From the Wall Street Journal: The Buck Doesn’t Stop Here President Obama is applying ‘a scalpel to the discretionary budget, rather than a machete.’ By STEPHEN MOORE We hear that the White House was caught off guard by the near-universal panning of President Obama’s budget proposal. So yesterday morning Mr. Obama was rushed in front [...]
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From the Wall Street Journal: The Cee Lo Green Budget The cynical and unrealistic White House budget. This was supposed to be the moment we were all waiting for. After three years of historic deficits that have added almost $4.5 trillion to the national debt, President Obama was finally going to get serious about fiscal [...]
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From the Washington Times: Debt now equals total U.S. economy President Obama projects that the gross federal debt will top $15 trillion this year, officially equalling the size of the entire U.S. economy, and will jump to nearly $21 trillion in five years’ time. Amid the other staggering numbers in the budget Mr. Obama sent [...]
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From today’s Wall Street Journal: Runaway Trains Obama’s high-speed rail plan is a fiscal pipedream. We suppose every President is entitled to a pipedream, but President Obama’s vow in his State of the Union address that 80% of Americans should have access to high-speed rail in 25 years is a doozy. Vice President Joe Biden [...]
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A large and ongoing problem with our public discourse is the dishonesty and disinformation foisted on an unsuspecting public. That’s certainly the case when it comes to taxes. Sometimes, politicians claim things that just make you turn your head and say, “huh?” That’s what happened last Sunday when President Obama, in a pre-Super Bowl interview [...]
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In 2008 a noted Constitutional scholar made the case against the government compelling people to purchase medical insurance: Roger Vinson, the Reagan appointed federal judge who ruled that Obamacare is unconstitutional, actually cited Obama’s statements in his ruling: I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include [...]
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Thanks to reader Steve for sending this gem in!
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With President Obama’s non-pivot to the center, the Left is claiming that Barack Obama is really the second coming of Ronald Reagan. TIME magazine even featured a picture of Presidents Reagan and Obama photoshoped together, with the caption “Why Obama loves Reagan.” Any comparison of Obama to Ronald Reagan is patently absurd. The two men [...]
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