All in all, it’s an abysmal record of domestic and foreign failure, of an oppressive government that spawned the Tea Party movement and left most Americans fearful the country their children will inherit will be one of debt and despair in an increasingly dangerous world. – IBD Editorials
Archive for January, 2012
Obama kills Keystone pipeline – and jobs
Calling congress’ bluff on the Keystone XL pipeline Obama has said no because 60 days is not enough time for a new environmental impact study. The answer was always no. Congress just forced him to say it before the election.
Obama’s jobs council pushes GOP ideas – Obama balks
Like his debt commission Obama’s jobs council will be ignored because it does not fit his ideological game plan for redistribution and more government control.
Gingrich is right about judicial supremacy
The American revolutionaries rejected the idea that a legislature, or any other branch of government, could possess ultimate power. In June 1776, the Virginia Declaration of Rights averred, “all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the People; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.” – Daily Caller
Who’s the racist? – Biden bragged his state was a slave state
When asked how he would do in the South Carolina primary, then Senator Joe Biden said fine because his state was a slave state.
Christie to Romney: Release Your Tax Returns
Christie says he’s always released his returns and calls on his boy mitt to release his. Once a Teaparty favorite for his blunt no nonsense style, Christie has been campaigning for Romney. Has it helped Romney or hurt Christie?
Allen West: Mr. President, please don’t play the race card in 2012
Mr. Holder and others need to know, the criticism of the President is not of his person, but of his policies, which have clearly failed our nation–and most tragically of all in this supposedly post-racial period –have failed the black community.
Perry: ‘Travesty’ That U.S. Energy Security Is ‘Tied to a Nation That Hates Us’
“Through a series of executive orders and actions, I want to open up energy exploration on federal lands and federal waters,” Perry said Tuesday – CNSNews.com
Natural Gas – America’s energy hope?
What happened? Free enterprise and capital markets happened. Fracking and innovation allowed new natural gas deposits to be found in our country which brought forth huge reserves of US energy and drove down costs even while usage soared.
Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Violates Federalism – Coerces States
If Congress is allowed to attach conditions to spending that the states cannot refuse in order to achieve an objective it could not outright mandate, the local/national distinction that is so central to federalism will be erased.