The House Democrats released their long-awaited draft health care reform bill today, and every rumor about what tax hikes would be included was true–and then some. My friend Ryan Ellis over at Americans for Tax Reform posted the details. The big shocker is that the surtax on high-income earners, including …
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Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:39:30 +0000 – By Liz PeekFinancial Columnist How much will President Obama’s handshake with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez cost the U.S.? Despite Chavez’ bombastic rhetoric about his socialist revolution, the reality is that Venezuela is going broke. While the president’s overtures to Chavez at the recent Summit …
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Confronted by the mass-uprising against the Democrats’ plans to take over health care in the name of reform, the left-wing message machine has kicked into high gear.. Desperate to explain away enormous citizen responses to nearly every public appearance by a member of Congress in recent days, the Soros-backed Center …
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Sun, 10 May 2009 08:30:00 +0000 – By Michael GoodwinNew York Daily News Columnist/FOX News Contributor Watching President Obama and Hillary Clinton conduct their mini-summit with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, I flashed back to their bitter campaign last year. As they sought to outbid each other on who …
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Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:46:21 +0000 – Rush Limbaugh’s extemporaneous speech to CPAC was a tour de force. It was Reagan-plus. It had vision, passion, humor, ridicule (not only for liberals, but for “conservatives” and Republicans who want to accommodate rather than dominate) and power.
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Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:05:29 +0000 – By Phil KerpenPolicy Director, Americans for Prosperity Will the Senate Budget Committee use budget reconciliation for cap-and-trade? It sounds obscure but it’s the trillion dollar question. Committee Chairman Kent Conrad has not sworn off using a process called “reconciliation” to help pass the …
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Memo to Rep. Hal Rogers: If you fund President Obama’s executive amnesty plan, you will own it with him. Now that the president has announced his executive amnesty order, it puts the spotlight squarely on Republican leaders such as House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers who seems to be at …
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Thursday, Reince Priebus, the Dickensian-named Republican Party chairman, gave what he billed as a major address on “Principles for American Renewal.” No one can accuse our political class of opposing recycling: amid paeans to the Constitution, families, and maximizing freedom, Priebus wound through nine principles, six examples, and about 3,500 …
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What are we to make of a president who won’t fight a terrorist army — but will deploy 3,000 Marines to fight Ebola? An administration that pre-emptively announces troop withdrawals while, in the next breath, declares global warming the greatest threat to America? A White House that won’t make a …
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Drowning aboard the sinking ship of President Obama’s unpopularity, Democrats are throwing out a lifeline to Michelle Obama in their effort to tread water in the U.S. Senate. The first lady is hitting the campaign trail for endangered Democrats while the president, viewed as more of an electoral liability than …
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