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According to the Los Angeles Times President Obama is still pushing the driving metaphors on his fundraising tour on behalf of Congressional Democrats. So what did folks get for their $30,400? Andrew Malcolm reports on the President’s stop in Tinsel Town http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/08/obama-democrat-findraiser-in-chief-.html. A snippet:
The president has also fallen into recycling the same jokes — one [...]

Congressional Democrats are undoubtedly walking around with a newfound swagger today. The political strategists in the White House have finally settled on the message to save their House and Senate majorities: “It could be worse”. First they invented the nigh impossible to verify or refute metric of jobs “created or saved” and now this. They [...]

It seems fitting that President Obama signed “financial reform” into law and the US Senate belatedly passed another extension of unemployment benefits on the same day. Because what the Democrats are doing in Washington D.C. is hurting economic recovery rather than helping foster growth. It’s tempting to compare their actions to those of BP in [...]

President Obama went to Holland, Michigan yesterday to promote another “green economy” project funded by stimulus cash. A South Korean company is receiving $151 million taxpayer dollars to build a factory that will one day hopefully employ 300 in the manufacture of batteries for electric cars. That’s $500,000 per job, which for this administration is [...]

Calling for a “rollback” of the tax cuts for “the wealthy” has been a populist mantra for President Obama and his allies in Congress. As with much of our president’s rhetoric, the gulf between his promises and reality is rather wide. The truth is that come January most Americans, not just the rich, will see [...]

President Obama is in Toronto for the G8 summit. With unemployment in America just shy of 10%, an environmental disaster in the Gulf, record budget deficits that the Fed Chairman has repeatedly called “unsustainable”, one would hope our president’s mind would be focused like a laser beam on issues that affect Americans. Nope.
When U.S. President [...]

F.O.B.’s have returned with a vengeance. President Obama has made sure to take good care of the folks who made his election possible. Well, the big-monied special interests anyway, the American people not so much. When the UAW’s exorbitant contracts drove 2 of the Big 3 automakers into bankruptcy Obama awarded them the keys to [...]

and ends with “T” for tax.

Mr. Volker seems to think that Congress will eventually pass the budget that President Obama proposed in toto. President Obama, along with the majority of Democrats in Congress believes that the U.S. needs to emulate the economic model of Western Europe to make life in America more “fair”. This lifestyle [...]

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President Calderon commits the diplomatic equivalent of relieving himself in the punchbowl and receives a standing ovation from the Democrats. Two actually. One for demanding the AZ law be repealed and another for demanding a new ban on assault weapons. The only appropriate response to a foreign official coming into the People’s House and bashing [...]

At the heart of progressive/liberal thought lies the belief that a big government is essential to guarantee true freedom. In the progressive’s bible, The Promise of American Life, Herbert Croly describes the ideal form of government as using “Hamiltonian means”(a powerful central government) to achieve “Jeffersonian ends”(individual liberty). Croly understood that such a centralized government [...]