New GOP ad celebrating stimulus anniversary: ‘Boondoggle’
It was only a year ago that President Obama and Democrats in Washington pushed through their massive $787 billion, “must-pass,” largely unsuccessful, stimulus package, claiming that the stimulus bill was the silver bullet to fix the economy and bring back jobs. In their misguided little liberal minds they believed and claimed the best way to [...]
A "modified, limited" course correction
President Obama’s approach to Republicans has been straightforward — exclude them from the policy formulation process and then attack them as the party of “no” when they oppose the policies formulated without any Republican input. The strategy simultaneously marginalizes Republicans and presents the prospect of further marginalization if the policies they oppose prove to [...]
Re Deficit Reduction and Presidential Sleight-of-Hand
Deficit reduction? What deficit reduction! You may think you see it, but in reality, it doesn’t exist.
America, don’t swallow the Kool-Aid or fall for the deceit. As Karl Rove explains, it’s nothing less than presidential slight of hand from Barack Obama’s world of fiscal fantasy:
After President Obama devoted much of 2009 to health care and [...]
Bama Dem Becomes a Republican
Politico reports that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican. As Politico points out, his party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional health care vote and will send a jolt through a Democratic House Caucus that has already been unnerved [...]
The Coming Health-Care Backlash
Peter Wehner sums up his insightful thoughts on where things stand in the aftermath of the certain passage of the Senate health-care bill:
Together, these actions tell quite a tale. Mr. Obama has revived the worst impressions of the Democratic party - profligate and undisciplined, arrogant, lovers of big government, increasers of taxes. The issues and [...]
Rubio: I’ve Always Distinguished Between Campaigning for Stimulus and Accepting Funds
David Frum wrote in the CNN column linked below that “Rubio has suggested that he would have refused the federal stimulus dollars and instead cut up to $6 billion out of the $65 billion state budget.”
But Rubio does not say in the YouTube video linked in the CNN column–as Frum suggests–that as governor he would [...]
