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During an interview aboard Air Force Two last week, Vice President Joe Biden said Democrats aren’t running on Democrat legislative initiatives like ObamaCare and the economic stimulus because “it’s just too hard to explain.”

In fact, the opposite is true.  The failures of ObamaCare and the stimulus package were all too easy to predict, and all too easily could have been avoided. 

For months, Republicans offered to work to find common ground with Democrat leaders in Congress on health care issues such as curbing Medicare fraud and preserving coverage for Americans with pre-existing conditions.  Republican leaders in Congress offered to come to the White House to sit down and talk about ways to bring together a bill that would have the support of a majority of the American people. 

Instead, President Obama and the Pelosi Congress ignored Republican ideas and pressed ahead with a bill on their terms.  The result is a federal takeover of health care that - according to a Rasmussen poll ... more

A new poll shows that a majority of American women would grade President Obama’s first two years in office as a failure and that his signature legislative achievements are driving women out of the Democrat party and causing them to take another look at GOP candidates. 

According to the polling data, 56 percent of women consider ObamaCare a “failure,” against only 29 percent who view it as a success.  The numbers are much the same on the economic stimulus package pushed by the president and approved by the Pelosi Congress.  Just 34 percent of women say it was a success, while 53 percent call it a failure. 

President Obama and the Democrats are also losing among women who identify themselves as independents.  The poll found that a majority of these women viewed TARP, ObamaCare, the auto bailout and the economic stimulus plan as policy failures. 

When America wakes up to a new Republican majority in Congress on the day after Election Day this November, this failure by the Obama White ... more

With just weeks to go until the November elections, President Obama and congressional Democrats are hitting the campaign trail in a last ditch effort to save their majority in Congress and with it the fate of the Obama agenda.  With their poll numbers in free fall, and more and more pundits predicting a Republican takeover, Democrats are trying to convince the voters that they have been concerned about job creation this whole time, despite unemployment numbers that have lingered at nearly 10 percent for 17 consecutive months. 

The reason Democrat hopes are fading is that the economic policies of the Obama Administration and the Pelosi Congress are helping to keep small businesses small.  The refusal of the Democrats to renew the Bush tax cuts for every American has led to uncertainty by investors and small businesses, and the hundreds of billions of dollars in borrowed stimulus spending has helped grow the government’s debt but largely bypassed America’s working families.  Even ... more

New unemployment data released today by the Department of Labor shows that the jobless rate has now topped 9.5 percent for 14 consecutive months – the longest such stretch since the 1930’s. 

The monthly statistics also show a significant increase in the number of people who have part-time jobs but want to work full time.  The number of these “underemployed” Americans rose by nearly 1 million since July, to 9.5 million.  This is the highest number dating back to at least 1955. 

These Americans – the 14 million unemployed and the nearly 10 million underemployed – are the people who have been left behind by the Obama Administration’s so-called “Recovery Summer.”  When these people needed quick action to get the economy moving again, the Democrats in Washington delivered economic policies that have contributed to the worst stretch of unemployment since the Great Depression. 

The millions of American families struggling to make ends meet don’t need more empty rhetoric from the Democrat ... more

The Obama Administration announced today that thirty companies and organizations have been exempted from provisions contained in ObamaCare that could have caused nearly a million Americans to lose the health coverage they already have. 

According to an article in USA Today, “Without waivers, companies would have had to provide a minimum of $750,000 in coverage next year, increasing to $1.25 million in 2012, $2 million in 2013 and unlimited in 2014.”  The waivers cover workers at corporations such as McDonald’s and Jack in the Box, and provides an exception from ObamaCare for 351,000 people covered by a New York teachers union.  McDonald’s had previously told the Obama Administration that it might re-evaluate the wisdom of keeping the plans in place unless it received a waiver. 

Throughout the debate over ObamaCare, the president continued to argue that the government would not take away a person’s health coverage under his health reform plan.  What he failed to tell the people is ... more

A story from ABC News this morning shows that women are increasingly turning away from President Obama and the Democrats and taking another look at GOP candidates this fall. 

According to an ABC News poll, women are 10 points more likely to be registered as Democrats, but on the generic congressional ballot test Democrats’ lead among women is within the margin of error.  This further illustrates the trend that began in 2009 as GOP candidates made historic gains among women voters in the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey and the special U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts. 

In response, President Obama is making a last-ditch appeal to women and hosted an event last night at the White House for female business leaders.  According to the ABC News story, White House advisers are hitting the airwaves to talk about education and pay equity and Jill Biden is hosting a fundraising event billed as “an evening on Broadway.”

If ever something was too little, too late, this ... more

New polling from Gallup shows that the upcoming November elections could surpass even 1994 in terms of being an historic pivot back to common sense, conservative Republican governance. 

The poll of nearly 2,000 likely voters shows Republicans leading Democrats 53-40 percent in a high turnout model, and 56-38 percent in a model showing lower turnout.  According to political analyst Michael Barone, polling like this, “if translated into popular votes in the 435 congressional districts, suggest huge gains for Republicans and a Republican House majority the likes of which we have not seen since the election cycles of 1946 or even 1928.”

The Gallup poll also shows that the enthusiasm gap continues to widen.  The poll released last week showed Republicans leading Democrats in enthusiastic voters by 20 percent.  The reasons for this gap are clear.  Moderate and independent voters who believed the Obama campaign’s promises in 2008 are rejecting the reality of the Obama White House in ... more

Throughout the debate over ObamaCare, President Obama and Democrat leaders in Congress peddled the fiction that the federal takeover of health care would not force the American people to lose coverage they already had and were satisfied with. 

As the bill is being implemented, more and more people are finding that claim to be false.  As an editorial in the Manchester Union-Leader shows, private health plans across the country may find it makes more sense for their bottom lines to drop Medicare Advantage plans because of provisions in ObamaCare.  The editorial was spurred in response to a recent decision by a Massachusetts health plan that will force some 22,000 people to change their health coverage. 

We have known for some time that the president’s claim that people would not be forced into different coverage was false.  In June of last year, President Obama said the government would not force people to change coverage.  In response, Politifact.com said, “It's not realistic for ... more

Every 69 seconds, breast cancer claims another life somewhere in the world.  Despite all of our progress – progress that has helped make sure 2.5 million breast cancer survivors are alive today – the number of mothers, sisters and daughters lost to this disease is still far too high. 

Today marks the beginning of October and National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Breast cancer will strike 1.3 million women this year, and claim almost 500,000 lives, making it the second largest killer of women worldwide.  Nearly every American has a friend or family member affected by this disease, including me.  I am grateful to say, thanks to my faith, my family and my doctors, that I have been a survivor for 12 years. 

To raise awareness and support the effort against breast cancer, let’s take action by updating our Facebook and Twitter status using the hashtag #fightbreastcancer.  Using this hashtag indexes your status update across the internet and will help spread the message to millions of ... more

With nearly 15 million Americans still unemployed, and with taxes set to go up for every tax bracket at the end of December if Congress fails to renew the Bush tax cuts, Democrat leaders in Congress today closed up shop until after the November elections and sent their members home to campaign. 

The most basic function of Congress is to approve a budget and the annual appropriations bills that fund the government.  This year, the U.S. House under the regime of Nancy Pelosi approved only two of the dozen annual appropriations bills required of Congress.  Harry Reid’s Senate fared even worse, failing to pass a single appropriations bill. 

Even worse, the Democrat leaders chose to delay any action on extending the Bush tax cuts until after the November elections.  This means at least two more months of uncertainty for job creators who are waiting to invest until they know how large their tax burden will be next year.  With unemployment lingering near 10 percent for 16 consecutive ... more