Shame on you, Mr. Crist, as governor of Florida, for selecting Mr. LeMieux, your former campaign manager, to fill Mr. Martinez’s inexplicable abandoning of his senate seat. What are you thinking? In these times when Republicans need leadership and integrity and, more importantly, every vote to stop the Obama administration’s radical expansion of our government, […]
Cut Unconstitutional Spending
This week, billionaire and Barack Obama supporter Warren Buffet came out against the growing budget deficit. Meanwhile, the Obama administration raised its projection of the deficit for the next 10 years to $9 trillion from $7.14 trillion. The Obama administration wants to spend $3.6 trillion in 2010 alone. On August 3, in the Library of […]
Cash for Clunkers? Clunked Twice
How many people who took advantage of Cash for Clunkers realized that the Obama administration’s $4,500 rebate was going to be taxed – not only once, but perhaps twice? Many of those who jumped on board for the cash rebate are now surprised that this ludicrous program, after putting our nation’s grandchildren $3 billion more […]
My Stimulus Plan
1) Obama’s Energy Policy/Program – TRASH IT! Every recent President or Congress has had an energy policy that didn’t work. During the 1970’s when energy prices first went to the moon, we initiated a Windfall Profits Tax on the oil companies thereby taking funds away from the very entities we needed to find more reserves. […]
Air Pelosi
Speaker Pelosi’s Gulfstream V boondoggle exposes government’s unquenchable thirst for control.
Government Spending is Devastating Capitalism
A quick look at my chart of federal spending as a percentage of GDP shows that the free market in the United States is ailing. The percent of our economic activity by government has risen above 24%. The rapid increase shows no signs of ebbing. What does this mean for capitalism? Rather than competing for […]
Ten Questions Politicians Won’t Anwser
Dear Mr. Axelrod, I received your Reality Check e-mail this week in which you encourage me to go to specific videos on “Health Insurance Reform.” Fortunately, in this latest unsolicited communiqué, you do not suggest that I report to the White House any “fishy” e-mails trashing ObamaCare. I’m sending you a link of my own. […]
What Would You Tell Your Governor?
This weekend, as Tift Merrit and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot jammed away at the Newport Folk Festival, I attended the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Statewide Coalition (RISC, pronounced risk) about a mile away on Goat Island at the Hyatt Regency hotel. RISC is a grassroots taxpayer advocacy group that aims to improve the quality […]
Letter From David Alexrod
Letter from David Axelrod Senior White House Advisor to Deborah Young: Dear Friend, Last night, President Obama addressed the nation in a primetime press conference about health insurance reform. The President made crystal clear what’s at stake in this debate: the fiscal well-being of our nation and the health of our families and small businesses. […]
F-35 Production Shortfall Increases Risk to United States
Your country’s greatest threat to its half-century dominance of the air is the pending gap in Air Force strike fighters. The Senate has voted to kill the F-22, citing costs and a savings of $1.75 billion. After the vote, we now learn that the inferior F-35 is years behind schedule. In retiring 250 F-15s due […]