Liz Blaine
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When the Democrat Economic Stimulus plan passed in February 2009, President Barack Obama crowed,
“Most of the money we’re investing as part of this plan will get out the door immediately and go directly to job-creation, generating or saving 3 to 4 million new jobs.”
By August, Obama was feigning his ‘the buck stops here’ moment,
“We’ve got some work to do. I don’t mind, by the way, being responsible. I expect to be held responsible. for these issues because I’m the president.“
Despite an $862 billion Economic Stimulus, since Obama took office 4,022,000 jobs have been lost and unemployment reached its highest point in 25 years. It appears the buck is stopping somewhere other than the Oval Office. A new video released by House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) shows Obama’s words misrepresent the reality of his actions and the Democrat’s Stimulus has failed the American people. With ammunition like this video the American people will be holding Obama and the Democrats accountable despite the President’s audacity to profess its success. read more…
If it wasn’t for double-standards, Leftists would have no standards at all.
By: Naked Emperor News
“The filibuster is far from a procedural gimmick. It’s part of the fabric of this institution we call the Senate.”
Watch the video at BreitbartTV
By: KWTX News
Bell County Sheriff Dan Smith confirmed Friday that his office and Fort Hood officials have been talking for several weeks about transferring accused Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan from a San Antonio military hospital to the Bell County Jail.
Hasan is charged with 13 counts of murder in the shooting rampage on Nov. 5, 2009 at the post’s Soldier Readiness Center that left 13 dead and 29 injured.
By: Patrick Peterson
Sen. Barack Obama promised not to cut NASA funding and said Saturday at a town hall meeting he will rely on Florida Sen. Bill Nelson and revered astronaut and former Sen. John Glenn to help form his space policy.
“Under my watch, NASA will inspire the world once again and is going to help grow the economy right here in Brevard County,” said the presumptive Democratic nominee, speaking to a crowd of 1,400 at Brevard Community College’s Titusville campus.
Obama has changed an earlier position, in which he planned to delay the Constellation program five years and use up to $5 billion from the NASA budget for education.
By: Andrew Alderson and Robert Mendick
The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is living with his family in a luxury villa in Libya six months after he was released from jail on compassionate grounds because he had less than three months to live.
Professor Karol Sikora, the London-based doctor who examined Megrahi and predicted he would be dead by last October, admitted this weekend that the fact the bomber is still alive might be “difficult” for the families of the 270 victims of the attack.
By: Olympia Meola
The GOP-dominated chamber has approved measures to prohibit the potential federal regulation of state-made guns and ammunition and to block federal terrorism suspects from being held in state prisons or local jails.
It has passed a resolution memorializing Congress to honor state sovereignty under the 10th Amendment, which reserves for the states powers not expressly granted to the federal government. It passed another resolution to propose a balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
By: Anthony G. Martin
In the frenzied push to pass a massive healthcare bill that will change the U.S. healthcare system from top to bottom, Americans were told that such a plan was needed to address untold suffering on the part of the uninsured and to reign in the skyrocketing costs of medical care.
Even the Democrats and Barack Obama, however, could not manage to approve a bill in spite of the fact that they held a super-majority in both the Senate and the House, and thus, could basically do whatever they pleased.
In the meantime, after an entire year of the constant rehashing of the proposal the American people came to the conclusion that they did not want the program the Administration and Congress were pushing.
This is a MUST SEE video of Glenn Beck delivering the keynote speech at CPAC 2010 to standing ovations. Enjoy what may be one of his best shows yet. read more…
During remarks to CPAC, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released a video showing the close alliance between President Barack Obama and the radical leftist community organizing group ACORN.
When confronted about his relationship with ACORN during his Presidential campaign Obama stated,
“Well, first of all my relationship with ACORN is pretty straightforward. It’s probably 13 years ago when I was still practicing law, I represented ACORN and my partner in that investigation was the US Justice department in having Illinois implement what was called the motor voter law, to make sure people could go to DMV’s and driver license facilities to get registered. It wasn’t being implemented. That was my relationship and is my relationship to ACORN. There is an ACORN organization in Chicago. They’ve been active. As an elected offiical, I’ve had interactions with them. But, they’re not advising my campaign. We’ve got the best voter registration in politics right now and we don’t need ACORN’s help.”
Let’s take a look at how deep their connections really go. read more…
Despite the leftist ideology revealed in Joseph Stack’s manifesto, shortly after he crashed his plane into the IRS building in Austin, TX, progressive media lept to align him with the Tea Party movement, describing him as right-wing, racist, anti-tax, patriot, or militia. Sensing the danger the average American citizen in the Tea Party movement represents to Democrats in 2010 and 2012, they seized the opportunity to insinuate Stack’s alliance hoping to halt the movement’s rising populist wave across the nation.
As expected, leftists at the NY Times, Washington Post, NY Mag, Time, Newsweek, ABC and Daily Kos swiftly established the talking points. ABC News went so far as to resurrect Janet Napolitano’s quickly retracted Depatment of Homeland Security April 2009 report citing, read more…
By: Byron York
Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department. But he does not reveal any names beyond the two officials whose work has already been publicly reported. And all the lawyers, according to Holder, are eligible to work on general detainee matters, even if there are specific parts of some cases they cannot be involved in.
Holder’s admission comes in the form of an answer to a question posed last November by Republican Sen. Charles Grassley.
Times are tough and money is tight, but your car just broke down. You can’t afford a new car, and thanks to Cash For Clunkers you can’t find a used one. You still need to bring home the bacon, so what are you going to do?
No worries! President Obama has a deal just for you! Under the $787 Billion Stimulus Slushfund you can finally afford the mode of transportation desired by Americans across the county . . . a Golf Cart. That’s right. President Obama is willing to give you a $4,200-$5,500 tax credit to join him on the links!
But wait. There’s more! read more…
