President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession.
It is important though to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession
Former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush made a surprise and unannounced visit to the families and victims of the recent Fort Hood Terrorist Attack. The former President instructed the Commander at Fort Hood that there would be NO publicity of this visit. The Bush’s are said to have spent over 2 hours talking and consoling the families of the recent tragedy. President Bush showed his true leadership and character by making this visit in private. He had visited the soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Center many times in private, with no cameras, when he was President and carried on this tradition, showing his true character as a leader.
President Barack Obama, on the other hand, has announced that he will be attending the memorial service and will be speaking at this event in order to publicly show he cares. Obama recently went to Dover Air Force Base and was video taped saluting the caskets of fallen soldiers as they are returned home. While Bush never visited Dover (something he should have done), he often met with families and soldiers in private and thought it was something a President should do and that it shouldn’t be a publicity moment.
No matter how you may feel about President Bush. When it comes to Class this is a real contrast to the current resident of the White House. Thank you, GW!
All House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wants for Christmas is healthcare reform.
The speaker told constituents yesterday that she wants to finish health reform as a “Christmas present” for the country.
“I’m hopeful that we will have a bill as a Christmas present for the American people,” Pelosi said, according to KCBS. “But we will have a bill and it will be soon.”
Hey Pelosi! The best Christmas present you could give the American People would be to resign.
There seems to be some confusion among government officials on how to tell if the attack at Ft. Hood was a terrorist attack.
Here’s a simple test.
If the attacker yells “Allahu Akbar” then starts his killing spree it’s a terrorist attack.
It’s that simple.
Truth be told, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had enough warning signs to raise a flag somewhere along the chain of command. The fact that he didn’t is a glaring example of political correctness run amok.
There is a big difference in how the Obama administration and the Bush administration fights terrorism. Under Bush’s watch the terror attack on Fort Dix was stopped before it happened however the Obama administration ignores evidence of an impending terrorist attack. Once the attack happens the Obama administration is in denial that it was a terrorist attack. They will never admit it.
They say it’s been 2,973 days since a terrorist attack on our soil. The attack on Fort Hood resets the clock to zero.
The Obama administration is going back to the pre 911 mentality of protecting America. God Help us!
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann explain the payoff to supporters of the Health Care Bill.
The American Medical Association (AMA) was facing a 21 percent cut in physicians’ reimbursements under the current law. Obama promised to kill the cut if they backed his bill. The cuts are the fruit of a law requiring annual 5 percent to 6 percent reductions in doctor reimbursements for treating Medicare patients. Bravely, each year Congress has rolled the cuts over, suspending them but not repealing them. So each year, the accumulated cuts threaten doctors. By now, they have risen to 21 percent. With this blackmail leverage, Obama compelled the AMA to support his bill…or else!
The AARP got a financial windfall in return for its support of the healthcare bill. Over the past decade, the AARP has morphed from an advocacy group to an insurance company (through its subsidiary company). It is one of the main suppliers of Medi-gap insurance, a high-cost, privately purchased coverage that picks up where Medicare leaves off. But President Bush-43 passed the Medicare Advantage program, which offered a subsidized, lower-cost alternative to Medi-gap. Under Medicare Advantage, the elderly get all the extra coverage they need plus coordinated, well-managed care, usually by the same physician. So more than 10 million seniors went with Medicare Advantage, cutting into AARP Medi-gap revenues.
The drug industry backed ObamaCare and, in return, got a 10-year limit of $80 billion on cuts in prescription drug costs. (A drop in the bucket of their almost $3 trillion projected cost over the next decade.) They also got administration assurances that it will continue to bar lower-cost Canadian drugs from coming into the U.S. All it had to do was put its formidable advertising budget at the disposal of the administration.
Retaliation
According to the article,
The only industry that refused to knuckle under was the medical device makers. They stood for principle and wouldn’t go along with Obama’s blackmail. So the Senate Finance Committee retaliated by imposing a tax on medical devices such as automated wheelchairs, pacemakers, arterial stents, prosthetic limbs, artificial knees and hips and other necessary accoutrements of healthcare.
Morris and McGann coin the phrase “suicidal Democratic congressmen” - You Bet! I’m stealing that for a new category. Sure hope we can reverse the damage to our nation wrought by the Democrats. We just received another nail in America’s coffin.
What a piece of work! Supported by the Republican National Committee, endorsed by Newt Gingrich, withdraws from the race and endorses the Democrat.
Here’s a politician that has no personal integrity whatsoever. I guess this is par for the course. Today’s political elite care only about themselves and political power.
With less than two months to go before the big Copenhagen Conference on global warming, two major nations have said “no thanks” to the no-growth agenda.
It appears that China and India don’t care to sign on to the “no growth” agenda of the United Nations.
William Hawkins, writing in the American Thinker, quotes a piece in China’s Science Times journal that sums up how China — and other developing nations — feel:
Why do the developed countries put an arguable scientific problem on the international negotiations table?” the article’s author, Wang Jin, asks. “The real intention is not for the global temperature increase, but for the restriction of the economic development of the developing countries.
The Democrat and Republicans In Name Only, (RINO)s, have lost touch with the American People. They have become the political elite and We the People have become "fly-over country." I am not a Nazi, a terrorist, a member of the KKK, a racist, or a member of an angry mob. I'm not a birther, teabagger, truther or astroturfer. I do, however believe in the original intent of the Founding Fathers, the United States Constituton and the rule of law. I believe that Government should serve the People, not the other way around. I’m an American and conservative to my very core.
