Barack Obama Columns on Townhall
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American Recessional
Posted: 2/28/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTRepublicans and Democrats are blaming one another for impending cuts to the defense budget brought about by sequestration. -
Auditioning for Stardom: President Obama and the First Lady
Posted: 2/27/2013 2:26:00 PM ESTThe Obamas think they’re celebrities instead of public servants. They appear on late night talk shows, shaking their booty and crooning slow jams with Jimmy Fallon, luxuriating in fundraisers with Hollywood’s elite, golfing with Tiger and of course presenting Oscars. -
The Malignancy in Federal Medical Research
Posted: 2/27/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTWhen George W. Bush was stumping as a "compassionate conservative" in the closing days of the 2000 presidential campaign, he went to Florida and repeated a campaign promise to double the funding for the National Institutes of Health. -
How Obama Wins
Posted: 2/27/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTPresident Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed president -- his economy is bleak, his foreign policy bleaker, his vision for American even bleaker still. But he wins. -
The White House Court Jesters of Sequester
Posted: 2/27/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTTraffic alert: There's a massive clown car pileup in the Beltway. And with the White House court jesters of sequester behind the wheel, no one is safe. -
The Clarity of the Obama Sequester
Posted: 2/27/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTPresident Obama's sequester -- he designed it, he demanded it, and it is about to kick in -- will have many consequences, some bad, some very helpful. -
Shepherds and Sheep
Posted: 2/26/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTJohn Stuart Mill's classic essay "On Liberty" gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people's decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing "that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those mistakes can prove extremely damaging."- Topics:
- Big Government
- Barack Obama
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Budget Hawks Question Doomsday Scenarios
Posted: 2/25/2013 6:50:00 PM ESTThere's no doubt President Obama is using the so-called Washington Monument maneuver in the fight with Republicans over sequestration budget cuts.- Topics:
- Barack Obama
- Sequestration
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The Sequestration Scare
Posted: 2/25/2013 9:29:00 AM ESTAs predicted, the Democrats' refusal to cut any spending other than the military only delayed the inevitable. Now, as is already taking place in Greece, France and Spain, deep cuts must take place or the government will shut down. The fiscal cliff agreement and the Budget Control Act of 2011 called for sequestration on March 1st if an agreement on how to pay down the deficit was not reached. The sequestration mandates $1.2 trillion in spending cuts across the board throughout most of the federal government over the next decade. The only way to prevent sequestration is if the Democrats and Republicans come up with a compromise this week, which could involve tax increases, agreed-upon cuts, or both. -
Sequester: Sound and Fury; Signifying Nothing
Posted: 2/25/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTWith the March 1st deadline for the sequester looming, the chorus of politicians and pundits decrying its passage in apocalyptic terms has reached a fevered pitch.- Topics:
- Spending Cuts
- Barack Obama
- Sequestration
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President Barack "I Didn't Do It" Obama
Posted: 2/24/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTIt’s one thing for a politician to “massage” the truth ... it happens all the time. But it’s quite another for one to so brazenly repeat an easily disprovable lie.- Topics:
- Obama
- Lies
- Barack Obama
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Obama & The GOP: Will They Ever Beat This Guy
Posted: 2/24/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTToday the economy shows an 8% unemployment rate, which is higher than at any time during the Bush years, the President has dismissed Republican calls for compromise on budgetary issues, Second Amendment questions, and immigration policy, and it remains to be seen whether Obama will seek a third term through executive order, but no matter! -
What Our Leaders Wrought: Boehner Cries and Obama Lies
Posted: 2/24/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTLike most things in his life, Obama wants to be able to make up the rules as he goes along. And now that he’s done campaigning, he can go back to being the bumbling, arrogant, Barney Fife president that he was before GOP Speaker John Boehner gave Obama the winning lotto ticket to tax the heck out of us in November. -
Moving Pictures
Posted: 2/22/2013 9:26:00 AM ESTThe other day, the President railed against Congressional (read: Republican) inaction on averting the sequester by giving a speech while surrounded by uniformed policemen. The picture was designed to make the point that if the automatic cuts go into effect, people across the country will lose police protection. -
Embrace the Sequester
Posted: 2/22/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTSomething odd happened a few months ago as I weighed the various aspects of the dreaded Sequester Monster, a creature vilified across party lines. -
Political Intransigence is Obama's Solution to Looming Sequester
Posted: 2/22/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTThe White House is still trying to stir up a climate of fear over the looming budget sequester that is not supported by the size of its puny spending cuts.This irresponsible political strategy is being driven by President Obama in an attempt to convince enough of us that the sequester will shut down critical sectors of the government, endanger our country and possibly plunge the economy into another crisis.
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Middle East Tour d’Horizon
Posted: 2/21/2013 1:45:00 PM ESTNext month, both President Obama and newly minted secretary of state John Kerry head for the Middle East. They should listen to a range of views, see the sights, and pause to smell the hummus. As for policies, this would be a good time to consider a few adjustments. Below is a briefing — a briefer briefing than they will get from their advisers — on the state of the states, the players in play, and some different approaches to contemplate.- Topics:
- Foreign Affairs
- Iran
- John Kerry
- Turkey
- Barack Obama
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Obama’s "Really Stupid, Stupid, Stupid Sequester"
Posted: 2/21/2013 12:01:00 AM EST"When this really stupid, stupid, stupid sequester goes into effect, we're going to start to feel how this government is really dysfunctional," says Erkine Bowles, president Clinton's former chief of staff. And if Obama thinks he won't get blamed for it, when then he's stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. -
Thank You, Mr. President
Posted: 2/21/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTAmerica is fed up with GOP obstructionism. So undoubtedly, everyone is hopeful that Republicans will allow President Barack Obama's sequestration plans to proceed unhindered. It's only right.- Topics:
- Barack Obama
- President
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Don't Raise Taxes to Avoid the Sequester
Posted: 2/21/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTPresident Obama has a new plan to avoid sequestration: kill private sector jobs. In 2011 Republicans required spending cuts to raise the debt ceiling. President Obama suggested that, in addition to freezing spending levels, broad-based spending cuts be implemented on March 1, 2013 via sequester.
