“If the Republican Party wins every senate seat in which it now holds a lead, according to Rasmussen’s polls, it will capture eight Democratic seats while holding all of its own.”
“Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years.”
- President Obama, January 27, 2010
1. President Obama is freezing only 13 percent of the budget for only 3 years.
2. President Obama is spending $500 billion of the $800 billion stimulus that hasn’t already been spent.
3. President Obama is spending $500 billion of the bank bailout money that the banks are paying back.
“Obama’s announced intention to freeze 13 percent of the budget for three years is a relatively minor cut. It will trim the deficit by only 3 percent over the decade.”
- Dick Morris
“America’s freedom and security are endangered as we become beholden to other nations, thanks to ballooning deficits and debt…Our out-of-control spending is weakening our country.”
“I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm’s continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts…The Obama Administration’s Chief of Staff scolded participants, calling them, “F—ing retarded,”…Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking.”
“President Obama was disingenuous today when he said that the budget deficit he faced “when I walked in the door” of the White House was $1.3 trillion…That totals $800 billion. That was the real deficit Obama inherited.”
“For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your — if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.”
“Will he emulate Clinton and save his presidency by moving to the center? Certainly not before he has lost his control over Congress. It was not the defeat of healthcare that impelled Clinton’s change of course, but his defeat in the elections of 1994. Even then, it took six months to turn the battleship around. And after he loses Congress? Probably not even then. Clinton was a lifelong moderate who moved to the left when expediency dictated. Obama is a lifelong liberal who pretends to move to the center when he has to.”
“Measures 66 and 67 should be labeled Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law II. They will allow us to watch a state slowly killing itself. They are anti-business, anti-success, anti-inspirational, anti-humanitarian, and most ironically, in the long run, they will deprive the state of tax revenue, not increase it…Reputable economists forecast 66 and 67 will cost the state thousands — maybe tens of thousands — of jobs, and that thousands of our most successful residents will leave the state.”
- Phil Knight, co-founder and chairman of Nike Inc., a company with 5,000 Oregon employees