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JACK LEW INTERVIEW: NOT FAMILIAR WITH CAYMAN ISLAND TAX SCAM
In his 2008 campaign Obama attacked this. Now Obama has nominated him for Treasury Secretary to replace Timothy Geithner. NY Times: “As recently as 2010, Jack Lew, President Obama‘s nominee to be the next secretary of the Treasury, had $56,000 invested in a CitiGroup venture capital fund based in the Cayman Islands’ notorious Ugland House, […]
STATE OF THE UNION TOXIC WASTE INVESTMENT: CLIMATE CHANGE
February 13, 2013
Last night’s State of the Union was focused on more of the same, spending, although redefined as investing. The plan never changes, the words do. Government spends/invests, government creates, paid for with higher taxes, and in the end it’s just more debt. One of those areas in the plan which has again been reintroduced is […]
KERRY ARRIVED IN VA WITH MORE SECURITY THAN PROVIDED IN BENGHAZI
February 12, 2013
CNS: “Secretary of State John Kerry took a larger detail of security agents on a trip to Arlington, Va., last week, when he went to visit—of all places—the headquarters of the department’s security bureau, than the State Department deployed to its compound in Benghazi, Libya, in the days leading up to the Sept. 11, 2012 […]
MEDICARE SPENDING CUTS ARE HERE
February 12, 2013
Star Ledger: “The Congressional Budget Office released a report showing that the nation is spending far less than predicted on Medicare.The non-partisan budget office revised down its 10-year spending projection for Medicare by $137 billion, or 2 percent, in its latest long-term economic forecast.” They report that spending for Medicare and Medicaid for last year […]
WE HAVE A PAYING FOR PROBLEM: HOYER
February 12, 2013
Pelosi Sunday morning on Fox: “We have to make a judgment about what, how do we get growth with jobs, that is where the real revenue comes from. You don’t get it by…cutting your education and cutting back on investments in science and National Institutes of Health, food safety, you name it. So, it isn’t […]
WHY DON’T LIBS MAKE MILITARY AS BIG AS FOOD STAMPS?
February 12, 2013
Tonight in the State of the Union Obama will yet again stress his commitment to more jobs, he does it every year. Employment numbers for the uniformed, simple percentage of unemployed, 7.9%, is worse than the day Obama walked into the Oval Office. Worse even still, it does not include all of those millions in […]
MORE NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TESTS: FEWER AMERICAN NUKES?
February 12, 2013
Obama’s response to the test: “These provocations do not make North Korea more secure. Far From achieving it’s stated goal of becoming a strong and prosperous nation, North Korea has instead increasingly isolated and impoverished it’s people through it’s ill advised pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.” Prior to the […]
QUEEN WASSERMAN SCHULTZ ET AL TAKE EARLY HIT ON RUBIO RESPONSE
February 11, 2013
The DC caught the DNC promoting Annette Capella as a Florida Medicare recipient today: “My name is Annette Capella. I’m a senior citizen living in St. John’s County, Florida.” Referring to Rubio: “As his constituent, I sincerely hope he decides that America’s seniors are more important than Tea Party politics or protecting generous tax loopholes […]
WE AVOW THE FIRST AMENDMENT: PELOSI ON GUN RIGHTS
February 11, 2013
Pelosi on Fox News Sunday: “I think that you took one piece of it. We’re talking about no further sales of assault weapons. What is the justification for an assault weapon? No further sales of those, no further sales of the increased capacity, 30 rounds in a gun. We’re re talking about background checks which […]
OBAMA STATE OF THE UNION 2013: IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN
February 11, 2013
Why do we need one? What are we going to hear tomorrow that was not in the inaugural except for the mention of job creation? What are we going to hear that we have not heard in well over 1,800 speeches and comments, often in back of the teleprompter, since the 2008 election? What day […]
February 13, 2013
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