You can’t make this stuff up. Your tax dollars are being used to market ”livestock semen.” Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) has put together a new study titled “Treasure Map: The Market Access Program’s Bounty of Waste, Loot and Spoils Plundered from Taxpayers.” The report released today found that the federal government has spent more than $2 billion on a program to promote private companies marketing products | Read More »
The good folks at the RNC took a look at what Obama promised in Iowa four years ago …. and the record of failure that followed. The result is the following video, “Failed Promises: Iowa Edition” along with a little research to demonstrate Obama’s failure: In Des Moines, Iowa, four years ago Obama promised that when “We’ve made the changes we believe in,” we’d be | Read More »
A year before the 2012 election, the good folks at American Crossroads released a terrific new video featuring Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to remind us of the importance of this presidential election. In the video, Governor Barbour, talks about what a second Obama term would mean for America: “[Obama’s] policies aren’t fixing our problems, they’re making them worse. And a second Obama term means making | Read More »
President Obama offers deficit reductions of a woefully inadequate $400 billion over ten years as he continues his ”trillion-dollar deficits for years to come.” In this week’s edition of his, or rather “Your Weekly Address,” President Obama claims he is ”proposing a new budget that will help us live within our means”: My budget freezes annual domestic spending for the next five years – even on programs I | Read More »
To paraphrase the campaign phrase of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, it’s still the lack of jobs and excessive spending, stupid! You can hardly read anything about politics these days without having Obama’s so-called pivot thrown in your face. Obama’s virtual turn on a dime is so far nothing more than a serious spin effort. It seeks to capitalize upon Obama’s Tucson moment and try | Read More »
Obama accepts the new political reality and capitulates on his long campaign to sell what may call the largest tax increase in American history. Senior Presidential Advisor David Axelrod tells the Huffington Post President Obama will accept an across-the-board continuation of Bush-era tax cuts. According to Axelrod, “We have to deal with the world as we find it.” Yes, elections have consequences. After making “well | Read More »
Our national strength does not come from bailouts and government spending. It comes from a free enterprise system and the hard-working honest citizens who make it run. — Pat Toomey In this week’s Weekly Republican address, Republican Senate candidate and former Representative Pat Toomey talks about the wasteful and extravagant spending of the Democrats’ extreme agenda. Toomey succinctly lays out the problem Obama and the | 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 »
There President Obama goes yet again — saying one thing while doing the opposite. After prodding by the White House, Congressional Democrats near a budget deal so Obama can have his spend too much, tax too much, borrow too much budget in place within his first 100 days. President Obama’s budget includes a $1.75 trillion deficit so he can spend nearly $4 trillion in fiscal | Read More »
A hidden cost of President Obama’s big government spending orgy is the interest that will have to be paid on all the money that must be borrowed so Obama can expand the size and role of government. William W. Beach says the Obama deficits in this year’s proposed budget will cost an additional $1.6 trillion on the national debt over 10 years. If we go | Read More »
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