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Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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Jubilation over the “Health Care Reform” Bill that Isn’t a Bill and Isn’t Going To Be the Bill
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, October 08 2009
Americans are rejoicing in the streets this week.  Oh, they aren’t?  In Washington, then.  No?  Well surely the Democrats on Capitol Hill and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue are. The reason for this jubilation?  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have come down Calculator Mountain bearing stone tablets certifying that the Baucus Senate Finance Committee “health care reform” bill will not raise the deficit! We, at great risk of being labeled Un-American and worse, are imposing considerably more self-restraint…
 
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Big Business, Big Liberals
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On September 30, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear arguments in McDonald v. City of Chicago…
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Quick:  Think of the last American economic recession, or even depression, from which we didn’t…
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Iran, Infelicitously
If the notion of a providential plan for the United States suffers from a touch of romanticism, it’s…
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Net “Neutrality” – Government’s Newest Takeover Plan and Corporate Welfare for Google
Amid the blizzard of governmental hyperactivity since Obama’s inauguration just eight months ago…
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Dear Senior Citizens, Part Two
With age comes wisdom.  Yes, there is that tired feeling of having been there, done that too many…
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A Change is Gonna Come
Eight months into the Obama presidency – as cap and trade languishes in the Congress, health care…
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New Health Care Bill, Same Old Problems
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Notable Quote   
 
"National elections take place every two years in this country, and whether it's a presidential cycle or a midterm election, overwrought commentators, partisan activists, and the candidates themselves repeat without self-awareness, let alone irony, a variant of the exhortation that 'this election is the most important of our lifetimes.' It's an age-old talking point. The motivations of those…[more]
 
 
— Carl Cannon, Washington Bureau Chief of RealClearPolitics and Executive Editor of RealClear Media Group
 
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