Obama adviser David Axelrod, this morning on ABC News This Week: Well, look, we always want lower gas prices, because that’s good for our economy. Obama’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu, in 2008: “Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” Cadidate Obama, when asked about …

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From the NY Times: President Obama said on Thursday that he was “comfortable” with a Senate proposal to pay for his jobs legislation with a tax surcharge on income above $1 million. “I’m fine with the approach they have taken,” Mr. Obama said when asked at a news conference about the tax proposal put forth …

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So Bill Clinton is complaining that he’s not getting enough credit for his record as president? OK, let’s apply the George W. Bush standard (as devised by liberals): The NASDAQ peaked in January 2000 at 4572.83 The NASDAQ closed Friday (11 years later!) at 2,415.40 If President Bush was responsible for the housing bubble crash, …

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A great speech (via NRO)by Senator Marco Rubio of Florida: “I haven’t been here long enough to think that any of this stuff that’s going on is normal.” “If we had a billion dollars for every time I’ve heard the words ‘Tea Party extremist’ we could solve this debt problem.” “Compromise that’s not a solution …

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Interesting paper from The Heritage Foundation on “poverty” in the United States, “Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?” For decades, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that over 30 million Americans were living in “poverty,” but the bureau’s definition of poverty differs widely from that held …

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Excellent article today from Charles Krauthammer. The House needs to pass a bill. Not talk about a bill, not negotiate a bill, pass a bill. Is there any good counter argument to his proposal? Boehner could have this done by the end of the day.

On the Bloomberg website today, they seem to have put this editorial in the “News” section by mistake. It begins with a misleading assertion in the headline: Boehner Builds Economic Case on Assertions at Odds With Markets, Studies House Speaker John Boehner, giving Wall Street leaders his prescriptions for growing the U.S. economy and reducing …

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Another year, another spike in the price of gasoline, another round of politicians demanding investigations to get to the bottom of it. From Fox News: With gas prices surging to $4 a gallon, one of President Obama’s solution to break the back of rising costs is to have Attorney General Eric Holder form a task …

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A common tactic on the left, including in the media, when there’s a discussion of illegal immigration, is to talk about “immigrants” rather than “illegal immigrants”, in order to cloud the issue at hand. A similar dynamic is occurring in the current debate over government employee unions in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Protesters in Wisconsin, and …

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From KCBS radio in California (via Michelle Malkin): A key legislative committee in California revived a bill Thursday to create a government-run health care system in the nation’s most populous state, two days after Massachusetts elected a senator who opposes the president’s national health care plan. The Senate Appropriations Committee released the bill for a …

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The opening line of an AP report on the ongoing attempt by House Democrats to shove through the Cap (our economic growth) and Trade Tax bill: House Democrats have narrowly won an important test vote on legislation to combat global warming and usher in a new era of cleaner energy. Doesn’t that sound a lot …

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