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BEHIND OBAMA’S PHONY DEFICIT NUMBERS

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:24:00 +0000

President Obama is being disingenuous when he says that the budget deficit he faced “when I walked in the door” of the White House was $1.3 trillion. He went on to say that he only increased it to $1.4 trillion in 2009 and was raising it to $1.6 trillion in 2010.

Congressman Joe Wilson might have said “you lie,” but we’ll settle for “you distort.”

(As Mark Twain once said, there are three kinds of lies: “lies, damn lies, and statistics.”)

Here are the facts:

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THESE ARE THE TRUE DEFICITS: BUSH $800B, OBAMA $1.4T

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:24:00 +0000

Published on TheHill.com February 2, 2010

President Barack Obama is being disingenuous when he says that the budget deficit he faced “when I walked in the door” of the White House was $1.3 trillion. He went on to say that he only increased it to $1.4 trillion in 2009 and was raising it to $1.6 trillion in 2010.

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THE FINAL HEALTH CARE BATTLE: NOW IS THE TIME

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:23:59 +0000

The long battle over health care changes is finally entering its final moments. The result could go either way. It hinges on 23 moderate House Democrats, vulnerable in the 2010 election, terrified by the Brown victory in Massachusetts, barely held in line by Pelosi and up for grabs in this new health care vote.

We need to run television ads in their districts to encourage them to put the final nail in the health care bill. Here’s the text of the ad we propose to run:

“Our Congressman, Mike Arcuri voted for Obama and Pelosi’s health care takeover. For billions in Medicare cuts. Health care rationing. Big taxes on good insurance plans. America said, “slow down.” But now Pelosi and Obama are at it again…and they want Mike Acuri as the deciding vote in a last-minute deal to take over your health care. Call Mike Arcuri at 202-xxx-xxxx and tell him to vote NO on the Obama-Pelosi healthcare takeover. That’s 202-xxx-xxxx.”

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OBAMA AND TRIANGULATION

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:23:59 +0000

Published on TheHill.com on January 26, 2010

Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None, if it really wants to change.

Any president, at any time, can choose to embody the consensus his nation has reached after it has engaged in a period of extended debate. That process, called triangulation, involves the embrace of the elements advanced by the right and by the left that Americans have found valid, and the rejection of those from which they have turned away.

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THE STATE OF THE UNION: A HOLLOW SPEECH

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:23:59 +0000

When President Bill Clinton faced Congress in 1995, after first losing any hope of health-care reform and then control of Congress, he used his State of the Union speech to declare, “The era of big government is over.” President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night only served to remind us that the era of big speeches is over.

As America struggles with a 10 percent unemployment rate, stubbornly refusing to go down even as other economic numbers seem to rise, the public will no longer believe in speeches — only in results. As Cuba Gooding Jr. says to Tom Cruise in “Jerry Maguire,” Americans are saying, “show me the money.”

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DEFEATING OBAMACARE: THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:14:12 +0000

Now is the time to finish off the prospects of Obamacare with the Democrats reeling from the defeat in Massachusetts.

We must not trust them. The apparent reluctance of the House Democrats to pass the Senate version will evaporate once Obama puts his weight behind the bill and Pelosi starts to twist arms. Moderate Democrats cannot be counted upon.

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PELOSI AND REID PLOT SECRET PLAN FOR OBAMACARE

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:14:12 +0000

Highly informed sources on Capitol Hill have revealed to me details of the Democratic plan to sneak Obamacare through Congress, despite collapsing public approval for healthcare “reform” and disintegrating congressional support in the wake of Republican Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts.

President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid all have agreed to the basic framework of the plan.

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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:14:12 +0000

We need to run television ads in their districts to encourage them to put the final nail in the health care bill. Here’s the text of the ad we propose to run:

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MASSIVE TSUNAMI IN MASSACHUSETTS, CONTINUE IT

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:14:11 +0000

Dear Reader:

We have just witnessed a massive political tsunami.

The result in Massachusetts, the single most liberal state in the nation, shows how public opinion is changing across this whole country.

First, of all, thank you for your tremendous help in moving America away from the Obama agenda!

MEMO TO STEELE: GOP WILL WIN

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:09:58 +0000

Published on TheHill.com on January 12, 2010

Pessimism is no more attractive in a party leader than it is in a high school cheerleader. And in the case of Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele, it is unwarranted as well. Despite his prediction, on Fox News, that GOP congressional control will not come “this year,” the Republican Party has a very, very good chance of taking both houses of Congress in 2010.

We are in the midst of a political tsunami. To judge that the water will only ascend a hundred feet or two hundred or three hundred is entirely speculative. Generally, once these things start, they go further than anyone would have thought likely. Only rarely do they fall short.

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