News of note this week

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Here are some articles on major political news this week: The Wall Street Journal has an article on The Obama-Pelosi Lame Duck Strategy.  I hope that Patrick Murphy becomes a “lame duck”, but has some class and does not participate in more complete disregard for the will of his constituents The Intelligencer has an article [...]

Obama cuts another great deal

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Image via Wikipedia President Obama managed to get BP to agree to $100/million dollars to cover payroll expenses for his six month moritorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.  The problem is that the monthly salaries of the workers is actually $330/million per month.  So, 6 months would amount to $1.98 Billion dollars or [...]

Obama in way over his head

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Image via Wikipedia President Obama just made some brief statement regarding the Gulf Oil Spill.  Now he’s blaming communication problems.  That might have been acceptable in the first week or two after the disaster, but not now.  Are you telling me that they couldn’t find a way to communicate between boats before now?  How about [...]

Job Killing Policies

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

John Boehner’s Leader Alert today is titled “As Americans Ask “Where Are the Jobs?” Obama Advisor Pushes for Even More Tax Hikes”.  It talks about Paul Volcker’s (President Obama’s advisor) recommendation to implement a Value Added Tax (VAT).  As the article explains, this will increase costs and cause further job losses. The article also includes details on other [...]

CBO underestimated – again

Friday, March 26th, 2010

The CBO just released a new 10 year forecast.  It seems that the public debt (total debt is much higher) will be 2 trillion dollars more than they originally estimated.  I saw the following numbers on Fox & Friends that shows President Obama’s effect on the debt.  And let’s not forget, Patrick Murphy voted for [...]

The Government Takeover Continues

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Today’s signing, by President Obama, of the healthcare bill continues the systematic takeover of private business by the progressive movement.  With the help of Patrick Murphy’s votes, our government has taken over the following: The banks (TARP) The automotive industry (GM) The housing industry (Freddie and Fannie) Health-care (with the added benefit of giving enforcement [...]

Get ready for tax increases

Friday, February 12th, 2010

President Obama just changed his position from “not a dime” of tax increases for those making less than $250,000 per year to “agnostic” on tax increases to the middle class.  The next change will be tax increases for the entire middle class.  I’m sure it will be President Bush’s fault.  However, let’s not forget that the [...]

Why Obama and Murphy are responsible for the economy

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

President Obama and Congressman Patrick Murphy, along with the Democratic leadership, keep blaming the economy on President Bush and his administration.   While I agree that President Bush did let spending get out of control, he was not alone.  Let’s not forget that in 2004, when “Senator” Obama was elected to the Senate, federal spending was [...]