I just read the Merrimack Patch’s Letter to the Editor, and I must say that it’s disconcerting at best. You can pretend all you want that we live in a land where we can spend, spend, spend and somebody else will pay without heartache. But to me, that’s delusional and irresponsible. That’s walking up to a child, knocking her off her bicycle, taking her ice cream, and then riding away pretending not to notice the upset cries as you careen down the street. Well there are cries, and they’ll get louder. $16,000,000,000,000 of debt will begin to level some serious cries and pretending that the Orwellian named “Affordable Care Act” is A. Affordable, and B. will actually provide care when you need it is, indeed, an act of delusional, irresponsible lunacy.
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Didn’t He Pledge To Cut the Deficit In Half By Now? What Went Wrong?
Four years ago, President Obama said, “… I’m pledging to cut the deficit, we inherited, by half by the end of my first term in office”. (See for yourself, at about 1:30 in.) Reported today: “The Congressional Budget Office made it official today, projecting a $1 trillion-plus budget deficit for the fourth straight year”. What … Read more
Taxpayers Now Out 25 Billion
The Government Buy-up and Bail-out of General Motors saved union jobs while arbitrarily eliminating tens of thousands of non-union jobs at dealerships, put taxpayers on the hook, and at present will cost us at least 25 Billion in losses as the value of the automaker “we own” a part of continues to decline. Had they … Read more
GrokTV Event – Seacoast Republican Women Congressional Forum – Question 4
To recap: five of the questions asked of the Candidates at the Seacoast Republican Women Congressional Forum were contributed before and during the event by the actual attendees with the lone exception of the last Question by Stella Scamman, the moderator. The Candidates answering were:
NH First Congressional District – Rick Parent, Vern Clough NH Second Congressional District – Will Dean, Dennis Lamare
“NO SHOWS”: Incumbents Congressmen Frank “Stiffing the SRW at the last moment” Guinta and Charlie “It’s not worth my time” Bass.
Much has been made of the annual debt (now all of the years of Obama’s Presidency have had $1 Trillion deficits) and the debt, but little on how to pay that $16 Trillion debt (which soars to over $130 Trillion if you count unfunded future liabilities) – Question 4: How will you work to reduce the debt limit?
GrokTV Special Interview – Rick Parent (candidate, Congress NHCD1) – Question 4: Vote yes on bills that would raise the national debt?
The fiscal maw of the US Federal debt crisis is staring us in the face – $16 Trillion dollars and not one peep of a credible plan to pay it back; All we get is platitudes about winding down the annual deficit of $1 trillion-plus that is plaguing our nation’s future year after year with … Read more
Obama on Unpatriotic Debt – Rut-Roh…
Bwahahahahahaha! I love Liberals. Honestly. They don’t even make it difficult. H/T Hot Air And why not post the RNC’s response… http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VbJ9ICG3Z_I
Obamacare was upheld by the Supreme Court. It is also doomed.
This from Holman Jenkins, Jr. in The Wall Street Journal recently: “The mandate’s survival could actually be a convenience to those who remain seriously interested in fixing health care….Reality could not have instructed President Obama more plainly: The last thing we needed, in a country staggering under deficits and debt, a sluggish economy and an unaffordable … Read more
Son of Greece?
I guess that would make Illinois a close kissing cousin? (H/T: NetRightDaily)
Margaret Thatcher: “…run out of other peoples’ money” Obama: just running out of people
(H/T: Big Government)
There is a meme going around that President Obama is the most frugal President in years – Ha!
Many of the major lefty oriented blogs are touting this – I think to deflect the actual spending orgy that the Obama Administration has actually done. Does anyone not believe that their normal whipping boy – President Bush (hey, isn’t EVERY thing his fault?) is responsible. The problem, as it always is, is in the definition of words and MarketWatch has decided to do just that to save their Obamessiah:
Obama spending binge never happened
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree.
As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno.”
Almost everyone believes that Oba
ma has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true.
But it didn’t happen…
Really? That almost $5 Trillion in debt spending over the last three years didn’t happen?? You just KNEW that any claim like this was going to be challenged and vetted just like Dan Rather was when he was trying to smear then President Bush (and look what happened to Rather). Political Math decided that he had had enough of the Left’s nonsense and “Rathered” (or fisked) them and created a really great infographic on this (full image after the jump). The important part is the definition of WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA BECOMES RESPONSIBLE. Some data points from the Political Math post:
- Bush requested $3.107 trillion, but the final budget of $3.52 trillion was passed by the Democratic Congress and signed by President Obama on March 12, 2009.
- For actual spending, I used the monthly Treasury Reports, which have spending and revenue for every month since 1981 in an Excel file.
- For the CBO fiscal year 2009 estimates.
- The CBO baseline (which was referenced by Nutting for the $3.58 trillion number) is found here.
- President Obama’s actual 2013 budget
There’s a lot of info there and you do need to go and read it. Do so.
Last I remember, NH sent both Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass to CUT THE SPENDING.
