Democrat Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Ben Nelson of Nebraska say the Senate should abandon efforts to pass cap-and-trade this year. Cap-and-trade legislation will require 60 votes to pass the Senate. According to Bloomberg, at least 15 of the Senate’s 60 Democrats have said the House-passed version — the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade tax climate change legislation | Read More »
At Tuesday’s town hall meeting on health insurance reform at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, President Obama falsely claimed the AARP endorsed Obamacare. That is another Obama falsehood, one the AARP denies. In his opening remarks Obama said, “We have the AARP on board because they know this is a good deal for our seniors.” In response to a question from a women | Read More »
Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised over and over, and over, and over, and over, again not to negotiate healthcare reform behind closed doors, to bring all parties together and to broadcast those negotiations on C-SPAN “so the American people can see what the choices are. Obama promised the healthcare negotiations would be on C-SPAN: He said it at Google –November 14, 2007 He said it | Read More »
President Obama and the Democrats are so panicked over the outrage being expressed at Democrat town meetings they refer to the concerns and opinions of millions of Americans as “manufactured” and label protesting citizens expressing their First Amendment rights as “angry extremists” for voicing their opposition to President Obama’s government-run healthcare reform rush. President Obama is so concerned that he implemented an opposition surveillance program | Read More »
The RedState Gathering heard from many existing and rising Conservative stars, but the speaker who truly rocked the house, biggest crowd-pleaser, was Liz Cheney. Her “America Needs Commander in Chief, Not a Global Community Organizer” speech was made of awesome. Unfortunately, the available video clip does not convey the electricity that Cheney brought to the Gathering. It is a great clip from a fabulous speech, | Read More »
Today, Rasmussen reports Obama’s Presidential Approval Index fell to -11. Another record low. Today is the first Obama Approval Index based entirely upon polling conducted after the press conference, during which Obama made his infamous “stupidly” remark. Likely voters obviously do not approve of the president’s ObamaGates controversy – the number of likely voters who strongly disapprove of Obama’s performance has gone up 5% since | Read More »
President Obama and some Democrats insist the Congress rush and tax on health care just like they rushed the so-called stimulus and cap and trade tax. Liberal Democrat leaders must rush to pass their change because the more Americans find out about the Democrats’ change, the more they oppose it. In today’s weekly Republican address, Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl contrasts the Democrats rush and | Read More »
House Democrats agreed Friday to raise taxes by about $550 billion to pay for their sweeping expansion of the nation’s health care system. The huge tax increase will only pay for about half the cost of the Democrats’ health spending plans, so according to the New York Times, the Democrats will also cut Medicare spending, the government health plan for the elderly, and other health | Read More »
Senator Franken was sworn in yesterday giving the Democrats 60 seats in the Senate and total control over the federal government. The National Republican Senatorial Committee marked the event with the release of a new video “60″ No Checks. No Balances. No debate. No excuses. The Democrats own everything and have no one to blame now.
“We don’t want politics on Main Street.” The Nantucket Tea Party will be one of more than a thousand such protest events to be held across the nation on Independence Day. The organizers were all set. They were given permission by the Town’s head of Park and Recreation. After the local paper publicized the event, some members of the Nantucket Park and Recreation Commission decided | Read More »
Despite all the happy talk that there are signs that the economy is improving, or at least bottoming out, there is little hope that the unemployment rate will improve anytime soon. Job losses accelerated last month to 467,000, “an unexpectedly large amount.” The unemployment rate rose to 9.5%, the highest level since August 1983. According to the Associated Press, unemployment is actually much worse: If | Read More »
New York State Senate Democrats caught on tape refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag: The Senators can play all the political games their constituents will let them get away with, but they should not disrespect the Flag of the United States of America. They should know better. United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10 – Patriotic Customs, provides: §172. Pledge | Read More »
In his December 20, 2008 weekly address, President-elect Obama set forth some soaring rhetoric regarding science: Because the truth is that promoting science isn’t just about providing resources – it’s about protecting free and open inquiry. It’s about ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology. It’s about listening to what our scientists have to say, even when it’s | Read More »
Darren Samuelsohn reports cap and trade backers are 15 Senate votes short of the 60 needed for passage. According to Samuelsohn’s article, the Senate count stands at 45 yes or probably yes, 32 no, and 23 fence sitters: To start, there are 45 senators in the “yes” or “probably yes” camp, including Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) | Read More »
In today’s “Weekly Republican Address,” House Republican Leader John Boehner asks, “Where are the jobs?” It’s a good question. After all, to justify spending trillions of borrowed money on President Obama’s so-called stimulus, energy and health care bills, Obama and the Democrats promised the unprecedented spending would create jobs: The president and Democrats in Congress claim this spending binge is necessary to put Americans back | Read More »
Congratulations to the House Democrats, and their eight Republican abettors, on the passage of the Waxman-Markey cap and trade tax climate change legislation. Today’s victors are to be congratulated for demonstrating that by using dilatory tactics, such as posting the “final” version of a 1,200 page bill the night before the vote, issuing a 300 page amendment to the 1,200 page bill after 3:00 a.m., | Read More »
“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” — Barack Obama, January 17, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle Watch Obama say that under his cap and trade plan electricity rates will skyrocket: During the same interview Obama also admitted that his cap and trade plan would bankrupt anyone who builds a coal-powered plant. Obama was honest about cap and trade | Read More »
President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, was beat up by the White House press corps over the “planted questioner” at Obama’s press conference. At Wednesday’s White House briefing, Gibbs insisted over and over again that Nico Pitney from the Huffington Post was not a planted questioner. When it was suggested, as I did yesterday, that the Obama plant was similar to the Hillary campaign planting | Read More »
Remember last November, when, during the heat of the battle for the Democrats’ presidential nomination, the Hillary campaign created a scandal by planting a question at a campaign “town hall” meeting? At yesterday’s press conference, President Obama, desperate to turn the tide on recent negative news coverage, reverted to the discredited and disreputable practice of planting questions. Dana Milbank describes Obama’s plant in the clever, | Read More »
The Republican National Committee has launched a new ad, entitled “Bipartisan,” that criticizes Obama’s plans to overhaul the system and ABC’s partisan involvement – turning the network’s airwaves over to President Obama to pitch his government-run health care: The ad may be a bit too subtle, but is one of the RNC’s better efforts.
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