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October 2009
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The Obama Administration’s plan to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility is facing continued opposition and obstacles, and accordingly the administration is now looking for a Gitmo scapegoat. Politico reports today that the Obama administration’s top in-house lawyer is getting blamed for “botching the strategy to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison by January.”
However, with public opinion firmly against the closure, Obama’s Gitmo Experiment seems to have been cursed from the start. In fact, there’s so much blame to go around, why is the Obama Administration trying to pin it all on just one person? So what do other think of Obama’s Gitmo Experiment?
- Last week, the House of Representatives rejected Obama’s Gitmo Experiment when they voted to prohibit the transfer of Gitmo prisoners to the United States.
- The Senate also voted against Obama’s Gitmo Experiment by withholding funding from a wartime spending bill.
- Allies in Europe have rejected Obama’s Gitmo Experiment as major ... more
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Today, Bloomberg is reporting that Obama is considering more spending programs in the attempt to create jobs that his stimulus isn’t creating. One is the proposals is additional transportation spending, an idea supported by some Congressional Democrats as well.
“‘If there was to be another round of stimulus, additional infrastructure would be at the top of the list,’ [Rep. Chris] Van Hollen (D-MD) said. ‘Money for roads, transit and bridges would be a priority.’”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t that what the stimulus was supposed to do?
As The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin accurately pointed out today on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the stimulus bill was a “political bill” that was passed quickly and is now being spent inefficiently – fifty or seventy-five cents back on every (borrowed) dollar spent – in ways that won’t help us gain some “real footing and fundamentals.”
Construction projects under the stimulus bill provide prime examples of how stimulus funds are not ... more
October 2009
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And on Friday they were not in Obama’s favor. For months Obama and his Administration have been touting the fact that the stimulus will save thousands of teachers’ jobs. “We anticipate being able to save hundreds of thousands of teaching jobs throughout the country,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in May. Well, it turns out that it’s easier to talk about saving jobs than actually save them. Not only did the U.S. lose 263,000 jobs in September, a much worse than expected number, but we also found out that thousands of teachers lost their jobs. Reuters reports that 53,000 government jobs were lost in September, including the loss of 10,000 jobs in education. Teachers fared even worse on the local level where cities and counties lost 37,000 jobs, 13,400 of which were jobs in education.
This story sounds strangely familiar and when looking back at promises made by the Administration it is. In July, Biden gave a speech in Richmond, VA in which he criticized opponents of the ... more
October 2009
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Democrats are trying (and failing) to make sure their government take-over of the health care system won’t increase the deficit. One of the gimmicks in the Senate Finance Committee bill is to push many of the costs onto the states. Medicaid is paid for partly by the states and partly by the Federal government. The Senate Finance Committee proposal would require state Medicaid programs to dramatically expand and splits the costs with the states.
With state budgets already strapped around the country, this cost-shifting will require states to raise taxes or cut essential programs, which is why, here in the office, we’ve dubbed this proposal the Obama Health Care State Tax. In fact, state governors are so worried about this huge unfunded mandate that even Democrat governors are speaking out against the proposals:
“'I can't think of a worse time for this bill to be coming,’ said Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D), a member of the National Governors Association's health-care task ... more
October 2009
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The Washington Post today reveals that Obama Administration officials are dubbing their foreign policy efforts “strategic reassurance,” which sounds great to us except it depends on what the strategy is and who is being reassured. The Post’s John Pomfret reports that the Dalai Lama is in Washington, DC this week and Obama will be the first U.S. president since 1991 not to meet with him. The Chinese are certainly reassured by this break in the bipartisan tradition of standing up for human rights around the world, but we aren’t reassured of this strategy.
His Holiness isn’t the first friend of freedom to fall victim to the Obama Administration’s “strategic reassurance” policy:
- Obama reassured Russia at the expense of the Czech Republic, Georgia and Ukraine when he dropped a proposed missile defense shield in Eastern Europe.
- Obama reassured Iran at the expense of Israel by agreeing to continued talks with Iran without preconditions.
- Obama continues to reassure Hugo Chavez and Fidel ... more
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