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Paper Which Just Laid Off A Bunch Of Employees Hysterical Over “Austerity”
3 Mar 2013 8:28 am William Teach

It’s nice to wake up on a Sunday morning and give a hearty chuckle followed by a good facepalm. The NY Times’ Jackie Calmes needs KCCO
The latest budget impasse ushered in a new round of austerity on Saturday, with the nation facing reduced federal services, canceled contracts, job furloughs and layoffs.

For those who live in Liberal World, let’s provide an explanation as to the Sequester: it reduces the rate of federal spending growth by a tiny percent. If a federal agency is currently budgeted for 1 billion this year, they …

Rep. Maxine Waters Inflates Sequester to ’170 Million’ Jobs Lost
2 Mar 2013 4:43 pm Warner Todd Huston

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D, CA) had a dire prediction for America due to sequestration claiming that 170 million jobs would be lost as a result of the policy. But according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are only about 140 million jobs in the whole country.
During a press conference on February 28, Waters told reporters of a visit by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke who told members of congress that sequestration is not the optimal way to cut the federal budget.
Talking of Bernanke’s comments, Waters claimed that “if sequestration …

Sequestration Starts: World Has Yet To End
1 Mar 2013 8:20 am William Teach

And the media is still spinning as to what the “cuts” really are. Either that or they are just partisan fools
(The Hill) Nineteen months after it was put into place, the sequester has arrived.
Barring unexpected developments, President Obama will issue an order at some point on Friday — perhaps as late as 11:59 p.m. — cancelling some $85 billion in spending across the federal government.
Said spending is simply a reduction in the size of spending increase for the next fiscal year. For the most part, federal agencies will still have …

The Democrats’ Sequester Narrative: Setting the GOP Up as the Scapegoat
1 Mar 2013 7:00 am Greg Campbell

The sequester cuts are scheduled to occur today. Do you have your fallout shelter prepared for the “disastrous” economic collapse that is about to befall America? Have you stockpiled your medical supplies, knowing that fire departments and emergency responders will be all-but eliminated? If you believe even a quarter of what the hysterical left has to say about the sequester, you might sell all of your worldy possessions in anticipation of the dark times ahead of for America amidst the ghastly 2.4% cut in the budget we are about to …

After Millions in Tax Breaks for Hollywood, DreamWorks’ Jeffery Katzenberg Kills 350 Jobs
28 Feb 2013 2:56 pm Warner Todd Huston

Despite some $430 million in tax breaks for Hollywood in last year’s “fiscal cliff” deal, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg has announced that he is cutting 350 people by the end of the year.
After the disappointing box office for DreamWorks’ latest film, The Rise of the Guardians, Katzenberg said that the $165 million loss made him “go back and rethink everything.”
“So it makes you go back and rethink everything, not just the fact that it didn’t work–certainly we spent a lot of time reflecting on that–but more importantly saying, ‘Let’s …

Obama To Finally Meet With Congressional Leaders On Day Sequester Takes Effect
28 Feb 2013 6:46 am William Teach

This is leadership in the age of Obama
(Daily Caller) President Barack Obama will wait until the sequester hits to have his first sequester-related face-to-face meeting with congressional leaders on Friday, according to a report by ABC News’s Jonathan Karl:
“A congressional source with direct knowledge of the plans tells me the top four congressional leaders – John Boehner, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell – will meet with President Obama at the White House Friday to attempt to negotiate a way to avoid the spending cuts that both sides have …

What We Don’t Need
28 Feb 2013 12:02 am Robert Cleveland

One of the most frustrating thing about the current debate on gun control is the obfuscation and lies that are constantly passed around by the Left. The very idea that the Second Amendment might just be about self-defense, home-defense, hunting, and sport shooting is absolutely ludicrous, yet arguments based on this premise are treated as valid. We are constantly told, from a variety of sources, that law-abiding American citizens don’t “need” AR-15 rifles. We are told that we don’t “need” 30-round magazines. We are told that all we really “need” …

NY Times Trots Out “Austerity” Regarding Sequester
27 Feb 2013 8:58 am William Teach

Nowhere in this article, which could have been written by the White House (but, really, this is just the way Liberals think) is it mentioned that Sequestration is simply a slight reduction in the growth of government
Austerity Kills Government Jobs as Cuts to Budgets Loom
I know, I know, you’re really, really, really broken up about a reduction in government jobs. The reductions are actually in state and local government, not Los Federales.
The federal government, the nation’s largest consumer and investor, is cutting back at a pace exceeded in the last …

Sequestration In Context: US Borrows Cost Of Sequestration Every 28 Days
26 Feb 2013 9:23 am William Teach

Daily reminder: they aren’t cuts. Just a slight reduction in the rate of spending increase, but, you know, if the Sequestration is allowed to proceed the animals in the national parks will turn feral and start eating tourists before joining forces and attacking cities
(Daily Caller) In an effort to put the looming automatic spending cuts into “perspective,” House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy said the sequester only cuts “less than” what the federal government borrows in “one month.”
House Republican leaders called on President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats to “lead” and …

White House Release Super Duper Dire We’re Doomed List Of State By State Sequestration Results
25 Feb 2013 7:04 am William Teach

Leading by fear-mongering

(The Blaze) On Sunday, the White House continued its effort to prevent the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts known as “sequestration” from starting this Friday, releasing a dramatic state-by-state list of how they claim each state will be impacted if Congress fails to act.
It’s worth remembering that the “cut” is only to the projected increase in spending, not to what we are currently spending.

