Pelosi aide says Democratic congressional leaders have settled on legislative "trick" to pass Obamacare; So why have a summit? UPDATED

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Bipartisan jobs bill short on making jobs

AP – Thu Feb 11, 6:02 am ET

APWASHINGTON - There's a problem with the bipartisan jobs bill emerging in the Senate: It won't create many jobs. Full Story »

Bank bailout watchdog warns of commercial real estate crisis

Reuters – Thu Feb 11, 12:07 am ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The commercial real estate market has fallen more than 40 percent from early 2007 and a wave of loan failures in the next few years could threaten the economy just as it struggles back to its feet, a report from the panel overseeing the $700 billion bank bailout said. Full Story »

Democrats' Cloture Vote on Labor Nominee Fails, 52 to 33

Nelson Will Join GOP Filibuster of Union Lawyer Nominee

Sinking the Moral High Ground

While speaking at the 2010 national prayer breakfast, President Obama invoking health care proclaimed; that “we may disagree about the best way to reform our health care system, but surely we can agree that no one ought to go broke when they get sick in the richest nation on earth.” This statement was meant to be another of the Presidents’ toothpaste ad platitudes. (Nine out of ten dentists agree) But it actually exposed his extreme adherence to the Marxist ideology which has created such a chasm between the American people and himself.

It is certainly true that the majority of Americans have no interest in seeing innocent individuals struggle, financially or otherwise. Our nature however dictates that those struggles are a part of the human experience, and it is that very nature that limits our ability to address these struggles. I don’t know anyone who wants to see people go broke for any reason, but the question is, at what and who’s expense? It is for this reason that Obama tries to wrap his agenda in a cloak of moral superiority. But there is nothing moral about forcibly limiting the individual’s ability to provide for himself and his family for the sake of political expediency.

Obama suggests that we have this “moral” obligation as a result of being “the richest nation on the face of the earth.” This is an extremely ideological statement from a man who just days earlier declared that he is not an ideologue. While it is true that The United States is the home of a fourth of the world’s wealth, President Obama implies that this wealth belongs to the state. Our current deficits show that nothing is farther from the truth. The nation’s wealth in fact resides with its private citizens. It is extremely laudable for an individual to freely commit a portion of his wealth to the service of others, but there is however no moral obligation to do so. Finally, politicians seeking to use the iron fist of government to coerce the individual into the service of others or some dictated high virtue is not morality, it is tyranny.

Anthony D Dolpies

The Senate health care bill wouldraise effective marginal tax rates on lower and middle-income singles and families up to 41%.

Windmills installed by Minnesota cities to meet the state's new mandated global warming renewable energy requirements arefailing to provide any power thanks to the snow.

The House voted Thursday to allow the federal government to go $1.9 trillion deeper in debt, an increase of about $6,000 for every U. S. resident.

Stocks worldwide suffered sharp losses as the cost of insuring Greek and Portuguese sovereign debtsoared.

Federal Watchdog: TARP Program Opens Way for Deeper Economic Meltdown
(CNSNews.com) – Neil Barofsky, the man tasked with overseeing the administration of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), told Congress in a report released Sunday that the bank bailouts have cleared the path to another financial crisis -- potentially even more grave than the 2008

White House Report: First Three Years of Obama Will Bring Three Largest Budget Deficits Since World War II
(CNSNews.com) - The historical budget tables released Monday by the White House along with President Barack Obama’s budget indicate that the first three years of Obama’s presidency—2009, 2010 and 2011—will feature the three largest annual budget deficits (when measured as a percentage of GDP) since World War II...