of
federal spending beyond all reason. |
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January 15, 2011 -
Year ahead looms as toughest yet for state budgets
- No federal bailouts. Let states go bankrupt so that
politicians are forced into a disciplined process to renegotiate their
debts, limit spending, and balance their budgets. |
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January 15, 2011 -
Parties seek political profit from Ariz. shooting
- The AP remains clueless a week later, still trying to create some
sort of more equivalency between the lunacy by the killer, commentators,
politicians and media on the left who wanted to exploit the tragedy in
Tucson and conservatives who had nothing to do with it. This AP
writer should be fired. |
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January 13, 2011 -
Any pause in harsh rhetoric may be short-lived
- Obama just wants more applause, not a pause. Forget the new
"Together We Thrive" of his Tucson rally T-shirts. How about,
"Without Obama, We Thrived - and will again". |
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January 13, 2011 -
Freedom in decline worldwide: US report - What about in the USA? |
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January 11, 2011 -
Chamber head cautiously optimistic about economy - hedging their
bets with both parties |
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January 11, 2011 -
Illinois poised to abolish death penalty - Do you know which
Illinois Republicans helped to pass this? The six Republicans in
the Illinois House who voted for repeal of the death penalty during this
lame duck session were: Mark Beaubien, Bob Biggins, JoAnn Osmond, Bob
Pritchard, Skip Saviano and Ed Sullivan. |
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January 11, 2011 -
Protecting lawmakers: Arm them? Install shields?
- Another truly absurd article on this topic. The elephant in the
room is that the massive media coverage of this tragic incident has
demonstrated to terrorists worldwide that members of Congress at public
events outside of DC may be easy targets, as US diplomats have been in
recent decades. |
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January 9, 2011 -
Democratic leader: Cool the political rhetoric - Perhaps Dick
Durbin and
Steny Hoyer, who made similar remarks about the attempted murder of
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, would like to denounce the latest article by
Frances Fox Piven in The Nation this week, in which she openly advocated
violence by the unemployed against leaders. Others in the media
and on the left have quickly asserted that GIffords was "targeted" by
SarahPAC for defeat in the 2010 election by a "Tea Party" candidate.
The provocative rhetoric by Democrats in Congress last week wasn't
exactly cool. It is despicable that they are already trying to
exploit this outrageous and senseless act of violence by one deranged
man for political advantage. His violent actions were crazy.
Theirs are pre-meditated, provocative acts of political innuendo to
exploit this atrocity.
|
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January 8, 2011 -
Reid: Tea party will falter once economy improves - Perhaps.
The economy won't improve until after Obama and many of his colleagues
in the Senate are defeated in 2012. Reid predicted it would falter
in 2009 and 2010, too. |
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January 8, 2011 -
New, big challenges confront Obama the candidate
- How to persuasively distort his record |
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January 2, 2011 -
Obama returns to Washington to face emboldened GOP - "Obama
will also face opposition on spending and the debt." Finally! |
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January 2, 2011 -
Visitors snap up 100 trillion Zimbabwe bank notes - Adventures
in hyperinflation and economic failure |
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January 2, 2011 - Sunday talk show AP stories before the new
Congress is sworn in this week.
|
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January 2, 2011 -
GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election - and
later version of the Sunday narrative, which was then
republished on January 3 as well to keep pushing this new narrative.
The idea that Obama is close to Republicans on anything other than empty
rhetoric is delusional. This work of political fiction won't fool
anybody after the last two years. |
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January 2, 2011 -
Key party pulls out of Pakistan's ruling coalition |
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January 1, 2011 -
Spending showdowns will test new Congress leaders |
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January 1, 2011 -
Obama: Dems, GOP must cooperate in new year - Translation: The
GOP must accept his agenda, or else be blamed for any problems in 2012.
The lame duck session did not set a precedent as a commitment to
cooperation in 2011. It's time for the GOP leadership (not just in
Congress) to assert itself and show that it actually stands for
something, such as the Constitutional role of a limited federal
government and how it respects state and local government and voters.
We don't elect politicians to rule over us or run our
country. We run our country and make the economy successful through the
choices we make in our individual lives and how we choose to work
together with others in our communities. We delegate certain limited
tasks of governance to elected officials and the bureaucracy they
oversee on our behalf. They aren't there to do as they please and impose
all of their own ideas on us about how they think they can make this
country better. We'll create our own progress, thank you very much. We
don't rely on state central planning for it. |
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December 2010 news headlines and
comments |
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December 31, 2010 -
Climate PR effort heats up - Politico - You perhaps were under
the illusion that economic growth, jobs, and reduced government spending
are now the priority? Think again. That's just perfunctory
rhetoric. In case you were not paying attention to the Cancun
summit or other initiatives at the EPA or in the states,
cap and trade is not dead yet. |
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December 31, 2010 -
2010: The Year of the Tea Party - the year in review from The
Hill perspective |
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December 31, 2010 -
For investors, a gut-wrenching 2010 ended well - Remarkable.
By this AP account, the election in November had no impact. The
defeat of the radical Obama agenda in Congress was of no consequence to
investors. It has nothing to do with any increased optimism lately
about the prospects for economic recovery over the years ahead. |
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December 31, 2010 -
US dollar seen rising in 2011 after rough 2010 - Do you still
believe AP economic reporting? |
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December 28, 2010 -
GOP candidates rush to get into Senate races |
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December 28, 2010 -
Obama's economist pick seen as sign of new agenda - Don't expect
more than new rhetoric. |
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December 28, 2010 -
European anarchists grow more violent, coordinated - Glenn Beck
told you so, last year. The media ignored or denigrated him at the
time. At least somebody is paying attention to intelligence
reports about such threats. |
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December 28, 2010 -
China cuts rare earth export quotas, U.S. concerned - Economic
pressure? Not the first time. They
did this with Japan in late September.
Later version:
China changes rare earth quota basis, cut by 35% |
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December 27, 2010 -
New global banking rules proposed on bankers' pay - A slippery
slope toward global regulation of private sector salaries. In the
name of disclosure and transparency, or limiting financial risks, what
else will they impose? If you want to have a managed economy in
which government connections are the key to success, move to another
country. |
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December 27, 2010 -
In Congress, a harder line on illegal immigrants |
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December 25, 2010 -
New tax law packed with obscure business tax cuts - Merry
Christmas, lobbyists! |
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December 25, 2010 -
Medicare regulation revives end-of-life planning - Merry
Christmas, seniors! They're going to start paying people to try to
talk you out of medical treatment at end-of-life through annual reviews
of whether your life is worth it. |
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December 24, 2010 -
US plans new nuclear talks with Russia - Can't wait to do more
damage to our national security. |
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December 24, 2010 -
EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases - Congress may
have finally gone home, but the EPA is still busily trying to impose
their radical agenda despite the lack of support in Congress. It
is time to drastically reduce the budget and authority of the EPA, and
prepare to eliminate it completely in 2013. Let states take the
lead role. updated version of the story on
Dec 25 -
EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases |
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December 24, 2010 -
Iranian officer captured in Afghanistan: NATO - Will US media
pay attention to this? |
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December 23, 2010 -
Chastened, unpopular Congress rallies in lame duck |
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December 23, 2010 -
China pledges support to eurozone countries - Ready to exploit
their economic weakness? |
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December 23, 2010 -
US sees 'troubling trend' of Chinese economic intervention - In
case you missed it. |
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December 23, 2010 -
Democratic majority ends with accomplishments - The main
accomplishment of the lame duck Congress is that it exposed how many
unprincipled Democratic and Republican Senators we need to defeat in
2012. |
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December 22, 2010 -
Obama toasts 'season of progress' after big wins - Now he says
that he wants to "pivot" and focus on jobs and growth. That's what
he said at this time in 2009 after the Scott Brown election, and in 2008
when Congress prepared to ram through his "stimulus" agenda. He
may talk about growth, but he has done more to destroy than expand it.
All of his "progress" has been to expand the size, cost, and power of
government as an unsustainable economic overhead. |
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December 22, 2010 -
Congress approves defense bill, sends to president - In case you
missed it, the Democrats passed this virtually without any debate while
they diverted attention to all the other bills which appealed to their
base. They didn't have the courage to do this before the election,
when they could just as easily have passed this with Republican support. |
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December 22, 2010 -
Reid: Treaty buffs Obama as Nobel Prize winner - So, this is how
we define national security interests now? The primary objective
of our foreign policy is to burnish Obama's image in Europe? |
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December 22, 2010 -
Obama offers no hint at way forward on Guantanamo - He still has
no plan after two years. |
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December 22, 2010 -
Obama to keep fighting for DREAM Act on immigrants - More
demagoguery ahead for 2012. |
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December 22, 2010 -
Obama: New Congress will focus on spending cuts - Remember when
he told us that this would be his priority before the
election, back in October? -
Obama likely to focus on deficit in next 2 years - Oct 24,
2010 - Now he is already treating it as somebody else's problem, while
the Dem lame duck Congress continued to make matters worse. |
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December 22, 2010 -
Obama pledges economic focus during next 2 years - Deja vu.
Nothing but empty rhetoric. |
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December 22, 2010 -
GOP objections threaten whistle-blower rights bill - Why are
Dems so eager to protect leakers? |
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December 21, 2010 -
Obama's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year - This AP
year in review predictably treats it as though it is all about Obama as
a victim of events beyond his control, rather than the perpetrator of
many legislative atrocities with his friends in Congress, and further
atrocities through the regulatory bureaucracy he now controls.
This disrespect for voters has continued since the election.
Remember in November 2012. Start organizing now to flip the Senate
decisively. |
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December 21, 2010 -
Obama secures GOP votes for US-Russia nuclear pact - Remember
these Senators in 2012. |
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December 21, 2010 -
Obama won't give up on DREAM Act - watch out for executive
orders or lax enforcement of the law |
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December 21, 2010 -
SKorean Christmas tree sign of new propaganda war - Amusing
tactic. Maybe we should try smoking out the Taliban by equipping
Predator drones to broadcast Christmas carols over the FATA border
areas. |
|
December 21, 2010 -
Kremlin poker-faced as US Senate mulls arms pact - Curious
silence about the debate. |
|
December 21, 2010 -
Census: South leads US in fastest growth and
2010 census says US population at 308.7 million - Slowest rate
of population growth since the Great Depression - despite the illegal
immigration issues. |
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December 20, 2010 -
2010 census to show slowing US growth, GOP gains - People who
can afford to do so are voting with their feet by moving from
progressive blue states to conservative red states with pro-growth
policies.
