All Hands on Deck as the Silver-Tongued President Continues Clarifying ‘You Didn’t Build That’

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 25th at 09:00 AM  | 

Years ago, our own Dan McLaughlin  defined ”swiftboating” as “Accurately quoting a Democratic politician’s own words.” By that definition, President Obama is being swiftboated up a creek without a paddle right now, as constant repetition of his own words has the campaigner-in-chief and every attack dog he can muster working day and night to “clarify” his remarks on small business. For review, here’s the president’s direct | Read More »

Looming Obama Tax Increases Will Hit Working Americans Right Where it Hurts Most

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  November 5th at 11:30 AM  | 

Talking of “Bush tax cuts” at this point, as so many seem to do when discussing the change in tax policy set to go into force this coming New Years Day, is beyond absurd.  What’s coming on Jan. 1, 2011 is the Obama Tax Increase — no less than the largest tax increase in our history, courtesy of a president who, last Tax Day, declared | Read More »

Bernanke: Even a ‘Deficit-Neutral’ Health Care Overhaul Wouldn’t Fix the Cost-Debt Problem

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 23rd at 10:34 AM  | 

Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave his semi-annual report on monetary policy and the economy to the Senate Banking Committee. With the hot Beltway topic being the health care overhaul President Obama is so desperate to get passed and signed before more people find out what the effects of such a policy will really be, a few Senators had questions for the Chairman about | Read More »

Has the ‘Stimulus’ Stopped ‘Creating or Saving’ Jobs?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 15th at 06:41 PM  | 

Anyone who remembers, say, his campaign pronouncement that a Kansas tornado had left “ten thousand dead” and “an entire town destroyed” (the 2007 storm actually killed twelve people) knows that President Barack Obama (D-IL) hasn’t been one to worry about playing fast and loose with a few facts or numbers. However, his dogged refusal to deviate from his standard talking point of “150,000 jobs created | Read More »

Obama pledges $1 trillion for Chinese economic, labor stimulus

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  December 18th at 07:33 PM  | 

He might as well be, anyway. After all, that’s where the bulk of the cash put into circulation by the stimulus plan Obama wants ready for his signature on his first day in office will go, after all. Then again, because most of that cash is coming from China in the first place, I suppose there’s a bit of poetic justice present in the fact | Read More »

Democrat Congress votes self a paid vacation instead of dealing with rising gas prices

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 30th at 10:45 PM  | 

Republicans in Congress have been pressing the lower House’s Democrat leadership to consider realistic solutions to the energy crunch to no avail for weeks now. 50-mile-or-more offshore drilling? Off the table. Using a fraction of ANWR to provide America with years’ worth of fuel? Also off the table. Nuclear energy? Waaaay off the table. About the only thing Speaker Pelosi and her band of merry | Read More »

Obama, Democrats oppose gas tax holiday — UNLESS it’s a benefit reserved exclusively for themselves

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 05:41 PM  | 

Real money saved at the pump, even for a time as brief as the summer season? It’s “a gimmick,” according to Democratic nominee Barack Obama, “that would save you half a tank of gas over the course of the entire summer so that everyone in Washington can pat themselves on the back and say they did something.” Exemption from gas taxes just for Barack Obama | Read More »

Adding a dose of reality to the KnownFact of “tax cuts for the rich” and an increase in the “wealth gap”

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 21st at 09:17 AM  | 

Members of the Democrat Congress are dusting off their handy rubber stamps (or unwrapping new ones, inscribed with the new Presidential motto, “Vero Possumus”) in preparation for the round of tax hikes their assumed President-in-Waiting is promising to send down the pipe next Spring in the name of “making the rich pay their fair share.” Not to let real facts get in the way of | Read More »

The Essence of Conservative Belief: Freedom to Choose, and Faith in People’s Ability to Make Rational Choices

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 15th at 08:56 PM  | 

President Bush may not have governed as a TrueConservative™ down the line for the last seven years, but this exchange with AP Radio’s Mark Smith highlights President Bush’s belief in those core conservative principles of Freedom and Choice. Shorter Mark Smith: “Why aren’t you emulating the Magi Emeritus, Jimmy Carter, and asking Americans to wear sweaters and eschew heat and air conditioning, and sit at | Read More »