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Perry Surges, Obama Slips in Latest Polls
Tweet Share on Facebook August 30, 2011 Comment (5)The latest CNN/ORC poll of nearly 1,000 U.S. residents delivered some very good news for Texas Gov. Rick Perry while indicating a little bit of trouble for President Barack Obama.
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Orrin Hatch's Top 10 Reasons to Repeal Obamacare
Tweet Share on Facebook August 29, 2011 Comment (12)Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch has come out swinging against ObamaCare.
A week before President Barack Obama's much anticipated speech on jobs, Hatch, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee said Obamacare's repeal should be considered "as a means to reduce the deficit and create jobs."
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Obama's Economic Plan Fails Where Reagan's Succeeded
Tweet Share on Facebook August 26, 2011 Comment (32)Let's face it. The U.S. economy is still flat on its back.
The Obama stimulus produced unemployment averaging 9.5 percent, killed 3.1 million jobs and has—as perhaps it only saving grace—the idea that maybe it kept things from getting worse. At least that's the way the White House puts it. The economic data indicates otherwise.
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Poll: Most American Think the Federal Government Has Too Much Power
Tweet Share on Facebook August 25, 2011 Comment (13)The Founding Fathers deliberately set up a system of government that relies on the tension of preserving a series of checks and balances that are vital to its success.
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Obama’s Approval Rating Points to His Being a One-Termer
Tweet Share on Facebook August 24, 2011 Comment (22)President Barack Obama is having a rough time of it.
According to the latest Gallup survey, the his job approval has dropped to an all time low, with just 38 percent of the 1,500 U.S. adults surveyed saying they approve of the job he is doing as president. And this does not bode well for his prospects to win re-election in 2012.
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Buffett vs. Koch in the Tax Reform Battle of Billionaires
Tweet Share on Facebook August 23, 2011 Comment (13)Warren Buffett, the liberals' favorite rich person, kicked off a "Battle of the Billionaires" by writing in The New York Times on Aug. 14 that "my friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice."
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Sex Ad Hurts Ron Paul More Than Rick Perry
Tweet Share on Facebook August 19, 2011 Comment (113)While presidential campaigns have never exactly be dignified, high-minded affairs, the current one reached a new low this week when a self-described Rep. Ron Paul supporter announced he would be taking out a full page ad in a Texas alternative newspaper asking people to contact him if they had ever had sex with Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
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Jobs Questions Dog President Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook August 18, 2011 Comment (14)Trying to demonstrate his "common touch," President Barack Obama is engaged in a bus tour through the politically important states of the industrial Midwest.
It's not going well.
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Harry Reid Put Party First With Debt 'Super Committee' Picks
Tweet Share on Facebook August 15, 2011 Comment (16)One has to wonder if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is really serious about bringing federal spending under control.
Under his leadership it's been more than two years since Senate Democrats produced an actual budget. He's carried water for every bad idea President Barack Obama has had, including Obamacare and the effort to raise taxes in the middle of an economic downtown. And he single-handedly stopped the forward progress of "Cut, Cap and Balance," the one real, game-changing proposal to deal with the debt limit.
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Rick Perry Entry, Ames Straw Poll Make GOP Field Competitive
Tweet Share on Facebook August 15, 2011 Comment (8)The Republican presidential field shifted over the weekend, making for a much more competitive race.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's convincing win in the Iowa Straw Poll cemented her status as a serious candidate for president. Up to now she has been polling well but there were those who attributed this to some kind of fluke. Her victory at Ames showed she can, in fact, put boots on the ground and get people to turn out to support her.