Later version |
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December 20, 2010 -
Spending bill freezes pay for federal workers |
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December 20, 2010 -
Quiet deal on Obama's judge nominees in the
Senate - Watch for recess appointments. |
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December 19, 2010 -
Senate passes food safety bill, again - Work hard to defeat
every Senator in 2012 who voted for this latest expansion of federal
regulatory powers over the food industry. They obviously didn't
get the message yet in November. Some of those who voted for
it are not coming back in January, but there are 23 Democrats and 10
Republicans up for election in 2012. Work to defeat those who are
still voting for things like this. Then we can go after Dick Durbin and
the rest in 2014. |
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December 19, 2010 -
McConnell to vote against treaty with Russians - Treaties are
too important to be rushed through without very careful scrutiny.
Remember the Reykjavik summit with Reagan and Gorbachev? It wasn't the
end of the world that the expected deal fell through. If it's a good
agreement for both sides, then it needs to be absolutely clear that both
sides are interpreting it the same way, rather than leaving it open to
disputes about the intended meaning (as in the preamble reference to
missile defense). I am less impressed by Obama's statement in that
regard than by the absence of any similarly definitive statement from
the Russian leaders. When Putin comes back to power, will he still
interpret it the same way? Distrust and verify. |
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December 19, 2010 -
Czech doctors prepare to abandon the Republic - A glimpse of our
healthcare future? |
|
December 19, 2010 -
Students look to 2012 after immigration bill fails - Fix the
border and the immigration law, instead of engaging in political
demagoguery to pit selective groups of illegal immigrants against legal
residents and citizens. If these Mexicans want to protest against
government leaders who don't care about their futures, then go back and
protest in Mexico. |
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December 18, 2010 -
Republicans block youth immigration bill -
DREAM Act amnesty plan defeated again.. Secure the border first. Then we
can talk about such amnesty deals in the new Congress. Until then, this
is just more lame duck political demagoguery by the Democrats to try to
appease many frustrated Hispanic voters after not even attempting to
address immigration issues seriously while they still had control of
both the House and the Senate in 2009. It was never high on their
priorities. Now they just hope to sucker Hispanic voters again in 2012
by pretending once again that Republicans are racist or anti-immigrant.
Guess what? Many Hispanic voters are smart enough to see through such
nonsense. |
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December 18, 2010 -
GOP bid to change U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty
fails - and -
Obama offers assurances to GOP on nuke treaty -
Take the time to verify the details. Distrust and verify. |
|
December 18, 2010 -
Analysis: With tax bill, Dems pick political
fight - and -
Obama salutes spirit of compromise, signs tax bill |
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December 17, 2010 -
What will the big new tax law mean for you? |
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December 17, 2010 -
Obama signs massive tax bill, hails deal with GOP
- and -
Obama says tax deal will help middle-class - Note that Nancy
Pelosi and Harry Reid skipped the signing ceremony, and stuck to class
warfare rhetoric. |
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December 17, 2010 -
Bill preventing big tax hikes heads to Obama Fri. - Pelosi is
still pushing class warfare rhetoric, and many other Democrats (and
Republicans) still didn't get the message either, as shown by the narrow
defeat of the omnibus budget atrocity. The illusory bipartisanship (139D
- 138R in favor, and 148 against) shows that despite flipping 63
districts in 2010, we have more work to do in 2012. There are 23
Democratic (and 10 Republican) incumbents in the Senate who must face
voters again in 2012. We need to flip about 50 more districts in
the House in 2012 so that no incumbent feels "safe" enough to show such
contempt for Americans, regardless of income or any other group in which
they may be categorized to isolate and vilify them by the progressive
radical playbook. We are all in this fight
together to restore limited government and respect by those in public
service for "We the people". |
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December 17, 2010 -
House approves billions for wars without debate - Low profile -
no more liberal demagoguery? |
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December 17, 2010 -
Clinton worried by talk of cutting US foreign aid - If Hillary
Clinton is so worried about the foreign aid budget, she should welcome
more scrutiny in Congress about where the money goes, and how effective
it is at serving our national interests. After all, we are effectively
borrowing money from China and elsewhere to dole it out on programs
which from an emotional standpoint we may feel are worthy causes, such
as humanitarian purposes, but which we really can't afford.
Would you go into debt to give money to charity? Would
you do that if the charity involved didn't even say thank you, or use
your money wisely for the intended purpose? Would you do that to prop up
failed regimes by mitigating the harm they cause, so that their abuses
can continue? We should invest wisely in what is actually in our
national interest after a very critical review of our global priorities.
We should invest more in what really works, and throw less money away on
the rest. |
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December 17, 2010 -
Senate leaders drops $1.3 trillion spending bill - Reid didn't
even have enough Democratic votes |
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December 16, 2010 -
Senate Dem leader drops nearly $1.3T spending bill - Don't stop
paying attention to this lame duck Congress until they go home to stay.
Watch for surprises from Executive branch departments and agencies, too. |
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December 16, 2010 -
EU agrees on rescue plan for future euro crises - Creating a
permanent framework for bailouts |
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December 16, 2010 -
13M get unexpected tax bill from Obama tax credit - Surprise!
Making socialism pay? Note that there was no mention of this prior
to the election. |
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December 16, 2010 -
Courts may not get last word in health care fight - Obama feels
that he can coerce you into buying health insurance regardless of what
the Supreme Court decides. - See more about
healthcare issues |
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December 16, 2010 -
Military leaders dispute GOP on arms control pact - Do you trust
Obama and the Russians? The problem is that a treaty can't be
easily reversed if serious problems with it are discovered later.
Take the time and do it right. |
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December 16, 2010 -
White House: Pass giant year-end spending bill - Kill the bill.
Remember anyone who votes for it, and work for their defeat in 2012.
If they were already voted out of office, make sure they never return
again. Deja vu - 2009.
Senate GOP leader offers two-month spending bill - One page.
Will Reid even read it? |
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December 10, 2010 -
President Chavez seeks decree powers in Venezuela - Luckily
Obama has no such option. |
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December 10, 2010 -
Add-ons turn tax bill into Christmas tree - Deja vu. They
still don't get it, as with the healthcare bill. |
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December 8, 2010 -
House Democrats push through massive budget bill - Still trying
to ram through all of their spending priorities before they lose control
in January. Remember this in 2012. Work to defeat everyone
who disrespected voters by pushing atrocities such as this through the
lame duck session - even if it is blocked in the Senate. |
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December 6, 2010 -
Congress confronts year-end budget decisions - Trying to ram it
all through while attention is elsewhere, before the new Congress is
sworn in. The GOP should insist that it include the increase to
the debt ceiling which will be necessary in 2011 to meet such spending
plans - rather than leave it to the new Congress to take the blame for
it. They should also be insisting on substantial budget cuts, or
else let the new Congress deal with it. Expose all the earmarks,
and work extra hard to defeat every Senator in 2012 who abuses this lame
duck session to sneak through pet projects. |
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December 6, 2010 -
Teachers union target Michelle Rhee to raise $1 billion for education
reform - announcing the launch of Students First -
www.StudentsFirst.org
See background about the Obama progressive
education reform agenda. |
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December 6, 2010 -
US: WikiLeaks release gives hit list to al-Qaida - Not just to
them, but to other dangerous wackos |
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December 6, 2010 -
Obama warns of new 'Sputnik moment' for America - He now wants
to spend 3% of GDP on R&D, probably much of it to reward friends in
academia rather than to engage in really productive ventures.
Absolutely clueless. He wants to impose state-controlled
industrial development, in which political leaders try to choose which
initiatives should be favored with resources, rather than the market.
This is progressive fascism, thinly disguised as national socialism. |
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December 4, 2010 -
Plodding climate talks stepping up to higher level - still
proposing a $100 billion per year fund for the transfer of wealth as the
real priority of the governments involved -
later version of the story and on
December 5 |
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December 3, 2010 -
WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord -
Chicago politics in Copenhagen climate summit. The good news is that they
failed - but they haven't given up yet. See more under
Cap & Trade |
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November 24, 2010 -
Pelosi's new mission: Limit Obama deals with GOP - Our mission:
45 more House seats in 2012 (2/3 majority), plus the White House, plus
15 more Senate seats (60+ for cloture to break filibusters) so that
Pelosi / Reid become virtually irrelevant unless the Dems start to show
some respect for real bipartisanship. Start working on it now
locally. When the Dems see well-organized efforts evolving to
defeat them in 2012, that will moderate their actions in 2011. |
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Avoiding the $4 trillion Obama tax
increase to sustain massive government spending increases since 2007 |
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Does the recent Obama proposal to freeze federal salaries mean anything?
See how the federal workforce has grown. |
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December 16, 2010 -
Final hurdle for tax bill: Is the end in sight? |
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December 16, 2010 -
Tax package heads toward high stakes vote in House - and
Pence: Tax cut package won't help create jobs |
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December 16, 2010 -
Senators vote to ban earmarks - then grab them - Remember in
November 2012, when 23 Democrats and 10 Republican Senators are up for
election. Start working actively for their defeat now.
Review all major donors to their past campaigns and expose any conflicts
of interest. Draw attention to every earmark and dubious vote. |
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December 14, 2010 -
Earmarkers feast on pork one last time before diet - Wasn't last
year supposed to be the last time? We obviously need to defeat
dozens of more members of the Senate and House in 2012. They still
don't get it.
later version |
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December 14, 2010 -
House Dems stew over Obama's handling of tax deal |
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December 14, 2010 -
Tax package heads toward passage in Senate - Dems message to
seniors: Die quickly, in 2010. |
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December 9, 2010 -
House Democrats reject tax plan without changes - Time for
Republicans to play hardball, too. If the alleged Obama deal is
off, then they should hold out for a better deal, even if it means
letting the taxes go up in January. Let the Democrats take the blame for
blocking the Obama deal, and then push a better one. Don't extend the
stimulus payments for those who don't pay taxes, and don't agree to let
the estate tax return at all (even at the $5 million / 35% rate). Keep
it simple - extend the existing tax rates for all for more than just 2
years. Time for a little brinksmanship. If the Dems want to
engage in political theatrics to appease the hard left, let them walk
the plank with everyone else in the country. They clearly
didn't get the message in November. Let them self-destruct. |
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December 8, 2010 -
WH warns tax defeat could trigger new recession |
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December 8, 2010 -
Obama facing tough sell in own party on tax deal |
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December 8, 2010 -
Deficit commission's leader knocks tax cut plan |
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December 8, 2010 -
Obama exhorts members of Congress to back tax deal |
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December 8, 2010 -
White House adviser: Obama had to make tax deal |
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December 7, 2010 -
Obama struggles to keep Dems from killing tax cuts |
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December 7, 2010 -
It's not just taxes: Obama defends his credibility |
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December 7, 2010 -
Democrats demand changes in Obama-GOP tax deal |
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December 7, 2010 -
Tax deal should help economy, analysts say |
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December 7, 2010 -
Obama defends tax deal, says he's kept promises
- and -
House Dem leaders not persuaded by Obama on taxes
- and -
Obama fends off Democrats' attacks of tax plan |
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December 7, 2010 -
Biden urges Dems to embrace Obama's tax-cut plan |
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December 6, 2010 -
Obama, GOP reach deal to extend tax cuts - Obama's proposed
framework for a lousy deal. |
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December 5, 2010 -
Bernanke defends bond buys, citing at-risk economy - Isn't it
remarkable how the Fed decided to start monetizing the debt on November
3? No connection to the election on November 2, of course.
