Defending President Obama’s budget on Meet the Press this Sunday, White House chief of staff Jack Lew claimed, “The president’s budget has $1 of revenue for every $2.50 for spending cuts.” This is just plain false.  In fact, Obama’s budget doesn’t have any spending cuts at all.

Obama’s budget does raise taxes. According to his own numbers, Obama hikes taxes by $1.9 trillion over the next ten years. Currently, the federal government consumes 15.8 percent of gross domestic product through taxes. Under Obama’s budget that number will rise to 20.1 percent by … Continue Reading

Last June, Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute and Jason Richwine of The Heritage Foundation released a study showing that the federal government pays its employees 61 percent more in total compensation than the private sector. They concluded that taxpayers could save $77 billion a year by reducing federal employee compensation to private sector levels. The reaction from federal worker unions and their liberal allies was predictable and fierce.

William Dougan, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees said the report was full of “lies.” Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry … Continue Reading

President Obama claimed during his Tuesday State of the Union address that he had “approved fewer regulations in the first three years of my presidency than my Republican predecessor did in his.” Can this possibly be true? Have Republican critics been unfair to Obama’s true regulatory record?

Obama does have one narrow fact to hang his hat on. The Obama administration did approve 613 regulations in his first 33 months, which is 30 fewer than Bush approved over the same time frame. But not all regulations are created equally. A new rule dictating … Continue Reading

Elections have a way of bringing out the worst in some people and conservatives are not immune. Still bitter over negative television ads run against him, Newt Gingrich is now parroting liberal critiques of our capitalist system. Specifically, he is going after Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, telling Fox News Tuesday:

“There’s a big difference between people who go out and create a company — even if they fail — if they try to go in the right direction, if they share in the hardships, if they’re out there with the … Continue Reading

Less than two years after he left the White House in 1909, Teddy Roosevelt was unhappy with how his handpicked replacement, President Howard Taft, was presiding over the Republican Party. When the mayor of Osawatomie, Kansas, invited Roosevelt to dedicate a park in 1910, Roosevelt took the opportunity to reintroduce himself to the national political scene. In a speech he titled, “The New Nationalism,” Roosevelt called for federal government “control and supervision” of all “combinations which control necessaries of life, such as meat, oil, or coal.”

“This, I know, implies a … Continue Reading

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has an OWS problem. He has taken more money from Wall Street than any other Democratic Senator ($8.8 million), but liberals have fallen in love with the Occupy Wall Street movement. So what does Schumer do? He tells The Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent that Democrats plan to fully embrace Occupy Wall Street. Sargent reports:

“The number one fact of our political economy for the last decade is declining middle class incomes,” Schumer said. … “But in 2010 Democrats were not seen as focusing on those issues, but rather seen as focused on … Continue Reading

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg incited the wrath of liberals when he told a business breakfast in midtown, “It was not the banks that created the mortgage crisis. It was, plain and simple, Congress, who forced everybody to go and give mortgages to people who were on the cusp. … They were the ones who pushed Fannie and Freddie to make a bunch of loans that were imprudent, if you will. They were the ones that pushed the banks to loan to everybody.”

The New York Times Paul Krugman awarded Bloomberg the title “ignoramous” … Continue Reading

“It is clear we must enter an era of austerity,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said this July while negotiating a deal to raise the federal government’s borrowing authority. But judging from the pronouncements of liberal economists, one would believe we are already in one. Under the header “Austerity USA,” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman posted a chart this September that he claimed showed “just how much fiscal policy has been a drag on the economy since the second half of last year.”

But data released last week by the Treasury Department and … Continue Reading

The Brennan Center for Justice released a report Monday purporting to show that 14 states, representing 171 electoral votes, have passed new “vote-suppressing legislation” that “could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.” The liberal media reported these findings with their customary measured care: GOP War on Voting, Rolling Stone; GOP’s War on Voting, The Nation; New State Rules Raising Hurdles at Voting Booth, The New York Times; and GOP, ALEC Could Make It Harder For 5 Million To Cast Ballots, … Continue Reading

The battle between government unions and taxpayers did not end when Democrats failed to take control of the Wisconsin Senate in recall elections this summer. The fight only shifted south to Ohio where, on November 8th, Ohio voters will vote on Issue 2. The proposition was placed on the ballot by public sector employee unions who want to overturn SB 5, the collective bargaining reform bill Gov. John Kasich signed into law this March.

The venue may have changed from the Badger, to the Buckeye state, but the liberal myths against Kasich’s SB 5 are almost identical to the ones used … Continue Reading