From Rasmussen Reports: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11 (see trends). Twenty-nine percent (29%) are confident that [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: Obama’s Tripling of the National Debt in Pictures This Tuesday the White House released their Mid-Session Review admitting they made a $2 trillion miscalculation in the size of the federal deficit that President Barack Obama’s borrow and spend policies would inflict on our nation. Heritage senior policy analyst Brian Riedl details [...]
From Right Wing News: In an effort to placate the Left, Barack Obama’s administration is going to legally target the CIA for its interrogations of terrorists. This encourages America’s enemies and puts our country at greater risk because it sends a message to the CIA: Keep your head down or you might be targeted with [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: According to the Polish daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, sources in the United States have confirmed that the Obama administration has made the decision to abandon our anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. Unfortunately this news is not surprising at all. In March of this year it was revealed that President [...]
From Right Wing News: Today’s theme is brought to you by the word “consequences.” When dealing with Democrats/liberals/progressives, there are always consequences, the majority of which were never considered when calling for and/or implementing legislation/plans. Another case in point (h/t Blogs For Victory) The Cash For Clunkers program is adding to the activity at treasurers’ [...]
From GOPUSA.com: WASHINGTON (AP) — In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America’s founding. And it says by the next decade’s end the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy. But before President [...]
If you’ve lost track of the proliferation of czars under the Obama administration, then PJTV has put together a helpful video detailing all three dozen of Obama’s czars:
From The Wall Street Journal: Want a preview of ObamaCare in action? Sneak a look at what has happened in Maine. In 2003, the state to great fanfare enacted its own version of universal health care. Democratic Governor John Baldacci signed the plan into law with a bevy of familiar promises. By 2009, it would [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: We have heard a great deal about the costs and benefits of a “public option” and “single-payer system.” We have heard about the financial costs—and the other costs—of allowing the government to interfere with matters of life and death. However, we haven’t heard whether the Constitution gives Congress the power to [...]
At The Heritage Foundation, I found this “video of liberal politicians and intellectuals all admitting that, despite his claims otherwise, President Barack Obama’s public option is designed for the sole purpose of being a Trojan Horse for government-run single payer health care…So the next time an Obamacare supporter tries to tell you that the public [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: Last week the Politico published results of their study on President Barack Obama’s public speeches since taking office, concluding that Obama’s rhetoric had “downplayed” the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to DefenseNews, President Obama’s lack of attention to our national security is not confined to rhetoric. DefenseNews reports: Seven months [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: White House Battle Against Free Speech Grows Yesterday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said on Fox News: “This White House supports free speech.” Now, it is hardly comforting to know we have a White House that feels it has to defend that position. It’s akin to saying, ‘this White [...]
From The National Review: Why shouldn’t socialized medicine prompt comparisons to National Socialism? It’s this week’s fashion on the left, and among such fashionably contemplative moderates as Mort Kondracke, to blast Rush Limbaugh for comparing Democrats to the Nazis. It’s no surprise that the Obama hardcores are misrepresenting the sequence and substance of events, but [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: Will Entire Obama Agenda Crumble In August? Poll after poll is demonstrating that the Americans turning out at townhalls across the country are making President Barack Obama’s health care plan less and less popular. But health care is not the only Obama agenda item that is dying a slow death. Bloomberg [...]
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted any entries, for which I apologize. Not only have I been out of town and busy, but my computer crashed and needed to be replaced. There’s been a heck of a lot going on lately, and I don’t even know where to start. How about with the now-infamous townhall [...]
From Michelle Malkin: Obama summons his army: “This is the moment our movement was built for.” Hey, no top-down direction here in President Obama’s latest mass e-mailing to his minions. Only thing missing is advice on how to dress like “real” grass-roots activists and instructions on how to snitch on friends and neighbors saying “fishy” [...]
From The National Review: Is Obama Pressing the ‘Reset Button’ on Defense? – By Thomas C. Pinckney His proposed budget cuts would not bring peace but would endanger America’s security. Despite all his initial talk of bipartisanship and putting aside the stale arguments of the past, President Obama is revealing himself with each passing day [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: Is This What Passes for Economic “Success” in the Obama Administration? Celebrating the fact that his administration has blown through $1 billion in deficit spending on the “Cash for Clunkers” program in just one week, President Barack Obama said Friday: “I’m happy to report that it has succeeded well beyond our [...]
From The National Review: After six months in the Oval Office, Pres. Barack Obama has a lower job-approval rating than did ten of the last twelve presidents at the same point in their presidencies. Rasmussen reports that the daily tracking poll of the president’s popular standing shows eleven points negative: Twenty-eight percent “strongly approve” and [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: According to Gallup, while Americans favor some government involvement in health care, they do not want a government-run health care system. The left knows this. They understand that Americans would never sign on to health care reform that created a “single-payer” system where the government would run the entire health care [...]