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White House Games Can't Hide Obama's Economic Failures
Tweet Share on Facebook August 6, 2012 CommentThe White House deserves some credit for revising downward their short-term economic growth estimates. The problem is that they once again predict a miniboom (boomlet?) generated by, you guessed it, President Barack Obama's policy in a second term. While economic predictions are almost as numerous as economists, the president has proven to be seriously mistaken on matters ranging from the stimulus to Solyndra. Obama has repeatedly promised the American people that his policies and economic agenda would make things better, but they haven't. Remember what Obama had already promised would result from his initial stimulus during an address in 2009?
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Obama's Wall Street Donor Hypocrisy
Tweet Share on Facebook July 31, 2012 CommentVirtually every day, the Obama campaign tries to cast his opponent as some type of modern day robber baron. Gov. Mitt Romney's clear success in the private sector is a threat to President Barack Obama's attempt to sell the American public on another four years of dismal economic performance. Yet, when it comes to raising money for his own campaign, the president doesn't seem to blink about the source.
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Solyndra, Cronyism, and Double-Dipping on the Taxpayers’ Dime
Tweet Share on Facebook July 23, 2012 CommentSolyndra became the poster child of spectacularly poor political and policy judgment when it filed for bankruptcy, laid off a thousand employees, and left taxpayers holding the bag on $535 million in loan guarantees. In testimony Thursday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the other shoe dropped. Apparently, many of the companies that received loans under the auspices of the same infamous program were well-established entities that essentially double-dipped to grab as many taxpayer dollars as possible.
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Barack Obama Is the Whiner-in-Chief
Tweet Share on Facebook July 17, 2012 CommentRahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama's first White House chief of staff and currently one of his top campaign surrogates, made some hay on this past Sunday's shows saying that Gov. Mitt Romney should "stop whining" about recent attacks on his tenure at Bain Capital. The irony on that spin is rich, given that President Obama deserves the moniker "Whiner-In-Chief." More than three years into his term, the president still blames his failures on...almost anyone (or thing) but him.
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Four Flaws in Obamacare
Tweet Share on Facebook July 3, 2012 CommentLast week's 5-4 healthcare decision by the Supreme Court was undoubtedly a short-term victory for President Barack Obama and has brought with it the requisite bump in poll numbers. Unfortunately, the win came at the price of revealing to all Americans the fact that the president's plan clearly breaks his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. As this reality seeps through the consciousness of the country, his already unpopular plan is likely to fall further in the polls. Keep in mind that a poll released at the end of June showed that, if the Supreme Court upheld the law, 77 percent of Americans wanted Congress to go back to work to fix it. Even after the decision was made, a Gallup poll showed 49 percent of independents wanted all or part of the law repealed while 40 percent did not.
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Everything’s Wrong With the Farm Bill
Tweet Share on Facebook June 13, 2012 CommentIt's not that the emperor has no clothes, it's that the taxpayers are paying for the emperor's Armani suit. This is the case with the current legislative action with the farm bill.
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'Austerity' Promotes Growth, Government Spending Doesn't
Tweet Share on Facebook May 15, 2012 Comment (14)Let the great debate begin—no, not the one between President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney, but between fearless free market economist and Mercatus scholar Veronique de Rugy and big government advocate and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. The question: Does the failure of European "austerity" measures mean the United States should eschew concerns about reckless spending and instead renew our romance with big spending, spiced this time with serious tax increases?
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If Senate Democrats Won't Pass a Budget, They Shouldn't Be Paid
Tweet Share on Facebook May 2, 2012 Comment (12)Sunday marked the third year in a row that the Democratic-controlled Senate failed to pass a budget. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has completely abdicated his responsibility to the American people. Make no mistake, Reid has done this with the implicit support of President Obama. Why have the Democrats sat on their hands while our economy suffers and 23 million Americans are looking for jobs? They have done so because it is politically expedient.
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The Real Reason the Left Is Attacking ALEC
Tweet Share on Facebook April 23, 2012 Comment (20)The methods and tone employed by those attacking the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC for short, reveal how desperate the professional left is feeling as they head into what they know will be a close election. After having their political heads handed to them in the 2010 cycle, they regrouped and decided to try to destroy the credibility of their opponents.
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Rick Santorum Proved that Authenticity Matters
Tweet Share on Facebook April 11, 2012 Comment (6)Rick Santorum's most unlikely campaign proved one thing about American politics: Authenticity matters. It is also not enough. Messaging and money are at least as important in electoral politics or Santorum's path may have been different. But Rick Santorum wrestled way above weight on the national stage for his party's nomination because he didn't mince words and because people believed him when he said something.
