Liberal extremists seek disbarment of Bush lawyers

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 18th at 05:36 PM  | 

Encouraged by the green light President Obama recently gave to his Attorney General, Eric Holder, left-wing liberal/progressive extremists are seeking disbarment of a dozen Bush administration lawyers linked to legal opinions concerning the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques. The extremists are seeking retribution by persecution because these lawyers concluded, after a legal review, the enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, did not violate the legal prohibition of | Read More »

Senate votes to keep automatic pay raises

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  March 11th at 11:15 AM  | 

During the Senate’s consideration of the most recent Congressional spending orgy — the 1,132-page, $410 billion, nearly 9,000 earmark-infested Omnibus spending bill, Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter forced the Senate to vote to keep their automatic annual pay raises: He tried to amend the measure with a proposal that few lawmakers would dare to oppose in a recession: canceling the automatic increases in lawmaker salaries, | Read More »

Obama budget – more spending than anyone can comprehend

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  February 28th at 08:35 AM  | 

With his debt-busting budget which contains a $trillion tax increase, President Obama plans to have the Federal government spend 25 percent of the entire U.S. economy – one out of every four dollars produced in the U.S. Obama’s massive spending plan puts the Democrat-controlled Congress on track to double the national debt by 2010 – to $17.6 trillion, after just four years of controlling the | Read More »

Democrats on track to double national debt by 2010

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  February 27th at 01:30 PM  | 

The Democrat-controlled Congress, with help from President Obama’s big government vision, is on track to double the national debt in four years. USA Today published an interactive chart that provides annual revenue, spending, deficit and national debt numbers. The most frightening number is the national debt. When the Pelosi/Reid left-wing Democrats took control of Congress, the national debt stood at $9 trillion. Based on Obama’s | Read More »

Obama: ‘Trillion-dollar deficits for years to come’

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  January 6th at 04:17 PM  | 

President-elect Obama predicts “trillion-dollar deficits for years to come.” “We’re already looking at a trillion-dollar budget deficit or close to a trillion-dollar budget deficit, and that potentially we’ve got trillion-dollar deficits for years to come, even with the economic recovery that we are working on at this point,” Obama said. The federal deficit was about $455 billion for fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, | Read More »

Democrat controlled Congress increased national debt 23%

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  January 5th at 04:01 AM  | 

When the Democrats regained control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt was $8,670,596,242,973.04 — that’s $8.67 trillion. In the two years Pelosi and the Democrats have been in charge, the national debt has grown to $10,699,804,864,612.13 — that’s $10.70 trillion. Since Pelosi and the Democrats regained control of Congress $2,029,208,621,639.09, or $2.03 trillion, has been added to the national debt. That is | Read More »

Shame on the Democrats and their community organizers

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  September 30th at 11:44 AM  | 

This is just wrong. The Washington Post reports voters spread the blame for the broader economic problems facing the country: In an open-ended question, a quarter of all voters said George W. Bush is responsible for the economy’s relatively poor performance, more than any other single cause. About a quarter name Congress (8 percent), the federal government (8 percent) and Democrats and Republicans (5 percent | Read More »