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Politico: Obama/Reid To Blame For Debt Talks Breaking Down

President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Reid are the ones who need to make a deal with Speaker Boehner. President Obama has been completely disengaged with these important talks. As Senate Minority Leader McConnell said yesterday, where in the “world” has President Obama been the past month? Unfortunately, you only have to look at Obama’s […]

Bad News On The Jobs Front

The government announced this morning that new unemployment claims rose more than expected last week to 429,000. This is the 11th week in a row that the new unemployment claims were over 400,000. The Obama Administration said last year would be a “Recovery Summer.” That obviously did not pan out and America’s economic engine is […]

The National Conservative Fourth of July Soiree

Join the Leadership Institute and other sponsoring conservative organizations for the best family party of the year! The National Conservative Fourth of July Soiree celebrates its 40th anniversary this summer, and is a great way to celebrate our nation’s founding with family and friends. This FREE event features food, a live patriotic band, a petting […]

Politico Arena: Should Obama donors get plum government jobs?

When you sell “hope” and “change” to the American people and then hire your 2008 campaign’s deputy finance director as a special assistant for presidential personnel, something doesn’t smell right. The American public hates hypocrisy and the story that broke Wednesday in POLITICO reeks of the hypocrisy President Obama campaigned against in 2008. When 80 […]

Chaffetz’s Amendment Cuts $1.8 billion

As a supporter of the Republican Study Committee’s “Cut, Cap, and Balance” pledge, Citizens United today endorsed Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz’s amendment that would cut an additional 10.4 percent or $1.8 billion, from the FY12 Department of Agriculture Appropriations Bill. The Chaffetz amendment will smartly cut the bureaucratic Food for Peace program as well as […]

Daily Caller: Liberals Owe Breitbart An apology

As all of Washington was preparing for the long Memorial Day weekend, Andrew Breitbart and his crack team of reporters were running down sources for a story that would eventually rock Washington and New York. Making sure they had the story correct — Congressman Anthony Weiner had sent a lewd Twitter message to a college […]

Goolsbee’s Getting Off The Titanic

On the same day the Weiner saga sucked up all the media attention in Washington, a more telling picture emerged that was not lewd in nature but showed the state of the Obama Administration’s economic policy. Austan Goolsbee, the head of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, is jumping ship and going back to Chicago […]