Surprise! ObamaCare doesn’t lower health-insurance costs « Hot Air

Surprise! ObamaCare doesn’t lower health-insurance costs « Hot Air: "For the past two years, ObamaCare critics have repeatedly predicted this outcome. If the White House now can only provide guesswork as to why premiums are escalating faster than ever, it proves their incompetence at being the architects of a national controlled economy, and the folly of that venture at all."

And to this shall no more be added.

Articles: The Coming Obama Administration War on Doctors

Articles: The Coming Obama Administration War on Doctors: "It is ironic that doctors would find themselves targeted by the Obama administration. The American Medical Association endorsed ObamaCare, much to the dismay of a large portion of its members. Although the Association tried to walk back its support two years later, the AMA finds itself in the sights of the administration that got what it needed from the group, and Republicans who view the organization as providing the cover the bill needed at the critical time when it could have been killed. Suddenly doctors find themselves with few friends on either side of the aisle."

Backed the wrong horse because they didn't use their much-vaunted brains.

Government truly wants to help the poor? These charities show how « Hot Air

Government truly wants to help the poor? These charities show how « Hot Air: "The answer to poverty — or any social problem — is not to do more of what doesn’t work. It’s to do more of what does."

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Michelle Malkin » Adventures in liberal tolerance, part 999,901

Michelle Malkin » Adventures in liberal tolerance, part 999,901: "The most unreality-based, snortalicious complaint? That no one would tolerate disrespect of Bush.
So you want to compare offensive Obama signs to offensive Bush signs/displays (Bush assassination chic refresher course here). Really?"

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Obama’s Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett: The Point of Government Is to Give People a Livelihood so They Can Provide for Their Families | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama’s Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett: The Point of Government Is to Give People a Livelihood so They Can Provide for Their Families | Video | TheBlaze.com: "We are working hard to lift people out of poverty and give them a better life, and a footing, and that’s what government is suppose to do."

I think that may be where there's a fundamental difference of opinion....

Awful Unemployment Rate Left Out of More Than 3/4 of Job Stories

Awful Unemployment Rate Left Out of More Than 3/4 of Job Stories: "The Business & Media Institute analyzed 79 stories on the broadcast evening news programs that mentioned "job" or "jobs" between Sept. 1 and Sept. 26 and found only 18 (23 percent) of them actually mentioned the 9.1 percent rate or said that unemployment was above 9 percent. Stories about "job" approval, people doing their "job" and other non-economic references were not counted."

Pravda.
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--Michael A. Walsh - NYPOST.com

--Michael A. Walsh - NYPOST.com: "There are two possible explanations. The first is that the anti-gun Obama administration deliberately wanted American guns planted in Mexico in order to demonize American firearms dealers and gun owners. The operation was manufacturing “evidence” for the president’s false claim that we’re to blame for the appalling levels of Mexican drug-war violence."

I think that's probably it.

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EPA’s greenhouse gas science didn’t follow its own peer review procedure, IG says « Hot Air

EPA’s greenhouse gas science didn’t follow its own peer review procedure, IG says « Hot Air: "The data process used to arrive at the administration’s determination that greenhouse gases endanger “the public health and welfare” violated the Environmental Protection Agency’s own peer review procedure, a new report from the EPA Office of the Inspector General reveals."

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Michelle Malkin » Solyndra Watch and the First Rule of Holes; Update: $1 billion in new DOE loans approved

Michelle Malkin » Solyndra Watch and the First Rule of Holes; Update: $1 billion in new DOE loans approved:

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Global Bust-Up - Mark Steyn - National Review Online

Global Bust-Up - Mark Steyn - National Review Online: "As its own contribution to the end of the world as we know it, the Obama administration has just released a document called “Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future: The President’s Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction.” If you’re curious about the first part of the title — “Living Within Our Means” — Veronique de Rugy pointed out at National Review that under this plan debt held by the public will grow from just over $10 trillion to $17.7 trillion by 2021. In other words, the president’s definition of “Living Within Our Means” is to burn through the equivalent of the entire German, French, and British economies in new debt between now and the end of the decade."

Staggering.

Obama: ‘You Can’t Have a Modern Industrial Economy’ With Lower Taxes | CNSnews.com

Obama: ‘You Can’t Have a Modern Industrial Economy’ With Lower Taxes | CNSnews.com: "“He seems to be of the belief that economic growth comes from the government and therefore the government has to take more money to put it into economic growth and not leave it in the private sector,” he told CNSNews.com."

Good call, Captain Obvious!

