Rapid Response

Too Little, Too Late
Matt Gorman | March 1st, 2013

If Obama Was Serious About Solutions To The Sequester, Why Wait Until Now To Meet With Congressional Leaders? On the day Obama’s sequester is scheduled to begin, the president is holding his first meeting with congressional leaders on how to avert it. President Obama would rather campaign and play politics with devastating automatic spending ...

Instead Of Cutting Waste, Obama’s Choosing To Cut Crucial Parts Of Our Economy As we rapidly approach Obama’s sequester, the president and his appointees are choosing to cut devastating segments of our economy, instead of the billions in documented waste. President Obama spoke Tuesday about the need to prioritize and make smart decisions; he should ...

Pain At The Pump
Matt Gorman | February 20th, 2013

As Keystone Stalls, Gas Prices Rise For 33 Straight Days Gas prices have risen for thirty-three straight days and are up 94 percent since President Obama took office. And in yet another failure of leadership, President Obama has still not approved the Keystone XL pipeline—which, estimates show, could create as many as 250,000 jobs ...

President Obama’s Stimulus Is Still A Billion-Dollar Boondoggle As President Obama’s failed stimulus celebrates its 4th birthday, we see an ineffective and expensive law that has hampered our economic recovery. By now, the White House predicted the unemployment rate would be 5.2 percent, yet today it stands at 7.9 percent. The stimulus alone ...

President Obama Offered Nothing Except 59 Minutes Of Empty Rhetoric On issues ranging from his sequester to spending and ObamaCare, President Obama showed he is in a State of Denial when it comes to the real problems facing American families. Just hours after the White House admitted that the sequester was President Obama’s idea, the ...

Tonight, President Obama’s Empty Promises Will Again Take Center Stage President Obama claims that tonight’s State of the Union will focus on creating jobs, but we’ve heard that before. In what has become almost a yearly rite of passage, he and Democratic leaders are full of empty promises vowing to “pivot” to job creation, ...

After Touting Economic Recovery And Shutting Down His Jobs Council, Obama Sees A String Of Bad Economic News A little more than a week after President Obama proudly proclaimed “an economic recovery has begun,” our economy shrank for the first time in 3.5 years, consumer confidence dropped, and the unemployment rate rose to 7.9 ...

Under Obama, Medicare Means Giving Benefits To Inmates And Illegal Immigrants Prison inmates and illegal immigrants have received over $120 million in Medicare benefits—despite being ineligible for the program. President Obama already raided more than $700 billion from Medicare to pay for Obamacare. Now he is sitting idly by while Medicare benefits are being given ...