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Tea Party Leaders Endorse Gingrich: High Risk, Low Reward – Sunshine State News

Sunshine State News
Tea Party Leaders Endorse Gingrich: High Risk, Low Reward
Sunshine State News
"The Florida Tea Party Coalition With Newt" endorsed the former House speaker on Thursday, saying they would "help defeat Massachusetts Moderate Mitt Romney and then President Barack Obama." “It is clear to me and many others in the tea party movement ...

The Myth of GOP Stinginess – National Review Online

The Myth of GOP Stinginess
National Review Online
The Senate was about to Greece the wheels for adding yet another trillion and change to President Obama's yet-again tapped-out credit card. “More spending, more debt,” brayed the minority leader. “That's what we've gotten from this administration.

Letter: Republican candidate will need to appeal to independent voters – TCPalm

Letter: Republican candidate will need to appeal to independent voters
TCPalm
The winner will also find independents less inclined to blame Obama for the situations in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, the national debt and the troubled economy inherited from President George W. Bush and the failure of Congress to pass necessary ...

Right-Wing Lunacy: The Shameless Lies Conservative Media Tell Their Audience – AlterNet

Right-Wing Lunacy: The Shameless Lies Conservative Media Tell Their Audience
AlterNet
In their imaginations, Barack Obama, a centrist Democrat with roots in Eisenhower Republicanism rather than Rooseveltian liberalism, is a radical figure trying to take America down the path of “European socialism.” The signature healthcare reform of ...

From the editorial advisory board: The State of the Union address – Daily Camera

From the editorial advisory board: The State of the Union address
Daily Camera
Obama failed to report on what's worked so far (not much beyond the bin Laden takeout), and what he'll do differently this coming year. Although his mega-stimulus program added $5 trillion to our national debt, it barely moved the needle on ...

Sen. Sessions on Obama, Reid: ‘We have no leadership’ – Daily Caller

Daily Caller
Sen. Sessions on Obama, Reid: 'We have no leadership'
Daily Caller
Jeff Sessions (R-AL) speaks during a press conference on President Obama's proposed budget at the US Capitol March 24, 2009 in Washington, DC. Republicans contend that the budget with double the size of the national debt by 2016.

Obama pushes college cost reduction plan – San Francisco Chronicle

Obama pushes college cost reduction plan
San Francisco Chronicle
President Obama climbs the stage at the University of Michigan to deliver a speech before 4000 students. President Obama offered a plan Friday to reduce the costs of higher education by increasing the amount of federal grant money available in ...

Pipeline rejection a slap in the face for Americans COMMENTARY U.S. Rep. Tom … – Wilkes Barre Times-Leader

Pipeline rejection a slap in the face for Americans COMMENTARY U.S. Rep. Tom ...
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
... national debt, a record-high deficit and an unemployment rate of 8.5 percent – and it would seem that saying “no” to the Keystone XL Pipeline is not only foolish and insensitive, but clearly un-American. Yet, that is what President Obama is doing, ...

The Silent Majority: America’s Sleeping Giant in the 2012 Election – PolicyMic

PolicyMic
The Silent Majority: America's Sleeping Giant in the 2012 Election
PolicyMic
Gingrich has become a real factor, though most pundits think he is too “out there” to compete with Obama in the general election. Obama is playing the role of a chameleon as he tries to recapture his mojo of the 2008 campaign.

Cebul: Presidential talk of shrinking government isn’t helpful – Online Athens

Cebul: Presidential talk of shrinking government isn't helpful
Online Athens
Obama's proposal is the most recent in a long line of presidential “efficiency” measures. Every president since Richard Nixon has offered something similar. None has delivered on the promise of smaller, more efficient government.