Purely independent.
December 6 version of the same story |
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December 5, 2010 -
After the tax fight, parties move to compromise - It still looks
like a lousy deal. |
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December 4, 2010 -
Senate showdown may pave way for year-end tax deal - Since the
Dems chose to engage in political gamesmanship, hold out for a 10 year
tax cut extension and for the Democrats to vote through the necessary
increase in the debt ceiling for the projected deficit which they have
created already for next year. Otherwise, they're just going to
wait and blame that on the new Congress, even though this Congress
created the mess and still won't cut spending. |
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December 2, 2010 -
Heading off tax increases: Compromise taking shape
OK, since Pelosi wants to play hardball, the GOP
leadership should hold out for at least a 10 year extension of the tax
cuts for all, and block all other pending legislation until they get it.
A 2 - 3 year extension just prolongs the uncertainty for individuals and
businesses. If necessary, hold out until January, when it will be even
harder for Obama and Reid to push their other agenda items through the
Senate. They were the ones who chose to stall this action for years in
the hope that they could raise taxes and spend more, as they did already
to create this economic mess. There have to be consequences for bad
behavior. Ratification of START should not be rammed through
without the advice and consent process of the new Senate.
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December 1, 2010 -
GOP says it'll block bills until tax cuts extended - Good.
Keep blocking. Why didn't this apply to S510 yesterday, however?
That major expansion of FDA powers over the food industry should not
have passed. |
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December 1, 2010 - Karl Rove -
Nancy
Pelosi's unwelcome Christmas gift - largest tax increase in
history |
September 29, 2010 - WSJ Stephen Moore -
Walloping the Middle Class - The impact of the expiration of the
Bush tax cuts on the "middle class" and lower income workers.
Examples as described in the article per the
Tax Foundation:
 | Income $40,000 single mom - taxes go up $1,607 |
| Income $45,000 family of four - taxes go up $2,083 |
| Income $120,000 (two income couple, 2 kids) - taxes
go up $4,499 |
| The AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) is forecast to
affect 30 million more Americans in January |
| Calculate the estimated impact on your own taxes
at http://www.mytaxburden.org/
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The Democrats have had control of Congress since 2006
if they wanted to extend these
tax cuts. They didn't intend to do so. They had the votes, with no excuses. The Republicans
could not have blocked it since 2008. They chose to spend more
instead, and tried to also raise other types of new taxes, such as
through cap and trade and other initiatives. Note
that those at the lowest marginal tax rate (10%) are at risk of it going
up to 15% - a massive increase. As for the estate tax, which hurts
many businesses, the Democrats have a plan. Die quickly - before
the estate tax comes back on January 1. |
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DREAM Act, EU bailout, and other recent
stories |
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December 2, 2010 - Karl Rove has published an
interesting map of the 2010 election results for Congress |
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December 14, 2010 -
Black segregation in US drops to lowest in century - The
northeast and Midwest = "ghetto belt"?? Why not call it the
"failed urban progressive policy belt"? |
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December 8, 2010 -
House OKs bill aimed at young illegal immigrants |
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December 8, 2010 -
Bill to help some illegal immigrants may be doomed - The DREAM
Act is not dead yet. Watch for them to do a symbolic cloture vote
to get Republicans to go on the record against it. Then, after they pass
the tax cut extension and a continuing resolution, watch for them to try
to bring it up again and flip a few weak Republicans. They know they can
never pass it in 2011, so this is their last chance. Some Republicans
may reason that if they let this pass, the issue goes away and they can
blame it on the Dems in 2012. Do not trust the Senate Republicans to
stand united in opposition on this. Watch for another backroom deal to
be cut with the Mainiacs or others. |
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December 7, 2010 -
IMF chief
backs Greek loans extension - giving them more years to fail, as in
Ireland |
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December 7, 2010 -
Debt-hit
Irish publish harshest budget in history |
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December 7, 2010 -
EU backs more rigorous bank stress
tests from Feb. |
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December 6, 2010 -
Eurozone under pressure to aid euro with more cash
- Beware of US support for more EU bailouts. Later story:
Eurozone says bailout funds enough, for now The "for now"
caveat doesn't inspire much confidence. |
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December 2, 2010 -
South Korea's Lee slammed as weak on North Korea - more on
North Korea provocation below |
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December 1, 2010 -
Document drop: S. 3992, the Dems’ latest Illegal Alien DREAM Act bill
- Stop this bill. |
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December 1, 2010 -
Reid angers GOP by pushing four versions of DREAM Act without hearing
- FoxNews |
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December 1, 2010 - FreedomWorks hosted a meeting with candidates
for RNC Chairman - for information about this, refer to the
Party Politics page |
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December 1, 2010 -
Euro soars on report that US ready to aid EU fund - Why should
we borrow more money from China to give it to the IMF to bail out the EU
and European banks? Why is it in our interest to defend the value
of the Euro at a time when our policies are undermining the value of the
dollar, and risking a prolonged economic crisis here? It's time to
say no. |
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November 24, 2010 - This
video of Nigel Farage in the European Parliament in Strasbourg
is priceless, along with some of his others about the European Union
leadership. This
latest rant attracted the notice of Glenn Beck on his
Nov 29 show. |
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cap & trade
education
foreign policy
party politics |
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December 12, 2010 -
Social Security advocates fear payroll tax cut - Watch for Obama
to argue by 2012 that the income cap on Social Security contributions
should be raised substantially so that the wealthy pay more - allegedly
to make up for the revenues lost through this temporary cut. They've
been wanting to raise the cap for years at the same time as they means
test benefits to ensure that the wealthy will never get much out of the
system. Besides, if they can make the system less reliant on worker
contributions and more reliant on borrowing funded by general tax
revenues, that can create a de facto transfer of wealth to serve their
class warfare agenda. The workers pay less, and thus are grateful to the
Dems for giving them more take-home pay, and taxpayers at higher incomes
get stuck with the tab. |
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December 10, 2010 -
Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on race |
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December 8, 2010 -
Obama signs law for Indian tribes black farmers - A big
Christmas bonus for the trial lawyers |
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December 8, 2010 -
Democrats face long odds on immigration measure |
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December 8, 2010 -
Democrats attempt to revive food safety bill |
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December 8, 2010 -
House Democrats' bill freezes most agency budgets |
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December 8, 2010 -
Obama-GOP deal would tax only 3,500 inheritances - The estate
tax should stay dead. |
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December 8, 2010 -
House Democrats unveil massive budget
bill |
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December 8, 2010 -
GOP blocks legislation to award seniors $250 |
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December 8, 2010 -
The curious life of the US diplomat, uncloaked |
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December 4, 2010 -
Clinton tour showed limits of WikiLeaks damage
- It will be interesting to see whether Al Qaeda learns from this
experience and tries to rally the Muslim "man in the street" to their
side by infiltrating and then exposing the secrets of regimes in the
Middle East, South Asia, or Africa which they would like to destabilize
for their own agenda. They have proven some relevant computer
skills in the past, such as by hacking into the video feeds of drone
flights. |
December 4, 2010 -
Obama signs bill averting government shutdown
- Epic cowardice by the Democratic leaders - a two
week extension while they try to coerce the Republicans into accepting a
lousy deal on tax cuts and unemployment benefits as well as the new
START treaty, DADT, S510 food safety bill, DREAM Act, etc. The GOP needs
to stand firm with these fools, rather than cave on their agenda.
Republicans should hold out for the Dems to pass an increase to the debt
ceiling for all the extra spending they have already inflicted on us,
which is predictably going to exceed the current limit early next year.
Otherwise they are going to wait and blame it on the new Congress. Let
them take responsibility for the mess they created. |
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December 4, 2010 -
American voices on making the economy move - There are some
interesting comments in this article, but the basic premise seems to be
that Obama is a victim because Americans can't agree on what they want.
That is why we have elections. He just lost - big. Hello?
We don't need anecdotal evidence that Americans have different views. |
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December 3, 2010 -
Obama to sign historic settlement to black farmers
- How much is actually a reward to lawyers? |
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December 3, 2010 -
Hold the brownies! Bill could limit bake sales |
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December 3, 2010 -
Deficit-cutting plan fails to advance to Capitol
- Did anyone really expect an agreement? This was just a scheme to
avoid taking choices before the election, and then blame them all on
Republicans in Congress next year. |
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December 2, 2010 -
2 conservatives, key liberal, back deficit plan |
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December 2, 2010 -
Congress sends child nutrition bill to Obama
Your lame duck Congress at work - keeping kids safe
from bake sales or unhealthy snacks at school, but not from an out of
control federal government which has absolutely no Constitutional
authority to regulate local schools in this manner. The Departments of
Agriculture, Education, or HHS have no business imposing healthy food
mandates on schools and our children. Nor does Michelle Obama. This is a
matter for local school boards, administrators, and parents to decide,
not federal bureaucrats. |
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December 2, 2010 -
Ear relief: Congress acts to stifle loud TV ads - Is this also a
first step toward the FCC regulating online ads, too - such as those
which precede videos on many websites? Where does this end? Why
should the government get involved in this? This is why the private
sector invested mute switches on remote controls. They instantly solve
the problem to punish stupid advertisers who crank up the volume to get
attention. Aren't you pleased that the lame duck Congress finds
time to deal with this national crisis for those oppressed victims of
evil advertisers who are incapable of adjusting their TV volume?
later version of the story |
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December 2, 2010 -
Obama faces newly elected governors |
December 2, 2010 -
Dems, 1 GOP lawmaker press for leniency for Rangel -
His "actions do not warrant
the severe punishment of a formal censure." Later version:
House censures veteran Rep. Rangel for misconduct
Could somebody clarify the type of crime which a member of Congress
would have to commit before facing the risk of "censure", rather than
just a "reprimand"? Is the act of committing a crime no longer relevant,
as long as the person was nice and doesn't seem to have intended to harm
others, other than to profit by such actions? By that measure, shouldn't
Bernie Madoff and Dennis Kozlowski and others just get a similar public
scolding? What ever happened to the idea that ethics in public service
demanded more than simply not getting caught and convicted? |
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December 2, 2010 -
Deficit panel takes tough stance on health costs - It is based
on the premise that Obamacare remains, rather than being repealed and
replaced with something less costly and more beneficial. In
effect, passage of this would doom repeal efforts as though retention of
Obamacare was part of the grand bargain and couldn't be changed.
