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Spending Limit Amendment
Today, Reps. Pence and Hensarling, proposed an Amendment that would limit the amount of money the government spends to 20% of the GDP. This will ensure that the government will not pile onto the enormous debt we have already. This is a common sense solution to the problem of the ever increasing spending spree that CONgress critters and politicians in general like to do when in power.
Morning Coffee Update 23 February, 2010
SHE'S BACK! Heather Graham Pushes the Public Option, Again
Misguided film star Heather Graham is back pushing the Public Option…Well kind of, the spot is mostly rehashed footage from the first ad
In this ad MoveOn.org, again, falsely claims that a majority of Americans support the Public Option… I’ve yet to see a credible poll (accurately depicting what the Public Option is and who pays for it) in which that’s the case.
Big Insurance has been feeling pretty smug, thinking they’d killed the public option. But it’s hard to keep down something that a majority of Americans want. The public option IS BACK!
Ed Morrissey Named CPAC's Blogger of the Year!
Today Ed was named CPAC’s blogger of the year at CPAC along with the honor of introducing Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, he was introduced by the one and only Rush Limbaugh
Here’s Ed:
Green Eggs and Bam
If it weren’t so scary it would be funny how much our progressive administration is acting like Seuss’s Sam-I-am. How many times do we have to say no before they understand? That bucket of cold water in Massachusetts was to get you to stop, not to make you go faster.
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Boondoggle
A year ago, President Obama and Democrats in Washington pushed through their massive $787 billion stimulus package. They claimed this stimulus bill was the silver bullet to fix the economy and bring back jobs. They claimed the best way to end the recession was to go on an unprecedented spending spree.
They were wrong.
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Mount Vernon Statement Released
We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding. Through the Constitution, the Founders created an enduring framework of limited government based on the rule of law. They sought to secure national independence, provide for economic opportunity, establish true religious liberty and maintain a flourishing society of republican self-government.
Each one of these founding ideas is presently under sustained attack. In recent decades, America’s principles have been undermined and redefined in our culture, our universities and our politics. The selfevident truths of 1776 have been supplanted by the notion that no such truths exist. The federal government today ignores the limits of the Constitution, which is increasingly dismissed as obsolete and irrelevant.
Some insist that America must change, cast off the old and put on the new. But where would this lead — forward or backward, up or down? Isn’t this idea of change an empty promise or even a dangerous deception?
The change we urgently need, a change consistent with the American ideal, is not movement away from but toward our founding principles. At this important time, we need a restatement of Constitutional conservatism grounded in the priceless principle of ordered liberty articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
The conservatism of the Declaration asserts self-evident truths based on the laws of nature and nature’s God. It defends life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It traces authority to the consent of the governed. It recognizes man’s self-interest but also his capacity for virtue.
The conservatism of the Constitution limits government’s powers but ensures that government performs its proper job effectively. It refines popular will through the filter of representation. It provides checks and balances through the several branches of government and a federal republic.
- It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal.
- It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life.
- It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions.
- It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom and opposing tyranny in the world and prudently considers what we can and should do to that end.
- It informs conservatism’s firm defense of family, neighborhood, community, and faith.
If we are to succeed in the critical political and policy battles ahead, we must be certain of our purpose.
We must begin by retaking and resolutely defending the high ground of America’s founding principles.
February 17, 2010
Edwin Feulner, Jr., president of the Heritage Foundation
Lee Edwards, Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at the Heritage Foundation, was present at the Sharon Statement signing.
Tony Perkins<, president of the Family Research Council
Becky Norton Dunlop, president of the Council for National Policy
Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center
Alfred Regnery, publisher of the American Spectator
David Keene, president of the American Conservative Union
David McIntosh, co-founder of the Federalist Society
T. Kenneth Cribb, former domestic policy adviser to President Reagan
Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform
William Wilson, President, Americans for Limited Government
Elaine Donnelly, Center for Military Readiness
Richard Viguerie, Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com
Kenneth Blackwell, Coalition for a Conservative Majority
Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring
Kathryn J. Lopez, National Review
Although the tenants put forth in this document are great, and greatly needed, I agree with Michelle Malkin, the only document we need to be following is this one:
More People think Elvis is Still Alive than Believe the "Stimulus" Created Jobs!
- A recent NYT/CBS News poll (#19) reported only 6% of Americans believe stimulus has created jobs.
- Meanwhile, when CBS News polled Americans in 2002 on the 25th anniversary of his death, 7% thought Elvis was still alive.
Here’s Minority Leader Boehner’s statement:
One Year of “Stimulus”: “Taxpayers Aren’t Getting Their Money’s Worth”
“The American people took on record amounts of debt to fund Washington Democrats’ trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ and a year later the nation’s unemployment rate is near 10 percent. Taxpayers aren’t getting their money’s worth from the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ and struggling families and small businesses are rightly asking ‘where are the jobs?’
“Self-congratulatory ‘stimulus’ spin from this Administration is hopelessly out of touch with reality and has about as much as credibility as prior claims that unemployment wouldn’t exceed eight percent or that jobs would be created ‘immediately.’
“Over the last year, as job losses have continued to mount, the Obama Administration has doubled down on discredited ‘stimulus’ spin. The ‘jobs saved or created’ metric was quietly abandoned last year after it turned out that raises were counted as jobs and jobs were counted that simply didn’t exist. The ‘state-of-the-art’ website designed to track the ‘stimulus’ was also discredited after it depicted spending in dozens of phantom congressional districts. Today, fewer than one in 10 Americans believe the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ has created jobs.
“The trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ was put together so fast and so secretively that no member of Congress had a chance to read it before it passed, and it shows. Yet, as poorly conceived and badly executed as the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ was, President Obama and Democrats in Congress still think that Washington is the answer to everything. Democrats’ proposed government takeover of health care is already hurting small businesses by causing additional uncertainty and stifling job creation. The dismal performance of the ‘stimulus’ demonstrates the dangers of allowing Washington to take more control over our economy.
“Americans are asking ‘where are the jobs’ but all they are getting from Washington Democrats is more government, more borrowing, and more debt piled on the backs of our kids and grandkids. Republicans have proposed better solutions to harness the hard work and entrepreneurship of the American people and get our economy moving again.”
National Conference of the Young Democratic Socialists in New York City
“Oh Goodie!”…The theme of this years Conference: Democratic Socialism: A Real Change for a Change
Guess who’s going to speak…
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