Democrats have spent the last year and a half racking up record deficits and debt, spending money with reckless abandon while claiming that their programs will create jobs for the millions of Americans who are unemployed or underemployed. But after spending nearly a trillion dollars on a "stimulus" that was ...
Read MoreDemocrats just can't seem to break their addiction to spending. They've punted on doing a budget for the upcoming fiscal year, essentially leaving federal spending on autopilot instead of making the tough choices economists say are needed to help create jobs. And as the House and Senate conferees meet to ...
Read MoreIn the Weekly Republican Address, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) talks about Washington Democrats' out-of-control spending spree and its devastating impact on small businesses and our economy as a whole. Boehner notes that this week, he gave President Obama a statement signed by more than 100 economists urging both parties ...
Read MoreDemocrats once called passing a budget “the most basic responsibility of governing,” intoning that “if you can’t budget, you can’t govern” – yet they are on the verge of “making history” by becoming the first Congress in the modern era not to pass a budget. On CNN’s The Situation Room ...
Read MoreHouse Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH), in a meeting with President Obama and Congressional leaders at the White House today, asked President Obama to provide the American people with a progress report on the implementation of his Executive Order which purports to ban taxpayer-funding of abortions. Leader Boehner noted that ...
Read MoreAfter Americans have repeatedly rejected it time and time again, yesterday the White House re-launched yet another "an all-out blitz" - according to The Hill - to "sell" ObamaCare to a skeptical public. The fact remains that a majority of Americans have been opposed to the Democrats' government takeover of ...
Read MoreYesterday, the United Nations Security Council passed a fourth round of sanctions against Iran, in a move the President heralded as a "strong resolution" and "the most comprehensive sanctions that the Iranian government has faced." But the New York Times reported that "the measures did little to overcome widespread doubts ...
Read MoreToday, in a speech at the liberal Center for American Progress, President Obama's Budget Director, Peter Orszag, made a laughable claim about the Democrats' trillion-dollar "stimulus" spending program: [W]hat has been most striking is that for an initiative this large, we have not seen any substantial incidences of fraud and abuse. ...
Read MoreFollow @GOPLeader for Twitter updates The May jobs report released by the U.S. Department of Labor this morning was disappointing enough based on the fact that about 95 percent of the new jobs created last month were government jobs, and only 41,000 private sector jobs were created. But according to an ...
Read MoreOn Monday, Israel took decisive action to prevent terrorists with links to al Qaeda from smuggling weapons to the Gaza Strip, an enclave on Israel’s southern border, which is controlled by the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hamas. After several attempts to peacefully turn one of the vessels away, Israeli commandos defended ...
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