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Strassel on the Democrat Political Suicide Pact
The Lonely Conservative —
Authority: 578
Kimberly Strassel’s Wall Street Journal piece today is a must read. Barack Obama emerged from his meeting with Senate Democrats this week to claim Congress was on the “precipice” of something historic. Believe him. The president is demanding his party unilaterally enact one of the most unpopular and complex ...1 week ago -
The Gospel Truth
Florida Blog —
Authority: 146
When some anonymous blogger somewhere, such as Pensacola Beach, harbors the suspicion the Obama White House secretly has been undermining the public option in its own health care reform initiative, we tend to dismiss that thought as just a stray synapse of paranoia. When veteran congressmen John Conyers (D-MI), David ...1 week ago -
Odds and ends for 12/13
Blog on the Run: Reloaded —
Authority: 480
Same as it ever was: The Obama Administration is held in contempt for obstructing justice in the same way the Bushbots used to do. The courts, once again, slap a wrist but take no real action to make it stop. Maybe I’m just grumpy, but if a government prosecutor had disobeyed so clear and direct an order in MY ...2 weeks ago -
A Top Democrat, Remembering Vietnam, Is Challenging Obama on Afghanistan
Politics Daily —
Authority: 787
Filed under: Primaries , Afghanistan House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey has already highlighted the cost of President Obamas planned buildup of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by proposing a "war surtax" to pay for it, and when administration officials go to Capitol Hill to testify on Obamas strategy, ...2 weeks ago -
Obey’s “Share our Sacrifice Act”: “Let those who worship the god of war, tithe to that god out of their own pockets”.
The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette —
Authority: 434
By: Marti Oakley ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (c) copyright 2009“Maybe congress and most especially Rep. Obey should submit a “get a conscience; honor your oath of office; honor the Constitution and serve the people who elected your sorry behind ” bill.”SHARE OUR SACRIFICE? HR 4130I would start here by asking who ...2 weeks ago -
Afghanistan: A GOP twofer?
The Moderate Voice —
Authority: 671
AFGHANISTAN: A GOP TWOFER? David Obey, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee has introduced a war tax bill . “As presidential historian Robert Dallek reminds us, ‘war kills off great reform movements’,” Obey said, noting that World War I ended the Progressive Era, Korea ended Harry Truman’s Fair ...2 weeks ago -
Fog of War
The New Republic - Health Care Feed —
Authority: 690
In his legendary 19th century strategic treatise vom Kriege (On War), Carl von Clausewitz articulates several key principles of successful military strategy. President Obama, in his recent decision regarding our Afghanistan strategy, appears to have neglected many of these critical components. “Fog of war” is ...2 weeks ago -
Pay for the War, or Just Call It Off?
The LA Progressive —
Authority: 486
Finally, the worst option is for the government to run the presses and print money. Wars tend to cause inflation, and printing money makes things worse. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]3 weeks ago -
Paying for Health Care (and War, by the Way)
Economix —
Authority: 720
An economist on the moral hazard of not asking taxpayers to bear the cost of war.3 weeks ago -
Pelosi Opposes War Surtax
The Washington Independent Blog —
Authority: 153
Moments after telling reporters that the country owes “so much” to the troops who have wallowed for most of the decade in Afghanistan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) today squarely distanced herself from a proposed tax — sponsored by Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) — to cover the costs of that conflict. ...3 weeks ago -
Obama’s Misguided War Speech Shouldn’t Be the Last Word on Afghanistan
Politics or Poppycock —
Authority: 136
By John Nichols, The Nation. Posted December 1, 2009.Presidents are not supposed to begin and end the discussion about war. With both parties divided over Afghanistan, it’s time for Congress to debate the Obama’s war plan.President Obama delivered a carefully-constructed and nuanced call Monday night for the ...3 weeks ago -
The Force is not with Obey on the Afghanistan War Tax
Right Pundits —
Authority: 142
Congressman David Obey (D-Wis.) decided to scare us these days with a war tax in a desperate attempt to make the Obama Health Care Bill more popular in America. Here is Mr. Obey’s reasoning: For the last year, as we’ve struggled to pass healthcare reform, we’ve been told that we have to pay for the bill – ...3 weeks ago -
Obama’s Other Front: The Hill
The New Republic - Health Care Feed —
Authority: 690
No matter what you think of it, the kind of troop increase that President Obama announced tonight is going to be expensive . With an estimated $1 billion dollar price tag for each additional thousand troops deployed, the new strategy will drive costs well above the $130 billion originally budgeted by the ...3 weeks ago -
Obey: No Good Options In Afghanistan, But Lets Pay For The One We Choose
TPM LiveWire —
Authority: 789
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey says the government ought to be ready to pay for the unenviable situation in Afghanistan. "The President has inherited a god awful mess and has no good options available. I hope his policy succeeds, and I know our troops - who have sacrificed so much already - will ...3 weeks ago -
If it is to be fought, it ought to be paid for (Pelosi cold to surtax)
Stupidica —
Authority: 177
Who is going to pay for the $30 billion or more to be added to the cost of the Afghan war based on what President Obama discusses tonight? Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) of the House Appropriations Committee has an answer: "If we have to pay for the health-care bill, we should pay for the war, as well," he told ABC News ...3 weeks ago -
Pelosi pours cold water on war surtax
CNN Political Ticker —
Authority: 815
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a war surtax does not have a good prospect. Washington (CNN) - Speaker Nancy Pelosi Tuesday poured cold water on a proposal by several top House Democrats to impose a new surtax to pay for the war in Afghanistan. Pelosi told CNN, "I think the war has to be paid for. That may ...3 weeks ago -
Sacrifice Spending to Pay for the War
The Foundry —
Authority: 735
Liberals in Congress and out are calling for a new tax to pay for the war on terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. At the same time, rising unemployment and falling political prospects have driven President Obama and friends to fumble for stimulus 2.0, the first $787 billion Obama stimulus having now so obviously if ...3 weeks ago -
Small Consolations
American Conservative Daily —
Authority: 464
There’s some small consolation in the hackneyed truism that some things never change. A very small consolation. On the eve of the president’s highly touted address to the nation on what he called during the campaign the “necessary” war, the Reid-ites are again crawling out of the Democratic woodwork. ...4 weeks ago -
Still No Appetite to Share the Burdens of War
The Washington Independent Blog —
Authority: 153
Tax cuts in the middle of two wars are OK , but tax hikes to pay the freight of those wars would be irresponsible. That’s the message coming from Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), head of the Republican Study Committee, who told CNN this morning that a war surtax being proposed by Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) is “as cynical ...4 weeks ago -
Financing The Costs Of War (Or Not)
1115.org —
Authority: 131
For years, Democrats have complained about how George Bush and his band of merry men put two wars on the national charge card. About how, far from raising taxes or cutting non-military spending to cover the cost of his wars, Bush actually cut taxes and introduced a massive new domestic spending program, Medicare ...4 weeks ago
