Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Lets see, what would be a good way for Obama to save money in this financial dust bowl we call the sequester


Mike Ramirez; Obama Should Cut His Million-Dollar Golf Games, Not White House Tours    ""President Obama has spent far more lavishly on White House state dinners than previous chief executives, including nearly $1 million on a 2010 dinner for Mexico's president, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner."
"One dinner: $969,793."

Yes, that Mike Ramirez!  Ramirez is an IBD senior editor and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning. Who knew he can write too?

It’s Obama’s Economy—at Last  "For most of his first term, President Obama successfully sold a line to the public that economists will tell you is, at least in part, intellectual snake oil. He managed to blame our historically slow economy almost entirely on President George W. Bush."

Even ABC News Can’t Ignore the Pettiness of Obama’s Canceling of White House Tours   "...but it certainly is implied that canceling White House tours is a childish move intended to make the sequester as visibly painful as possible while “saving” very little:"
 
Obamacare: Seven Feet of Job-Killing Regulations
 
" "This is over 20,000 pages and measures 7' 2.5"," McConnell said of the amazing photo. "These are all the Obamacare regulations published in the Federal Register up through last week. Then last Friday they added another 828 pages."
" "These additions seemingly come on a monthly basis as Congress finally starts finding out, as Rep. Pelosi said, "what's in the bill" and more rules are added, clarified, and altered.
"Obamacare isn't just a harmless stack of paper though, McConnell says. Hidden in those thousands of pages is a myriad of job-killing rules that have already had real-world consequences."


Poll shows Nightmare on Sequester Street a flop   "It goes by many names — crying wolf, Chicken Little, or just plain hyperbole.  What happens to a politician who insists that the world will end unless his policies are implemented, only to have the globe keep on turning as usual with little impact?  Barack Obama may be finding out, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll (via Jim Geraghty):"

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