President Obama summed up yesterday what many Americans have concluded about his own administration and about the Congress, which for the first two years of his term was run entirely by Obama’s friends in the Democratic majority: “That is not a way to run a government.”
The three week continuing resolution (CR) just passed by the House with very modest cuts in order to keep the government running while negotiations with the White House and Senate Democrats proceed should be the last olive branch. And the cuts should also include some lefty sacred cows such as elimination of funding for public broadcasting.
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Joseph Klein | March 16, 2011 | Posted in
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Obama’s spending is far worse than those before him and will bury our children in debt. February’s deficit spending numbers were more than ALL of 2007.
Fiscal recklessness may break up EU’s monetary union.
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Vasko Kohlmayer | February 18, 2010 | Posted in
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The level of red ink just seems inexorably to rise.
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Dick Morris | February 10, 2010 | Posted in
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Rep. Paul D. Ryan says he is determined to make sure the Republican Party is viewed as “the alternative party, not the opposition party.” That is a goal President Obama embraced when he visited House Republicans at their policy retreat in Baltimore last week, and he singled out Ryan as someone he would like to [...]
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Jacob Laksin | February 7, 2010 | Posted in
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With the president’s State of the Union address coming up on Wednesday, the White House appears to be struggling to find its feet. Republican Scott Brown’s surprise victory in liberal Massachusetts has dominated the national conversation in the last week and made Obama’s goal of signing health care reform impossible before the big speech. Now, [...]
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Jacob Laksin | January 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Congressional experts pegged the 2010 U.S. budget deficit at $1.35 trillion, a slight improvement from the $1.38 trillion estimate in August, but the overall picture of the government’s finances remains bleak, according to the annual report released Tuesday. The Congressional Budget Office said the government will run an aggregate deficit of almost $6 trillion during [...]
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Jacob Laksin | January 26, 2010 | Posted in
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Where has David Axelrod been?
Truth be known, if you were the person in charge of maintaining President Obama’s image, wouldn’t you have gone into hiding after the President’s dismal, and belated response to the Christmas day terror attack? With the President’s adequate handling of the Haiti crisis, Axelrod emerged again, and wasted no time making [...]
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Jeff Hedgpeth | January 18, 2010 | Posted in
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The Obama administration’s mind-boggling financial excesses and waste.
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Vasko Kohlmayer | December 14, 2009 | Posted in
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