Ford pulls bailout-criticism ad after pressure from Obama administration « Hot Air

Ford pulls bailout-criticism ad after pressure from Obama administration « Hot Air: "Remember the Ford ad that featured a new buyer telling “reporters” that he chose Ford because bailouts aren’t “what America is all about?” Hope you watched it while you could, because the video has been removed from YouTube, and the ad has been pulled by Ford, too."

Hugo would be proud...

Excellent. We’re paying millions to dead federal workers « Hot Air

Excellent. We’re paying millions to dead federal workers « Hot Air: "It’s no secret that, under the right circumstances, you can do pretty well for yourself if you land a job with the federal government. And if you stay there long enough, you can set yourself up for a nice, secure retirement situation until you die. But did you know the party doesn’t have to stop just because of a pesky detail such as reaching room temperature? You can keep right on cashing in!"

I pay..... dead people.

Judge questions honesty of Interior Department scientists | Examiner Editorial | Opinion | Washington Examiner

Judge questions honesty of Interior Department scientists | Examiner Editorial | Opinion | Washington Examiner: "Wanger and the Interior Department scientists cannot both be right. The judge's assessment of their testimony and his conclusion about the agency's conduct in the case raise profoundly serious questions about the integrity and honesty of all the federal officials involved in the delta smelt case. And if the judge is correct in that case, taxpayers should be wondering whether other government scientists have given impeachable testimony on behalf of questionable federal environmental policies.
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Out of control.

Articles: Solyndra: Obama's Marble Boat

Articles: Solyndra: Obama's Marble Boat: "As the president stood before a bridge that ironically was ineligible to receive the additional funds he was seeking (another example of how bad the White House staffing is), others noted that Solyndra alone received more stimulus money than did 35 states the last time the Congress gave Obama trillions in walking-around money."

Massive corruption.

Articles: Tax Demagogues Are Lying Liars, in One Graph

Articles: Tax Demagogues Are Lying Liars, in One Graph:

Pay their fair share.
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Michelle Malkin » A new Chicago-based minority voter outreach program: What could go wrong?

Michelle Malkin » A new Chicago-based minority voter outreach program: What could go wrong?: "Operation Vote will function as a large, centralized department in the Chicago campaign office for reaching ethnic, religious and other voter groups. It will coordinate recruitment of an ethnic volunteer base and push out targeted messages online and through the media to groups such as blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women, seniors, young people, gays and Asian Americans."

Obama and ACORN.
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Missouri stimulus beneficiary hosting a $25,000-a-head fundraiser for Obama « Hot Air

Missouri stimulus beneficiary hosting a $25,000-a-head fundraiser for Obama « Hot Air: "Against the backdrop of the Solyndra bankruptcy, what might have seemed innocuous a few months ago seems more than a little sketchy now.

Tom Carnahan is at the helm of Wind Capital Group, an investment firm that received a $107 million federal tax credit to develop a wind power facility in his home state of Missouri. In October, he’s scheduled to host a $25,000-per-person fundraiser to aid Obama’s reelection effort."

Here's a surprise for you.

Investigate Valerie Jarrett Over Deepening Role in Solyndra Scandal | Floyd Reports

Investigate Valerie Jarrett Over Deepening Role in Solyndra Scandal | Floyd Reports: "Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago received one of five inaugural “Choice Neighborhoods Initiative” grants after promising to join with Preservation of Affordable Housing to fix up Grove Parc Plaza. Taxpayers are on the hook $30.5 million to fix up the federal housing tract formerly administered by Habitat, a real estate firm that gave Jarrett a soft landing after she lost stature in the mayor’s office. (Habitat is headed by Daniel Levin, the cousin of Sen. Carl Levin and Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan.) The company’s upkeep was so poor that The Boston Herald noted in 2008 nearly 100 of the complex’s 504 units had been “rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems.” Five years ago, federal inspectors rated the object of Jarrett’s stewardship an 11 on a scale of 1-to-100. Nonetheless, Habitat made more than $16 million as a protector of the downtrodden."

The corruption is sickening. Take the money away!

Return of the real Obama - The Washington Post

Return of the real Obama - The Washington Post: "The authentic Obama is a leveler, a committed social democrat, a staunch believer in the redistributionist state, a tribune, above all, of “fairness” — understood as government-imposed and government-enforced equality."

Good work by Kraut this morning.

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Editorial: We're Sinking Under Obama's Policies - Investors.com

Editorial: We're Sinking Under Obama's Policies - Investors.com: "The head-scratching continues as stocks take another leg down. Why, they ask, must the market be so negative? With an economy buckling under leftist incompetence, what, we ask, is there to be positive about?"

