| Rarely before have the alternatives facing America been so starkly defined. For the past year, Washington’s leaders have taken an already unsustainable budget outlook and made it far worse. They have exploited Americans’ genuine economic anxieties to justify an unrelenting and wide-ranging expansion of government. Their agenda has included, among other things, a failed, debt-financed economic “stimulus”; an attempt to control the Nation’s energy sector; increasing domination of housing and financial markets; the use of taxpayer dollars to seize part ownership of two nearly bankrupt auto makers; and, of course, the planned takeover of Americans’ health care, already heavily burdened, manipulated, and distorted by government spending and regulation. This domineering government brings taxes, rules, and mandates’ generates excessive levels of spending, deficits, and debt; leads to economic stagnation and declining standards of living; and fosters a culture in which self-reliance is a viceRead more at www.stumbleupon.com |
The electric vehicle industry has a problem. They’re making electric vehicles - thanks to government subsidies, grants and loans - but not many people actually want electric vehicles. They’re not practical as a primary vehicle for most people, particularly those of us who live in northern climates or in rural settings with long distances to travel. And even with various government subsidies these cars are too expensive for most Americans to own as a secondary vehicle. |
So what’s the solution the industry has come up with for their problem? Get the federal government to buy up the vehicles they can’t sell to the private sector. Which is something they pitched to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Energy and Water Development yesterday with Senator Byron Dorgan presiding. |
| I’m not necessarily against clearing the regulatory path to facilitate recharging stations and getting electric vehicles on the road.Read more at sayanythingblog.com |
0bama’s StealthCare: It’s NEVER about ETHICS AND MORALITY, it’s ALWAYS about WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME? Congress Daily’s Anna Edney reports: |
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern and United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger met with House Speaker Pelosi Tuesday, a day after labor leaders met at the White House to express their opposition to the excise tax. |
The excise tax could further be tweaked to ensure Obama’s promise is kept for non-union workers as well. |
Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., said she plans to hold a briefing today to remind negotiators that CEOs of non-union companies also are against the tax.
*UPDATE: AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale e-mails to knock down the story: “It is not true that there any deals. With our national call-in day, and meetings with the White House and Congress, we continue to work hard to get a bill that is worthy of being called health care reform.” Read more at www.politico.com |
| Jon Stewart mocked President Obama last night for pushing ‘weatherization’ as a sure-fire way to create more jobs. Stewart also targeted Congressional spending of the TARP savings for a few laughs. |
| There are so many deep flaws in the “Endangerment Ruling” announced Monday by President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency that it is quite possible the worst of them will escape notice. After all, it’s hard to top the drama of the millions of lost jobs and the crippling energy crisis that will result if the agency begins regulating greenhouse gases — mainly CO2. The agency unilaterally awarded itself authority to do just that with the ruling. But even worse will be the terrible damage this ruling will inflict upon one of the most basic of American constitutional pillars, the separation of powers among co-equal branches, in this case the president and Congress. Obama has launched a thermonuclear warhead aimed directly at the very heart of congressional authority. |
| Here’s why: The EPA Endangerment Ruling assigns to the agency authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate emissions not included under that law’s purview.Read more at www.washingtonexaminer.com |
| “Those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.” — President Barack Obama, 1/20/09 |
| The federal government — controlled completely by Democrats — is in the process of bequeathing our children crushing debts. Imagine being born into the world owing $200,000 for a house you’ll never get to occupy. That’s what each member of America’s next generation will get to experience. |
By U.S. Reps. Pete Hoekstra
and Dave Camp
Special to The Press |
The president recently held a “Jobs Summit” at the White House. Topping the agenda was the creation of “green jobs.” With the unemployment rate in Michigan hovering above 15 percent and the nation at 10 percent, a great deal of hope is being thrust upon the renewable energy industry and the promise of “green jobs.” |
It appears, however, the administration is content with having those jobs performed by prisoners as opposed to law-abiding citizens. |
President Barack Obama has started down the same road of the Clinton and Bush administrations by prioritizing the incarcerated population over the unemployed, and empowering the Department of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Prisons over free market job creators. |
| On the heels of news that United Solar Ovonic, a Rochester Hills-headquartered company and leader in production of solar panels, laid off approximately 80 of its workers at the company’s Greenville facility, we learned 160 prisonersRead more at www.mlive.com |
| Let me first say that the allegation that I’m about to make may not be news to you and your colleagues in the conservative media, but it appears to me that this point — if made at all — is not getting through to the broader conservative community. Please consider my thoughts because I may have stumbled upon something of significance to you and the cause of liberty. |
 With each new and peculiar news story involving the President, my husband makes the same comment to me: another example of demoralizing and discrediting. When you look at his (or the White House/administration) handling of and comments about certain events, the consequences can be said to be destructive to the trust we have in our institutions, important organizations, and critical government roles. What goes unremarked upon is the potential for the demoralizing effect on individuals within our national security and intelligence communities. |
| CIA: Eric Holder investigates the CIA interrogations of terrorists |
When Obama delivered his speech in Peoria, he either hadn’t understood what Owens told him or simply refused to accept it. The stimulus package, he said, would be “a major step forward on our path to economic recovery. And I’m not the only one who thinks so.” Owens, the president said, had told him that “if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.” |
| This was not only untrue, but proved to be embarrassing for Obama. |
After the speech, Owens talked to reporters at the foot
of the podium. No, he wouldn’t be bringing back any workers. (Later, Caterpillar announced that 2,500 of the layoffs would be permanent.) Owens and Schock flew back to Washington on Air Force One. This time, Obama ignored them. There was a chill. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and adviser David Axelrod walked past Owens and Schock repeatedly to speak to the press pool in the rear of the plane. They didn’t stop to chat either.
Read more at www.weeklystandard.com |
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The Road of Less Spending
