The FY2013 budget proposed by Pres. Barack Obama will increase the average U.S. household share of the federal debt to almost $200,000 by the year 2022, an amount likely to surpass the average household’s net worth over time, according to economic survey data and new projections released today by Senate Budget Committee Republicans. Based on the numbers in Obama’s new

President Obama did not cause our current economic crisis. He was, however, elected to fix it and has instead made it much worse. President Obama continues to try and change the subject by pitting the American people against one another. When President Obama delivered his third State of the Union address he predictably recycled his same old rhetoric. He continued

[This article has been updated with a response from Sen. Sessions to the State of the Union speech, delivered to the media shortly on Tuesday night. Jump to Sen. Sessions' remarks.] As Pres. Barack Obama prepared to address the nation and advocate a new wave of increases in federal government spending in the midst of an economic crisis, state governments

I have a confession to make.  Like tens of millions of other Americans, I believe in green energy. I know that most people don’t believe conservatives think this way, but plenty of us do. I believe in a future with clean, renewable and sustainable energy powering our world, and I believe we need to work towards that immediately and urgently. 

We’ve been hearing about green jobs for more than three years. Growing jobs by growing the green economy was a centerpiece of President Obama’s first jobs plan. But just what is a green job? And why am I having such a hard time creating one? The Washington Employment Security Department (link here) defines the green economy as “rooted in the

Though Vice President Joe Biden has the reputation in the Obama administration for being a veritable gaffe machine, the man at whose pleasure he serves is getting some attention of his own from mainstream media for putting a presidential stamp on mangling the English language. The Los Angeles Times reported Friday on a gaffe uttered by Pres. Barack Obama during

If Republicans were like 1960s liberals, there would be an aural avalanche of poems and folk songs, each protesting the shocking war on jobs the Obama administration seems to be waging. We would hear the sweet refrain, an echo of Seeger’s and Baez’ lament, asking, “Where have all the good jobs gone?” Republicans are not liberals, but the rapid research

In his Monday speech in the Rose Garden detailing his $3 trillion deficit reduction plan, which relies heavily on raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, President Barack Obama quipped, “This is not class warfare—it’s math.” Unfortunately, all too often President Obama seems to define individuals making $200,000 a year or more, or families making $250,000 or more, as “millionaires” and

The results of a poll released Monday on the 2011 and 2012 elections may be proof positive that Washington State is still every bit the eclectic grab bag that political junkies have come to know and expect. Though the poll conducted last week by the bipartisan political consulting firm Strategies 360 found Washington State’s skin is still a reliable shade

GOPLabs, a team that is swiftly gaining a reputation as Republican Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ “think-and-do” tank in the Capitol, has generated an assessment of Pres. Barack Obama’s progress on job creation. Though Obama continues to beg for extra chances as he leans into a heavy schedule of political campaigning in advance of next year’s election, the facts about poor

Former White House spokesman and potential U.S. Senate candidate Scott Stanzel offered President Barack Obama some free public relations advice Thursday. During another tough economic summer, choosing a staycation would be a better way for Obama to show the country he is with them and not above them, Stanzel suggested. On Politico.com’s discussion forum “The Arena” Stanzel chided the commander-in-chief

President Barack Obama admitted Tuesday that his presidency could fail to win to a second term because of economic recovery is occurring slower than voters would like. “We have made steady progress on these fronts, but we’re not making progress fast enough,” Obama said in an interview on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer in Peosta, Iowa. “I’m going

The smoke-and-mirrors attempt by Pres. Barack Obama to make it seem as though all 43 presidents before him – including Pres. Ronald Reagan – are crawling from their graves to stand in his corner in the debt ceiling debate would be great satire if it were not actually happening. Like clipping letters from magazines to paste together a ransom note,

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Before walking into a standing room only fundraiser for the Washington State Republican Party, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus repeated his belief that Washington State will be a battleground for the GOP in 2012, reasoning that Pres. Barack Obama has poisoned the Democratic brand. “I think the President’s record on jobs, the economy, this debate we’re having nationally

A pair of bloggers has stumbled upon yet another stunning example of the pass many in the old guard media have been giving to Pres. Barack Obama and his administration, this time on an apparent case of serial word murder. Warner Todd Huston of Publius’ Forum and John Sexton of Verum Serum have been reporting on a growing ‘intercontinental’ crisis

Did you guys see this Bloomberg poll showing that only 30% of Americans are willing to re-elect Obama? Or what about this one showing Americans’ lack of confidence in Obama’s handling of the economy? What about his disapproval numbers? Don’t you dare fall for the trap that many conservatives will fall for. Many on our side are likely feeling a

Tonight, Pres. Barack Obama will announce a scheduled drawdown of nearly a third of U.S. troops fighting against the Taliban and al Qaeda insurgency in Afghanistan. The President’s announcement comes weeks after a covert U.S. team successfully killed Osama bin Laden, and at a time when the strategic and tactical changes implemented by Gen. David Petraeus have begun to achieve

Keen observers of the White House political machine may have noticed by now that Pres. Barack Obama’s mistakes often conveniently coexist in time-space with other events that might create trouble with his base liberal constituency. In the battle for the “Winning the Future,” the judicial branch is coveted territory and Democrats ceded a crucial piece of ground when a key