• REVIEW & OUTLOOK
• JULY 26, 2010

The White House budget office offers a scorecard on Obamanomics.

Democrats have been running Congress for nearly four years, and President Obama has been at the White House for 18 months, so it’s not too soon to ask: How’s that working out? One devastating scorecard came out Friday from the White House, in the form of its own semi-annual budget review.

The message: Tax revenues are smaller, spending is greater, and the deficits are thus larger than the White House has been saying. No wonder it dumped the news on the eve of a sweltering mid-July weekend.

Mr. Obama inherited a recession, so let’s give him a pass on the budget numbers for 2009. Clearly the deficit would have been large no matter who was President, even if the David Obey-Nancy Pelosi $862 billion stimulus made it larger than it otherwise would have been. What’s striking about the latest budget estimates, however, is that the White House is predicting the numbers won’t improve much through 2011, the third year of the President’s term.  Read the rest of this entry »

Independent verification about corruption in Adams County government

A plurality of voters believe the country would have been better off if John McCain had beaten Mr. Obama in 2008.

Democrats will be gulping this morning at the Quinnipiac Poll’s latest results. For the first time in the survey’s history, Americans believe by a 48% to 40% margin that President Obama doesn’t deserve re-election. Almost as stinging, a plurality believe the country would have been better off if John McCain had beaten Mr. Obama in 2008.  Read the rest of this entry »

Youth Has Outlived Its Usefulness

American politics is desperately in need of adult supervision.

We start with the president’s dreadful numbers. People in politics in America are too impressed by polls, of course, and talk about them too much. In this we’re like a neurotic patient who constantly, compulsively takes his own temperature. We are political hypochondriacs. But polls offer the only hard quick data there is, and when the temperature-taking consistently shows a worsening condition—the fever is not breaking but rising—you have to admit a sickness. And so the polls, the most striking of which this week was CBS’s, which says only 13% of Americans feel President Obama’s economic plans have helped them. After all the money he and Congress have spent, you’d think it would be twice that.  Read the rest of this entry »

I just want to let everyone know that we have a Super Saturday Weekend the 23^rd-25th of this month.

 Our goal is to reach out to as many as 10,000 voters that weekend alone in Adams and Broomfield counties! We need everyone’s help to accomplish this goal—the Victory office cannot do it alone! The campaign and the candidates count on volunteers to get the word out about the Republican party, to register voters as Republican, get them on Permanent Mail-In Ballot status as well as get name recognition for Candidates. The Super weekend of the 23-25^th will be about reaching out to these folks by making phone calls to the voters and knocking on their doors. We are setting it up in shifts: For Friday and Saturday the shifts are from 9am-12pm, 12pm-3pm, 3pm-6pm, and 6pm-9pm. For Sunday, the shifts are for 12pm-3pm, 3-6pm, and 6pm-9pm. My hope is that we can all pitch in at least 3 hours for at least one of the days. We are going to make it fun and will be competing with other Victory offices around the State, as well as competing within office for #1 DIALER. Come on Adams County, Republicans need YOU!

Anna Fitzer

Victory Field Director

(720) 318-7084

Adams Broomfield Victory Office!!

2200 E. 104^th Suite 116, Thornton, CO 80229 

anna@cologop.org

Berwick: Bigger Than Kagan

If the American people want the health-care world Dr. Berwick wishes to give them, that’s their choice. But they must be given that choice.

Barack Obama’s incredible “recess appointment” of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is probably the most significant domestic-policy personnel decision in a generation. It is more important to the direction of the country than Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

The court’s decisions are subject to the tempering influence of nine competing minds. Dr. Berwick would direct an agency that has a budget bigger than the Pentagon. Decisions by the CMS shape American medicine.

Dr. Berwick’s ideas on the design and purpose of the U.S. system of medicine aren’t merely about “change.” They would be revolutionary.  Read the rest of this entry »

• MAIN STREET
• JULY 13, 2010

Obama’s Immigration Fakery

In 2007, then-Sen. Obama helped derail an immigration bill he claimed to support. He’s no more serious about a bipartisan bill today.

Many of us in the press have had a field day noting Sen. John McCain’s (R., Ariz.) transformation from immigration maverick to the Wyatt Earp of border control. Fair enough.

Back when it counted, however, Mr. McCain was the only Republican presidential candidate to back the last real chance we had for passing a bipartisan immigration compromise. Meanwhile, a man who claims to favor immigration reform but helped derail that 2007 effort gets a free pass. Today this same man is at it again, calling for a new bipartisan effort even as he diminishes the likelihood of any such reform with his continued partisan snipes.

The man is Barack Obama.     Read the rest of this entry »

• OPINION
• JULY 13, 2010

The Bush Tax Cuts and the Deficit Myth

Runaway government spending, not declining tax revenues, is the reason the U.S. faces dramatic budget shortfalls for years to come.

By BRIAN RIEDL

President Obama and congressional Democrats are blaming their trillion-dollar budget deficits on the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. Letting these tax cuts expire is their answer. Yet the data flatly contradict this “tax cuts caused the deficits” narrative. Consider the three most persistent myths: 

• The Bush tax cuts wiped out last decade’s budget surpluses. Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.), for example, has long blamed the tax cuts for having “taken a $5.6 trillion surplus and turned it into deficits as far as the eye can see.” That $5.6 trillion surplus never existed. It was a projection by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in January 2001 to cover the next decade. It assumed that late-1990s economic growth and the stock-market bubble (which had already peaked) would continue forever and generate record-high tax revenues. It assumed no recessions, no terrorist attacks, no wars, no natural disasters, and that all discretionary spending would fall to 1930s levels.  Read the rest of this entry »