Exactly.

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Is Obama sinking American business? « Hot Air

Is Obama sinking American business? « Hot Air: "In short, when we most need a Hayek in the Oval Office, we have a hack instead."

Nice shot.

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The math says Obama's speech was class warfare | Campaign 2012

The math says Obama's speech was class warfare | Campaign 2012: "To be sure, the wealthy can and should pay more in taxes than the poor. The point here is that they already do pay more -- a lot more. So when we discuss tax increases on the wealthy, we aren't really talking about whether we should be letting "millionaires and billionaires" slide on their obligations to society.

We are really talking about how disproportionately large their share of the tax burden has to become before liberals finally decide it's "fair.""

Exactly.

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Credibility Deficit Widens with President’s Third “Budget” in Seven Months | Committee On The Budget

Credibility Deficit Widens with President’s Third “Budget” in Seven Months | Committee On The Budget: "In the span of seven months, President Obama has offered three different budget plans for the federal government. He offered an actual budget in February, a budget “framework” in April, and yet another tax-and-spend plan this past week (more spending in the “American Jobs Act”; more taxes in a new plan unveiled yesterday). Unfortunately, none of these approaches has provided the kind of leadership that America needs to lift the crushing burden of debt while promoting sustained economic growth."

If you care about the fiscal problems of our government, you should read this.

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Articles: Science for Stupid Idiots

Articles: Science for Stupid Idiots: "Here's my thinking on a vaccine, before injecting one of my kids with one: what are the chances of harmful effects without the vaccine, and with the vaccine? I want two numbers. My nutty logic is that I want to minimize the chances of harmful effects on my child. To calculate that for a particular vaccine, I need those two numbers. An emotionless robot or computer would need those two numbers."

This is a very good article.
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Spending Lies

Always take a bureaucrat's claims that spending is falling with a grain of salt:

Michelle Malkin » LightSquared: Obama’s Dangerous Broadband Boondoggle

Michelle Malkin » LightSquared: Obama’s Dangerous Broadband Boondoggle: "As the House prepares to launch official investigations of both Solyndra and LightSquared, investigators need to look closely at exactly how the Obama FCC’s unusual January 2011 waiver for LightSquared promised the politically-connected company a stunning corporate windfall. The waiver gave the company a green light to use its initial satellite bandwidth license for “exclusive terrestrial purposes.” As the Telecom, Media and Finance Associates, Inc. blog explains, this meant that “the spectrum rights would be considered (and valued) as equivalent to terrestrial spectrum, allowing LightSquared to raise additional funds to build out its network. In fact that is exactly what LightSquared then proceeded to do, by raising $586M, secured against its spectrum assets, in February 2011.”
By the company’s own internal estimates and comparisons with other satellite spectrum transactions, the January 2011 waiver boosted the value of LightSquared’s spectrum assets by $10 billion more than two similarly situated mobile satellite service providers that had gone bankrupt. "

Crony capitalism = fascism.
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Articles: Will Scandal Drive Obama Off the 2012 Ticket?

Articles: Will Scandal Drive Obama Off the 2012 Ticket?: "The reality is that Obama is spent. His false magic is no longer. He has become a cartoon figure to many Americans and more foreigners. Familiarity has produced contempt. He is a fraud, a man who never was anything other than a carefully scripted and wonderfully executed marketing campaign."

Yep. Too bad this is being recognized now, and not 3 years ago.
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Fast & Furious: FBI may have covered up third gun found at scene of agent’s death to protect informant « Hot Air

Fast & Furious: FBI may have covered up third gun found at scene of agent’s death to protect informant « Hot Air: "What we didn’t know until recently is that there might have been more than two guns recovered at the scene. "

The third gun is the smoking gun.

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Fanniegate: Gamechanger For The GOP? | Via Meadia

Fanniegate: Gamechanger For The GOP? | Via Meadia: "Big government, affirmative action and influence peddling among Democratic insiders came within inches of smashing the US economy."

Excellent observation.

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Rex Murphy: The media’s love affair with a disastrous president | Full Comment | National Post

Rex Murphy: The media’s love affair with a disastrous president | Full Comment | National Post: "To the degree the press neglected its function as watchdog and turned cupbearer to a Styrofoam demigod, it is a partner in the flaws and failures of what is turning out to be one of the most miserable performances in the modern history of the American presidency."

Yep.

