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Obama's Ridiculously Small Idea
By Carole on Jan 13, 2012
This morning President Barack Obama stood before the cameras in an election-year attempt to claim he wants to shrink the size of the federal government and lower spending. According to the administration, his new proposal to merge six trade and commerce agencies would save $3 billion over the next 10 years and eliminate 1,000 to 2,000 jobs. Great headline unless you consider that since taking office, Mr. Obama has increased the federal workforce (excluding Census and Postal workers) by 7%; adding more than 144,000 to the federal payroll.
Defending The Ryan Plan
By Carole on Jun 17, 2011
Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) appears in a new national ad countering his Democratic critics (and fellow Republican Newt Gingrich) regarding his Medicare reform plan. The ad was created by conservative seniors advocacy group 60 Plus Association and features the House Budget Chairman in several clips ably defending his proposed overhaul of the currently unsustainable entitlement program.
5 Reasons Obama Is Losing Young Voters
By Carole on Oct 17, 2010
Tonight in Ohio, President Barack Obama will make another speech to another predominately college-aged audience hoping they are young enough and foolish enough to vote for those who will support his already failed agenda. But according to a recent poll, only 44% of college students approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing; down from 60% in May of 2009.
Obama's Still Selling What Nobody's Buying
By Carole on Sep 22, 2010
President Barack Obama trotted out a handful of people who have personally benefited from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) today and lamented that the obscenely expensive piece of legislation is only unpopular because he didn't talk about it enough. "Sometimes I fault myself for not being able to make the case more clearly to the country," he ruefully admitted. (source) What Mr. Obama refuses to acknowledge is that he talked more than enough; he just didn't listen.
A Quick Guide To The Health Care Summit
By Carole on Feb 25, 2010
President Barack Obama's euphemistically named Bipartisan Health Care Summit is just hours away. Rarely have so many anticipated so little from so few, but the media (and many news junkies) are treating this summit as some sort of political super bowl. And so for those who wish to follow along at home, we offer this brief guide to the who, what, when, where, and how. We'll leave the why up to you to figure out.