See what else the Deficit Commission does.
http://www.fiscalcommission.gov
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December 2, 2010 -
White House presses Congress for jobless benefits - Pelosi
apparently isn't the only one who thinks that unemployment benefits are
an efficient way to create more jobs by handing out free money to people
who will spend it. |
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December 2, 2010 -
ECB extends special crisis measures - |
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December 1, 2010 -
White House vows to strengthen ties with Dem govs - Reading this
story, you might actually come away with the impression that Democrats
won in November because 5 of 7 incumbent Democratic governors were not
defeated, while 5 Republican incumbents lost. There's no mention
of the historic number of defeats in state legislatures. |
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December 1, 2010 -
2 million lose jobless benefits as holidays arrive - Why not
propose an extension which gradually phases down the benefits over time?
The longer you stay unemployed, the lower the benefits become. That
creates an incentive to find some other source of income, and time to
adapt to the change, even if not the preferred type of job. It gets rid
of this political game of chicken at benefit extension time. |
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December 1, 2010 -
Report: States face more financial stress - See also
http://www.nasbo.org/ and
http://www.nga.org |
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December 1, 2010 -
European officials seek way out of crisis |
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December 1, 2010 -
Obama: No offshore drilling in East Coast waters - Still trying
to destroy the economy. Later version:
Obama rejects drilling in eastern Gulf of Mexico |
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December 1, 2010 -
Republicans block child nutrition bill - and
later version |
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December 1, 2010 -
House to vote on bill to improve school lunches - Why is the
federal government even involved in this issue, much less making it a
priority during the lame duck session of Congress? |
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November 30, 2010 -
Midterm casualties vacate suites, still must vote -
They could just vote to extend the same tax rates, do the
continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown, and then go home
rather than keep pushing a discredited agenda like S510 today and other
legislative atrocities. |
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November 30, 2010 -
House clears Indian, black farmer settlements - How much of the
$4.6 billion settlement will go to lawyers who support the Democrats?
Will any real investigative journalist ever look into this aspect of the
case? |
November 30, 2010 -
Obama, GOP promise to work on differences on taxes - The GOP
should stand firm and reject anything except extension of the tax rates
for all, whether for several years or permanently. If not, let all
Americans see their taxes go up in their January paychecks, and then
start pushing for budget cuts as well as these tax rate extensions and
other tax cuts. Negotiate from there, after all the Democrats go on the
record voting against the tax rate extension. There are 23 Democratic
Senators up for election in 2012. Put them on the spot to defend their
class warfare agenda.
Contrary to what Obama said, we did actually vote for gridlock. We also
voted for less government, not more, so that we can achieve lower debt
and lower taxes. The White House and media is trying to use opinion
polls to suggest that the actual results of the recent election don't
really matter. It was a historic repudiation of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi
agenda, but they still think that the Republicans should cave in to
their agenda. |
November 30, 2010 -
AP-CNBC Poll: Deficit-cutting ideas not popular - Don't be
fooled by the AP-CNBC poll. It isn't limited to active voters, or to
taxpayers. Thus, people with no "skin in the game" can easily express
the view that somebody else's taxes should be raised, rather than their
own, or that budget cuts shouldn't affect any programs which benefit
them.
We just had an election a few weeks ago. Who won? Didn't they tell us
that elections have consequences? Didn't Obama say that is why we have
elections - back when he thought he could win support for the healthcare
law just by educating the ignorant masses through speeches about his own
brilliance? Ditto for this issue. They lost the debate, even if they
still have enough votes to make it difficult to extend the current tax
rates for all. Let them defeat that proposition, and then keep pushing
it in January with the new House so that the Democrats have to go on
record repeatedly as supporting tax increases after people start to see
the impact on their own paychecks. |
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Keep
food affordable. Look into what USDA and FDA regulators
are doing to screw up the agriculture industry. |
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November 30, 2010 -
Senate passes bill to boost food safety - The next legislative
atrocity to grow government, raise food costs, and limit choices for
consumers. Remember in 2012, when 23 Democratic Senators (including 2
independents who vote with them) are up for election, along with 10
Republicans. Michelle Malkin blog -
Senate passes new Food Police bill; roll call vote 73-25 - Note
that 15 Republican Senators supported the bill, including the new
Senator from Illinois, Mark Kirk. This article has the list of the
others. |
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November 30, 2010 -
Senate shuns push for elimination of pet projects
Remember in 2012. Members may vote differently in 2011 for
political cover. Watch for earmarks in any lame duck bills.
Later version of the story |
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November 29, 2010 -
Frustrations show as climate talks resume - The global
cap and trade agenda isn't dead yet. |
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November 29, 2010 -
FDA would boost food inspections under Senate bill - The
Senate is on the verge of passing a "food safety" bill to greatly expand
the regulatory bureaucracy and powers of the FDA and USDA. This may
please some large corporations in the agriculture and food processing
industry, but it will crush many small farmers, ranchers, local farmers
markets, etc. as the bureaucracy asserts greater authority over every
aspect of the food supply chain until it collapses. Tell your Senator
that if they vote to pass this, you will work to defeat them in 2012,
and to reverse it completely. Regardless of any good intentions, this is
another legislative atrocity. |
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Freezing federal
pay - while government growth continues |
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November 29, 2010 -
Citing deficit, Obama freezing federal worker pay - and
Obama calls for 2-year freeze on federal pay - He is still
keeping 2.2 million federal employees - and growing. To put this in
perspective, look up the total federal government employment (non
military, and excluding the Post Office) before 1900, and ask yourself
whether we really need 40 - 50 times more federal employees today for 3
- 4 times more population. Do you really think that is worth the
investment in such federal overhead as a burden on every business and
taxpayer in America, or could that be part of the problem with our
global competitiveness and the flight of industrial investment and jobs
to other countries?
Rather than freeze salaries, we need to completely get
rid of large parts of the federal government which are not really
essential. If they did not already exist, would we vote to raise our
taxes to fund such operations now? If not, we should cut them rather
than give them eternal life and growing budgets and staff. |
Chart of federal employment, excluding the postal
service, from 1990 - 2010, from the
US
Bureau of Labor Statistics. This shows how the data spikes
with temporary and part-time Census workers.
Do you think we could live with 1.8 million federal
employees as at the end of the 1990's, rather than around 2.2 million
today? Why do we need a 20% larger federal workforce today?
How about getting back to the even lower levels in the early 1960's,
before the "Great Society" programs? For reference, before World
War II under FDR the total was up to around 500,000, and quickly
escalated in wartime as shown to over 2.5 million.
Soon after the Civil War, the total was closer to
50,000 to serve a US population of roughly 75 million rather than 310
million today. That's more than 40 times as many employees now for
4 times the population. Can you imagine what it would be like
today if the number of federal employees was only 200,000, rather than
2.2 million? The government likes to cite the budget as a % of
GDP, as though it should be indexed to economic growth. In effect,
that punishes private sector productivity by raising the federal
overhead, while state and local governments do the same. |
Chart of federal employment, excluding the postal
service, from 1939 - 2003, from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Some of the decline in employment in the 1990's may be attributed to the
outsourcing of federal work which is still being performed at government
expense, but not by direct employees, and is therefore categorized in
other service sector data series. If so, then a return to above
2.2 million federal employees, as before 1994, would not really be the
same thing unless such outsourcing was reduced, such as by the Civil
Service taking over such functions again.
Without a more detailed analysis of the specific
changes in the federal workforce composition from 1994 to 2010 it is
hard to draw reliable conclusions about the trends, but the key point is
simple. This country did very well in the past with far fewer than
the 2.2 million federal employees today, so it is hard to believe that
we couldn't cut the federal workforce by 20% or more, and the related
budget spending for their work. Instead, it is a question of the
political will to make tough choices to cut or eliminate programs which
are not essential, even if they are popular with some groups of voters.
Spending other people's money is always politically popular with the
perceived beneficiaries of such spending. Voters need to make it
popular for politicians to reduce spending and taxes, rather than
perceiving federal spending and debt as somebody else's problem. |
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Restore the federal
bureaucracy and UN to lower emission targets - Cut staff by 85%
or more. If UN or federal bureaucrats think such industry targets
for emission reductions are reasonable, let them start by restoring
their own bureaucracy and budget to pre-1900 levels to dramatically
reduce their own "carbon footprint" and hot air. That should free
up a lot of private capital to invest more efficiently in the
development of new technologies for real demand. (That's right -
the UN didn't even exist before 1900, so that's a big opportunity for
50+ year improvements.) |
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November 29, 2010 -
Holder says WikiLeaks under criminal investigation - a weak,
superficial response -
US not ruling out legal action against WikiLeaks - Why not
declare Assange an enemy combatant terrorist and put a higher price on
his head than OBL? If he were a Russian journalist exposing
corruption, he would already be the victim of an unsolved crime. Make it
clear that the CIA is authorized to waterboard him if captured - not to
gather information, but just for fun to see how long he lasts and give
his supporters and other hackers or leakers (or accomplices in the
media) something to think about. Make sure any interrogation tapes don't
get destroyed. Instead, promise to leak them to his favorite media
contacts. Let him spend the rest of his life looking over his
shoulder, wondering who will get him first. |
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November 29, 2010 -
Israel says Arabs agree on Iran threat |
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November 29, 2010 -
FACT CHECK: Small business caught in tax battle |
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November 29, 2010 -
Ireland's bailout boosts banks, inflames taxpayers |
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November 28, 2010 -
Full agenda as Congress tries to finish for year - Remember
again in November 2012 |
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November 28, 2010 -
EU agrees on $89 billion bailout loan for Ireland -
EU agrees on new rules for future bailouts |
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Airline security screening controversy
- TSA procedures (other recent
news follows below) |
|
Content about the TSA airport security
screening controversy in November 2010 has been archived to a
separate page. |
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North Korea brinksmanship |
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November 28, 2010 -
US, South Korea launch war games in tense Yellow Sea
-
McCain: Time to discuss `regime change' in NKorea - No, it's
time to encourage Japan and South Korea to invest more in their own
military, and to develop their own nuclear weapon programs. If
that doesn't appeal to China and Russia, let them show that they are
serious about restraining their wacko friends in North Korea. The
days of trying to bribe North Korea into better behavior are over.
|
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November 28, 2010 - China calls for urgent talks on North Korea -
This is a stalling tactic, not a serious response. |
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November 27, 2010 -
US and South Korea push ahead with war games - Now the North is
trying to claim that the South used civilians as "human shields" to
create a crisis when North Korea attacked the island with artillery
without provocation. I suppose, by this twisted logic, that the
South Korean ship which North Korea sank earlier this year was
provocatively trying to block the path of their torpedoes to create an
international incident. |
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November 26, 2010 -
Defiant North Korea fires artillery warning shots and
later version of the story |
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November 24, 2010 -
Analysis: China keeps pressure off North Korea |
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November 24, 2010 -
Obama pledges US to defend its ally South Korea - What does his
rhetoric actually mean? Zero.
