Final Tab for Pelosis Speakership: $5.34 Trillion in New Debt- or $3.66 Billion Per Day

Over time, people living freer lives
Here is some good news: The march of liberty has proven to be generally unstoppable. Over the span of human history there have been periods during which hardly any sign of respect for human liberty had been in evidence. In other eras, the globe has seen advances toward human liberty by leaps and bounds. Still, overall the trend has been toward the spread of liberty. More and more of us have become masters of our own lives; fewer and fewer are in the position of ruling others. Even when in some a...

Marcus: Underwhelmed by Speaker Boehner
Nancy Pelosi spoke of combating Climate Change, ensuring college affordability, expanding access to Health Care, ending the war in Iraq. Newt Gingrich envisioned a Balanced Budget amendment, welfare reform, Tax Cuts, Deregulation, term limits. John Boehner promised... well, not very much. The 112th Congress, he said, will not "kick the can" or "fall short." It will be "the people's House," a place where "we can disagree without being disagreeable to each oth...

Subsidized health hazards
"California will ban incandescent light bulbs, driving consumers to Fluorescent Bulbs with mercury, a health-hazard Toxin for babies, pregnant women. Why?" "On January 1, 2011, the State of California will begin the early implementation of a US federal law, designed to prohibit Incandescent Bulbs and promote fluorescent bulbs, which contain mercury. The federal ban on incandescent light bulb sales will start in 2012. Unfortunately, mercury in the new bulbs may be a hazard for babies, pregnant wo...

What B-52 Ben Really Said
2010-12-01 130,712,000 When he took the gavel to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve, there was 135 million employed Americans out of a population of 297 million Americans. The latest data available as of Dec 1st 2010, was 130 million Americans employed out of a population of 311 million. There are 4.6 million fewer employed Americans since Ben started. So today we have 14 million more people looking for 4.6 million fewer jobs. That’s not good. In fact, it should be his number o...

Raise the debt ceiling but with conditions
The National Debt is the amount of money that the United States owes. It is exactly like our own household Debts, reflecting the amount of money coming in versus the amount of money going out including paying off debts previously incurred (like car loans and/or Credit Card charges, etc.) It also includes interest on those debts and, oh, those interest charges! The nation has always been in debt except for a brief stint under President Andrew Jackson who made it his mission to eliminate the natio...

2010 Census Says California State Budget is $254 Billion, Not $90 Billion
Californians have not been told the truth about how much the State Government is spending.  A blockbuster bit of information has been buried in a new U.S. Census report and has not been covered by the Mainstream Media.   This  raises questions about the integrity of  California’s legislature,  former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, indeed about ANYONE who has been involved with the stewardship of public funds and the California state Budget.  Who is ...

You Are It, Meredith
The interview became even more outrageous as the NBC co-host peppered Congresswoman Bachmann with questions about the Debt ceiling. Conservatives have long complained that the liberal media likes to play games with truth, when reporting news about conservatives and their policies. On January 6th on NBC’s “Today Show,” those games were never more obvious than in the person of that deceptively sweet and innocent Meredith Vieira. The “Today Show” co-host introduced her guest, ...

Pelosi's Final Debt Tab: $5.3 Trillion Added During Speakership -- $3.67 Billion/Day...
(CNSNews.com) - In the 1,461 days that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) served as speaker of the House, the National Debt increased by a total of $5.343 Trillion ($5,343,452,800,321.37) or $3.66 billion per day ($3.657,394,113.84), according to official Debt numbers published by the U.S. Treasury. Pelosi was the 52nd speaker of the House. During her tenure, she amassed more Debt than the first 49 speakers combined. The total National Debt did not climb above $5.343 Trillion (the amount amassed duri...

Time for Rep. Shuler to step into the spotlight
I read with interest the press coverage of yesterday’s vote count for Speaker of the House. If you didn’t catch it in The Hill, you need to study the implications of what those votes that were cast AGAINST Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) meant for her future as the Democratic leader in the House.   All told, 18 of the 193 Democrats voted for someone other than Pelosi. Historically, the minority party knows it cannot possibly nominate its choice for Speaker, so they all throw their vote behin

By the Skin of Pelosis Clenched Teeth
As if it wasn’t bad enough for Democrats, still licking their wounds from last year’s Elections, the party’s House Caucus leadership still finds itself in a state of obnoxious disarray and factionalism.  The signs of bitter internal fights are still apparent, from anxious Progressives clearly dissatisfied with the current political playing field and bitter moderate Blue Dogs blindly grabbing through the darkness of a Capitol Hill abyss. Months of circular Firing Squads and...

Ryan: Debt Ceiling Will be Raised
MSNBC.com reports: Even as it exposes fault lines in the new Republican Caucus, a looming clash over the Federal Government’s borrowing power could serve as a major bargaining chip for Republicans hoping to force President Barack Obama to green light major Spending Cuts. Some conservative Republicans have urged their GOP colleagues to resist raising the ceiling — which currently clocks in at $14.3 Trillion — under any circumstances. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is collectin...

Where did the deficit really come from?
I have recently read a lot about the US federal Budget’s expanding Deficit.   The new Republican congressional majority has made much hay of the deficit’s expansion under the Democrats and has vowed to reduce it.   No doubt that the current deficit is troubling and unsustainable, but a closer look at the numbers should mute the Republican’s posturing. I went back and looked at the historical budget numbers from the past 35 years.   The Federal dept...

