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Ready for Another Debt Limit Fight?
Yes, it’s time to talk about the debt limit again. Every time the U.S. bumps up against its debt ceiling, we start the cycle all over again. Obama insists he won’t negotiate over the debt ceiling, but of course he will. Members of Congress grandstand about changing this vicious cycle, and then most clamber for… Read more »
The budget rhetoric drones on and on and on…
Claiming they had not passed a budget in four years because of fiscal policy disputes with House Republicans, just before 5am this past Saturday, as expected, ‘Prince Harry,’ and his mostly party line crew of miscreants in the Senate, approved by a vote of 50 to 49, the Democrats non-binding blueprint plan for the 2014… Read more »
Dems preserve US-Mexico food stamp ‘partnership,’ while USDA prepares for meat inspector furloughs
Salmonella outbreaks. E. coli outbreaks. Millions of dollars in economic losses. These are among the scenarios the Obama administration warned about last month as it claimed the sequester would force the U.S. Department of Agriculture to furlough meat inspectors. But while the administration prepares to take that step, it continues to pursue a “partnership” with… Read more »
Obama and the Seuss-quester
On Pennsylvania Avenue, right near the end, there lived a President who wanted to spend. He knew spending meant power, so hour by hour, he thought up more spends from his Washington tower. “I’ll spend without limits; I’ll spend without blame! Raising taxes to pay—that’s the name of the game.” Down the street, though, a… Read more »
Retirees today are worse off than their parents for the first time since Great Depression
The recession has caused new retirees to be worse off financially than their parents when they finally leave the workforce. It is the first time since the Depression in the 1930s that America’s elderly have less to look forward to than earlier generations. The Washington Post reports that economists on either side of the aisle… Read more »
Democrat Jan Schakowsky strikes back at Dr. Ben Carson for prayer breakfast speech
It sure didn’t take long for Democrats to strike back at Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast remarks made by Dr. Benjamin Carson that took a conservative tack and criticized the national debt and current fiscal tax-and-spend policy. On a CNN on Sunday, Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky accused Dr. Carson of hypocrisy, saying he actually used political… Read more »
Obama Vows to Bypass Congress on Climate Change
In his State Of The Union address on February 12, Obama made it clear that action by the federal government on global-warming legislation will be a major priority in his second term. He declared that “for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.” Obama went on to… Read more »
Democrats Heart Medicare Fraudsters
Remember when Obama crusaded against Medicare fraud and vowed to crack down aggressively on scammers who’ve bilked the program out of an estimated $90 billion? Like Archie and Edith Bunker used to sing: Those were the daaays. While Democrats pretend to protect the elderly and disabled, leaders of the People’s Party have pocketed gobs of… Read more »
Rule #1…NEVER cut America’s defense budget
OK, let’s start with the bottom line…NEVER should our defense budget be cut, period. The defense of the United States of American and its people is supposed to be the number one priority of the president of the United States. That is for any president whose loyalty is to the oath he took and NOT… Read more »
White House to GOP: ‘Come to the table’ for sequester negotiations
The White House on Sunday sought to pressure Republicans to “come to the table” to strike a deal to avert sequester cuts slated to hit at the end of the month. In a blog post on the White House website, senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer argued the cuts would affect the nation’s job creation, national security,… Read more »
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