Wow! Who knew the FAA would take such pleasure in making life hell for millions of American travelers. It’s almost like they’re proud that they chose to furlough air traffic controllers rather than cut the waste from the agency’s budget.…
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Get Ready For Government Caused Flight Delays That Were Avoidable
by Lonely Conservative • • 38 Comments
In the wake of the sequester President Obama’s bureaucrats went looking for the most painful and inconvenient ways they could implement the small cuts to increases in spending and decided to furlough air traffic controllers. Those furloughs began yesterday, so…
Obama’s Proposed Budget Does Not Really Cut Social Security
by Lonely Conservative • • 6 Comments
All morning I’ve been hearing that the proposed budget that President Obama is finally getting around to submitting to Congress contains some sort of grand compromise of cuts to Social Security and Medicare, along with tax increases. (You didn’t think…
Cancer Clinics Turning Away Patients A Sign Of What’s To Come Under Obamacare
by Lonely Conservative • • 11 Comments
Cancer clinics are being forced to turn away patients because of Medicare cuts in the sequester. The Washington Post made sure “Blame the Sequester” was in the headline. But here’s the thing, this is just a sign of what’s coming…
Dems Freak Over Ryan Budget – A Budget That Still Increases Spending
by Lonely Conservative • • 4 Comments
Democrats are freaking out over Paul Ryan’s budget. They even compared it to baby poop. Seriously. “Let me just say the Republican budget is the same baby with a new diaper and eventually this diaper will have to be changed…
No Sequester For White House Six Figure Staffers
by Lonely Conservative • • 13 Comments
While the Obama administration does everything possible to cause the public pain and inconvenience to make a point on the sequester, they aren’t making any cuts to the White House staff. In the field of energy and climate change alone,…
Email Instructs Federal Agency Not To Contradict Sequester Rhetoric
by Lonely Conservative • • 4 Comments
An official with a federal agency inquired if it was possible for him to implement sequester cuts in such a way as to cause the least amount of pain and inconvenience to those the agency serves. He was told not…
Obama Calls His Sequester Cuts Dumb, Denies Being A Dictator
by Lonely Conservative • • 10 Comments
Here’s more from President Obama’s press conference today. He spent a lot of time blaming Republicans and making claims like he cut more than $2 trillion from the deficit, before saying the sequester cuts concocted in his office are “dumb.”…
About Those Spending Cuts
by Lonely Conservative • • 6 Comments
Nick Gillespie put together this short video to let you know about the “sequester” and those scary cuts the Democrats keep warning us about. – The cuts are tiny compared to the overall federal budget. – They don’t really cut…
Could Calvin Coolidge Succeed In This Day And Age Like He Did In The 1920s?
by Lonely Conservative • • 2 Comments
Last week I listened to an interview with Amity Shlaes who was talking about her new book Coolidge, which is about the presidency of Calvin Coolidge, our 30th president. Coolidge did something no modern republican president has been able to…
Figures – Obama Used Weekly Address To Threaten Americans, Blame Republicans
by Lonely Conservative • • 12 Comments
President Obama is like a broken record. He repeats the same things over and over again. In his weekly address this week he again threatened children, the elderly and everyone who eats food, and then blamed Republicans, even though the…
Leon Panetta Calls Sequester ‘Shameful,’ Fails To Mention White House Proposed It
by Lonely Conservative • • 4 Comments
Outgoing defense secretary said that if Congress allows the sequester – which would cut defense spending – to go through it would be shameful. During an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Panetta pressed lawmakers to find a way to…
Gee, Who Knew, Bush’s Tax Cuts Helped The Middle Class
by Lonely Conservative • • 1 Comment
Ever since President Bush passed his tax cuts the Democrats and the media have done nothing but harp about how those tax cuts benefit only the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. But now that they are about…
Obama Wants To Be Able To Increase Debt Limit Without Input From Congress
by Lonely Conservative • • 7 Comments
I mentioned Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s meeting with Mitch McConnell in my last post, but this bombshell deserves a post of its own. Geithner met with McConnell to talk about the fiscal cliff. He proposed $1.6 trillion in tax hikes…