Obama’s Jobs Speech: The Audacity of Weakness

Obama ham-handedly tries to bigfoot Boehner, and gets kneecapped.

I can’t remember a more stunning rebuke of a president by a congressional leader than House speaker John Boehner’s refusal to agree to Pres. Barack Obama’s demand — er, request — that he summon a joint session of Congress to hear the president’s latest speech on the economy at 8 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, September 7.

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Debt Will Surpass Total U.S. Economy

WASHINGTON TIMES - President Obama‘s budget, released Monday, was conceived as a blueprint for future spending, but it also paints the bleakest picture yet of the current fiscal year, which is on track for a record federal deficit and will see the government’s overall debt surpass the size of the total U.S. economy. Read more at the Washington Times... Read More......

USA Today: Budget sets battle over cuts

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday unveiled his $3.7 trillion budget plan for 2012 at a middle school in Baltimore, saying his proposals are designed "so that every American is equipped to compete with any worker anywhere in the world." Read more at USA Today...

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement Monday that Obama's budget proposal will "destroy jobs by spending too much, taxing too much and borrowing too much. ∴ The president's budget isn't winning the future, it's spending the future,"he said. Boehner cited a group of 150 American economists who signed a statement sent to the White House on Sunday that said spending needed to be cut to help create a better environment for job creation. ∴ That's why the new House majority will vote this week to cut $100 billion in discretionary spending over the next seven months – with more cuts to come – in contrast to the Obama administration, which has proposed no cuts to the current fiscal year's budget while simultaneously asking for an increase in the national debt limit,"

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National Motto Letter sent to President Obama

Led by Michele Bachmann, members of the bipartisan Congressional Prayer Caucus sent a letter to President Obama asking him to correct errors and omissions he made recently regarding America's religious heritage. See the letter HERE.

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Hugh Hewitt: President Obama's year of failure

WASHINGTON EXAMINER, 12/28/2009 by Hugh Hewitt - "President Obama's year of blunders is ending with the worst failure yet by the president and his team: An Islamist terrorist penetrated the United States and came very close to perpetrating the greatest mass-casualty attack within the U.S. since 9/11. ∴ The president's first year in office has been marked by a string of pratfalls." Read more at the Examiner... Read More......