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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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ObamaCare: It’s Law When the President Signs It, but What Is “It?”
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, March 18 2010
Unless President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can bribe, blackmail or waterboard their way to the 216 House votes currently required to pass ObamaCare (assuming no one falls suspiciously ill or suffers an equally suspicious accident), it is over, done, finished, kaput...for now. For reasons explained below, it is imperative for opponents of ObamaCare, through every legitimate and lawful protest and grassroots lobbying mechanism known to man, that they not get those 216 votes. If Obama and Pelosi do get their 216 votes, what are those votes for?  They are for the Senate version of…
 
ObamaCare: The Public Will Be Damned Only if We Allow it
Sometimes a writer captures, with relatively few words, an understanding that humbles those of us who…
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President Bush Inherited His Share of “Messes,” Too
Imagine President George W. Bush slurring his predecessor Bill Clinton in the following manner during…
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Obama’s 10 Biggest Foreign Policy Blunders
When Barack Obama took office in January of 2009, it was amidst an atmosphere of generalized transcendence. …
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SEIU’s Andy Stern: A Budget Vulture Feasting on the Public’s Nest Eggs
With annual federal budget deficits projected to top $1.6 trillion for the foreseeable future, President…
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The Democrats' Charles Rangel Problem
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has a Charles Rangel problem.  All Democrats…
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Al Gore Emerges from Hiding, Calls Us a “Criminal Generation”
Somehow, it seems poetically just that Al Gore finally emerged from his snow-covered bunker just one…
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The Limited Government Senate Class of 2010?
Washington has been beset by a bout of temporary paralysis; which is to say good sense.  Forty-one…
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Visions of Our Government-Controlled Medical Future, With or Without ObamaCare
My wife and I go to an island doctor.  We don’t live on the island, but we drive to the island…
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Deficits Are a Symptom … Not the Disease
The two biggest stories out of Washington last week made for a bizarre bit of political synchronicity. …
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Obama’s “Hope” – The New Tramp Stamp of Political Decals
“Oh, no…  What have I done?”  That is the lament of innumerable people…
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"The Democratic battle for control of the House of Representatives is entering its final stretch, with Republicans defending a narrow majority and Democrats seeking the handful of seats needed to take control of the chamber.With Election Day around the corner, competitive races have expanded across traditionally Republican districts, while a number of Democratic-held seats also remain in play…[more]
 
 
— Nicholas Ballasy, Just the News
 
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