That last part surely can’t be correct: Obama’s not saying that. Most of the Legacy Media isn’t saying that. Democrats aren’t saying that. Of …

Acorn-Affiliated Blueprint NC Puts A Hit On State’s Republican Leadership
23 Feb 2013 12:40 pm Matt Vespa

The war of ideas is alive and well. In North Carolina, it’s taken a vicious turn,with progressives targeting the state’s Republican leadership and Governor Pat McCrory, who was elected in 2012. Spearheading this effort is a 501 (c)(3) group known as BluePrint NC, which, according to their website:
is a partnership of public policy, advocacy, and grassroots organizing nonprofits dedicated to achieving a better, fairer, healthier North Carolina through the development of an integrated communications and civic engagement strategy. Ultimately, Blueprint aims to influence state policy in NC so that residents of the state …

Hooray, Obama Proposes A Replacement Plan For Sequestration!
23 Feb 2013 8:17 am William Teach

I guess David Brooks is wrong: Obama does have a plan. Or at least an outline of a plan. Whether there are any actual details and legislation that can be voted on is unknown. Here’s Jennifer Palmieri blogging for Obama
A Balanced Plan to Avert the Sequester and Reduce the Deficit
Good thing America doesn’t have over $16 trillion in debt.
In eight days, apocalyptic automatic cuts are slated to take effect, threatening tens of millions of jobs, and cutting vital services for children, seniors, people with mental illness and our men and …

Reenacting the Housing Crisis
21 Feb 2013 2:09 pm Dave Blount

The financial crisis of 2008 — from which the country has still not recovered — was caused largely by the government forcing banks to make Affirmative Action mortgage loans to people unlikely to repay them in order to redistribute wealth. Has the government learned anything from this debacle? Of course it has. By vastly expanding government dependency through increased unemployment, helping get Obama elected and then reelected, and providing fodder for anti-capitalist diatribes by the socialists running the “mainstream” media, the collapse worked out so well for statists that they …

Rand Paul Slaps Obama For Sequester “Histrionics”
20 Feb 2013 8:26 am William Teach

One of the big problems with the GOP over the past 10 years, and especially since Obama assumed his throne, is that they have attempted to be the Adult In The Room. The responsible party. The ones who speak in a quiet manner, which refuses to get down in the mud with Obama and the Democrats. They rarely respond to the nastiness in kind, forgetting that politics is a nasty business. But, here’s Rand Paul taking a shot, which will hopefully lead other Republicans to take shots
(Politico) Sen. Rand Paul …

Democrats Want Background Checks… Except When They Don’t
18 Feb 2013 3:30 pm Warner Todd Huston

One of the main discussions in this ginned up, fact-free anti-gun debate coming from the Democrats and their fellow extreme leftists is that they want “universal background checks” for gun purchases. So, “background checks” are a good idea to left-wingers… but in all cases? As it happens, NO is the answer to that. Democrats don’t want universal background checks in all cases.
Jams Bovard shows us this fact quite clearly in his recent Wall Street Journal piece headlined, “Perform Criminal Background Checks at Your Peril.”
Now, Bovard isn’t talking about the gun …

“Progressives” and the Death of Mainstreet USA
18 Feb 2013 6:18 am Greg Campbell

The day after President Obama gave his State of the Union address, I drove through my hometown of Roseburg, Oregon. An old mill-town that once hummed with the sounds of log trucks coming and going, Roseburg is now dying. While it still deals with the overly-harsh environmental regulations on timber put forth during the Clinton Administration, it tries to make do by attracting new businesses with limited success.
A staple in the community is Pete’s Drive-In, a Roseburg institution that still proudly serves homemade fries, made from scratch each day. Just …

NYT Hails Obama’s ‘Signal’ That Era of ‘Single-Minded Deficit-Cutting Should End’
15 Feb 2013 10:33 pm Warner Todd Huston

The paltry spending cuts coming out of Congress are no where near enough to balance Washington’s budget, but in his analysis of the President’s State of the Union speech, New York Times writer Mark Landler happily went to pains to note that Obama signaled the end of “the era of single-minded deficit-cutting.”
One has to wonder what “single-minded deficit-cutting” the Times writer and the President are seeing?
Employing a lot of emotionally tinged rhetoric to favor Obama’s speech, Landler included several subtle tricks to push Obama’s ideas as “tangible” and “helping.” Landler …

NPR Falsely Claims GOP Invented Sequestration
15 Feb 2013 2:57 am Warner Todd Huston

Ahead of the President’s State of the Union speech, taxpayer funded National Public Radio (NPR) tried to help the White House push the false notion that the sequestration budget cut policy was conceived by the Republicans. In truth, it was initiated by Obama and pushed by the Democrat Party.
In order to advertise its coverage, NPR tweeted that sequestration was a “Republican invention.”
“Though A Republican Invention, Obama Could Get Blamed For Sequester… With the deadline approaching for automatic spending cuts, Republicans in Congress are pushing hard to rebrand the cuts that …

White House Pressures GOP To Fix Sequester Plan Obama Proposed
11 Feb 2013 8:19 am William Teach

Of course, what Team Obama really wants is more “revenue”, ie, tax increases
(The Hill) The White House on Sunday sought to pressure Republicans to “come to the table” to strike a deal to avert sequester cuts slated to hit at the end of the month.
In a blog post on the White House website, senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer argued the cuts would affect the nation’s job creation, national security, and economic growth.
Can anyone point towards where Obama has cared about any of those three? His pivots to the economy ever 6 …

Where’s The Obama Recovery?
4 Feb 2013 9:07 am William Teach

The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin argues it never arrived
The economy may or may not wind up in a technical recession (two quarters of negative growth), but in fact the Obama economy never really made a recovery. Its endemic low growth and high unemployment now define the U.S. economy — unless we chart another course.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum commented via an e-mail blast: “The bottom line: The January jobs report shows the economy moving sideways. Liberals are celebrating a revision of 35,000 jobs a month in 2012 — …

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