There is no bottom to President Obama’s political deception and class warfare pit. If you followed this week’s drama in Washington you know the House passed a bill that would extend the temporary payroll tax reduction for another year. The Senate responded with a bill that would extend it for only two months. Republicans finally [...]
The so-called Congressional Super Committee failed to reach a deficit reduction agreement even though success was absurdly easy: simply adjust the “baseline” schedule of future spending by $1.2 trillion over ten years, beginning in 2013. Put another way, all they had to do was change the currently scheduled $44+ trillion of spending over ten years [...]
As the worst debt crisis in American history appears on the horizon the political establishment shows no urgency about spending cuts. The Treasury Department’s monthly report for the first 8 months of the 2011 fiscal year shows 2011 spending is running 6% above 2010. As the numbers demonstrate, the Obama Administration believes the most urgent [...]
A month ago the House of Representatives passed HR1, that would fund the government for the remainder of 2011 with paltry cuts of $61 billion. HR1 would reduce the 2011 deficit 3.7% from 1,645,119,000,000 to $1,585,119,000,000. On March 9, HR1 was defeated in the Senate. All Senate Democrats voted “no,” because they thought the cuts [...]
Thursday, January 6, 2011 may be remembered as the moment America began a great U turn from a century of continuous growth in federal government power and private sector intervention to continuous curtailing, with the goal of restricting federal power to Constitutional limits. Thursday was the second day of the 112th session of Congress since [...]
The Liberty Works attitude toward the reinvigorated Republican Party in Washington will be: Hopeful but vigilant Senator Elect Marco Rubio delivered the Republicans’ weekly address on Saturday, encouraging the hopeful part. Rubio is sure to become one of the highest profile Republicans in Congress and is a potential Presidential contender. The video is below, here [...]
It seems that we, like Phil Connors, leading character in the movie Ground Hog Day, are stuck in a insipid time warp. We awaken every morning to yet another rerun of the political pitch for Extreme Makeover, Health Care Edition. Saturday morning it was the President’s “weekly address,” posted in video form on the White [...]
