Since a government program is the closest you can get to eternal life, Congressman Paul Ryan asked the Congressional Budget Office to estimate the costs of extending just 20 of the most "popular" programs in the Obama government expansion bill to a total of just ten years. The non-partisan CBO finds the total cost rises […]
Press Releases and Party News
Caterpillar CEO contradicts Obama on ‘stimulus’
If I were wearing a hat, I’d tip it to Don Irvine at Accuracy In Media for pointing me to this interesting development from ABC News. For weeks President Obama has claimed his "stimulus" plan allows manufacturers like Caterpillar to stop layoffs and immediately re-hire laid off workers. Obama even traveled to the company’s factory […]
Obama loses YET ANOTHER Cabinet nominee
Commerce Secretary nominee Judd Gregg, a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, has withdrawn his name from consideration for the post. Citing the Obama administration’s proposal to take the Census (which determines House representation) out of the hands of the Commerce Department and give it to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, as well as […]
Paul: Freedom From Government
Congressman Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk – February 9, 2009 President Obama signed an executive order last week continuing the faith-based initiatives program created by former President Bush. When the program was created, I warned that giving taxpayer money to private religious organizations would eventually lead to political control and manipulation of them. This week […]
Rahm is Right
And you won’t hear me say that very often. But there is a reason I’ve somewhat liked the guy all these years. In this case, it’s his nailing to the wall of Republicans who suddenly find themselves concerned with growing federal budgets and deepening deficits — after eight years of doing more of that than […]
Barr: Stimulus bill just pork in new disguise
From Congressman Barr’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution guest column today. Read the entire column here. …the next edition of Oxford might properly include further definitions for the already-overused term (stimulus): ‘any massive federal spending program designed to funnel taxpayer monies into pet political projects; a term employed to disguise massive federal spending programs designed to funnel taxpayer […]
Brother Barack’s Traveling Redistribution Show
Pundit Michelle Malkin takes on President Obama’s Fort Meyers town hall/Big Government revival meeting in a Tuesday posting on Hot Air, which differed from past town halls in that instead of the president taking questions from the public, the White House put together a massive "jump on Santa’s lap" session for the national media.
Seven more states to hold LP conventions
For Immediate Release Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Maryland Sat., March 7 Dundalk, Squires Italian Restaurant For more information: http://www.md.lp.org Oregon Sat., March 14 – Sun. March 15 Newport, Shilo Inn Suites Oceanfront Hotel For more information: http://www.lp.oregon.org Mississippi Sat., April 4 Jackson, Willie Morris Library For more information: http://www.mslp.org or chair@mslp.org New Mexico Fri., April […]
Obama gives bailout details, market plunges 382 points
From The Washington Post: Stock markets fell sharply today as the Obama administration detailed its plans for a rescue of the financial system and a long-awaited fiscal stimulus package passed in the Senate. The blue chip Dow Jones industrial plummeted following a speech by Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner in which he detailed the administration’s […]
Obama “stimulus” includes federal control of doctor decisions
Betsy McCaughey of Bloomberg reports on a little-known provision in Obama’s $1.1 trillion package of welfare transfers and expanded government, a new federal bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. that tracks your health information and can order your doctor to stop treating you: The bill’s health rules will affect "every individual in the United States" (445, 454, […]
Obama proposes $9.7 TRILLION in new spending…and rising
Bloomberg financial news reports Monday the current price tag for the array of bailout, welfare transfers and new spending is reaching an astronomical $9.7 trillion. $700 billion of that is the first Troubled Asset Relief Program pushed by the previous Republican White House.
Russell Roberts on the failed history of “stimulus packages”
When Barack Obama pointed last night to the stimulus packages passed by the Japanese during their 1990s recession, I had to guffaw because they simply didn’t work. Trillions of dollars were spent on explosive government growth that did little to nothing to spur economic recovery, though it did sink the nation into crippling debt. Russell […]