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Welfare Spending Now Over $1 Trillion
The
government spent approximately $1.03 trillion on 83 means-tested federal
welfare programs in fiscal year 2011 alone — a price tag that makes welfare
that year the government’s largest expenditure, according to new data released
by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee. The total sum taxpayers
spent on federal welfare programs was derived from a new Congressional Research
Service (CRS) report on federal welfare spending — which topped out at $745.84
billion for fiscal year 2011 — combined with an analysis from the Republican
Senate Budget Committee staff of state spending on federal welfare programs
(based on “The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government Finance”), which
reached $282.7 billion in fiscal year 2011.
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Which
Obama Debate Gaffe Does Krauthammer Think Might ‘Cost the President Dearly’
While
many scored Tuesday night’s contentious presidential debate as a draw, or as a
narrow victory for one of the candidates, Washington post columnist Charles
Krauthammer thinks President Barack Obama made a gaffe — and a big one. One
that will cost him dearly in the final debate on Monday. In his Thursday column
in the Washington Post, Krauthammer predicts this line from the president will
come back to haunt him:
“And
the suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the secretary of state, our
U.N. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we’ve
lost four of our own, governor, is offensive.”
“If
[Romney] gets it right this time, Obama’s narrow victory in debate No. 2,
salvaged by the mock umbrage that anyone could accuse him of misleading on
Libya, will cost the president dearly,”
Krauthammer writes. “It was a huge
gaffe. It is indelibly on the record. It will prove a very expensive
expedient.” Krauthammer blasted Obama for refusing to acknowledge that
inaccurate information was repeatedly disseminated by his administration,
including himself. With some time to prepare for the final presidential debate, “Romney will be ready” to capitalize
on Benghazi in a major way
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Romney
Campaign Sues To Extend Military Voting
by
Tim Brown
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign has
filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin, asking a federal judge to extend the deadline for
absentee ballots for both military and civilians overseas by five days. The
campaign alleges that Wisconsin officials were late in sending out the absentee
ballots. The campaign didn’t stop with Wisconsin though. They also sent letters
to election officials in Mississippi and Vermont demanding that the deadline be
extended. The letters sent out on behalf of Romney by former U.S. Veterans
Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi allege that the deadline for sending out the
ballots missed the targeted date of September 22. Federal law requires that
absentee ballots e sent out to military and oversea voters by September 22 and
returned by November 9.
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Mother
of slain State Dep't official is tired of being ignored by Obama Administration
speaks out on CNN Watch
Here
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Obama:
‘We Have Seen Increases in Coal Production,’ Energy
Dept.: Coal Production Down from ‘08
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"I know no safe depository of the
ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them
not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by
education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Charles Jarvis, 1820
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Election
2012: Colorado President
Colorado: Romney 50%, Obama 46%
The
Rasmussen Reports daily Nation Wide
Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday
Mitt Romney attracting support from 49%, while
President Obama earns the vote from 47%.
Daily
Swing State Tracking Poll
Swing State Tracking: Romney 49%, Obama 46%
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US
‘too slow’ to act as drone’s cam captured Libya horror
By
TIM PERONE
The
United States had an unmanned Predator drone over its consulate in Benghazi
during the attack that slaughtered four Americans — which should have led to a
quicker military response, it was revealed yesterday. “They stood, and they watched, and our people
died,” former CIA commander Gary Berntsen told CBS News.
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Liars
May Lie, But Numbers Are Numbers
I
received an email earlier today from the local GOP office. I always
peruse through them since they often have great ideas on how to counter
misinformation and get conservative ideas out. This email, however,
had a huge chart with numbers. It was titled “After Over Three Years
of Obama… Here’s Your Change!” The numbers were quite enlightening, AND
backed up by credible sources, which I checked and updated
myself. In a nut shell, here’s what it said, and the time frame is January, 2009 when Obama took
office, until now: Oil/Gas: The
average retail price per gallon of gas in the U.S. was $1.83, and today it’s
$3.74. That means there was
more than a 105% increase in the gas price. Source: U.S.
Energy Information Administration and AAA. Crude oil has risen even
more dramatically. The West Texas Intermediate crude oil was selling for $38.74/barrel. It is now at
$92.12 – a 136% increase. Source:
Wall Street Journal. Crude oil is used for everything from
gasoline, home heating oil, jet fuel, asphalt, tar, and plastics, among other
things. So if you have to transport it, pack/bag it or fix the roads
it’s on, the price is going up. So, as
you listen to the campaign messages, LOOK UP THE NUMBERS. In God We Trust All Else Bring Data!