John Boehner shows at the start that he is no Gingrich
When Newt Gingrich took the gavel as House Speaker 16 years ago, he promised to transform America. On his first day Wednesday, new House Speaker John Boehner promised the Democratic minority more opportunities to amend Legislation. This Story The Take: The Take: John Boehner shows at the start that he is no Gingrich After wrangling, Constitution is read on House floor, minus passages on Slavery Shouts about Obama interrupt Constitution reading Special Report: The first days of the 112th Congr...

Palin: Obama 'hell bent' on weakening America
Sarah Palin is charging that President Barack Obama is “hell-bent on weakening America” by pushing to raise the National Debt ceiling. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 “What I believe that Obama is doing right now — he is hell-bent on weakening America,” the possible 2012 Republican contender said Friday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” She accused the president of “purposefully” trying to harm the country and acknowledged tha...

Another Day Older And Deeper In Debt
(Alternate title: The Ceiling! The Ceiling! The Ceiling's On Fire!) OK, let's talk red ink. The US government is rapidly approaching its Debt ceiling of 14.3 Trillion dollars (let's write that out -- $14,300,000,000,000.00), with estimates we'll hit it around March or April. The Republicans are talking about saying "no mas" and cutting enough to keep it from getting there. The Democrats are running around, screaming about apocalypse and defaults and shutdowns should we not raise it to allow Was...

CBO: Health repeal would deepen deficit
Source: Washington Post Rescinding the federal law to overhaul the health-care system, the first objective of House Republicans who ascended to power this week, would ratchet up the federal Deficit by about $230 billion over the next decade and leave 32 million more Americans Uninsured, according to congressional Budget analysts. The rough estimate by the Congressional Budget Office also predicts that most Americans would pay more for private Health Insurance if the law were repealed. The 10-pa...

Crossed Wires? That Explains A Lot.
From American Thinker Inside the lefty brain by Tony Gallardo The other day I was in a shopping center Parking Lot and saw two stickers in the rear window of a mini-van. The first, which was in the lower left area of the window, said “Veterans for Obama”. Okay, I thought; I don’t understand it, but there it is. The second sticker was a few inches to the right, and said this; “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither...

Nancy Pelosi: Democrats lost because of George W. Bush
Real Clear Politics reports that, continuing her descent into unreality, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has found a way to blame George W. Bush for the Democrats' own version of Wounded Knee on November 2nd. Listing as accomplishments ObamaCare and Wall Street reform Legislation, but omitting the stimulus package and its tons of pork, Pelosi says "We still would have lost the election because we had nine and a half percent Unemployment," and goes on to blame Bush for that. She still hasn't f...

The Fix: Democrats' defection from Pelosi is historic
How divided are Democrats' right now? With 19 Democrats withholding support from Nancy Pelosi for House Speaker on Wednesday, it represented the largest defection from a party's speaker nominee in nearly a century. The resistance in the Democratic Party to back now-former Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the ceremonial first vote of the 112th Congress registered higher than at any point since 1913, according to data from the Congressional Research Service. That year, which happens to be the las...

Scenes from a swearing-in: Georgians in the House
There was the pomp and the circumstance and the swapping of the supersize gavel marking the political power switch in the House and the official start of the 112th Congress. Ga. Politics news, helpful links PolitiFact Georgia » Ray McBerry: "You’ll find blacks in almost every regiment throughout the South who fought right alongside white Southerners," during the Civil War. New Republican Rep. Rob Woodall of Lawrenceville, who is single and without kids of his own, brought...

The GOP Is Holding the Economy Hostage, and Its Time to Call Its Bluff
In their ideological zeal, the new Republicans on Capitol Hill seem eager to gamble everything—the financial reputation of the United States, the international status of The Dollar, even the chance of a worldwide depression—on a showdown over the National Debt ceiling. What has been mostly a routine if unpleasant debate in years past, with each party blaming the other for the nation’s rising indebtedness, is rapidly becoming a mortal threat to Economic Recovery. The congressio...

Conservatives Admit Debt Ceiling Threat Is A Bluff
It's increasingly clear that Republican leaders are bluffing when they threaten to destroy the full faith and credit of the American government by allowing the Debt ceiling to be shattered unless draconian Budget cuts are made. And a clear bluff is a bad bluff. There is no need to concede to any of their demands to protect American credit and the Global Economy. Last year, the now-Speaker John Boehner said Republicans would have to deal with the Debt ceiling like "adults." And this week, the ...

Popgun Budget Cuts at the Pentagon
Much is being made over the new announcement by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that the Pentagon is being directed to reduce its Budget by $78 billion over the next five years (not counting the costs of its combat operations). We are grateful for small favors, but are not impressed. In 2000, the total Military Budget was $370 billion. For 2011, the Budget will be $707 billion, not including any emergency appropriations that may occur during the year. It is more useful to compare 2011′s ...

Mitt Romney Leads Republicans in New Hampshire Primary a Year from Now
New new poll just released should make Mitt Romney — who like to pretend that maybe he's not running for president despite the fact that he is very clearly running for president — very happy… The survey [of New Hampshire Republican voters] finds former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leading potential challengers with 39% support. Former Alaska Governor and 2008 Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin is second with 16%, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is third...

Republicans push repeal of health-care law, reject new CBO estimates on deficit impact
New Speaker of the House John A. Boehner and other Republican lawmakers pressed ahead with plans Thursday to Repeal last year's landmark health-care Legislation, rejecting a new Congressional Budget Office estimate that doing so would increase the federal Deficit and brushing off Democratic complaints that Republicans are already breaking their promises. This Story After wrangling, Constitution is read on House floor, minus passages on Slavery The Constitution Notable passages of Constitution...