Archive: August 2009
FOX News Highlights GOP Ad on President's Health Plan: "I'm Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV"
August 02, 2009Fox News this morning highlighted the new web video released today by House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) about President Obama’s health care plan. The video is lighthearted, but one that underscores a serious point Congressional Democrats will hear throughout August as they Read More
Democrats Face Angry Reaction Back Home on Health Care
August 02, 2009Back home for the August recess, rank-and-file Democratic Members of the House are facing a backlash from their constituents, who are already fed up with Washington’s job-killing agenda and don’t support Democrats’ government takeover of health care. According to polls from Read More
CNN Highlights GOP Video on President's Health Plan: "I'm Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV"
August 03, 2009As rank-and-file Democrats continue to face a backlash back home over President Obama’s government takeover of health care, CNN’s Situation Room highlighted the new web video released yesterday by House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) about the President’s plan. The Read More
Unemployment Continues to Soar as White House Weighs Middle Class Tax Hike
August 03, 2009With the nationwide unemployment rate headed for double digits and Washington Democrats desperately trying to claim that the trillion-dollar “stimulus” bill is working (despite falling short of every benchmark they set), Republicans co Read More
Administration Readies Plans to Import Guantanamo Terrorists into the United States
August 03, 2009Despite Americans’ strong opposition to importing terrorists held at the Guantanamo Bay prison into the United States, the Obama Administration is quietly laying the groundwork to do just that. With the President’s arbitrary deadline for closing the terrorist prison now just months away, the Administration is scrambling to determine exactly what to do with some of the world’s most dangerous men – Read More
Boehner Web Video: “I’m Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV”
August 04, 2009Yesterday, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) released a web video, adapting the old joke "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV," to President Obama's proposed government takeover of health care. Read More
Dems' Long, Hot Summer: Americans Express Growing Opposition to Dems' Job-Killing Plans on Energy, Health Care
August 04, 2009Last week, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) put Democrats on notice that they would have a “very, very hot summer” once Americans began to learn more about their costly government takeover of health care. Just a few days into the August break, House Democrats are learning exactly what Boehner meant: Americans are showing Read More
AP: Democrats' Health Care Bill Forces Taxpayers to Fund Abortions
August 04, 2009The Associated Press reports this morning that “Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions.” Most Americans want lower health care costs – not a government-run plan that raises costs and asks taxpayers t Read More
Americans Concerned About Impact of Dems' Health Care Plan on Taxpayers, Families, Seniors
August 05, 2009Americans’ concerns about the impact of a government takeover of health care continue to grow, according to two new polls out in recent days. After no fewer than five polls released last week showed increasing, if not outright, opposition to government-run health care, this is a troubling trend for Democrats aiming to put bureaucrats in ch Read More
As Deficit Soars to Record $1.3 Trillion, Dems Push Health Care Plan That Adds Even More Red Ink, Costs Even More Jobs
August 06, 2009The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the federal budget deficit has reached a once-unthinkable $1.3 trillion, thanks to the Democrats’ spending binge that has even made some in Washington blush, and it’s going to go even higher. While the Administration attempts to rewrite history on its trillion-dollar “stimulu Read More