Below is the full text of the prepared remarks President Obama will deliver during his press conference tonight, along with regular updates from the subsequent QA.; -- Obama on his interactions with Congress on health care. Obama's first question: Have you told House and Senate leaders which health care ideas are acceptable to you? If so, will you share them publicly? And if not, why haven't you stepped in to get a deal done because you are the one pushing a deadline? Obama began b
The final vote is 58 to 40. With that victory the Obama White House has eliminated the last major threat to the largest and most expensive defense program in history, the F-35, and guaranteed the elimination of thousands of jobs throughout the country. If there is any consolation to be had here it comes from the fact that there will be a time when this administration's weakness on defense, and the subservience of their enablers in Congress, will reemerge as a national political issue. And at tha
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Just-released remarks from the Rose Garden on the Senate’s decision to strip funding for the F-22 fighter jet : I want to say a few words about a very important vote that just took place in Congress. Long before I took this office, I argued that meeting our greatest challenges would require not only changing policies in Washington, but changing the way we do business in Washington. I also promised that part of that change would be eliminating waste and inefficiency in our defense projects
July 15, 2009 | Vol. 4, No. 28 Strategy Memo: Time for a Real Stimulus Bill by Newt Gingrich News on the economic front has not been good. When campaigning for his economic stimulus bill this past winter, President Obama and his allies in Congress promised the bill would prevent unemployment from exceeding 8%. Last month, we reached 9.5% unemployment and President Obama conceded it will likely reach 10%. Worse, the huge increase in our money supply and the mou
Two National Homeless advocacy groups singled out Los Angeles as the meanest city in the United States for the criminalization of poverty and homelessness . It's so called Safer City Initiative punishes people for having a roof over one's head. Instead of criminalizing torture or say widespread theft of the American pocketbook via banks, financial institutions and Congress, we punish poor people and the homeless, for what? Being poor. Welcome to disreality. To the right is tent city in Orlan
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From the Desk of: Steve Elliott , President, Grassfire.org Alliance “Obama wants to impose government-run health care in the next three weeks. See below.” –Steve Desert Conservative Visitor, I need your help right now… President Obama launched a full-court press yesterday for Congress to pass his Government-run health care plan before the August recess. That means Obama and the Democrats are planning to rush through their massive plan to put government in charge of
Salt Lake Tribune By Matthew D. LaPlanteThe National Security Agency was so confident that its nearly $2 billion plan for a new data center in Utah would be approved by Congress that it began designing the facility last November. NSA budgeting documents also indicate that the design of the 1-million-square-foot center should be completed by February, with building to begin in June on a project that could mean thousands of construction jobs for a state that, like many others, has been stuck in a
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The Washington Times, “ Pay-go’s promise routinely broken by Washington ” by Stephen Dinan The pay-as-you-go rules President Obama is resurrecting as a solution to runaway federal spending have been repeatedly violated by Congress and the White House, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars to be spent without the required spending cuts or tax increases. After some early successes in the 1990s, the pay-go rules have been waived or gamed for political convenience to the tune of more
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