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OBAMA
The Weight Around the Democrats' Ankles: Barack Obama By Peter Wehner
…the Obama presidency is seeing its influence and prestige drain away at an unusually rapid rate. It is hard to recall another president who, this early in his tenure, had encountered this much trouble, including the hapless Jimmy Carter …a mid-term blow out of potentially epic dimensions may be in store for Democrats.
https://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.4049/pub_detail.asp
Obama Submits Largest Budget in History, But Networks Portray Him as Fiscal Conservative
To put this in perspective: Obama is proposing a budget $700 billion larger than big spender Pres. George W. Bush's last budget. It's TWICE the size of Pres. Bill Clinton's last budget of $1.9 trillion, who was credited with generating a budget surplus.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/julia-seymour/2010/02/04/obama-submit-largest-budget-history-networks-portray-him-fiscal-conse
Obama’s Very Weak Hand: When all else fails, try bipartisanship.
https://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.4070/pub_detail.asp
White House Prepares for Possibility of 2 Supreme Court Vacancies
SCOTUS Watchers Believe Justices Stevens and Ginsburg Could Decide to Step Aside
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Supreme_Court/white-house-prepares-possibility-supreme-court-vacancies/story?id=9740077
Pope hurts people ‘in name of Jesus,’ Obama faith-based advisor restates
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope_hurts_people_in_name_of_jesus_obama_faith-based_advisor_restates/
Counter-terror adviser: U.S. should 'never' profile
Declares himself 'citizen of the world,' compares Muslims to 'bias' against Irish, Italians
https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125503
US POLITICS
Can Republicans retake the Senate this November? A smart man would have to bet against it.
https://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/04/running-the-table
Things I don’t miss about George W. Bush By Michelle Malkin
https://michellemalkin.com/2010/02/09/things-i-dont-miss-about-george-w-bush/
An inconvenient question about the Mount Vernon Statement By Michelle Malkin
https://michellemalkin.com/2010/02/18/an-inconvenient-question-about-the-mount-vernon-statement/
Breitbart to Media at Tea Party Convention:'It's Not Your Business Model That Sucks, It's You That Sucks!' Addressing the National Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee, Breitbart accused the press of “contempt for the American people.”
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/06/breitbart-media-tea-party-convention-its-not-your-business-model-suck
A Catholic Candidate Who Will Not Compromise – Deal W. Hudson
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7636&Itemid=80
SARAH PALIN
Sarah Palin's Media Strategy Proves Instructive for Right
The sum of all this says a lot about Palin, but also about the tremendous power of the media platform she has built for herself (with the help of an intelligent and capable staff). She has gone from a political corpse to one of the most prolific and influential persons in the conservative movement in under a year.
She has managed to do all of this in an atmosphere of extreme hostility from the mainstream press. Perhaps no American political figure is more despised by the nation's talking heads.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/02/07/sarah-palins-media-strategy-proves-instructive-right
The Palinator by Ralph Reed, National Review
What ultimately drives the media crazy is they know instinctively they are co-conspirators in her rise. From the Katie Couric interview to the over-the-top attacks by the likes of Shrum, by overplaying their hand they made Palin a bigger force than they ever intended. Their attacks against her — and the values she symbolizes — not only backfired, they are now working in her and the GOP's favor.
https://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2ZmZWFhMGRiNDljNjhiMDA3ZDZkY2VhMGQ4N2JjZTk=
There's Something About Sarah
https://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/10/theres-something-about-sarah
Sarah Palin and Scott Brown set the United States frothing
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7026300.ece
Palin says US ‘ready for another revolution’
The former governor of Alaska also mocked the president as a “charismatic guy with a tele-prompter” and accused him of being a “professor of law at a lecture” rather than the US commander-in-chief.
https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6395e3fc-1427-11df-8847-00144feab49a.html
Palin’s Speech a ‘Masterful Exercise in Paranoid Politics’ from a ‘Merchant of Hate’
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2010/02/06/palin-s-speech-masterful-exercise-paranoid-politics-merchant-hate
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Drowning in Debt: What the Nation's Budget Woes Mean for You
Economists Predict Cutbacks, Tax Increases That 'Aren't Even Imaginable'
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/national-debt-budget-deficit-scary-forecast-taxpayers/story?id=9854459
Obama’s Budget Deficit Could be Trillions of Dollars Higher Than CBO’s Outlook, Budget Watchdog Group Says
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/61448
The Coming Crash of 2011 By Peter Ferrara
…the runaway expansion of the monetary base the Fed has already engineered will generate explosive inflation if the Fed does not pull it out in time. The only hope for change the American people have now is to engineer a dramatic change in leadership in Washington in this year's elections. Only that can restore the prosperity policies necessary to avert the Coming Crash of 2011
https://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/10/the-coming-crash-of-2011/2
Collapse of the euro is 'inevitable': Bailing out the Greek economy futile, says FRENCH banking chief
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1250433/Greece-debt-bailout-EU-leaders-split-euro-crisis.html
Vatican Economist: Recession Caused by Low Birthrate
Blames Small Families, Poor Savings Habits. Bankers are not the cause of the global economic crisis, according to the president of the Institute for the Works of Religion. Rather, the cause is ordinary people who do not “believe in the future” and have few or no children. Now, Gotti Tedeschi confirmed, “the only way to rebuild economic-financial balance is austerity.”
https://www.zenit.org/article-28289?l=english