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The American Spectator : Deep Corruption at the Obama Justice Department

The American Spectator : Deep Corruption at the Obama Justice Department: "Holder's team is out for raw political power unmoored from the law, of course -- but also for hard-leftist ideological ends that undermine the entire tradition of American jurisprudence and legal practice. They are a menace, and they must be stopped."

Amen.

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Obama's urgent jobs plan: Right now, 'right now' means sometime next month maybe - latimes.com

Obama's urgent jobs plan: Right now, 'right now' means sometime next month maybe - latimes.com: "Everybody remembers the urgency of President Obama's attitude toward the awful jobs situation.

Back in early August, Obama said the jobs situation was so urgent that he was going to give another speech about it -- in a month or so, in September after his vacation on Martha's Vineyard.

And then in September the president announced he would give his major jobs speech to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7. But he neglected to check with congressional leaders first. And they suggested the 8th. So, since it was their House, the 8th it was."

President Irrelevant.
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Pending bankruptcy didn’t keep Solyndra from sending cash to lobbyists « Hot Air

Pending bankruptcy didn’t keep Solyndra from sending cash to lobbyists « Hot Air: "The New York Times figures out that Solyndra’s execs used a tested-and-true business method called Lobby For Dollars — and that they kept using this model even as the company disintegrated:"

Your tax money at work.
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You must prove your love for Obama, America | The Daily Caller

You must prove your love for Obama, America | The Daily Caller: "You know Obama loves you. You know how special you are to him. So why do you keep trying to hurt him? Why do you keep backtalking and trying to take his money? Do you think he wants to ruin the economy? You think he wants everybody out of work? You made him do that, America. And if you keep it up, there’s more where that came from."

Excellent!

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Articles: Barack Whobama?

Articles: Barack Whobama?: "Since grandiose narcissism is the standard neurosis of the Left, we are now seeing the downside, when their ego trips run into reality. Narcissists don't act nice when reality turns on them. Humility is not in their vocabulary. If you've ever known any major narcissists you know what to expect."

Direct hit.
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General Reported He Was Pressured On Testimony About White House-Backed Project, Sources Say | Fox News

General Reported He Was Pressured On Testimony About White House-Backed Project, Sources Say | Fox News: "Gen. William Shelton, head of the Air Force Space Command, told House members in a classified briefing earlier this month that he was pressured to change prepared congressional testimony in a way that would favor a large company funded by Philip Falcone, a major Democratic donor, congressional sources told Fox News."

Crony capitalism.
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New e-mails reveal: White House closely monitored Energy Department’s deliberations of Solyndra « Hot Air

New e-mails reveal: White House closely monitored Energy Department’s deliberations of Solyndra « Hot Air: "Remember: Solyndra’s financial difficulties were an open secret in the industry. Everyone knew they couldn’t maintain their cost structure; in fact, before you watch the clip below, read this Bloomberg story about how accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers were warning of “substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern” fully two months before Obama had his big photo-op at Solyndra HQ. Everyone knew. Except, of course, for the Energy Department officials who sat in on the company’s meetings and the White House supervisors who monitored their deliberations. Somehow, when that gang put their heads together, they decided that throwing $500 million federal loan into a solar sinkhole was a smart, savvy idea.
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This is going to be another big scandal going into 2012. Democrats are doomed.

New e-mails reveal: White House closely monitored Energy Department’s deliberations of Solyndra « Hot Air

New e-mails reveal: White House closely monitored Energy Department’s deliberations of Solyndra « Hot Air: "Remember: Solyndra’s financial difficulties were an open secret in the industry. Everyone knew they couldn’t maintain their cost structure; in fact, before you watch the clip below, read this Bloomberg story about how accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers were warning of “substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern” fully two months before Obama had his big photo-op at Solyndra HQ. Everyone knew. Except, of course, for the Energy Department officials who sat in on the company’s meetings and the White House supervisors who monitored their deliberations. Somehow, when that gang put their heads together, they decided that throwing $500 million federal loan into a solar sinkhole was a smart, savvy idea.
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This is going to be another big scandal going into 2012. Democrats are doomed.

Michelle Malkin » Fast and Furious update: More guns, more stonewall

Michelle Malkin » Fast and Furious update: More guns, more stonewall: "In case you missed it — and believe me, the Department of Injustice is hoping you missed it on this 9/11 memorial weekend — yet another violent crime (perpetrated by a suspected illegal alien )has been linked to Obama Fast and Furious guns."

Chipping away.

