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Monday, February 08, 2010
Will the President Embrace the Call By GOP Leaders to Start Cutting Spending Now?
By Don

In advance of tomorrow's meeting at the White House, GOP leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor have asked the president to work with them and force Congress to cut wasteful Washington spending to help rein in the deficit and create new jobs. The question is: will President Obama embrace this call by Republicans to start cutting spending now? Or will he insist on punting these decisions to a toothless commission that won't even announce its recommendations until after the next election? >>

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Saturday, February 06, 2010
Pelosi's Party: Flush With Wall Street & Union Cash, Defending the Status Quo
By Don

Democrats are pushing a status quo agenda of more spending, more taxing, and more government that benefits their well-heeled backers while raking in gobs of cash from Wall Street and union bosses.

Consider what the Democrats who run Washington are doing to address the major challenges facing the country:

  • America continues to lose jobs, another 20,000 last month alone. What do they do? Keep pressing forward with jobs-killing policies like "card check" that reward their union boss backers but cause uncertainty and prevent businesses from reinvesting and hiring new workers.

  • Washington is spending too much. What do they do? Spend more, with the president outlining a record $3.8 trillion budget and Congressional Democrats slamming any responsible proposal for tackling the unsustainable growth in discretionary and entitlement spending without raising taxes.

  • Taxes are too high. What do they do? Propose a partisan "debt commission" stacked in favor of raising taxes even more and then complaining when Republicans refuse to take part in the scheme.

  • Health care is too expensive. What do they do? Craft a government takeover that would make health care even costlier for young adults, families, and small businesses, while limiting treatment options for seniors.

  • Energy costs are too high. What do they do? Push a "cap and trade" national energy tax that would make energy more expensive, crippling families and devastating energy-intensive industries like manufacturing and agriculture, and shipping jobs to countries like China.

  • We're facing record deficits and debt. What do they do? Pass the buck to future generations by voting to increase the debt ceiling to $14,294,000,000,000 and ignoring Republican solutions for curbing spending like repealing unspent "stimulus" dollars, shutting down TARP, and adding spending caps.
  • Americans and lawmakers don’t have time to read major legislation before a vote. What do they do? They refuse to agree to post all bills online at least three days before Congress votes, and continue to write sweeping bills – like their health care takeover – behind closed doors.

In fact, the only real "change" is in the Administration's approach to the war on terror, with the Democrats in charge treating terrorists as common criminals rather than, well, terrorists.

Despite their phony "war on Wall Street" rhetoric, an article in the Washington Examiner reported that the "top eight recipients of Wall Street PAC money this election are all Democrats." Even the liberal Huffington Post admits that 11 of the top 15 recipients of Wall Street cash – from Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) to Rep. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – are Democrats. >>

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Friday, February 05, 2010
Boehner: Don't Wait for a Commission, Start Cutting the Deficit Now
By Don

House GOP Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today told Treasury Secretary Geithner that Democrats should "scrap the backroom deal" on their so-called "debt commission" and start over. According to CBS News, Boehner said "we should not kick the can down the road to a commission – we should start cutting now." Boehner laid out several steps for real action on cutting the deficit by:

  • "[R]epealing spending from the stimulus…"

  • "[R]eturning TARP money to fight deficit reduction…"

  • "[C]utting discretionary spending…" and

  • "[A]dding real spending caps as the Republican budget did."

The backroom deal between the president and Congressional Democrats would create a panel stacked in favor of raising taxes (watch Boehner here making that argument). According to National Review, Boehner outlined for Geithner how a truly bipartisan "debt commission" should work:

"Boehner told Geithner that if President Obama ‘is serious about Republican participation in this commission then he needs to consult with Republicans on its makeup and structure before it is set up.’ Boehner added that he would support a ‘true bipartisan debt commission’ that’s split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats. ‘We are not willing to be part of a process where the Democrats get to decide which two Republicans are on the panel,’ he said."

The Wall Street Journal reports that Boehner "said that everything needs to be up for discussion, including spending cuts, and that the panel should deliver its report to Congress before the November mid-term elections." >>

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Boehner Says Obama "Deficit Commission" is "Cover for Raising Taxes"
By Don

GOP Leader Boehner commented on the president's so-called "deficit commission" proposal today, arguing that it's little more than "cover for raising taxes – and the last thing that this economy needs right now are tax increases." Watch him here:

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Boehner: Democrats' Jobs-Killing Agenda is "Holding Back Employers"
By Don

On Fox News with Neil Cavuto, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said the uncertainty caused by Democrats' jobs-killing agenda – including proposed tax hikes, the government takeover of health care, and more – is "holding back employers." Watch him here:

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Pelosi's Party: Flush With Wall Street & Union Cash, Defending the Status Quo >>

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