Obama: The Gold Medalist in Debt Race

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  August 7th at 06:55 PM  | 

Well, Obama is approaching another milestone.  In addition to breaching the $16 trillion debt mark, Obama will earn another gold medal in the Greek Olympics for fiscal insanity.  According to CBO, we will definitely incur another $1 trillion debt this year, ensuring that Obama will become not only the only president to rack up a trillion dollar debt, but the only one to ever do | Read More »

Barack the $15 Trillion Man

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  October 24th at 10:30 AM  | 

Amidst the hype concerning the so-called era of austerity and budget cuts, the national debt is rapidly marching towards the $15 trillion milestone.  As of late last week, the national debt stood at $14.94 trillion.  For those of you keeping score, that number has grown by $646 billion since the debt ceiling was raised on August 2, as part of the great bipartisan Budget Control | Read More »

George W. Bush in 1999 vs. Rick Perry in 2011

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  August 15th at 08:38 AM  | 

Watching Governor Rick Perry’s speech at the Red State Gathering, I was struck by the degree to which conservatism has grown at the highest levels of electoral politics, including presidential elections, over the past decade. Twelve years ago, another Texan, George W. Bush, announced his presidential bid by ushering in a new era of conservatism.  At the time, following the longest Republican exile from the | Read More »