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"As in all things, Obama pretends to know more about the oil business than people that do it for a living. He couldn't get one drop of gas to market if his life depended on it."

Chuck Schumer Wants Extremism? Maybe We Should Give Him Some! I guess what we need in Washington are some more extremists, because the "moderates" have given us trillions in deficits.

 
Howard Dean Wants a Shutdown: If Dems want a government shutdown, let's do it.


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Ignorant Or Just Ill-Informed?

Anyone who's ever seen Jay Leno do one of his "Jaywalking" segments on NBC, locating average Americans and asking them factual questions on street corners, knows there are far too many Americans who know next to nothing about just about everything. They can't name our first president or don't know ... More »
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Stop?

Greenspan: Government “activism” killing economic recovery

Tomorrow, former Fed chair Alan Greenspan will go to the Council on Foreign Relations and argue that the main obstacle to economic recovery is the expansion of bureaucratic uncertainy caused by the “activism” of the Obama administration.  Clifford Marks explains his thinking at National Journal, although he clearly isn’t impressed with the argument
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Oof

Poll: Public still has basically no idea what’s driving America’s gigantic budget deficits

Fully 72 percent think reducing foreign aid would produce some sort of “large” savings whereas 51 percent think reducing Medicare benefits would produce savings that are small-ish. To jog your memory about this, we could disband the U.S. military for a year — no funding for defense of any sort — and we would still be only about halfway towards eliminating the annual deficit. Which makes me wonder: Is there any meaningful distinction for most of the public between spending they want to cut and spending that must be cut? Defense is a big chunk of the budget relative to, say, earmarks, and tales of Pentagon waste and the oft-touted stat about how we spend more on our military than the next umpteen nations do on theirs surely resonate when the public’s thinking about trimming budgetary fat. But where, oh where, does the idea come from that foreign aid is some huge fountain of red ink instead of Medicare? It’s chump change. The only explanation I have for that distorted view is that foreign aid is something the public’s willing to cut whereas Medicare, emphatically, is not. Am I missing something here or are we really that deep in denial?

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Guinness Time?

Great news: America sets new record for monthly deficit spending


I must be getting old.  I can recall the days when an annual federal deficit of $223 billion was enough to send Democrats screaming to cable news shows about the profligacy of George W. Bush and his ruinous economic policies.  That seems so quaint these days as the Obama administration posts a record $223 billion deficit — for a single month

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Ignore Bogus, Deceptive Polls: Obama and the Democrats are Losing the Fight in Wisconsin
Bam backs unions again and Gov. Walker responds. » Commentary:  A Shoddy New York Times Poll

 
 Watch It!  "Waiting for 'Superman'" shines a light on greedy schools.


Enjoying the Carter Years Again? Obama is replaying the failed Carter presidency at home and abroad.

We Keep Spending More, Yet Our Education System Just Keeps Getting Worse
Just because you spend more doesn't mean you get better results in schools or anything else.


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Unrepresentative?

A peek under the hood of the NYT/CBS poll

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