Category Archives: 2010 Elections

Return of the Real Obama

The president is dedicated to the expansion of the welfare state. By Charles Krauthammer       NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE   The rout was complete, the retreat disorderly. President Obama got his tax hikes — naked of spending cuts — passed by the ostensibly Republican House of Representatives. After which, you might expect him to pivot to his [...]

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Henninger: Obama’s Ruinous Course

    Where in his career did Barack Obama ever learn the art of the political deal? Nowhere.     A wise judge once wrote in dissent that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Let us now extend that wisdom to presidential elections. Barack Obama says his election victory is a mandate to pursue [...]

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Black-Eyed Democracy (VIDEO)

Solid Principles recently made this You Tube video titled ‘Black-Eyed Democracy’ It highlights awareness on the increasing presence of Facebook Attack Ads, the next step in Political Attack Media leading up to the 2012 Presidential Race.   Further Reading: ‘Behind The ‘Attactivism’ Facebook Curtain‘ Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about [...]

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America’s Wake Up Call….S&P Lowers Debt Rating from “Stable” to “Negative”

  Yesterday the debt rating service Standard & Poors (S&P) issued a change in their outlook for U.S. Government debt, downgrading the Treasury’s rating from AAA Stable to AAA Negative. This means that they beleive our finances are heading in the wrong direction and unless corrective measures are taken, their next move will be to [...]

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Then There Were Three – or – Who neutered the Blue Dogs?

It came as no surprise that the Republican controlled Congress were able to get a repeal on Obamacare.  On the final vote, 245 to 189 the GOP manged three vote from rival Democrats.  As all the eyes looked towards Sen. Harry Reid’s desk and waited for his next move – no one bothered to do [...]

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Welcome Speaker Boehner

Watching Speaker Boehner’s inaugural speech today, I felt that the brakes were finally applied to one of the most turbulent moments in American Political history. At the same time, 2 years ago – the people now turfed out of the house were feeling the same way over gaining the White House. I can only hope [...]

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Speaker, Madame or just Ms. Pelosi?

[Editor's Note: I have been waiting for the moment shown in this picture for two years. The moment when the zany, free spending and power-hungry darling of San Francisco's Uber-Liberals handed over the Speaker's gavel to John Boehner. Now comes the hard work of dismantling the laws that were passed during Nancy Pelosi's moment in [...]

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Forget the liberal hype about a comeback: 2010 was a stunningly bad year for Barack Obama, and 2011 could be even worse

By Nile Gardiner gnore the revisionist hype in sections of the liberal media about President Obama staging a (mythical) political comeback – this is a presidency with an approval rating of 45 percent (according to the RealClear Politics poll of polls), that presides over a nation where just 27 percent of voters think the country [...]

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111th Congress Added More Debt Than First 100 Congresses Combined: $10,429 Per Person in U.S.

By Terence P. Jeffrey CNS News The federal government has accumulated more new debt–$3.22 trillion ($3,220,103,625,307.29)—during the tenure of the 111th Congress than it did during the first 100 Congresses combined, according to official debt figures published by the U.S. Treasury. That equals $10,429.64 in new debt for each and every one of the 308,745,538 [...]

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Christian Rout in the Culture War

  by:  Patrick J. Buchanan HUMAN EVENTS   A Democratic Congress, discharged by the voters on Nov. 2, has as one of its last official acts, imposed its San Francisco values on the armed forces of the United States.     “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is to be repealed. Open homosexuals are to be welcomed with [...]

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