President Obama would be surprised to learn that Senate Democrats have paved the way to repeal Obamacare. Republicans and conservatives have been planning ways to repeal Obamacare and were facing an up hill battle. However, Senator Reid (D-Nevada) unwittingly gave a gift to those wishing to repeal Obamacare earlier this week. Senator Reid invoked...
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Earlier this week, Senate Democrats blocked the passage of the Obama jobs bill. Lacking support by both Democrats and Republicans, Senator Reid (D-Nevada) used the so-called nuclear option to block Senate Republicans from bringing the Obama jobs bill to a vote. President Obama has been demanding that the congress pass his American Jobs Act. ...
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Today, Senate Republicans introduced the Honest Budget Act in an attempt to change the way that the Federal Government budgets and spends money. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced the Honest Budget Act to make it harder for Washington to hide and justify spending to make the Federal Government operate...
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The Obama debt ceiling increase flip flop is being highlighted in a new ad sponsored by Americans For Prosperity. The 30 second ad outlines the Obama debt ceiling increase flip flop very effectively. In the ad, Senator Obama is quoted as saying “… raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure” on...
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Declaration of Independence Facts Many Americans and more sadly, many politicians are not familiar with the founding documents of the United States. Here are a couple of facts that you may not have known: The wording was approved on July 4th, 1776, but it wasn’t signed until later. It does not start with “We...
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The Constitution of the United States was established to define the roll of government and establish the law of the land. Every President and Congressman swears an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. However, many leaders in the Federal Government remain ignorant about the Constituion. In fact, many in Congress do...
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The founders of our country set up the Federal Government and listed the 20 specific powers the Federal Government. But what one thing does the government do the most? Provide and maintain a Navy? Establish post offices and post roads? To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of...
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As prominent conservatives and tea parties highlight potential constitutional issues for many of the Obama administration’s agenda items, liberals in Congress have been dusting off their copies of the US Constitution to defend the new laws they have passed or are pushing on the American people. However, while attempting to defend the assault on...
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As Congress battles over extending the Bush tax cuts, Americans are reminded yet again that many of those in Congress do not look at tax cuts as letting Americans keep more of their hard earned money, but rather deciding how much money they will graciously “give” us. This weekend, the Congress is battling over the...
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Today, several news organizations indicated that in the early hours of the morning, the national debt tops $13 trillion for the first time in history. This news comes as Congress gets set to vote this week on an additional $130 billion of spending to add to the 2010 Obama budget deficit of over $1.4 trillion. The...
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