The half-baked abortion known as the “Super Committee” has unsurprisingly failed to come to agreement on the $1.2 trillion in budget cuts needed to avoid sequestration, the mandatory automatic cuts built into the debt ceiling deal. Now $1.2 trillion in…
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Obama, July 3, 2008: Bush Unpatriotic For Running Up $4 Trillion In Debt In Eight Years; Obama Did Same In Less Than Three
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(H/T CNSNews): On July 3, 2008 then-candidate Barack Obama once called President Bush “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic” for adding $4 trillion to the national debt in his eight years in as president. Obama has since added that much to the debt…
Tea Party, Conservatives Big Losers in Debt Ceiling Fight
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The media is very busy trying to claim that the Tea Party was the big winner with the passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011. This could not be further from the truth. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have…
Update on the debt ceiling deal…Tea Party got screwed. No cuts, and if cuts occur, liberal programs are all exempt.
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Here’s the relevant info: Social Security, Medicaid and food stamps would be exempt from the automatic cuts, but payments to doctors, nursing homes and other Medicare providers could be trimmed, as could subsidies to insurance companies that offer an…
Debt ceiling deal reportedly reached by Obama, Reid, McConnell and Boehner. Defense would bear 50% of proposed cuts.
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In another great job of selling the country out, RINO “leaders” John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have agreed to a debt ceiling deal with Harry Reid and President Obama that would give Obama essentially a blank check for $2.4 trillion…
Reid kills second Boehner debt ceiling bill, but hasn’t brought his own to the floor.
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Harry Reid followed through on his promise to kill the second House-passed debt ceiling bill, and Democrats have been spending the day saying that Republicans are holding the economy, the country and even the White House hostage. Let’s see…House bills 2,…
John Boehner Set To Betray Tea Party That Got Him His Job
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The Boehner plan, which speaker Boehner has pushed and told the GOP to “get your ass in line” behind, is a sham. It contains no actual cuts. It merely reduces future increases by calling for a lower increase in federal baseline…
Representative Paul Ryan exposes two-faced Obama in NRO interview about debt ceiling.
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Apparently President Obama has been saying one thing in the debt ceiling talks, and saying an entirely different thing in public. Who knew?! [Obama] has made it harder to establish trust, which will make it harder to find compromise,” Ryan…
