Archive for July, 2009

Posted by David Limbaugh, July 21, 2009

It’s no wonder the White House is delaying release of the latest dismal budget figures. It’s not just that they are grossly more dismal than the projections. It’s that they will undercut already-waning public support for Obama’s socialized medicine scheme.

The White House was supposed to release the budget numbers this month but has delayed their release until mid-August, which even has The Associated Press raising questions about its motives. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by State Rep Kevin Petersen, July 18, 2009

A job is one of the most important responsibilities in a person’s life. It pays for necessities such as food and shelter, crucial services like health care, and education (both K-12 and higher) which profoundly improves our children’s futures and their job creating potential.

Jobs create revenue for local, state, and federal governments. Income taxes are expected to fund over 40 percent of the $27.7 billion in general purpose revenue (GPR) spent in our current biennial budget. This revenue pays for essential public services, social safety nets, and balances public budgets. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Bobby Eberle, July 17, 2009 at 7:25 am

As you can see from today’s array of columns from writers across the country, the big concern is what is happening with the health care bill moving its way through Congress.

The bill is wrong on so many levels, and conservative writers and pundits are doing an excellent job in letting Americans know the endless array of big-government, freedom-grabbing, soak-the-rich provisions that Obama and company want to impose on the American people. Here are some of the facts you should know:

Fact: The Obama plan will lead to higher costs. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Lori Montgomery, Washington Post Staff Writer, Thursday, July 16, 2009; 1:20 PM

Instead of saving the federal government from fiscal catastrophe, the health reform measures being drafted by congressional Democrats would worsen an already bleak budget outlook, increasing deficit projections and driving the nation more deeply into debt, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said this morning.

Under questioning by members of the Senate Budget Committee, CBO director Douglas Elmendorf said bills crafted by House leaders and the Senate health committee do not propose “the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a signficant amount.” Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Bobby Eberle, July 16, 2009 at 6:57 am

As the Senate debates the final provisions of a $680 billion defense bill, Democrats are trying to poison the water by adding a hate crimes bill to the package. It’s quite obvious that hate crimes legislation and a defense authorization bill have nothing in common and should not be voted on together.

In addition, where is it written that one group, one gender, one class of people are more special and worthy of more protection than another group? Only in left-wing America. Equal protection under the law? Not any more. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Michelle Malkin, July 15, 2009

The New York Times recently warned its readers about a wacky scientist in the Obama administration. But the fish wrap of record let the real nut job off the hook.

Reporting last week on the president’s choice to head the National Institutes of Health, Times writer Gardiner Harris noted that praise for Dr. Francis S. Collins “was not universal or entirely enthusiastic.” The geneticist is causing “unease,” according to the Times, because of “his very public embrace of religion.” Stomachs are apparently churning over a book Collins wrote describing his conversion to Christianity.

It’s called — gasp! — “The Language of God.” Harris intoned: “Religion and genetic research have long had a fraught relationship, and some in the field complain about what they see as Dr. Collins’ evangelism.” Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Ron Heuer, Jul 15, 2009

There is no provision in the Constitution for Czars. By appointing Czars, Obama effectively bypasses his Cabinet and Congress.

What is a “czar” exactly? Wikipedia defines it this way: Originally, the title Czar meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who claims the same rank as a Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch).
The word could be used to designate other, non-Christian, supreme rulers. In Russia and Bulgaria the imperial connotations of the term were blurred with time and, by the 19th century, it had come to be viewed as an equivalent of King. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by MARTIN CRUTSINGER, , Associated Press, July 14, 2009

WASHINGTON — The federal deficit has topped $1 trillion for the first time ever and could grow to nearly $2 trillion by this fall, intensifying fears about higher interest rates, inflation and the strength of the dollar.

The deficit has been widened by the huge sum the government has spent to ease the recession, combined with a sharp decline in tax revenues. The cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan also is a major factor. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Dick Morris, July 13, 2009 Editor’s Note: - This column was written with Eileen McGann

Obama’s health care proposal is, in effect, the repeal of the Medicare program as we know it. The elderly will go from being the group with the most access to free medical care to the one with the least access.

Indeed, the principal impact of the Obama health care program will be to reduce sharply the medical services the elderly can use. No longer will their every medical need be met, their every medication prescribed, their every need to improve their quality of life answered. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by State Rep Kevin Peterson, Jul 11, 2009

Last week’s Petersen’s E-press included the following quote on overall 2009-11 budget numbers: “The budget Democrats imposed on Wisconsin increases state spending by $3.9 billion, increases taxes and fees by $2.1 billion, increases state wide property taxes by $1.5 billion, increases state borrowing by $3.3 billion, leaves an ongoing structural deficit of $2.2 billion, and ended up being a budget that isn’t balanced.”

But the budget is much more than just overall numbers. It is the largest and most significant bill that will be passed this entire legislative session. As such, it will affect every individual’s life in Wisconsin for the next two years and beyond. Read the rest of this entry »