South Korea reports 2 civilian deaths in North Korea clash -
plus two marines and 18 injured |
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November 23, 2010 - further provocation from North Korea, in
addition to expansion of their nuclear program
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| |
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Thanks to Townhall.com for a useful guide to 2010 election results:
House
Senate
Governors
On January 4 we can swear in a new Congress, rather
than swear at this one. Watch out for lame ducks.
Here's a
simple profile of the new members of the House (pdf). |
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November 27, 2010 -
India seeks to resolve climate disputes in Cancun - see other
cap and trade stories |
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November 27, 2010 -
World events threaten Obama's economic message - Absolute
rubbish. He is being portrayed as though he is the innocent victim
of foreign events which distract him from a focus on the domestic
economy. He had no such excuse over the last two years. He
chose unwise policies, and the American people pushed back. He
remains clueless. Failure is not being imposed on him. He
has imposed it on us by pushing his ideological agenda to the brink of
failure.
Global crises overshadow Obama's economic message - later
version |
|
November 27, 2010 -
Iraqi premier: No need for US troops after 2011 - Thank you,
President George W. Bush. |
|
November 27, 2010 -
Lebanese PM seeks support in Iran visit - Another Middle East
crisis on the horizon? |
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November 27, 2010 -
Iran's nuclear plant to go on line by late January |
|
November 26, 2010 -
Fla congresswoman to head House Foreign Affairs - Why did the
headline of the later version of the story focus on her ethnic
background?
Cuban-American to head House Foreign Affairs |
|
November 26, 2010 -
Backlash feared as some in GOP push social issues |
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November 26, 2010 -
Debt turmoil, contagion fears sweep Europe |
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November 26, 2010 -
PM Zapatero says no chance Spain will need bailout |
|
November 26, 2010 -
Irish banks get downgraded as bailout fears grow Irish banks
cut over rumored raid on bondholders |
|
November 25, 2010 -
Thousands protest tax law changes in Ukraine |
|
November 25, 2010 -
Investors keep up the pressure on Portugal, Spain |
|
November 25, 2010 -
Euro will survive debt crisis, Merkel vows
Central banker: EU willing to raise bailout fund |
|
November 25, 2010 -
US presence in Afghanistan as long as Soviet slog - Slog? What
about all their atrocities? The tyrannical Soviet occupation was
marked by deliberate atrocities for intimidation purposes, not
accidental civilian casualties. They killed over 1 million
Afghans, and drove several million more out of the country as refugees.
To put that in perspective, imagine what it would be like if 1 out of 15
people in your neighborhood was killed, while 3 or 4 of them had to
leave everything they owned and flee in terror, without anywhere to go
or any confidence that they would ever be able to return home again. |
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November 25, 2010 -
Spain's Socialists set for beating in Catalan poll |
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November 25, 2010 -
Irish opposition vows to upend austerity plan |
|
November 24, 2010 -
Irish unveil 4-year plan to claw back $20 billion |
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November 24, 2010 -
Portugal, Spain hit by investor fears over debt |
|
November 23, 2010 -
It’s Official – The FCC Will Vote to Take Over the Internet in December |
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November 23, 2010 -
UK imposes new permanent immigration quota |
|
November 23, 2010 -
Owner of TV channel rejects accusations by Chavez - the last
opposition TV station faces threat |
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November 23, 2010 -
UN nuke agency: Iran enrichment temporarily halted |
|
November 23, 2010 -
Portugal, Spain become market target after Ireland
Political chaos engulfs Ireland, threatens bailout |
|
November 23, 2010 -
Man involved in Afghan talks said to be impostor - The Afghans
couldn't figure this out? This is reminiscent of the murderous
attack on CIA operatives by a Jordanian who fooled them as an Al Qaeda
double agent. This is a much more serious security issue than
uninvited guests crashing a dinner party at the White House. Does
anybody else remember what happened to Ahmad Shah Massoud two days
before 9/11? Al Qaeda does targeted assassinations. |
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November 23, 2010 -
Auto industry success a hard sell for White House |
|
November 23, 2010 -
Fed slashes US growth forecasts - Do you expect to be better or
worse off after 2012? If you want things to get better, take
responsibility locally for making it happen in spite of them, as in the
recent election victory. |
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November 23, 2010 - AP
SPIN METER: Tea partiers' views far from others - After
suffering a historic midterm election defeat just 3 weeks ago as a
complete repudiation of the hard left progressive agenda, the new
narrative for the liberal media is to go back on the attack against Tea
Party groups with poll data claiming that they are not really
representative of Americans, and that their views are too "extreme" -
just like so many of the attack ads in the election. What ever
happened to the "We won" and "elections have consequences" mantra of
Obama, Reid, and Pelosi? Meanwhile, Obama's "we did it" message to OFA
supporters as though the midterm was a success for them is delusional.
Give that man a Nero's fiddle award.
Poll: Tea Party support grows; USA divided - USA Today story |
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November 23, 2010 -
Top 10 reasons why new START is a non-starter - Heritage
Foundation |
|
November 22, 2010 -
How EPA Could Destroy 7.3 Million Jobs - blog by William
Shughart II
|
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November 22, 2010 - AP
ANALYSIS: GM's return may help Obama in Midwest - Let's see now.
The government invested $50 billion. GM has about 50,000 employees
left. That works out to about $1 million per employee.
Stockholders and bond holders were largely wiped out in the process,
unlike a normal bankruptcy reorganization process, while the labor
unions got bailed out and wound up with a large degree of control of the
new company. Now Obama alleges that this saved 1 million jobs,
using math that is even more fuzzy than the rest of his absurd stimulus
claims. We're supposed to be impressed? How many careers in
this industry have been destroyed by relentless federal intervention in
the auto industry over the years? He is absolutely delusional to
regard this as a success - just like his congratulatory message about
the midterm election. |
|
November 22, 2010 -
Economists worried about U.S. inflation: Survey - still
projecting slow growth and no significant improvement in unemployment
through 2011, while consumer inflation may be understated by excluding
food and energy costs |
|
November 22, 2010 -
Woman who told Obama she was 'exhausted' loses job |
|
November 22, 2010 -
CAPITAL CULTURE: Team Obama's man with a marker - Still trying
to teach us that he is right. Whether he does it with a
teleprompter speech or through an advisor with a white board, his
credibility has been erased. |
|
November 22, 2010 -
Rattner claims innocence in NY kickback case |
|
November 22, 2010 -
Bolivian leader lectures Gates about US behavior - and Gates
"didn't seem fazed by the one-hour monologue". Yes, he shouldn't
have reacted at the time (which Morales would have welcomed as a media
incident), but Obama should promptly expel the Bolivian ambassador in
Washington DC and cut off all aid in response to this latest insult.
Let this socialist go it alone with Iran, Venezuela and other friends if
that is his preference. Don't bow to his insults, however. Stand firm
against this regime until it eventually collapses from within through
its own failures. Bolivian regimes have a pretty short tenure and high
failure rate. This too shall pass. Morales only poses a threat to
his own impoverished people. |
|
November 22, 2010 -
US: NKorean uranium disclosure is 'not a crisis' - Of course
it's not a crisis if your worldview is that all the problems in the
world are our fault, and can be resolved by bowing low and talking more
respectfully to tyrants. The Defense Department should merely
confirm that they have had the targeting coordinates of this facility
for years. |
|
November 22, 2010 -
North Korea nuke revelations stir US policy worry |
|
November 21, 2010 -
Scientist: NKorea built uranium enriching facility - and -
Mullen: NKorea report shows belligerent behavior - Why is this a
surprise to anyone? What do they propose to do about it?
What have they done?
Pentagon: New facility speeds NKorean nuke ability |
|
November 21, 2010 -
Ireland swallows bitter pill, asks EU for loan |
|
November 20, 2010 - Stop Shouting! blog -
My rebuttal to a progressive who admonished me to play nice -
Fix bayonets. It's nice to see that even military families in CA
realize they have a lot of public support against the hard left. |
|
November 20, 2010 -
Fed faces stiffest challenge to authority in years |
|
November 19, 2010 -
Congress rookies vie for Capitol Hill office space |
|
November 19, 2010 -
New documents in Waters case; ethics hearing off - Ethics aren't
a priority for Pelosi anyway. |
|
November 19, 2010 -
Lame Duck Land Grab - Another day, another legislative atrocity.
It's not over yet. |
|
November 19, 2010 - AP -
FACT CHECK: Half-truths in nuke arms treaty debate - Treaties
are not like domestic laws or regulations which can be easily repealed
or revised. The Senate should not ratify this until it has been
very carefully reviewed. |
|
November 19, 2010 -
Senate approves $4.6B for black farmers, Indians |
|
November 18, 2010 -
IPCC Official: “Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World's Wealth”
- Cancun summit news. See other background about climate change
and the cap and trade agenda.
Don't think the UN bureaucracy or the progressives are giving up on this
agenda. If it can't be pushed through Congress, they'll push it in
other ways, and in states. |
|
November 18, 2010 -
More bad news for new START - Russia nuclear treaty in jeopardy
during lame duck session |
|
November 18, 2010 -
McConnell opposes $1.1 trillion spending bill |
|
November 18, 2010 - Ethics chief counsel recommends censure for
Rangel - Ethics for Democrats in Congress: don't embarrass the
others by getting caught, and whatever that you do, make sure you have
enough support to get elected anyway so that they don't lose the seat
because of it. Party power is more important than principles and
values to the Democrats. |
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November 18, 2010 - Have ideas to solve the deficit?
Tell Michele Bachmann via Facebook. Example:
Do a continuing resolution based
on 2008 or earlier budget levels - not the inflated 2010 spending levels
or 2011 budget proposals. Then push to roll back to 2004 levels by
pay-go offsets against any bills which seek to increase spending above
the 2008 level for some reason. Then raise the bar by pushing for
cuts to 2000 spending levels. If the govt could function on 2000
spending levels, it can still do so today - like businesses or voters
whose income or savings were wiped out by the last two recessions.
When the government gets back to
2000 spending levels, let's start working towards 1990 levels. We
still had more than enough federal government spending at the end of the
Reagan years, and consumer price inflation should not be used to adjust
spending levels. Any increase should be debated and justified.
