President Obama tried to portray the so-called stimulus bill as an engine of prosperity. Remember, the stimulus was sold as the immediate cure to rising unemployment. Obama promised the jobless rate would rise no higher than 8% if it passed. Here’s what he said Wednesday night: Because of the steps we took, there are about [...]
Politico.com reports that Senator Robert Menendez, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has advice for fellow Democrats running for reelection. Does he want them to promise to resurrect government run health care? NO! Does he advise them to promote other programs from the President’s agenda, including: big tax increases on small businesses? Cap and [...]
Speaking of his dream of government run health care President Obama bellowed to a town hall meeting today: There are things that have to be done. We can not keep putting this off. But back in Washington the Political-media establishment was obviously exhausted from a year of exertions and produced no support for the President. [...]
The reverberations from the election of Senator Scott Brown continue. Yesterday Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitted she did not have enough votes to pass the Senate version of ObamaCare. While some die-hards in Congress continue to insist they will enact ObamaCare soon, the political momentum has turned against it, and it is probably dead. In fact, [...]
March 12 update . January 21, 2010: Several readers urged us to combine and clarify charts and commentary from previous articles in one, more concise presentation. With our thanks for constructive criticism, here it is: ObamaNomics is built on the assumption that politicians are better stewards of economic resources than the millions of individuals and [...]
Whether we like it or not, we are in a political war to determine what ideology will prevail in the future of America. Will it be the ideology of liberty? Or will it be the ideology of authoritarian control by a self-appointed elite? Last night the authoritarian side lost a battle. But the war is [...]
Sometimes a picture is worth more than a thousand of our words.
The White House announced Friday that President Obama will make campaign appearances in Massachusetts on Sunday in an effort to boost the flagging candidacy of Martha Coakley for U.S. Senate. Tuesday’s special election is to fill the vacancy left by the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. Republican candidate Scott Brown, who has promised to vote [...]
90 second video: A Marine Expeditionary Unit has been dispatched to Haiti
