Archive | September, 2011
Solyndra Execs Will Invoke Fifth Amendment at Testimony
The most recent Solyndra updates are here. Two top Solyndra executives will invoke their Fifth Amendment rights during a scheduled testimony before the House of Representatives, Reuters reports. In the letters sent to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, attorneys for Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison and CFO W. G. Stover [...]
Governor Scott Announces 500 New Jobs in Florida
20. September 2011
Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) today announced the creation of 500 new private sector jobs in his state. According to a press release, Time Warner will create 500 new jobs over the next five years. The jobs will come with an average salary of about $50,000 — about average pay for an American worker. “This [...]
Marist: Obama’s Approval Drops to 39%
20. September 2011
How’s that $450 billion, unfunded “jobs” bill working out? Ah, I see… According to this McClatchy-Marist Poll, the president’s approval rating is at 39% among registered voters nationally, an all-time low for Mr. Obama. For the first time a majority — 52% — disapproves of the job he is doing in office, and 9% are [...]
DoJ Spent $121 Million on Conferences Over Two Years
20. September 2011
The Department of Justice spent $121 million of taxpayer funds on “conference activity” over two years, according to an internal audit by the department’s inspector general. Apparently those $16 muffins and $32 snacks add up quickly. The report shows $47.8 million in conference-related costs for fiscal year 2008. But expenditures spiked in fiscal year 2009, [...]
AP Fact Check: Buffet is Wrong About Tax Rates
20. September 2011
Go figure. From the Associated Press: “Middle-class families shouldn’t pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires,” Obama said Monday. “That’s pretty straightforward. It’s hard to argue against that.” The data tell a different story. On average, the wealthiest people in America pay a lot more taxes than the middle class or the poor, according to [...]
DoJ Billed Taxpayers for $16 Muffins, $8 Cups of Coffee
20. September 2011
We need to raise taxes because there’s totally no waste to eliminate in government. Why, they’re so frugal it’s embarrassing! The Justice Department spent more than $120 million in fiscal 2008 and 2009 to host law enforcement conferences across the country, many of which featured “extravagant and wasteful” costs for food, beverages and event planning, [...]
Perry: Obama Emboldened Palestinians to Seek Statehood
20. September 2011
And he’s right. Obama has done nothing but condemn Israel for building houses and demand concessions from Jerusalem. Remember the “withdraw to pre-1967 borders” clusterfark? He wanted Israel to withdraw to indefensible, artificial, non-historic borders — the same demand the anti-Israeli side has been making for some time. So let’s say you’re the terror-infest Palestinian [...]
Video Flashback: Kennedy Spurs the Economy by Cutting Taxes
19. September 2011
A flashback to a time when both sides understood that tax cuts were the way to stimulate economic growth, and that mutual understanding led to the rapid rise of the United States on the world stage. Now we have a Democratic president who thinks the best way to stimulate economic growth is to take more [...]
Liberal Support for Obama Reaches All-Time Low
19. September 2011
The riffraff, they’re revolting! President Barack Obama’s job approval among liberals tied its all-time low in the Gallup poll last week, according to survey data released today. In the seven-day period that ended on Sept. 18, only 68 percent of liberals told Gallup they approved of the way Obama was handling his job as president. [...]
Obama Plans $3 in Tax Hikes for Every $1 in Spending Cuts
19. September 2011
Read that again, because at least half of you thought I wrote “$3 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax hikes”. Because that’s usually how these things. But no. He’s going the full tax-and-spend route. He wants $3 in tax hikes for every $1 in spending cuts. How is this a “balanced” approach? I’ve [...]
20. September 2011
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