Category Archives: Deficit Spending

Noonan: Government by Freakout

Posted on February 23rd, 2013

Obama’s scare tactics aren’t much of a long-term strategy. The president’s sequester strategy is like Howard Beale in “Network”: “Woe is us. . . . And woe is us! We’re in a lot of trouble!” It is always cliffs, ceilings and looming catastrophes with Barack Obama. It is always government by freakout. That’s what’s happening [...]

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Rand Paul: Sequester A “Pittance” That Nibbles At The Edges

Posted on February 21st, 2013

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Return of the Real Obama

Posted on January 4th, 2013

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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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on January 3rd, 2013

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on December 23rd, 2012

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Henninger: Obama’s Ruinous Course

Posted on December 6th, 2012

    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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GOP Deficit Plan Irks Conservatives

Posted on December 5th, 2012

  Discord Complicates Negotiating Position of Boehner, Who Punished Four House Members; Obama Calls for Higher Taxes   WASHINGTON—Conservatives on Tuesday took aim at House Speaker John Boehner’s deficit-reduction proposal in the fiscal cliff talks, a dispute that was aggravated by Mr. Boehner’s decision to remove some conservatives from prized committees. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., [...]

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Charles Krauthammer: Cliff-jumping with Barack

Posted on December 2nd, 2012

By Charles Krauthammer   Why are Republicans playing the Democrats’ game that the “fiscal cliff” is all about taxation?   House Speaker John Boehner already made the preemptive concession of agreeing to raise revenue. But the insistence on doing so by eliminating deductions without raising marginal rates is now the subject of fierce Republican infighting. [...]

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Newt Gingrich: Fiscal cliff is an ‘artificial invention’

Posted on November 30th, 2012

  By KATIE GLUECK   Newt Gingrich is slamming the looming fiscal cliff as “an artificial invention of Washington.” “I think we ought to recognize this entire fiscal cliff is an artificial invention of Washington, created by people in the Congress and the presidency,” the former House speaker said Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “On [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on November 27th, 2012

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