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Obama
Campaign Desperate for Money? by
Giacomo
Borrows $15 Million?
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Pay
gap between government, private sector widens to 34 percent by Jack Moore
The
gap in pay between federal employees and private-sector workers has jumped 8
percentage points since last year, according to new data presented at a Federal Salary Council meeting Friday.
On average, federal employees earn 34
percent less than their private-sector counterparts,
according to the council's analysis. Still,
two years after President Barack Obama proposed a two-year pay freeze for
civilian government employees, the issue of whether and how much feds are
underpaid remains contentious.
A Congressional
Budget Office study released in January found, overall, federal employees
actually earn about 2 percent more in
wages compared to private-sector workers, with wider differences based on
education level. But a June 2011 report
from the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, indicated government pay outstripped private-sector
pay by 14 percent.
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Inhofe:
EPA ‘punting’ regs until after election that ‘spell doom’ for jobs, economy
Republican
Sen. James Inhofe says the Environmental Protection Agency has delayed action
or “punted” on numerous regulations while President Obama tries to “earn votes”
for a second term.
The
Oklahoma senator and ranking Republican on the chamber’s Committee on
Environment and Public Works has released a report stating that when the agency
approves the roughly one dozen regulations next year in 2013, they will “spell
doom” for jobs and economic growth. “The
Obama-EPA plans to move full speed ahead to implement this agenda if President
Obama wins a second term,” Inhofe writes. “These rules taken together will
inevitably result in the elimination of millions of American jobs, drive up the
price of gas at the pump even more, impose construction bans on local
communities and essentially shut down American oil, natural gas and coal
production.”
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Post-ABC tracking poll: Obama 49 percent, Romney 48 percent By
Jon Cohen and Scott Clement
President
Obama and Mitt Romney head into the final debate still deadlocked among likely
voters nationally: 49 percent side with the Democratic president, 48 percent
with the Republican challenger, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. But Romney
now rivals Obama when it comes to dealing with international affairs and
terrorism, leveling the playing field heading into Monday’s debate on foreign
policy. Romney also runs about evenly with the president as voters’ pick who is
the better commander-in-chief. International affairs generally, and handling
terrorism specifically, were once Obama strong points against the former
Massachusetts governor, but voters now divide about evenly between the two. At
the end of September, Obama held an 11 percentage point lead over Romney as the
one voters trusted on terrorism — and killing Osama bin Laden is a mainstay on
the Obama campaign trail. But now, 47 percent side with Obama on the issue, 46
percent with Romney. The new poll also shows far greater parity in a basic test
of popularity: the number of voters with favorable impressions of Romney is on
par with the number with positive views of Obama (50 to 52 percent). However,
the president maintains the edge in “strongly favorable” ratings. The
challenger has improved on several fronts — and potentially evened the score in
key swing states — the race for the White House remains nearly deadlocked among
voters nationally.
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UN
Rapporteur: Electing Mitt Romney Would Be “Democratic Mandate For Torture.”
by Tim Brown
United Nations special rapporteur on
counterterrorism and human rights Ben Emmerson came out and took aim at
Republican candidate Mitt Romney on Friday telling The Canadian Press, “There
is no doubt that the Romney administration would be able to claim — in the
event of a Romney presidency — a democratic mandate for torture.” “That would
put Romney as the first world leader in history to be able to claim a
democratic mandate for torture,” Emmerson said. Emmerson said he planned to
raise his concerns in an address to the UN General Assembly later this month.
So, tell me again why we are in the U.N.?
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Obama
Goes Off-Teleprompter on Gun Control Do
we need another reason to not trust this man?
The president has kept his gun control agenda under
wraps during his first term, although in another
off-teleprompter moment last year, Obama told the head of the Brady
gun-ban group “we are working on it … we just have to go through a few
processes, but under the radar.”
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October
Surprise: Iran Has Agreed to Nuclear Talks
And
there is a tooth fairy, Santa Clause and .........
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Ahead
of Election, President Stops Releasing ‘Stimulus’ Reports
“the
most transparent administration in the history of our country” is now four
reports behind schedule and has so far not released any reports whatsoever in
2012. Its most recent quarterly report is for the quarter than ended on June
30, 2011.
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Michelle
Malkin: ‘Vote With Your Lady Smarts, Not Your Lady Parts’ Watch Here
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