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Fighting Obama’s Fire With Fire of Our Own!
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President Obama is nothing if not a clever operator. He accepts $994,795 in campaign contributions from Goldman Sachs — then turns around when it’s convenient and uses them as a model for why we need to heavily regulate the financial sector. He accepts the support of the gay community during the election cycle — then turns around and delays the implementation of “don’t ask, don’t tell” for as long as humanly possible. He accepts the support of the Jewish community — then turns around and attempts to force Israel to surrender to Iran and her terrorist allies.
Some people would call this two-faced. Chicagoans call this business as usual.
For the first time, however, President Obama is facing the wrath of a growing majority of Americans who aren’t part of his favored constituency groups. It’s one thing for him to tamp down the anger of financial backers or gays or Jews. It’s quite another for him to quell the rage of Americans who despise his destructive agenda.
The tea party embodies that rage, and Obama isn’t quite sure what to do about it. He tried to co-opt it, suggesting that tea partiers were truly the same disaffected Americans who had elected him: “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry and they’re frustrated.” Read More
Americans’ confidence in government at 50-year low
Posted by: | CommentsPoll: 4 of 5 Americans don’t trust Washington
America’s “Great Compromiser” Henry Clay called government “the great trust,” but most Americans today have little faith in Washington’s ability to deal with the nation’s problems.
Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center. Nearly 8 in 10 Americans say they don’t trust the federal government and have little faith it can solve America’s ills, the survey found.
The findings illustrate the ominous situation President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party face as they struggle to maintain their comfortable congressional majorities in this fall’s elections. Midterm prospects are typically tough for the party in power. Add a toxic environment like this and lots of incumbent Democrats could be out of work.
Released Sunday, the survey found that just 22 percent of those questioned say they can trust Washington almost always or most of the time and just 19 percent say they are basically content with it. Nearly half say the government negatively affects their daily lives, a sentiment that’s grown over the past dozen years. Read More
Lindsey Graham pushing gas tax increase
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Leading voices in the Senate are considering a new tax on gasoline, as part of an effort to win Republican and oil industry support for the energy and climate bill now idling in Congress.
The tax, which according to early estimates would be in the range of 15 cents a gallon, was conceived with the input of several oil companies, including Shell, BP and Conoco Phillips, and is being championed by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
It is shaping up as a critical but controversial piece in the efforts by Graham, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to write a climate bill that moderate Republicans could support. Along those lines, the bill will also include an expansion of offshore oil drilling and major new incentives for nuclear power plant construction.
Environmental groups have long advocated gasoline taxes to reduce fossil fuel consumption; the oil industry has spent heavily in recent years to fight taxes that the industry says would harm consumers. Read More
Teacher Who Sought to ‘Demolish’ Tea Party Placed on Leave From School
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An Oregon teacher who announced his intention to “dismantle and demolish the Tea Party” has been placed on administrative leave until his school district finishes its investigation into whether his political activity crossed the line.
The state’s Teacher Standards & Practices Commission is also conducting an investigation into Jason Levin, a media teacher at Conestoga Middle School in Beaverton.
“Jason is on paid administrative leave,” Maureen Wheeler, the school district’s spokeswoman, told FoxNews.com. She described the suspension as “standard practice during an internal investigation.”
Levin has come under fire for saying he’d do anything short of throwing rocks to bring down the Tea Party. In the last two days, the Beaverton School District has received thousands of e-mails and phone calls from people across the country who said they were outraged at his behavior.
The school district is defending Levin’s right to free speech, but it’s investigating whether he used district computers to spread his political message or worked on his “Crash the Tea Party”
Obamacare socks middle class with $3.9 billion tax increase!
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One more small detail they forgot to tell you about in the health care bill:
Taxpayers earning less than $200,000 a year will pay roughly $3.9 billion more in taxes
Income falls 3.2% during Obama’s term!
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Real personal income for Americans – excluding government payouts such as Social Security – has fallen by 3.2 percent since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis.
For comparison, real personal income during the first 15 months in office for President George W. Bush, who inherited a milder recession from his predecessor, dropped 0.4 percent. Income excluding government payouts increased 12.7 percent during Mr. Bush’s eight years in office.
“This is hardly surprising,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economist and former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. “Under President Obama, only federal spending is going up; jobs, business startups, and incomes are all down. It is proof that the government can’t spend its way to prosperity.”
According to the bureau’s statistics, per capita income dropped during 2009 in 47 states, with only modest gains in the other states, West Virginia, Maine and Maryland. But most of those increases were attributed to rising income from the government, such as Medicare and unemployment benefits. Source
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