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PHIL KERPEN/OPINION: Please, Mr. President, No More Stimulus! (Fox News)
On the one year anniversary of the stimulus bill, the verdict is clear: Obama and the Democrats were wrong, and the American people were right.
One year ago today the Democrats forced a huge, bloated, pork-barrel spending bill through Congress that they called an “economic stimulus.” When the legislation was conceived they thought it would sail [...]
OPINION/WALL STREET JOURNAL: The President’s Priorities – Spend While You Can
One rule of budget reporting is to watch what the politicians are spending this year, not the frugality they promise down the road. By that measure, the budget that President Obama released yesterday for fiscal 2011 is one of the greatest spend-while-you-can documents in American history.
We now know why the White House leaked word of [...]
Robert Reich/Opinion: The Year Wall Street Bounced Back and Main Street Got Shafted (Huffington Post)
In September 2008, as the worst of the financial crisis engulfed Wall Street, George W. Bush issued a warning: “This sucker could go down.” Around the same time, as Congress hashed out a bailout bill, New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, the leading Republican negotiator of the bill, warned that “if we do not do this, [...]
WSJ Opinion: ObamaCare Will Lead to Rationed Care for Elderly (And No, We’re Not Talking About ‘Death Panels’)
Why the elderly are right to worry when the government rations medical care.
Elderly Americans are turning out in droves to fight ObamaCare, and President Obama is arguing back that they have nothing to worry about. Allow us to referee. While claims about euthanasia and “death panels” are over the top, senior fears have exposed a [...]
L. A. Times Op-ED/Andrew Bacevich, Ret. Colonel: Obama’s Strategic Blind Spot
EDITOR’S NOTE: Before you read this op-ed, keep in mind POTUS ran as an anti-war candidate and the ‘mantra’ he would ‘change’ the way Washington thinks.
Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders?” During the bitter winter of 1914-15, the first lord of the Admiralty posed this [...]
LA TIMES/OPINION: Lou Dobbs and The Canard Over President Obama’s Birth
Lou Dobbs had David from Freeport, N.Y., on the line, the caller musing darkly about President Obama “rushing all these programs through by whatever means,” knowing he will soon be exposed as a fake, a fraud, a . . . Kenyan.
At that point, a scrupulous radio host had three options: (A) hit the kill button [...]
Opinion By David Brooks-New York Times: Liberal Suicide March
It was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America. You had a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor sympathized with moderates or representatives from swing districts.
They brought in pollsters to their party conferences to persuade their members that the country was fervently behind them. They were supported by their [...]
Opinion/Gov. Bobby Jindal: How To Make Health-Care Reform Bipartisan
In Washington, it seems history always repeats itself. That’s what’s happening now with health-care reform. This is an unfortunate turn of events for Americans who are legitimately concerned about the skyrocketing cost of a basic human need.
In 1993 and 1994, Hillary Clinton’s health-care reform proposal failed because it was concocted in secret without the guiding [...]
Daniel Henninger: Obama and the Speech
WHAT IS THE POINT AND PURPOSE OF THE PRESIDENT’S ORATIONS?
Can Barack Obama talk his way onto Mount Rushmore? He might. In fact, if just half of what Mr. Obama has said that he, we or the world should do comes to pass, he’s going straight to that mountain.
More than any U.S. president, The Speech is [...]
OPINION/MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN: THE ECONOMY IS EVEN WORST THAN YOU THINK
The average length of unemployment is higher than it’s been since government began tracking the data in 1948.
The recent unemployment numbers have undermined confidence that we might be nearing the bottom of the recession. What we can see on the surface is disconcerting enough, but the inside numbers are just as bad.
The Bureau of Labor [...]
