Rubio: “The first is that it’s important to remember that the President has been president for three years. Two of those three years, his party, the Democratic party controlled the House and the Senate. He could have had anything he wanted and he got it. He got ObamaCare. He got the stimulus package. He got the Wall Street regulations. And where are we today? We are worse off today than we were in January of 2009.” read on
By U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa)
When the President takes the podium Tuesday night to deliver a State of the Union speech to the nation, I hope to hear a commitment to actions that will create an environment for economic activity and job creation, including: low taxes and tax certainty, regulatory relief, new export markets, affordable energy and reduced government spending.
I heard directly from Iowans on these issues, and more, during meetings this month in 36 counties. Those who came to the meetings also had questions and comments about the President’s controversial recess appointments, accountability for the government’s Fast and Furious program, the need for domestic energy development, a new national defense strategy, the Federal Reserve, and Social Security. read on
By Penny Star, CNS News.com
In its strategic plan for Africa for the years 2010-215, the International Planned Parenthood Federation has set an organizational goal of increasing its “abortion services” in that part of the world by 82 percent.
The number is in Figure 2, the “performance framework” of the plan (page 7), under “performance milestones/benchmarks” and notes its expectation of an “82 percent increase in abortion services: 212,021 services by 2013, and 273,656 by 2015.” read on
By Geoff Ross, Boogai
President Obama understands his Communist agenda is being rejected by the country. Do not pay attention to his 48 percent approval rating. He is probably riding at about 28 percent. My opinion. The middle class is being decimated by this miscreant socialist with taxes on medicare, sun beds, gas, food, energy, cell phones etc. He is trying to collapse this economy.
The wealth creators are redirecting their resources and are not expanding their businesses or hiring new people. They are waiting for all these unconstitutional regulations and laws to be repealed by the Congress, the next president and or new conservative senate. read on
By Jim Kouri, Law Enforcement Examiner
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Ethics Committee has cleared a congressman who allegedly violated rules for exceeding individual contribution limits to finance his legal defense in a corruption scandal.
“In other words, this lawmaker violated House rules in his effort to defend himself in a bribery case involving Alaska’s ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ fiasco,”
said political strategist Mike Baker. read on
By The Heritage Foundation
On the front page of the White House’s website, a clock slowly ticks away, second by second, counting down to the day, hour, minute, and second that the nation’s payroll tax “holiday” expires and the American people get socked right where it counts — in the pocket book. And just next to that clock is a message laying the blame squarely on the House of Representatives. But today the real culprit in this debacle is the U.S. Senate which, right now, is home for the holidays already, celebrating with family while Washington sits in a stalemate.
In a rare appearance in the White House press room yesterday, President Barack Obama reiterated his message, blaming Washington’s inaction on “a faction of Republicans in the House” and their “refusal to cooperate” with the Senate — as if it’s the job of Members of Congress to go along and get along for the sake of advancing the President’s agenda, regardless of whether it’s the right move for America. As a reminder, this is the same President who has not met with House Republican leadership in five months and is now praising the grand accomplishment of a Senate that has failed to pass a budget for nearly 1,000 days under Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) direction. read on
By CNSNews.com, Special Reprint Permission
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that he did not know that the 926-page Defense Department authorization bill that came through his committee and was approved by the Senate last week on a 93-to-7 vote included a provision that would repeal the military’s ban on sodomy and bestiality if the bill becomes law.
CNSNews.com asked McCain: “Senator, did you read the Defense authorization bill that was passed last week? Were you aware of the language that repealed the ban on sodomy and bestiality?” read on
The Senate has called for the Navy to study whether to move more destroyers to Mayport, Fla., to offset the scrapping of frigates, which is winnowing the number of ships homeported there, or to consider frigate life extensions as a means of reducing the damage to Mayport’s shipyard and repair industry.
The study was included as part of the $662 billion defense authorization bill, which passed the Senate on Dec. 1 and now heads into conference committee with the House. The specific Mayport amendment was introduced by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.
The Navy plans to decommission four ships in 2012. Three of those, all frigates, are homeported in Mayport: the Boone, Stephen W. Groves and John L. Hall. Their decommissioning would leave Mayport with 16 ships. read on
By Judicial Watch
President Obama is determined to push through a foreign ambassadorship for a controversial figure whose close ties to a spy from a terrorist-sponsoring nation derailed a similar post for the same aspiring diplomat in the Clinton Administration.
The tale actually dates back to the late 1990s when Bill Clinton nominated Puerto Rican activist Mari Carmen Aponte, a former board member of the leftist National Council of la Raza (NCLR) and Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF), as ambassador to the Dominican Republic. read on
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The congressional investigation into the gunrunning scandal known as Fast and Furious is in full swing this week, with the House Judiciary Committee to hold a round of hearings today. More and more reporters in the mainstream media are now taking a closer look at the scandal, which GOA first began alerting members to in January. Under the program, thousands of guns purchased with federal tax dollars were allowed to “walk” into Mexico, at which point they disappeared into the hands of violent drug cartels. read on |
