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Colo. state Rep. Ramirez rips Pres. Obama on failure to lead
January 31st, 2012 | 
Author: Colo. state Rep. Ramirez rips Pres. Obama on failure to lead
Here’s what state Rep. Robert Ramirez, R-Westminster, told us afterward…
“He’s spending our money to campaign,” said Ramirez. “When is this man going to become president? Three years now, not one time has he been president. Even Bill Clinton, a man that I don’t really respect in a lot of ways, took the time to stop campaigning and be president of the United States. George Bush also made mistakes, but he was president of the United States. And gosh sakes, we had Ronald Reagan, for sure.
“But President Obama has not stopped. Every State of the Union has been a campaign speech. The speech the other night about, “Oh, let’s just work and put America back on track”…it’s not about America being on track to him. Mr. President, it’s time to get the engine started, it’s time to stop planning, and it’s time to start doing. Now. You have made nothing but mistakes. You have done nothing but spend taxpayer money and put us farther in debt. And I, for one, as an American, as an Hispanic American, am not proud to say you are my president.”
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Obama says adding $4 trillion to debt is unpatriotic
“The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents — #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.” – Barack Obama, July 3, 2008
CBS News, August 23, 2011:
The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama’s watch. The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took office. The latest calculation from Treasury shows the debt has now hit $14.639 trillion. It’s the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president.
The national debt increased $4.9 trillion during the eight-year presidency of George W. Bush. The debt now is rising at a pace to surpass that amount during Mr. Obama’s four-year term…The Gross National Debt now stands at 97.6 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product – the total value of goods and services produced by labor and property in the U.S.
The GOP’s suicide march
By Charles Krauthammer, Published: January 19
“Are you better off today than you were $4 trillion ago?”
— former presidential candidate Rick PerryIt’s the campaign line of the year, and while the author won’t be carrying it into the general election, the eventual nominee will.
The charge is straightforward: President Obama’s reckless spending has dangerously increased the national debt while leaving unemployment high and the economy stagnant. Concurrently, he has vastly increased the scope and reach of government with new entitlements and oppressive regulation, with higher taxes to come (to offset the unprecedented spending).
In 2010, that narrative carried the Republicans to historic electoral success. Through most of 2011, it dominated Washington discourse. The air was filled with debt talk: ceilings, supercommittees, Simpson-Bowles.
What’s the incumbent to do? He admits current conditions are bad. He knows that his major legislative initiatives — Obamacare, the near-trillion-dollar stimulus, (the rejected) cap-and-trade — are unpopular. If you can’t run on stewardship or policy, how do you win reelection? Read the rest of this entry »
11 stunning revelations from Larry Summers’s secret economics memo to Barack Obama
11 stunning revelations from Larry Summers’s secret economics memo to Barack Obama
By James Pethokoukis
January 23, 2012, 3:08 pm
A lengthy piece in The New Yorker looks at policymaking in the Obama White House. A key source for writer Ryan Lizza is a 57-page, “Sensitive & Confidential” memo written by economist Larry Summers—eventually to be head of Obama’s National Economic Council—to Obama in December 2008. Here’s some of what I learned about Team Obama’s thinking as the financial crisis was exploding, followed by quotes from the memo itself:
1. The stimulus was about implementing the Obama agenda.
The short-run economic imperative was to identify as many campaign promises or high priority items that would spend out quickly and be inherently temporary. … The stimulus package is a key tool for advancing clean energy goals and fulfilling a number of campaign commitments.
2. Team Obama knows these deficits are dangerous (although it has offered no long-term plan to deal with them).
Closing the gap between what the campaign proposed and the estimates of the campaign offsets would require scaling back proposals by about $100 billion annually or adding new offsets totaling the same. Even this, however, would leave an average deficit over the next decade that would be worse than any post-World War II decade. This would be entirely unsustainable and could cause serious economic problems in the both the short run and the long run.
3. Obamanomics was pricier than advertised. Read the rest of this entry »
Holder’s Texas Defeat
The Supreme Court delivered a wallop to Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday on the Justice Department’s recent federal posturing on the Voting Rights Act. In its unanimous decision, the Justices also sent a warning to civil-rights groups that further reviews of the law may be on the agenda.
In Perry v. Perez, the Justices rejected a series of election maps redrawn by a lower court in Texas to replace a map created by the Texas legislature to account for population growth and four new Congressional seats. The Supreme Court noted that the lower court had “exceeded its mission” and it sent the maps back to the drawing board.
Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Texas is one of nine states required to get preclearance from a federal court or the Justice Department for any changes in election law. While that petition was pending, the maps drawn by lawmakers were challenged on grounds that they diluted minority voting strength. A federal court in San Antonio then drew up interim maps that differed radically from the original set, creating a scenario more favorable to Democrats. Read the rest of this entry »
The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression
1/12/2012
The record of President Obama’s first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change that. What that record shows is that President Obama, with his throwback, old-fashioned, 1970s Keynesian economics, has put America through the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.
The recession started in December, 2007. Go to the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research (www.nber.org) to see the complete history of America’s recessions. What that history reveals is that before this last recession, since the Great Depression recessions in America have lasted an average of 10 months, with the longest previously lasting 16 months.
When President Obama entered office in January, 2009, the recession was already in its 13th month. His responsibility was to manage a timely, robust recovery to get America back on track again. Based on the historical record, that recovery was imminent, within a couple of months or so. Despite widespread fear, nothing fundamental had changed to deprive America of the long term, world-leading prosperity it had enjoyed going back 300 years. Read the rest of this entry »
A 2012 Republican Strategy for Congress
A series of votes can clarify the differences between the two parties on energy, taxes, spending and regulation.
Americans are frustrated over Washington’s inability to address our nation’s economic and fiscal problems. That’s why I have been working with a growing group of senators and House members to develop a plan that can build public support for solutions. It’s called “America’s Choice.”
America’s Choice seeks to highlight the differences between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party led by President Obama. It could do so over the coming months by presenting to the country, through a series of votes in the House of Representatives, the battle between those who believe in broadest terms in limited government and freedom and those who promote government control and dependency. Read the rest of this entry »
NSRF January 2012 Monthly Newsletter
Monthly newsletter of the North Suburban Republican Forum for January, 2012.
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“Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?”
By GERALD F. SEIB
President Barack Obama, who made history in 2008 by becoming the first African-American elected president, would like to notch another historic achievement next year.
He will try to win re-election while likely saddled with a higher unemployment rate than any other president seeking a second term in 76 years.
Mr. Obama undoubtedly would prefer to forgo that distinction, but there is no escaping the harsh economic backdrop that will mark the campaign of 2012. The economic malaise sets the stage for a presidential contest that analysts in both parties expect to be very close, and a much tougher haul for the president than his election in 2008, when he became the first Democrat in 32 years to win a majority of the national vote.
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A Message from Mitt Romney….
MITT ROMNEY WANTS YOU TO BE PART OF HIS
COLORADO WINNING TEAM FOR PRESIDENT
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