CBO: $10 trillion jump in debt under Obama budget
If President Obama’s 2011 budget were put into effect as proposed, the U.S. federal government would add an estimated $9.8 trillion to the country’s accrued debt over the next decade, according to a preliminary analysis from the Congressional Budget Office.Of that amount, an estimated $5.6 trillion will be in interest alone.
Obama Looks to Rally Public in ‘Uphill Battle’ on Health Bill
President Barack Obama this week kicks off a final push to salvage a health-care overhaul plan that faces opposition from the public and resistance from members of his own Democratic Party. While Obama has brought the effort back from the brink of failure, he still faces hurdles. Republicans are united in opposition, and Democratic lawmakers unhappy with the legislation won’t be reassured by polls showing that a majority of Americans oppose it.
Dems Splintering Threatens Health Bill
The escalating battle among Democrats over abortion has grabbed headlines, but a few other intraparty disputes are endangering President Obama’s proposed health care overhaul.
Feds to use Reconciliation to Take Over Student Loans
Everyone knows Democrats are planning to use the budget reconciliation process to get ObamaCare through the Senate. Less well known is that Democrats are plotting add-ons to that bill to get other liberal priorities enacted-programs that could never attract 60 votes.
Democrats hold training sessions on how to talk tough about terror
“The fact that Democrats have to train their own candidates on how to talk about defending America is an indictment not just of their candidates but of their policies, as well”
Obama Program Will Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss?
In an effort to end the foreclosure crisis, the Obama administration has been trying to keep defaulting owners in their homes. Now it will take a new approach: paying some of them to leave.
Obama’s TSA pick: Hire on ‘ethnic diversity’
President Obama’s pick to head the Transportation Security Administration long has pushed for “ethnic diversity” as a determining factor in hiring
Justice Department under Holder rife with traitors
Several attorneys who provided legal advice to suspected or convicted terrorists leaked to the media and Democrat supporters the names of CIA interrogators of enemy combatants
States sue EPA to stop ‘warming’ panic overreach
The EPA, which is threatening to regulate carbon emissions if Congress won’t, is facing legal heat from states that say new regulations will kill jobs at the worst possible time
