VIDEO – CHRIS CHRISTIE AT THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
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Government Waste and Fraud
OBAMACARE AND THE MEDICAID MESS
FEBRUARY 15, 2011 States need relief from the program’s inflexible rules and escalating costs. By PETER SUDERMAN Facing growing resistance to Medicaid costs, the Obama administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, sent a letter to states last week noting the “urgency of your State budget concerns” and suggesting some minor program changes to
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OBAMA’S BUDGET BLUFF – DICK MORRIS
OBAMA’S BUDGET BLUFF By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Published on DickMorris.com on February 14, 2011 The Obama Administration and its acolytes on the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction commission are propagating the myth that it is Social Security and Medicare that are driving the deficit over $1.5 trillion. Discretionary spending, they plead, is but a tiny
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JERRY BROWN: TO DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM OF TURNING CALIFORNIA AROUND
February 10, 2011 Jerry Brown: A Modern-Day Sisyphus By Victor Davis Hanson California Gov. Jerry Brown must rapidly close a $25 billion budgetary shortfall. But right now it seems almost a hopeless task since the state’s disastrous budget is a symptom, not the cause, of California’s much larger nightmare. Take unemployment. It currently runs 12.6
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IN THE DOCK – HOUSE GOP OVERSIGHT OF OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) In the Dock Get ready for two years of Obama administration oversight by the House GOP. Fred Barnes January 31, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 19 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Upton’s committee is taking up the White House review of past regulations, which the president announced in the Wall Street
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RAND PAUL – A MODEST $500 BILLION PROPOSAL
FEBRUARY 7, 2011 A Modest $500 Billion Proposal My spending cuts would keep 85% of government funding and not touch Social Security or Medicare. By RAND PAUL After Republicans swept into office in 1994, Bill Clinton famously said in his State of the Union address that the era of big government was over. Nearly $10
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REPUBLICAN N.C. SENATOR BOB RUCHO – DEMOCRATS HAVE SPENT US TO DEATH. NOW IT IS TIME TO CLEAN UP THE MESS
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Two approaches to state budget shortfall You Democrats spent us to death; now we must make tough decisions. By N.C. Sen. Bob Rucho Tuesday, Feb. 08, 2011 Excerpts from a speech Rucho, R-Mecklenburg, delivered on the N.C. Senate floor last week: “Here we are in a situation where we’ve got double-digit unemployment. And