Three years ago, many well-meaning Americans suspended concerns about Barack Obama's experience, judgment, and associations in order to vote for an "historic" president. To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, they got one -- good and hard. Friday night, for the first time in history, Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA+. The United States earned the top rating the moment … [Read more...]
U.S. Credit Downgrade: Another Obama First!
August 6, 2011 By Ben Johnson
Filed Under: *Featured Bottom Left, *Featured Bottom Right, Big Government, Economics, Floyd Reports, Obama administration Tagged With: Barack Obama, Ben Johnson, conservative, debt ceiling, editor, FrontPage Magazine, FrontPageMag.com, Government Spending, journalist, National Debt, News, Politics, Standard & Poor's (S&P), U.S. Credit Rating
Will Obama Go Fascist on the Debt Ceiling?
July 7, 2011 By Ben Johnson
by Ben Johnson, The White House Watch Barack Obama has sometimes been fond of branding his Republican foes “hostage-takers,” but officials in his administration have found a new hostage in their negotiations over raising the debt ceiling: the U.S. Constitution. The president’s advisers and several “unbiased” media outlets are suggesting if Congress refuses to raise the debt … [Read more...]
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Obama: America Was Not a “Great Country,” 1776-1965
April 14, 2011 By Ben Johnson
As the nation digests Barack Obama's plan to ride a tax hike to re-election, one phrase from yesterday's budget speech confirms what this author has long stated: the president is fundamentally an anti-American Messianic figure who believes he was sent to save our nation from itself and its Founders. Speaking a line that was written in advance, approved by multiple layers of handlers and advisers, … [Read more...]
Filed Under: *Featured Bottom Left, Anti-Americanism, Big Government, Conservatism, Constitution, Economics, Floyd Reports, History, Left-wing Hatred, Obama administration, Socialized medicine, Spending Tagged With: anti-American, Barack Obama, Calvin Coolidge, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), Entitlements, FDR, Government Budget, Government Spending, Great Society, History, Medicaid, Medicare, National Debt, New Deal, Radical Left, Social Security, Social Security Act of 1935, Social Security Act of 1965, socialism, Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson
Death (Panels) and Taxes
April 13, 2011 By Ben Johnson
Barack Obama has unveiled his agenda for balancing the budget: Raising taxes on the living, then sending them to an early grave. In his speech this afternoon, Obama confirmed long-running suspicions that he views extravagant expenditures as “core investments,” believes all wealth belongs to the government, questions the “patriotism” of those who believe in limited government, and … [Read more...]
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Obama’s Economic Advisers: International Socialists, Union Thugs, NBC Execs, Soros Scholars, Subprime Lenders, Amnesty Shills, and Campaign Cronies
February 25, 2011 By Ben Johnson
The media enthused when Barack Obama bloviated during his State of the Union Address, “We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world.” They now enthuse that the president has appointed members to his new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness allegedly designed to cut down inefficient regulations and unnecessary government burdens. None of the media announced that the … [Read more...]
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Liberals Unleash Lame Duck Power Grab
December 15, 2010 By Ben Johnson
I’m sure it wasn’t their intention, but big-spending Democrats proved this author right today. Senator Harry Reid and his fellow liberals have unveiled a massive spend-fest and power-grab on Capitol Hill. They introduced this $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill during the lame duck session of Congress, which would allow the same representatives the voters just ran out of town on a rail to … [Read more...]
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Obama Inches U.S Toward Debt Crisis, or Bankruptcy
September 10, 2010 By Ben Johnson
As Barack Obama held his first press conference in months to promote his new $50 billion economic payback to unions, it bears reading a little-known reports from the Congressional Budget Office admitting out-of-control spending is leading us perilously close to a Greek-style meltdown. CNSNews.com has uncovered an obscure CBO report from July that states, "Combined with an unfavorable long-term … [Read more...]
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The ($50 Billion) Road to Serfdom
September 7, 2010 By Ben Johnson
The cornerstone of Obama's Labor Day speech before a union audience was a $50 billion transfer of wealth from taxpayers to Big Labor. Porkulus 3.0 will not create jobs for years (if at all), but it will raise gasoline prices Aside from taking time to feel sorry for himself, Obama unveiled a proposal to spend $50 billion on roads and infrastructure, which he promised "will not only create jobs … [Read more...]
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The Military Pays the Price for Obama’s Agenda
August 10, 2010 By Ben Johnson
As Barack Obama surrounds himself with smiling teachers grateful he talked vacationing Congressmen into squeezing taxpayers for another multi-billion dollar bailout, Americans should envision another scene: the U.S. soldiers who are paying the price for Obama’s economic agenda. Last night, on the eve of today’s vote, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a new set of … [Read more...]
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Costly Shibboleths
February 25, 2009 By Ben Johnson
Barack Obama set out a few modest goals in his address to both chambers of Congress last night: cure cancer, reform Social Security and Medicare, destroy al-Qaeda, end our dependence on foreign oil, promise education to every American "from the day they are born" to the day they begin work, and "save our planet from the ravages of climate change." The few prescriptions for accomplishing these … [Read more...]
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