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Repeal Obamacare — and then the 17th Amendment

From Renew America: While there are hundreds of political parties and even more political initiatives seeking support, when all of the hoopla is striped away, there are only two political philosophies. One philosophy embraces the notion that government is omnipotent, and grants rights to individual citizens. This philosophy is demonstrated by the United Nations’ Declaration [...]

ClimaHypocrite Obama Heads To Europe For More Fail

From Right Wing News: I’m not sure how this is going to stop the seas from rising and start the healing of the Earth If President Barack Obama is not yet convinced that his international star power has faded, his next round of transatlantic summitry should clear up any lingering doubts. Coming off a marathon [...]

Will Obama Extend the Bush Tax Cuts?

From Human Events: President Obama and his advisers have been sending signals that they’re open to extending the Bush tax cuts before they expire Dec. 31, an expiration that could plunge the economy into another recession. With economic growth running between a feeble 1.6 percent and 2 percent and unemployment stuck at nearly 10 percent, [...]

David Axelrod will leave White House to work on Obama re-election

From Telegraph.co.uk: David Axelrod, one of Barack Obama’s most senior advisers, said on Sunday that he was quitting the White House early next year to work on the president’s re-election campaign for 2012. Mr Axelrod is very close to Mr Obama and the man given much of the credit for the president’s winning election campaign [...]

Virginia Attorney General: State’s Lawsuit Against Obamacare ‘Is Not About Health Insurance, It’s About Liberty’

From CNSNews.com: Virginia Atty. Gen. Ken Cuccinelli told CNSNews.com that the lawsuit his state has filed against the health-care reform law signed by President Barack Obama in March is about preserving the liberty of individual Americans against a federal government that is over-reaching its legitimate constitutional authority. “One thing people need to realize about this [...]

Two out of three: Voters reject Obamacare mandate in AZ, OK

From Michelle Malkin: The Obamacare individual mandate was on the ballot in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Two out of three ain’t bad. Ain’t bad at all, via Merrill Matthews: Most Americans got to express their opposition to those policies on Tuesday by giving Republicans a solid majority in the House of Representatives and dramatically increasing [...]

PPP Poll: Obama a Big Drag on Democrats

From Public Policy Polling: If this election is a referendum on Barack Obama then o boy are Democrats in trouble. In our final round of 18 polls we found the President with a positive approval rating among likely voters in only 1 state- Connecticut. Even there only 46% of voters expressed support for the job [...]

Maobama Still Big in Communist China

From Right Wing News: America has soundly rejected his malignant agenda, but Comrade Obama can console himself with the knowledge that he remains popular behind the Bamboo Curtain. Americans may have fallen out of love with Barack Obama, but the president of the United States is still an object of affection for the Chinese, who have [...]

Voters Reject Obama’s Big-Government Ambitions

From Townhall.com: Uncharted territory. Historic upheaval. The tallies are not all in as this is written. But it seems that the 2010 elections have produced results that are unprecedented in the lifetimes of most readers. Some numbers are clear. In nine of the 10 congressional election cycles between 1986 and 2004, no party gained or [...]

A New Era: Americans Stop Obama in His Tracks

From Human Events: Today is the dawning of a new era. The American people voted overwhelmingly to stop President Obama in his liberal tracks. The people rose up in the midterm elections and elected over 60 new Republicans to the House and six to the Senate. Americans made history in the 2010 landslide elections by [...]

Obama Still Hopes to Repeal Military Ban on Gays

From NewsMax.com: * Obama says ban could be repealed before year-end * Legal confusion after court rulings * Obama says lifting ban must be done in “orderly fashion” President Barack Obama said Wednesday he still hoped to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military, despite big electoral gains by Republicans, many of [...]

Will Obama Change His Tune After An Epic Smackdown?

From Right Wing News: Obama’s 1pm presser should be very interesting, very interesting indeed. If you’re lucky enough to have the day off (like me!), make sure to watch the agony. My inside sources tell my that TOTUS really tied one on last night, and had to be dragged out of a dorm party turned [...]

Rep. Barton: Obama Won’t ‘Want to Pick a Fight’ With ‘Conservative Agenda’

From CNSNews.com: Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee told CNSNews.com that House Republicans “are going to insist on being bipartisan in the majority but it’s going to be a conservative agenda.” He added that Obama will not “want to pick a fight” with House Republicans if the [...]

Krauthammer: Obama Agenda Is Dead

From Right Wing News: Let’s hope Charles Krauthammer is right: “I think the message is unmistakable that the Obama agenda is dead. The only question is how much of it is going to be repealed and how much Obama will be willing to concede.” According to Krauthammer, actually taking the Senate wasn’t necessary at this point, [...]

Obama: Elections Don’t Indicate Rejection of Administration’s Policies

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama said the Republican electoral win of the House of Representatives, with a 61-seat majority over the Democrats, “feels bad.” But the president refused to say that it reflected a rejection of his policies. “Voters are not satisfied with the outcomes,” Obama said at a Wednesday afternoon post-election news conference. “If, [...]

Obama’s turnout pitch to Latinos: Get out there and punish your “enemies”

From HotAir.com: I wonder how this rhetoric squares with his standard condescending line about Republican-leaning voters not thinking clearly because their minds are clouded by economic anxiety. Does economic anxiety also explain why Latino turnout isn’t quite where the Democrats need it to be (although, per this new Politico poll, it’s getting there)? Or is this the [...]