During fiscal cliff negotiations President Obama told Speaker Boehner that the federal government doesn’t have a spending problem. Seriously, that’s what Boehner told The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore. What stunned House Speaker John Boehner more than anything else during…
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) introduced a piece of legislation that could have come straight out of an Ayn Rand novel. It’s the Cliff Alleviation at the Last Minute (CALM) Act. Seriously, I’m not making this up. “This is not a great…
The Wall Street Journal reconstructed the fiscal cliff negotiations between President Obama and Speaker Boehner, and to say Obama has been negotiating in bad faith would be understatement. Mr. Obama repeatedly lost patience with the speaker as negotiations faltered. In…
Earlier this evening the House passed the first part of “Plan B” which deals with spending cuts and cuts to the military. They were supposed to vote later on the second part dealing with taxes. That bill would have left…
House Speaker John Boehner has angered conservatives during the fiscal cliff negotiations, but at least he has shown a willingness to compromise with the Democrats. What did he get for it? President Obama refuses to budge. Harry Reid refuses to…
The AP reported that foreign holdings of United States debt has hit an all new high – $5.48 trillion. China leads the pack, of course. Foreign ownership of U.S. Treasury securities rose to a record level in October, a sign…
President Obama wants tax hikes. Speaker of the House John Boehner should give him these tax hikes, like, now! So if Boehner and his team are going to put some tax increases on the table, perhaps by eliminating deductions more…
Politico has a new e-book out about the disarray of President Obama’s reelection campaign. Apparently, there’s been a lot of infighting among his campaign operatives and it was decided long ago that they couldn’t run on hope and change this…
This week the House Agriculture Committee voted to advance the massively expensive farm bill. Only four Republicans on the committee voted against the $957 billion boondoggle. Speaker of the House John Boehner isn’t a big fan of the bill, but…
The following is a guest post by Joseph Hall. *** Obamacare is DOA, How Medicare & Medicaid Scams Will Break the Plan While Obama presses his Affordable Care Plan, hucksters are already destroying the government led insurance plans known as…
Continued updates below! Final Update: Here’s a question to ponder. If the Boehner plan was so bad that a number of conservatives couldn’t vote for it, why wasn’t he able to pick up a handful of Democrats to vote in…
Jennifer Rubin got the inside scoop on Speaker John Boehner’s call to his caucus on Sunday. Follow the link for the entire quote, but here’s what caught my attention: And I think the leaders in both parties and both houses…
News broke just a little while ago that Speaker of the House John Boehner said Republican lawmakers would proceed on their own with a plan for the debt ceiling. Now CNN is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will…
Amazingly, this is a poll from CNN, so you can’t say it’s skewed in favor of the GOP! Don Surber broke it down for you: Just two months after he enjoyed 54%-45% approval/disapproval in the liberal CNN Poll, President Obama’s…
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