Category Archives: Budget

Deficit Again Expected to Top $1 Trillion

By KRISTINA PETERSON And DAMIAN PALETTA WASHINGTON—The federal budget deficit likely will top $1 trillion for the fourth consecutive year in fiscal 2012 as the economy continues to grow at a sluggish pace, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted Tuesday. Congress’s official budget scorekeeper projected a sober outlook in its semi-annual report Tuesday, forecasting that [...]

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NRSC You Tube Video Creates Waves

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) have released the hard-hitting You Tube video “Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Mr. President“, which has achieved over 120,000 views since it’s release on Thursday. On Thursday, Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell invited Obama to meet with Senate Republicans over raising the debt limit, Obama declined. White House press [...]

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Tea party leader lashes out at Scott Brown

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN Sen. Scott Brown has thrown his tea party supporters “under the bus” with his recent critiques of some Republican budget cut proposals, a movement leader said Friday. Brown, a Massachusetts Republican, on Thursday denounced GOP suggestions to cut social and cultural programs as “irresponsible,” and Judson Phillips, a leader of Tea Party [...]

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Two Californias

Many of the rented-out rural shacks and stationary Winnebagos are on former small farms — the vineyards overgrown with weeds, or torn out with the ground lying fallow. I pass on the cultural consequences to communities from the loss of thousands of small farming families. I don’t think I can remember another time when so [...]

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There’s No Avoiding ‘Repeal and Replace’

It’s essential for limited government. By: James Capretta   NRO Scores of House and Senate candidates are campaigning on a platform of reestablishing limited government. There could hardly be a more encouraging development for our republic. After decades of legislators’ piling countless new programs on top of old ones, and two years of the most intense [...]

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Why Obama Is Losing the Political War

By Mark Halperin CNN/TIME Barack Obama is being politically crushed in a vise. From above, by elite opinion about his competence. From below, by mass anger and anxiety over unemployment. And it is too late for him to do anything about this predicament until after November’s elections. With the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, [...]

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GOP Legislative Agenda for 2010

FOXNEWS Rank-and-file House Republicans get their first glimpse at the GOP legislative agenda tonight, one day before the leadership team showcases the plan during a press conference and small business roundtable at a lumber warehouse in suburban Virginia. The game plan is culled from the Republicans’ “America Speaking Out” initiative, which solicited the online input [...]

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Tea Party Supporters Converge under the Arch

Tea Party supporters converge under the Arch   BY JAKE WAGMAN AND MICHELE MUNZ Thousands of Tea Party supporters gathered under the Arch this afternoon for what is one of the group’s largest gatherings before the mid-term election in November. As speakers began to welcome the crowd at mid-day, the front steps of the Arch were [...]

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Angle defends conservative positions

RENO, Nev. — Sharron Angle strode to the microphones here and made a vigorous defense of her fiercely conservative positions, renewing her calls for the elimination of the Education Department and signaling that she still supports a Social Security system that will eventually be “transitioned out.” Speaking to supporters here at the Atlantis Casino before a [...]

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The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

By Nile Gardiner The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House. While the anti-establishment Tea Party movement has gained significant [...]

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