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The Ulsterman Report: Democrats Pushing Panic Button | Socyberty

The Ulsterman Report: Democrats Pushing Panic Button | Socyberty: "For President Barack Hussein Obama, things have truly gone from bad to worse when none other than the liberal boiler plate known as the New York Times is putting out stories on how fearful Democratic Party leaders are becoming over the increasingly inept and out of touch current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And these worries are not just limited to the possibility of losing the White House – these same Democrats now fear election losses in Congressional and state governor races"

Inevitable and entirely predictable (and, in fact, predicted by many in 2008). The sad thing is how much damage has been done.
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The Ulsterman Report: Valerie Jarrett Admits No Obama Jobs Bill: UPDATED | Socyberty

The Ulsterman Report: Valerie Jarrett Admits No Obama Jobs Bill: UPDATED | Socyberty: "After a long period of silence, senior White House adviser and longtime Chicago-based Obama ally Valerie Jarrett emerges from the shadows to admit on national television the jobs bill President Obama demanded last week to be passed does not even exist."

Twilight zone...

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Articles: Famous Economist Inadvertently Blurts Out the Truth About Keynesian Economics

Articles: Famous Economist Inadvertently Blurts Out the Truth About Keynesian Economics: "The final hell of Keynesian economics is inflation. It comes from printing money just like monopoly money. And quantitative easing is extremely controversial and has never been used on the scale that Ben Bernanke has been doing it in America. Every time more printed currency is put into circulation, the value of your income and your assets declines."

The glories of socialism!

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Revealed: Department of Energy officials sat in on Solyndra meetings « Hot Air

Revealed: Department of Energy officials sat in on Solyndra meetings « Hot Air: "It’s only fair. After all those visits Solyndra execs made to the White House, the least they could do was return the hospitality."

Scandal II.

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Egads!

And these labor unions – the shift from private to governmental unionization…the inherent legacy costs of that scenario is simply unsustainable. The free market cannot withstand the attack. It is collapsing all about us now and too many are simply not paying attention. The only hope for our recovery – the only hope, is our ability to grow our way out of this. That growth, along with massive cuts in government spending, is the only way. Nations such as Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain …they have come to this understanding, but have only been able to do so with the assistance of other nations who in turn are printing their own deficit dollars in order to do so. That situation cannot be sustained can it? And certainly not without growth. Do you know the number of payroll jobs in 1999 was approximately 130 million? That is the same number as in 2011. Zero growth. This economic stagnation is leading to economic decapitation and it is coming sooner not later. It is happening NOW. If this nation does not elect leaders with the political will to do battle with the entitlement status quo, to do battle with the monster that is the Federal Reserve, we are finished. Done. President Obama does not have the political will to do so. Far from it. Nor does he have the understanding of just how dire the situation is. Far from it. More of the same will only lead to the mutual destruction of both political parties and the nation.

Read more: from Ulsterman.

New RNC Ad

In his own words.

Articles: Obama Green Jobs Con Job and the Ill Wind That Blows from Spain

Articles: Obama Green Jobs Con Job and the Ill Wind That Blows from Spain: "I recently had a chance to interview Gabriel Calzada, an economics professor from Spain, whose pioneering work on the interplay between green energy subsides and job creation has been widely cited. His conclusion, backed up by data and facts not blind hope, is that 2.2 jobs are lost for each one "created" by government promotion of green energy jobs. "

Keep this in mind when we hear about the "green jobs bonanza" tomorrow night.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Economy Is 'Continuing on the Upswing' | CNSnews.com

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Economy Is 'Continuing on the Upswing' | CNSnews.com: "Days after the Labor Department announced zero job growth for the month of August, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D.-Fla.), the chair of the Democratic National Committee, said the stimulus helped “turn the economy around” and is responsible for the “continuing upswing.”"

No wonder she's the DNC Chairman.

Gallup: Uninsured Have Increased Under Obama and Since Obamacare Was Enacted | CNSnews.com

Gallup: Uninsured Have Increased Under Obama and Since Obamacare Was Enacted | CNSnews.com: "The percentage of American adults who lack health insurance coverage has not only increased during the presidency of Barack Obama, but it has continued to increase since Obama signed his signature piece of legislation last year mandating that by 2014 every American carry health insurance, according to a Gallup survey released today."

Total failure.

Articles: The Warmists Strike Back

Articles: The Warmists Strike Back: "Oppose the warmists, and they will enact punishment upon you.
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Their argument on the facts is moribund, so they play the man.

Why are three free-trade deals languishing on Obama’s desk? - The Washington Post

Why are three free-trade deals languishing on Obama’s desk? - The Washington Post: "The problem with our economy is not that government is doing too little but that it’s already doing far too much."

Correct.