Here are five key facts about ObamaCare that you should know. If you want to get active and start doing meaningful things to stop this bill make sure to include them in letters-to-the-editor, calls to talk radio, and conversations with...
Tim Cameron
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Last week President Obama made his final push on his healthcare reform plan surrounded by seven doctors in white coats. It was pure theater, and pure propaganda.
The fact is that most doctors don't support Obamacare.
Read more »A group of 20 governors from across the United States wrote a letter yesterday opposing EPA regulation of greenhouse gases, a list that includes both Republicans and Democrats.The state executives expressed grave concerns about the economic consequences of regulation, questioning also the competence of the agency itself:EPA is not equipped to consider the very real potential for economic harm when regulating emissions.
Read more »Yesterday, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell signed two offshore drilling bills into law, yet another jab at the Obama administration and Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar, who has repeatedly delayed a decision on offshore drilling despite a clear majority of Americans who support it.One bill endorses federal efforts to allow offshore drilling for Virginia, a process that began several years ago with Lease Sale 220 and is currently in jeopardy of being scrapped by Salazar.
Read more »News reports from the past week have been highlighting the "great" work that Senators John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham have been doing to create a compromise climate bill. Sure it includes caps on emissions and direct energy taxes, say the Senators, but it also will include concessions to the fossil fuel industry, including provisions to expand offshore drilling.Senator Graham even said, "If you're a Republican, and you believe we should 'drill, baby, drill,' now's your chance."Previously, Graham announced that the "only way I get drilling and nuclear power...is to put a price
on carbon. That gets me the votes I need, and I think
that's a good thing...
Steve Everley
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Fighting back against a massive bipartisan push to stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases, Administrator Lisa Jackson yesterday unloaded on critics who dare to claim that bureaucratically running the $14 trillion American economy would be dangerous.Jackson miraculously claimed that EPA regulation would be good for the economy, noting that overturning its endangerment finding would result in "serious negative economic consequences." The statement was intended to rebut the common argument from Democrats and Republicans that greenhouse gas regulation would kill jobs.The EPA administrator also said that without regulation, industry would face a range of inconsistent signals, which in turn would be bad for business. Apparently, Ms.
Read more »Posted by Alan Miller and Kathleen Lavey on LSJ.com (Lansing State Journal) on March 7:Lansing teachers got a half-percent pay increase last fall and took a hit on health care to help the cash-strapped school district.After two years without a contract, Leslie teachers settled last fall for a 50 percent cut in so-called step increases, or annual raises for increasing seniority.And some staffers and officials of the Michigan Education Association got pay boosts last yearranging from 6.8 percent for the mailroom coordinator to nearly 15 percent for President IrisSalters.At a time when local teachers' unions are struggling to maintain salary and benefits and the union's statewide membership is declining, many MEA negotiators and executive director Luigi Battaglieri also got hefty pay increase
Read more »STOP THE ENERGY TAXSenator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) is embracing her opposition to cap and trade in her latest television ad. The move suggests she is happy to differentiate herself from primary challenger Bill Halter on cap and trade as she doubles down on her position. This is also despite new ads against Lincoln financed by groups like the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters.(The ad itself is actually a rejection of most major Democratic initiatives, including not only cap and trade but also government-run health care and massive spending bills.)With an eye on the Lincoln race, the Sierra Club is ramping up
efforts in elections this year, which is also part of a broader strategy by environmental groups to make a
last major push for climate legislation in Congress.
Another day, another delay.
The Department of Interior is on a bureaucratic quest to ignore the
public and stop any development of American energy. The latest example
is Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's announcement this week that the next offshore drilling program will not begin until 2012.
The decision, made without voter approval and against the wishes of a
clear majority of Americans, upends the existing lease plan that was
set to begin this year, a plan that was crafted directly in response to
public outcry in 2008 over record high gas prices.
Ironically, it was that very energy crisis that forced
then-candidate Barack Obama's hand in August 2008 when, as he
campaigned tirelessly for the presidency, he declared support for offshore drilling.
There is a lot of buzz this week about a forthcoming climate bill authored by Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Joe Lieberman (I-CT), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
Read more »Facing an onslaught of criticism and bipartisan outrage over its recent endangerment finding, the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday altered its proposed plan to regulate greenhouse gases with a token gesture of acknowledgment of its own incompetence.In the new plan, the EPA raised the emissions threshold requirement for America's energy producers from 25,000 tons to at least 75,000 tons per year.
Read more »Rather than adhering to the Beltway tradition of waiting for Friday to release bad news, Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar eschewed convention today and dropped a bomb on American energy independence, economic recovery, and public opinion when he announced that the next offshore drilling program will not begin until 2012.When Salazar took office last year there was an existing leasing plan set to begin in 2010, a plan that critics believed the Obama administration would alter but not scrap completely. After massive unrest in the summer of 2008 over $4-per-gallon gasoline, Congress finally lifted its 25-year ban on offshore drilling, clearing the way for a common-sense leasing plan.
Read more »On the campaign trail President Obama famously said that under his plan of cap and trade, electricity prices would "necessarily skyrocket." He also bragged that his energy plan would cause the most reliable and affordable source of electricity, the coal industry, to go "bankrupt."As it turns out, the economic pain that President Obama's ideal energy policy would cause American taxpayers extends beyond increasing the cost to turn on your lights or adjust your air conditioner.
Read more »America Can Only Work if Americans Are Working
For the first time in 26 years, we have reached 10% unemployment. In fact, we've surpassed it. Back in June the Federal Reserve predicted that it would likely take 5 years before we're creating a substantial number of net new jobs. That could mean 9-10% unemployment for the next 5 years.We have a severe jobs crisis in America. If we are to get back on the right track in America, we must concentrate on Jobs First. Presidents Bush and Obama tried to fix our economy through bailouts of big companies and big government stimulus packages. This approach has failed.We must propose a plan for job creation aimed specifically at those who create jobs - small businesses and entrepreneurs.Click here to download a copy of the plan.
You might have missed it in all the excitement over last week's health care summit, but Speaker Pelosi made the outlandish claim
that the health care bill would create 400,000 jobs "almost
immediately." How, exactly? She never said. But it's another example
of the latest tactic used to pass any and all legislation: call it a
jobs bill.
The Washington Times cites a few more examples today:
It was a modest measure to designate several thousand
beachfront acres of St. Croix as a National Historic Site, but in the
hands of a skilled congressman such as Rep. Nick J. Rahall II, it
became yet another jobs bill.
Likewise the Travel Promotion Act, which would create a nonprofit group
to push U.S.
