The President will be making a speech today from the Rose Garden (echoes of Carter?) mapping out proposed savings of $3 trillion over the next 10 years. According to the AP, the President’s new plan contains an old idea — massive tax increases: $1.5 trillion in new revenue, which would include about $800 billion realized over 10 years from repealing the Bush-era tax rates for couples | Read More »
The House has 85 suspension votes scheduled for today. The Senate will vote on whether to debate S. 3816, the so called “Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act.” If that vote fails, as expected, then there will be a vote on cloture H.R. 3081, the underlying bill containing a continuing resolution. The House and Senate must pass a continuing resolution by October 1st to keep the government running | Read More »
Last week, WH Press Flack Robert Gibbs declared the House is lost and this week it was up to Vice President Joe Biden to bring a happy message to Democrats. Biden declared his opinion yesterday on This Week. “I don’t think the losses are going to be bad at all. I think we are going to shock the heck out of everybody.” AP reports: Vice President Joe | Read More »
The White House spent yesterday crowing about how many jobs they “saved or created” at a time when they are managing an economy with almost 10% unemployment and destroying jobs in the Gulf of Mexico by banning drilling for 6 months. The AP reports, “Obama has traveled the country telling voters that as bad as things are, they’d be worse without the stimulus. He acknowledges | Read More »
Elites in Washington are looking over their shoulders today. There is a new Scarlet Letter in America and it is the Scarlet Letter “I” for incumbent. If you are a Senate candidate running for re-election or a member of the House, both Republican and Democrat, you are nervous that the people of America will kick you out of office because you are part of the problem. Rand Paul, | Read More »
The abortion issue may take down ObamaCare, even if Congress pulls the Health Care Nuclear Option in a desperate attempt to pass the bill. Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) declared yesterday that “several Democrats who voted for it the House would oppose it next time around” without removing pro-abortion language in the Senate passed ObamaCare bill. This is a big problem for the proponents of ObamaCare, because under | Read More »
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