It's a question of taking a hard look at priorities now that resources
are limited. Roll back taxes as the spending goes down so that
taxpayers see the reward of doing this, and so that the continued
benefits and growth of such tax savings are predictable enough to
encourage more private investment.. |
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November 17, 2010 -
Senate Democrats swim against anti-earmark tide |
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November 17, 2010 -
Pelosi expected to remain House Democrats' leader - see more in
Party Politics |
|
November 17, 2010 -
Obama's "rationer in chief" finally sits in judgment before U.S. Senate |
|
November 17, 2010 -
Medicare chief makes 1st appearance before Senate - see more
about healthcare issues |
|
November 16, 2010 - Joe Walsh has won the IL 8th District race in
the final count by nearly 300 votes. Melissa Bean has conceded now that all of the votes have been
counted, instead of pushing for a recount. |
|
November 16, 2010 -
Pelosi tries to soothe unhappy House Democrats |
|
November 16, 2010 -
Where do all those union dues go? - interesting video and links
for more information |
|
November 16, 2010 -
Obama: Congress should pass DREAM Act this year |
November 16, 2010 -
Tea party seeks Capitol clout after election gains - The Tea
Party Patriots leaders seem to have lost direction by shifting their
focus to influence in Washington DC - such as by trying to bully rather
than inform new members of Congress. It is as if TPP is becoming what we
have been fighting against, by forgetting that accountability in the
House of Representatives means that members answer to the constituents
in their own districts who they are representing - not some national
interest group which thinks it knows what is best for everyone. Leave
that model to the statist progressives.
Focus on the grassroots level, not DC. Focus on organizing more
effectively in every district so that more voters become and stay
well-informed about key issues and keep their own representatives more
accountable, regardless of media bias, money in politics, GOP leadership
or organizational problems, etc. Focus on organizing "we the people" to
achieve the more limited government we seek to restore. Don't become
egotistical national bullies. The answer is local, not in DC. |
|
November 16, 2010 -
Top RNC strategist delivers scathing resignation |
|
November 16, 2010 -
Report: US lagging in reducing auto fatalities - another case of
arrogant bureaucrats and academics trying to impose their own ideas for
new federal mandates in every state for our alleged benefit, whether
they have any Constitutional authority to regulate such matters or not.
Who elected them to rule over our daily lives this way? This is a
state and local issue, not a federal one. The fact that highways
cross state lines doesn't make this a federal issue. |
|
November 15, 2010 -
Tea in 2012 - interesting post on National Review online about
the future of the movement |
|
November 15, 2010 -
A new day at Capitol: Change coming - right now |
|
November 15, 2010 -
Top GOP senator flips on proposal to ban earmarks - McConnell
goes along to get along. Note that Obama now claims to support the
ban. How many thousand earmarks did he approve in the last two
years? |
|
November 15, 2010 -
Pelosi in political purgatory, Dems in turmoil - What comes
next, after purgatory? Few will mourn her departure for political
Hades and Tartarus. |
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November 15, 2010 -
INSIDE WASHINGTON: Farm subsidies' staying power |
|
November 14, 2010 -
Hobbled Dems, eager GOP back for lame-duck session - and
later version of the story |
|
November 13, 2010 -
Freshmen arrive for crash-course on Congress and
Freshmen arrive in Congress with many questions |
|
November 13, 2010 -
2010 elections highlight Obama's eroding base - He's losing it.
He thinks he can win it back. |
|
November 13, 2010 -
Election shows work for Obama to win back voters - Can he do
anything other than campaign? He won't even win the 2012
nomination, because party leaders will realize that if he does, they
will lose another 20 - 30 seats in the House and wind up with less than
40 votes in the Senate. There are 23 Dem seats in the Senate which are
up for election in 2012, and many are in play. Only 10 Republican seats
are up for election in 2012, and few of these are in jeopardy. At the
end of the day, the Democratic Party will throw Obama under the bus to
save their party from a complete reversal of their unchecked power after
the 2008 election. The Democratic Party may also tear itself apart as
traditional Democrats lose faith in the leadership of the more
ideologically radical progressives, who won't go quietly. They
won't win independents back. |
|
November 13, 2010 -
GOP lawmakers take tough stand on Bush tax cuts - and
later version of the story - GOP take tough stand on Obama tax
increases. That would be a more accurate headline. These increases have
been scheduled for many years, and the Democrats fully intended after
2008 to let them happen. In fact, they already spent far more extra
money than these increases would ever fund, thereby creating the budget
illusion now that it would be irresponsible to sustain the same level of
taxation as under Bush. Call it what it is - a massive tax increases
which the GOP is resisting in full, because that's what voters expect. |
|
November 13, 2010 -
Obama calls for earmark reform, GOP calls for ban |
|
November 12, 2010 -
Scalia, Breyer bandy about how to decide cases |
|
November 12, 2010 -
Setbacks aside, Obama claims stronger global hand and
Obama denies his global footprint has shrunk
G-20 refuses to back US push on China's currency
Obama sees progress in measured steps, no home run - Striking
out repeatedly, but still trying to spin it as progress. This game
ends in 2012. |
|
November 12, 2010 -
Obama: Fed action not designed to weaken dollar |
|
November 12, 2010 -
AP-GfK Poll: Public backs GOP on taxes, not health - The media
and Democratic Party is still in denial. Note that this is a
national poll of 1000 randomly chosen adults - not limited to actual
voters. Thus, it doesn't reflect what voters wanted,
because it isn't even a sample of actual voters. Since Democratic
turnout was low, it oversamples Democrats to skew the data. Nice try,
losers. |
|
November 12, 2010 -
Doctors brace for possible big Medicare pay cuts |
|
November 11, 2010 -
Democrats pressing Pelosi to step aside - Hopefully she won't
listen (as usual) |
|
November 11, 2010 -
Pessimism pervades as G20 leaders show sharp split
In Asia, Obama's runs into the limits of his power |
|
November 10, 2010 -
The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy
exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced - particularly
interesting in the context of the unexplained incident near Los Angeles
yesterday
Pentagon: 'mystery missile' was probably airplane See a
photo of the incident and a related
CBS story, video, and expert opinion. This may have been
nothing, but if a Chinese sub can pop up unexpectedly next to an
aircraft carrier, there's a real problem. |
|
November 10, 2010 -
Deficit targets: Social Security, mortgage breaks - Clueless.
We had to wait how long for this? |
|
November 10, 2010 -
Democrats pressing Pelosi to step aside |
|
November 10, 2010 -
Steele may face challengers for GOP chairmanship |
|
November 10, 2010 -
Top US lawmaker: Time to review Russia ties |
|
November 10, 2010 -
House veterans to newcomers: Sweat the small stuff |
|
November 10, 2010 -
Report: White House altered drilling safety report |
|
November 10, 2010 -
Ireland's crisis flares as investors dump bonds |
|
November 9, 2010 -
Sen. DeMint forces battle within GOP over earmarks - McConnell
is trying to argue that earmarks are not additional spending, but rather
just the discretionary allocation of appropriations to specific projects
- as though the budgets would be the same, with or without them.
Nice try. If members want to fund pet projects which they deem
worthy, then cut the departmental budgets and pass separate legislation
which justifies the special projects they want, so that all members and
voters know what they are funding, rather than just having such projects
buried as earmarks in legislation. |
|
November 9, 2010 -
Bad news Democrats - 2012 could be worse than 2010 - We're
working on it already. There will be many vulnerable Senators in
2012, as well as House members who will face primary fights or even
tougher elections. Think of the 2010 primaries as Lexington and
Concord. Nobody took the disorganized and poorly resourced patriots
seriously as a threat to the great and powerful rulers of their time. It
may take us a few election cycles to peacefully rid ourselves of these
modern tyrants, and it will take some sacrifice to do it, but don't
think this is over. We're just getting started. |
|
November 8, 2010 -
Palin lashes out at Fed stimulus plan and
Palin tells Bernanke "Cease and desist" |
|
November 8, 2010 -
Obama sidesteps question on Fed monetary policy - Do they watch
Glenn Beck in India? |
|
November 8, 2010 -
Obama backs India bid for UN Security Council seat - and
Obama backs India's drive for UN power - Did he even ask whether
this will affect their position on Kashmir? Or their many
dangerous quarrels with Pakistan? |
|
November 8, 2010 -
Victorious GOP sets out to repair image - It really needs to
repair far more than "image" - such as the organization at the state and
local level so that the leadership becomes more responsive to Republican
voters, not vice versa. The GOTV performance in 2012 needs to be
much better - and that means the organization needs to be rebuilt in
2011 and 2012 so that voters actually have some connection to the party
at the local level, and a sense of engagement and ownership, rather than
just watching the national "leaders" recite talking points on TV. |
|
November 7, 2010 -
Obama surprised by political cost of health law - Change you
can't believe in - Obama said he felt more liberated in campaign
rhetoric to promise things which he couldn't really deliver (i.e., lie).
Another rare moment of candor. |
|
November 6, 2010 -
Complaints that tea party hurt GOP's Senate hopes - Let those
who are muttering anonymously to the AP or other reporters this way show
the courage to go on the record. Then we can remember them in
November 2012. If it had been left up to them, the GOP wouldn't
have even been very relevant in this election, much less take back the
House and win enough Senate seats that Harry Reid can no longer simply
do as he pleases by cutting deals with a few RINOs. |
|
November 6, 2010 -
Russian reporter beaten into coma in Moscow - No comment from
the White House, which presumably just regards this as an internal
security matter for Russian police, like so many past incidents of this
nature. |
|
November 6, 2010 -
GOP comeback strategy factored in lagging recovery - Changing
the spin of the story to better suit the White House? Trying to
make it sound as though the GOP wanted the economy to fail for their own
benefit? Now they're acting as though they were the innocent
victims of some sort of evil GOP conspiracy to keep the economy weak so
that Obama would fail. Get these delusional losers out of office as fast
as possible, and then finish fixing their mess in 2012. |
|
November 6, 2010 -
Economy recovering, but recession's shadow is long |
|
November 6, 2010 -
Recovery lagging, GOP reaps political benefits - The White House
and Democratic Party leadership is still trying to spin this as though
it is not their fault, or as though they could have won if the economy
had recovered. They are pathologically incapable of accepting that
their statist agenda was firmly rejected in a record repudiation action
by voters. |
|
November 6, 2010 -
Obama sees 'win-win' relationship with India |
|
November 6, 2010 -
Obama to GOP: Let's extend middle-class tax cuts - Hold firm.
