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Republican Billionaires To Raise 100 Million To Beat Obama
Republican billionaires Koch brothers pledged to give more than a hundred million dollars to the Republican nominee to help defeat Pres. Obama in 2012. Top one-percent hate him more than you can imagine. They want even more tax-breaks from the next President. In fact, President Obama has already given them large share of fairly comfortable tax-cuts.Most these monies will go to SuperPACs. Huffington Post was the first to broke the news because they had a source at the meeting! Charles Koch had pledged around $40M – according the source.This hundred million is a great investment because if a Republican get elected in to the White House in 2012, the top one percent will receive billions of dollars.If you find …
Gingrich Attacks Romney on ‘Poor’ Comment
As Mitt Romney talks about how he doesn’t care about the poor people, and when President Barack Obama was giving a speech about how we have got to be our brothers keeper, which side is Newt Gingrich on? You might be shocked to find this out.Newt Actually came out attacking Romney in favor of the poor! Now, this is the same guy who said poop people/kids should clean washrooms. “I’m fed up with either party dividing Americans against each other,” Newt said in a press conference. This is irony at it’s peak. Newt Gingrich didn’t for the poor for the past three decades. In this case, Newt is effectively using populism against Mitt Romney to rally the base for him – …
Rick Perry: ‘I’d Send Troops Back to Iraq’
If you think Newt Gingrich got a bad plan for wars over-seas, and if you are frustrated with Pres. Obama’s approach, wait until you get a load of Rick Perry. On Saturday night debate, Perry said, “I’d send troops back to Iraq. The idea that we allow Iranians to come back to Iraq and take over that country.”In October, 75% of Americans were firmly against the war in Iraq. Actually Obama wanted to stay longer in Iraq, but it was that Iraqi Administration that insisted US on pulling troops out by the end of the year.Rick Perry, and other Republicans running for 2012 election, …
Unemployment Drops to 8.5%
New unemployment numbers are out today, and it’s a good news. 200 000 jobs were created in December of 2011. With this, unemployment has dropped to 8.5%.The Obama Administrations and Pres. Obama are very happy with the news, but of course the Republicans running for the office won’t be much happy. Unemployment hasn’t been quite this low in a very long time. Here’s a solid fact for Pres. Obama and his re-election campaign: since January 2010, 2.7 jobs have been added to the economy. It’s …
Three-way Race to Headline Iowa Caucus
Three way Race to Headline Iowa Caucus. Are you excited?!Republican candidates in the race to outset President Barack Obama in 2012 will face their first hurdle tomorrow in Iowa. Four years ago, Hawkeye propelled then Senator Obama into the White House. Obama won the Iowa Caucasus pretty comfortably, which put him in a strong footing against the formidable Clinton Machine. Fast forward four year later… this year the contest is to be highlightted in a three-way race between Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Three-way is always better than two way, if you know what I mean 
.Rick Santorum may be the odd …
Weekly Address: Working Together in the New Year
Remarks of President Barack ObamaWeekly AddressHonolulu, HISaturday, December 31, 2011Hello, everybody. As 2011 comes to an end and we look ahead to 2012, I want to wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year.The last year has been a time of great challenge and great progress for our country. We ended one war and began to wind down another. We dealt a crippling blow to al-Qaeda and made America more secure. We stood by our friends and allies around the world through natural disasters and revolutions. And we began to see signs of economic recovery here at home, even as too many Americans are still struggling to get ahead.There’s …
Michele Bachmann’s Campaign in Hot Water
Michele Bachmann’s Campaign in Hot WaterRepublican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s campaign chairman Sen. Kent Sorenson of Iowa suddenly jumped on Ron Paul’s bandwagon. Rep. Bachmann is only beating Former Governor Jon Huntsman in the polls, the man who hasn’t campaign whatsoever in the Hawkeye state.The tea-party darling is furious at all of this. She is vigorously campaigning in what has become a must-win state for her. She said Sorenson went to Ron Paul’s campaign because he was offered a larger sum of money. This was flatly denied by Sorenson on Fox News yesterday. Well someone’s lying, and we don’t have time to find out …
Pres. Obama’s Victory over Republicans on Payroll Tax cut
This week the White House got more than it could have hoped for in the payroll tax cut extension showdown.Republicans handed President Barack Obama an opportunity to turn his jobs campaign narrative into a real-life drama.Since September when the president delivered his jobs speech to a joint session of Congress, he’s been trying to sell a twofold message:One – as president he’s fighting for “working Americans.”Or, as he said on September 22: “I’m a warrior for the middle class” and “I’m happy to fight for working Americans.”Two – Congress is in his words “dysfunctional,” standing in the way of policy that could improve the economy.That’s the message but the reality looked different. From …
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