Low expectations for Charlie on my part – am not enthused that he has failed to meet that height challenged standard. For Frank, however, who campaigned hard with TEA Party constituencies, the bar was higher – MUCH higher. Sigh….Today, I get to repeat my lament: why isn’t your name among the other Conservatives that voted against spending more? Oh, to be sure, I got both eBlasts about H.R. 4628:
- Charlie’s: Earlier today, the House passed, on a bipartisan vote, legislation to extend the current student loan interest rate of 3.4 percent for one year. Without Congressional action, the rate would double on July 1st, making it even more difficult for students struggling to find jobs in such a weak economy to pay back their loans. I strongly supported this fully-offset, fiscally-responsible legislation and hope the Senate moves on it as soon as possible.
- Frank’s: Representative Frank Guinta (R, NH-01) today voted for the passage of H.R. 4628, the Interest Rate Reduction Act. It would extend the current 3.4 percent rate for college undergraduate recipients of Federal Direct Stafford loans. Without congressional action, that rate will double on July 1. The bill was approved in a 215 to 195 vote.
I note with no small irony that Obama has recently visited over 120 colleges and universities. My response concerning this out-and-out-pander vote back at Frank’s office (NH CD-2 is not my district and I’ve given up on Bass):
So, we’re taking money from a program that most of us want to kill, for which we had no money for it in the first place, to fund a program that Obama nationalized.
Er, where am I wrong here?
Paid Back the Auto-Bailout You Say?
Kevin A. Hassett at AEI has an article (also available in the most recent print edition of National Review) in which he addresses the many fictions of the Obama auto-bailout. You can read it here, but what caught my eye was the nifty graphic that went with it. It suggests what Hassett articulates in his … Read more
Smart Girl Politics Action: “They don’t speak for us”
Smart Girl Politics Action launches “They Don’t Speak for Us” asking women to put the conversation back on real issues important to women. Women are forced everyday to make sacrifices and its time that we put pressure on Congress and this Administration to stop playing games and get back to work for the American people. … Read more
Congressional Stalemate is better than Financial Disaster
Is Congress at a stand-still? If so, is that good or bad?
Americans elect representatives whose views, they believe, are best for our country and our people. Since Americans disagree about these things, there will be disagreements, conflicts and even stalemates in Congress.
Our nation’s founders wanted to ensure that extreme legislation, violating their principles, customs, and beliefs, is not imposed on the American people. So, the founders created a system which typically forces compromise to ensure that legislation is acceptable to most Americans.
US Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) – I keep appreciating how she is actually voting and talking.
As we have said before (and told her personally), Senator Kelly has been a pleasantly surprising voice and vote in the US Senate as she has been voting more conservatively than what we first believed she would. I think this quick interview she did with Fox News shows how important the debt ceiling, the indebtedness this nation has descended to, is to her:
I don’t think that there is a sane person in NH or the rest of the country that would disagree with her. Progressives that worship at the feet of Obama and hang on every syllable uttered from TOTUS? They continue to believe in the magical money tree, financial pixie dust, and Hope (which, as any project manager will tell you, is never a solid plan for success).
7 Things About Obama
Things everyone should know about Democrat leadership. (No need to remind you that they will blame everyone but themselves for it.) Every day, the U.S. government takes in $6 billion and spends $10 billion. This means that every day the federal government spends $4 billion more dollars than it has. The real unemployment rate … Read more
Response to Attacks on Republicans for PAYGO
To the Editor:
Apparently I can read better than Mr. Veverka can hear. In his October 6th letter in the Laconia Daily Sun, Mr. Veverka adamantly assured us the term “TEA Party” did not exist in the Hightower article referenced by my letter. “TEA Party” can found near the beginning of paragraph 8.
The focus of my letter was on the TEA Party, what it is and isn‘t, its criticisms of both parties and wasteful government operations, and its focus on principles, not political party. My letter was inspired by the Hightower column, the most recent (at the time) attempt to malign the TEA Party and its principles.
Hightower’s article and Veverka’s letter are just partisan attack pieces. It is a common liberal technique to attack anyone who tries to stop or even slow the growth of government. Anyone who won’t cave to whatever liberals demand will be smeared. It doesn’t matter whether the program works, is worth the cost, is counter-productive, or is affordable.
Obama Finally Builds Bi-Partisan Coalition!!!
I may be jumping the gun here, but I believe that Mr. Obama will achieve that which he has been calling for for years. Democrats and Republicans will come together today to form a bi-partisan coalition…
The TEA Party is for America not for a Political Party
Jim Hightower’s recent article titled, “Playing politics with humanitarian aid”, (see Jim Hightower.com) is just another anti-TEA Party screed falsely attempting to link it with the Republican Party. The article can be summarized: Republicans and TEA Partiers cannot complain about Democrat wasteful and irresponsible spending which rewards Democrat supporters because Republicans similarly spend to reward Republican supporters.
The TEA Party objects, equally strenuously, to wasteful and irresponsible spending by both parties.
The TEA Party believes that politicians in Washington are only authorized to raise and spend money to pay for Constitutionally authorized functions. Politicians are not authorized to tax or borrow money to reward friends or to buy political support.