Say no to Obama's latest gambit. |
|
November 6, 2010 -
Analysis: Election campaign ignored foreign policy - asserting
Obama's foreign policy not a factor? |
|
November 5, 2010 -
Pelosi will seek to stay as House Dem leader - Good! Let
her remain the leader of the clueless. Let James Clyburn be
#2, and have Deborah Wasserman-Schultz take over the DCCC. That trio
should be able to keep voters fired up for more GOP victories in 2012
unless the GOP really screws up again. Let them drag the Democratic
Party down to about the 30% base level of support for the hard left so
that the rest of the country can get back to work. |
|
November 5, 2010 -
Clyburn to run for No. 2 in House Dem leadership - To replace
Steny Hoyer? Go for it! See other coverage with Clyburn's
letter on
The Root blog and sarcastic comments at
Wonkette |
|
November 5, 2010 -
Van Hollen steps down as Democrats' campaign chief - Will the
DCCC be led by Deborah Wasserman-Schultz for the 2012 election, as
previously anticipated? |
|
November 5, 2010 -
China, India, Brazil become 'major players' at IMF - will Obama
make US a minor player? |
|
November 5, 2010 -
Obama administration retools new health program |
|
November 5, 2010 -
GOP seeks cuts to pay for renewed jobless benefits - pushing for
budget cuts to pay for the benefits |
|
November 5, 2010 -
GOP, Obama embrace Bush tax cuts compromise - Push for 4 years
at a minimum, not 2 - but watch out for any quid pro quo deal to tie
other legislation to this. If they try to do that, the GOP should
walk away from it. |
|
November 5, 2010 -
Obama acknowledges his message didn't get through - Did our
message get through to him? -
later version of the same story |
|
November 5, 2010 -
Obama heading for India to open Asia trip |
|
November 5, 2010 -
GOP gains set stage for national security battle |
|
November 5, 2010 -
Asia resists US push to target trade surpluses - Geithner at the
APEC summit |
|
November 5, 2010 -
Clinton (again) denies presidential ambitions |
|
November 5, 2010 -
Earthquakes dog Clinton on overseas trips - Instead of global
climate change, seismic change? |
|
November 4, 2010 -
Citing health overhaul, AARP hikes employee costs - ironic? |
|
November 4, 2010 -
Bachmann bid for GOP leadership gets cool reaction |
|
November 4, 2010 -
Election nearly wipes out white Southern Democrats |
|
November 4, 2010 -
GOP asserts new strength, targets Obama programs |
|
November 4, 2010 -
Obama heads to Asia after rebuke by voters |
|
November 4, 2010 -
Cantor says House will focus on overseeing govt
Republicans to crank up oversight of government |
|
November 4, 2010 -
Election Day unkind to many wealthy candidates - Money can't buy
you love |
|
November 4, 2010 -
No clear path for GOP on healthcare repeal |
|
November 4, 2010 -
Cuba, Venezuela, Iran Top the List of Countries Lining Up to Scrutinize
U.S. Human Rights Record During U.N. Review |
|
November 3, 2010 -
US submits to UN human rights review |
|
November 3, 2010 -
Vote shows independents, seniors upset with Dems |
|
November 3, 2010 -
Obama's star fades in Muslim world |
|
November 3, 2010 -
Bernanke defends new Fed plan to aid economy |
|
November 3, 2010 -
Analysis: Voters to President Obama: 'Slow down' |
|
November 3, 2010 -
New reality: Obama, GOP talk compromise, conflict |
|
November 3, 2010 -
What voters sought, change, appears to be in store |
|
November 3, 2010 -
Tea party winners take ambitious promises to DC |
|
November 3, 2010 -
Scorecard on Palin's picks: wins, losses, errors |
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November 3, 2010 -
Faces of division: Obama, Boehner united on little |
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November 3, 2010 -
Exit poll: Ailing economy, tea party fuel GOP |
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November 3, 2010 -
Obama: Tax cuts alone won't grow the economy - Maybe, but it's a
start. |
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November 3, 2010 -
Analysis: A two-person, two-party town |
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November 3, 2010 -
Lengthy to-do list awaits lame duck session - and a lengthy "to
stop the damage" list for the GOP |
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November 3, 2010 -
Analysis: New Congress to affect overseas ties - Just in time
for Obama's trip to India, Indonesia |
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November 2, 2010 -
Voters carry anxiety, disappointment to the polls |
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November 1, 2010 -
U.S. and Its ‘Broken’ Immigration System to Be Reviewed by U.N. Human
Rights Council |
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Although there has been no concession yet by Melissa Bean (D - IL 8th),
at last count Joe Walsh was leading by 553 votes. It may take a
few days to resolve this, including the processing of any late absentee
ballots or provisional ballots, but he has probably won - by 97403 -
96850 as of November 3 with all precincts counted. |
| Don't confuse videos of Joe Walsh (the
politician) with Joe Walsh the rock star
(of The James Gang, The Eagles) |
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November 1, 2010 - Illinois poll shows Joe Walsh (R-IL 8th) and
others ahead -
We Ask America: As goes Illinois ... |
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For more on
Joe Walsh
and the IL 8th race for Congress, refer to the
Barrington Tea Party website
and the many links there or through other local Groups. That
includes reports about
Melissa Bean and other
Democrats in the IL 8th District. |
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FoxNation launches
Tea
Party Zone election coverage at 5pm EST on November 2, 2010 |
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"Remember
November" The Final Act - a new video from the
RGA - Republican
Governors Association. See also
http://facebook.com/RememberNovember to follow the "Remember
November" tour.
Remember November:
The Final Act video from
Republican Governors Association
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| October
30,
2010 -
Poll: Dems split over handing Obama '12 nomination - Are Clinton
supporters preparing to throw Obama under the bus to save the
progressive agenda in 2012? |
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October 28, 2010 -
Tea partiers could face tough going
in Capitol - We're not going away. We're warming up for 2012. |
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October 28, 2010 -
Activists work to get American voters out - Work for every last
vote. Your future depends on it. |
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October 26, 2010 -
Karl Rove's take on Obama and various election developments;
video with Greta Van Susteren |
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October 23, 2010 -
The Tea Party vs. The Ruling Class - interesting blog post on
BigGovernment |
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October 21, 2010 -
Three charts that will infuriate taxpayers - well worth a look -
National Review Online |
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October 18, 2010 -
Obama: Dems are in trouble because Americans aren't thinking clearly
- OK, everyone who is tired of being treated as ignorant just
because you don't support Obama's agenda, get out there and vote to flip
Congress. |
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October 20, 2010 - Check out the
Pledge of Allegiance video - Why did the
League of Women Voters moderator object? Why would high school
teachers of AP Government have left this out when planning the forum as
a project for their students? Could it have anything to do with
the political activism of the local teachers union in support of
progressive Democrats? October 23, 2010 -
League of Women Voters Official: Pledge of Allegiance is "Phony
Patriotism" - and the article from the
Daily Herald in suburban Chicago with local background details
and many comments. |
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Can Melissa Bean buy votes with PAC and foreign donations?
Follow the money and judge for yourself. |
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New
Joe Walsh campaign video released - challenging Melissa Bean (D
- IL 8th) to defend her voting record in public. A subsequent
video challenged her to a public debate:
Dear Melissa Bean - Debate Me Latest:
Debate Us, Melissa Bean |
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Video:
Finally, a Republican candidate fights back against Democratic abortion
fear-mongering - Joe Walsh replies to a recent attack ad direct mail
piece by his opponent, Democratic incumbent Melissa Bean, IL 8th. |
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October 31, 2010 -
Reid promises vote on aliens - talking about pushing the Dream
Act in the lame duck session |
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October 31, 2010 -
Deal or punt decision on Bush tax cuts is Obama's - It will
never get through the Senate to Obama. |
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October 31, 2010 -
GOP casting Tuesday vote as referendum on Obama - True.
It's not a big mandate for the GOP to celebrate a return
to power and go back to business as usual. After all, it's not the GOP
leadership who turned this around. The people are sending a message to
both parties. This country isn't all about the politicians and their big
government ideas, special interest deals with their cronies, and
false promises. They don't run this country. They are supposed to run
the government - and limit themselves to the assigned scope of work and
available resources, rather than simply do as they please. We don't
elect rulers. We elect representatives. They work for us. We aren't
their serfs. |
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October 31, 2010 -
Republicans may have House within their grasp - The GOP needs to
win significantly more than 40 seats so that a few RINOs aren't in a
position to cut deals with the Democrats to keep the progressive agenda
alive. |
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October 31, 2010 -
Dems expect Senate losses but hope to keep control - and later
spin version -
Obama agenda faces prospect of more GOP senators - interesting
spin reversal of the headline, so Dems don't "expect" losses |
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October 30, 2010 -
Resurgent GOP closes in on House win, eyes Senate |
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October 28, 2010 - AP
SPIN METER: Despite claims, bailouts not over yet |
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October 28, 2010 -
Total US intelligence bill tops $80 billion - They release this,
for the first time ever, just days before the election. Is there any
doubt left that the leadership of this administration is a
threat to human intelligence? |
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October 28, 2010 -
Republicans, heading for big gains, ready agenda - Where to
begin? Stop the lame ducks. |
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October 27, 2010 -
Lugar: Fallout from election could derail vote on START treaty -
It is one thing to sign laws without reading them, and quite another to
sign treaties. Laws can be easily amended or repealed when their
flaws become obvious. Bad treaties don't go away. |
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October 25, 2010 -
Obama: GOP wins could mean cooperation or gridlock - That
depends on whether Obama decides to cooperate or not - not the GOP.
Remember his "elections have consequences" comments, and "That's why we
have elections", or "We won", and telling Republicans to sit down and
shut up while he cleans up the mess they made? If there is
gridlock, it will be because of the arrogant intransigence of such
radical left ideologues, not the fault of the GOP in Congress. |
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October 25, 2010 -
Obama turns to 'Piolin' to rev up Latino vote - calling on
Latinos to "punish our enemies" if they want his support for immigration
reform (which, of course, he promised before the last election, and then
never made it a priority) |
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October 25, 2010 -
Cuba makes self-employment rules official - Is Castro becoming
more pro-business than Obama? |
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October 25, 2010 -
Latinos to Barbara Boxer: 'You're No Friend' - Yes, but who can
top the Senator
Boxer spoof video? |
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October 25, 2010 -
Analysis: Overseas ties could be in for change - Foreign leaders
already know how weak Obama is |
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October 25, 2010 -
US newspaper circulation down, decline rate slows - Revenge of
the free market on media bias |
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October 25, 2010 -
Obama assails GOP on clouded final campaign push and
RI Dem: Obama can 'shove it' for not endorsing me - Frank Caprio
criticizes Obama for using Rhode Island like an ATM machine for
fundraising for others, too. When will more Democrats wake up to
the fact that the money being raised in their districts to empower the
party leaders in DC is not necessarily to their own advantage? |
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October 25, 2010 -
GOP poised to win Congress redistricting edge, too |
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October 25, 2010 -
Push for better ways to share e-health records - Are you worried
about your privacy yet? Unhealthy. |
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October 25, 2010 -
Gov't pushing more fuel efficiency for trucks - updated version
of the story |
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October 24, 2010 -
Govt proposing that many trucks improve efficiency - OK,
truckers, Obama and the EPA are out to get you. Tractor-trailers,
large pickups, delivery vans, garbage trucks, school buses, etc.
