Tag Archives: Federal Budget Deficits

As Manager-in-Chief, Obama Blamed for FAA Woes

Posted on April 25th, 2013

By Alexis Simendinger The White House predicted last year that frustrations spawned by airline traffic delays would grab the public’s attention and force Congress to correct the misshapen results of lopping through federal budgets with a guillotine. And they were right that air travelers would get the message, but wrong about Congress’s willingness to avert [...]

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Sequester: Obama’s “Ugly” Baby

Posted on March 6th, 2013

  Grover Norquist’s op-ed on President Obama’s sequestration, for the American Spectator blog.   As sequestration kicks in, ATR President Grover Norquist has an op-ed up at American Spectator discussing the only good idea President Obama has shared with Americans. He points out that the President, unfortunately, has spent a quite a bit of time [...]

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Hail Armageddon

Posted on March 2nd, 2013

By Charles Krauthammer “The worst-case scenario for us,” a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told The Post, “is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.” Think about that. Worst case? That a government drowning in debt should cut back by 2.2 percent — and the country survives. That a government now borrowing 35 cents of every dollar it [...]

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The Sequester Revelation

Posted on February 27th, 2013

Obama has the legal power to avoid spending-cut damage. And when the Republicans opened the seventh seal of the sequester, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black and the stars fell unto the Earth; and our nation’s ability to forecast severe weather, such as drought events, hurricanes and tornados, was seriously undermined. [...]

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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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Krugman: Death Panels and Middle-Class Tax Hikes Ahead

Posted on February 8th, 2013

Big Government: We almost never agree with President Obama’s favorite economist Paul Krugman, but he recently spoke the truth about where Obama’s policies are taking the country. It should scare anyone with a pulse. Krugman, after speaking at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C., was asked about the debt crisis. After arguing [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on December 23rd, 2012

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on December 14th, 2012

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on December 8th, 2012

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