Out to destroy this industry, too. |
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October 24, 2010 -
Employers looking at health insurance options - more
unhealthy news |
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October 24, 2010 -
Obama likely to focus on deficit in next 2 years - like jobs
were his focus in the last 2 years. |
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October 23, 2010 -
Same Hill leaders could emerge from voter upheaval - If they
don't listen, 2012 is not far away. |
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October 23, 2010 -
Obama: Consumers lose if financial law repealed - Consumers win
if Obama agenda loses. |
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October 23, 2010 -
Dick Durbin labels all Tea Partiers "extremist" - His term is up
in 2014. This doesn't end next week. |
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October 23, 2010 -
Tightening Senate races give pause
to upbeat GOP |
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October 23, 2010 -
Health insurers help GOP after dalliance with Dems |
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October 22, 2010 -
Obama brands Republicans as extreme radicals - What a pathetic,
infantile loser. Blaming others. |
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October 22, 2010 -
Rush Limbaugh encourages Democrats to engage in "Reverse Operation
Chaos" - In short, if you are a Democrat who wants Hillary
Clinton to replace Obama in 2012, then stay home on November 2. |
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October 22, 2010 -
In Wash., illegal immigrants canvassing for votes |
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October 22, 2010 -
Mideast sides eye US midterms and impact on talks |
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October 22, 2010 -
Rep. Cantor: Tea party activists
are no extremists |
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October 22, 2010 -
Large, loud crowds cheer Obama at
campaign rallies |
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October 22, 2010 -
Partisan grievances over campaign
money piling up |
October 21, 2010 -
White House official: Obama to lead Chicago rally - on October
30. Great news! Distract all the Dems in Chicago from GOTV work
that weekend so that they can all show up en masse to praise Obama!
Meanwhile, this defeats the efforts of Dem candidates to deflect
attention from their national policy failures through personal attacks
on their opponents. It reminds voters of the national consequences of
backing his agenda for another two years.
Hopefully Chicago won't get stuck with the tab for this rally. Let the
DNC waste their money on astroturf. Not one dime of Chicago taxpayer
money should go to this. Later version:
Obama to make final push ahead of Election Day |
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October 21, 2010 -
Democrats slam another campaign opponent: China - The same
"foreign devils" logic is used by tyrants around the world to blame
their own dismal policy failures on other countries - including America.
There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about China's policies, but
for the moment it is just being used by the left here to distract
voters. |
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October 21, 2010 -
Election Day is over for millions of early voters - and it's all
over for many incumbents, too. |
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October 21, 2010 -
Obama's closing, familiar argument: Time to choose |
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October 21, 2010 -
Targeting voters' interests in last days of races and
Fearing rout, Obama, Dems reach to female voters |
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October 21, 2010 -
Jarrett: Obama still interested in bipartisanship - That's why
he treats Republicans so respectfully? Remember the "elections
have consequences" line? Or "we won"? Or when he basically
told voters that Republicans should sit down and shut up while he solved
all the problems they had left for him? Well, it's his turn to
"reach across the aisle" now. |
| October 20,
2010 -
GOP leader hopes to work with Obama on some issues |
| October 20,
2010 -
Boehner a personable, partisan speaker-in-waiting |
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October 20, 2010 -
Activity detected at North Korea nuclear test site: report -
Meanwhile, Ahmedinejad has been meeting with Hugo Chavez. Maybe
the Axis of Evil leadership is feeling neglected this election season?
Or testing Obama? |
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October 20, 2010 -
AP-GfK Poll: Likely voters ready to embrace GOP |
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October 20, 2010 -
Stimulus spending looms large in
midterm contests - AP still trying to pretend it wasn't a failure |
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October 19, 2010 -
Democrats make pre-election pitch to help seniors - trying to
target seniors, students, Hispanics, rich people, poor people, or any
other group of voters which he thinks he can still fool into supporting
his agenda. |
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October 19, 2010 -
Obama seeks to boost Hispanic achievement - Executive order to
vote? |
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October 18, 2010 -
Rare political species: Dems who
tout health law - A grand total of seven? Out of how many? |
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October 18, 2010 -
Citing health care law, Boeing
pares employee plan - But you can keep your plan as promised,
right? It may not be as good as before, and it may cost more, but
Obama promised that you could keep it.
It gets worse. |
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October 18, 2010 -
Obama raising money for Senate
candidates - paying $30,400 each to raise $400,000 for DSCC.
Note that Obama's speech once again
left out the "Creator" in the Declaration of Independence quote.
Why? |
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October 18, 2010 -
VFW moves to dissolve PAC's board and related blog entry on
BlackFive . Other news for
veterans |
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October 18, 2010 -
A productive Congress gets no respect from voters - How does the
AP define "productive"? If the objective is to grow government
beyond all reason, then I suppose they can claim to be productive,
rather than destructive. |
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October 18, 2010 -
Secret donations and gift tax _ a new conundrum - Getting
desperate to intimidate major donors |
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October 17, 2010 -
Poll: Those craving for change now look to the GOP - for real
economic progress you can believe in - later version:
Poll: Enthusiasm gap favoring Republicans no myth |
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October 17, 2010 -
Obama targets key groups in election's homestretch - and
Obama hits stride before 35,000 in Ohio |
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October 17, 2010 -
Poll: Many Obama 2008 supporters defecting to GOP - Tear down
this wall? Liberty wins, he loses. |
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October 17, 2010 -
Obama urges Democrats to not get
discouraged |
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October 17, 2010 -
As Democrats' message lags, GOP
awaits huge wins |
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October 16, 2010 -
Obama: End tax breaks to stop
overseas hiring - Clueless. His anti-business ideology is
deranged. |
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October 16, 2010 -
For GOP, tea party candidates help
- and hurt |
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October 15, 2010 -
Politics trumps loyalty in Democratic House effort - The wheels
on the bus go thump, thump, thump |
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October 15, 2010 -
Government reports $1.3 trillion budget deficit - How much is a
trillion again? |
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October 15, 2010 -
Senate GOP, Democrats fight for financial edge - Something to
think about - if 1 million politicians each raised $1 million by doing
honest work which individuals chose voluntarily to support, that would
add up to $1 trillion. The current deficit was just announced as $1.3
trillion - so take out your calculator (if it can handle that many
digits) and divide that by the number of members of Congress. That's
just the current budget deficit for one year - not the real federal
obligations. So, is your member of Congress and the policies he or she
supports worth $2.43 billion per year in additional debt to you? |
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October 15, 2010 -
FACT CHECK: Obama's education claims missing facts - When did
facts get in the way of his rhetoric? |
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October 15, 2010 -
ADWATCH: With campaign ads, don't trust, verify, US - Don't
trust the ads. If you want principles and values rather than money to
have more impact in elections, Americans need to reject political ads
and biased media. |
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October 15, 2010 -
Gov't: No increase for Social Security next year - Don't be
fooled by another Pelosi offer of $250 |
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October 15, 2010 -
Russia agrees to build nuclear plant in Venezuela |
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October 15, 2010 -
Unions making election push despite enthusiasm gap |
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October 15, 2010 -
AP Enterprise: Tea party still here - and strong - The media and
pundit predictions of our demise were about as accurate as the British
expectations that American rebels would soon be crushed by the
superpower of their time. |
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See October 2010 news
archive or prior news archives -
September 2010 August 2010
July 2010 June
2010 or earlier |
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Hot topics: cap and trade -
Copenhagen summit health
care debate |
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Work for victory in primaries -
Tea Party Tactics |
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Reach out to independent voters in
your community. Listen to their concerns.
Get organized for the primaries. Tea Party groups -
endorse specific candidates.
Get to know your precinct committeeman, and volunteer to help better
candidates win in the primary. |
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Take action -
become a Republican Precinct Committeeman in your county. Learn
about taking the country back at the grassroots level by helping to
select and turn out the vote for better candidates. For more
information, refer to
The
Precinct Project's Blog. Network with conservative
committeemen. In Illinois, look at
http://www.conservativeprecincts.blogspot.com/ All the Tea
Party rallies, petitions, and online networking to share information and
organize locally have been helpful to attract public attention to
harmful national policies and to limit the damage, but at the end of the
day it is the next election results through effectively organized party
work at the local level which will determine the outcome. Do it
today. Deadlines are approaching. There are many local
vacancies in such volunteer positions. |
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It's the
"Chicago Way".
Start sending dead fish messages to Congress. |
Use our
Tea Party Search or Conservative Search tools
to find reports and photos other than those in the news media.
Defend your liberty. Use the
9/12 March on
Washington or other social networks to get actively involved at the
local level and find and support better
candidates for the 2010 election. Our
Surge by State pages are a starting point
for finding many conservative resources in each state.
See "Tea Party Tactics"
for local action suggestions. Don't just call or write your
members of Congress. Get in their face. Make it personal.
Check their schedule of public appearances. Show up. Speak
up. Talk to your friends and colleagues. Get involved
locally. Stand up and be heard. Find candidates who you can
enthusiastically support, and work hard to defeat those who lost your
trust. |
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AARP members: Save your money, and your life. If you
oppose how AARP has handled the health care legislation, including their
ad campaign and mailings to promote it with your money and in cooperation with SEIU while pretending to be a non-partisan advocate for seniors, then
please cancel your membership and let them know why you are doing so.
Spend your money more wisely. Encourage every senior you know to
wake up to what AARP has done lately, and resign. Check out
American
Seniors Association, as mentioned in this August 18 Fox News story
about the
AARP losing 60,000 members already. Another option is the
60 Plus Association
Welcome to market competition, AARP! |
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Are corporate executives expecting economic recovery? See our
CEO Survey analysis. |
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Cap and Trade: A solution for
political climate change - Let the Democrats hang themselves. |
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Thank you to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who helped to
make the 800+ nationwide Tax Day Tea Party
protests such a remarkable success on April 15, 2009. There were
also many more Tea Party rallies on July 4th,
2009
and more were planned for 9/12/09. See our
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This is not anti-Obama or anti-anybody, nor driven by political parties
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responsibility for America's future. |
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June 21, 2009 - Obama's poll numbers finally
turned negative. That has continued.
Rasmussen Reports - Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Buyer's
remorse since the election. Despite personal charisma, spin, and
high hopes for change, people are waking up to the harmful Obama agenda.
Note that young people who had high hopes for Obama may quickly become
disillusioned with his performance as the dismal economy and
unemployment picture gets worse rather than better. Meanwhile,
seniors finally woke up to their own risks during the health care debate
in July and August.
Generic
Congressional ballot poll
- Comment: The obvious point
is that the country has roughly been split 40-40 for a long time, with 20% uncommitted to
either party. Last time, frustration favored the Democrats.
Not likely in 2010. You can't fool all of the people all of the
time. They're waking up. It is also possible that many
frustrated people who usually don't vote may finally choose to
participate.
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Keep it simple. Send a clear message
to Washington. If you do this, we will work hard to defeat you
in 2010.
They have already rammed through new spending and their social agenda at
a high cost which will hurt generations of Americans, but keep ramping up
the pressure. |
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Invest in the America which you want to
create. Cut your losses. Invest in limiting
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solve this problem for you. |
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Department of Unhealthy and Inhumane
Services. Nationalized health care by stealth. |
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