Last week, a poll indicated that President Obama have to pack his bags for the unemployment line.
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Obama presidency on life support
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | According to The Ticket, President Obama is saying that job gains in January are a sign of economic recovery and he’s telling Congress not to “muck it up.” A jobs report released February 3 showed that 243,000 jobs were added in January, and unemployment has slipped to 8.3 percent.
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If it’s Friday, it’s another White House dump day. Cue the dump truck horn: Doot! Doot! Doot! While Obama sycophants are busy trumpeting deceptive jobs numbers, the administration is quietly moving forward with job-killing Obamacare regs and taxes. The IRS today released rules to impose the $20 billion Obamacare medical device tax scheduled to take effect next year. At a time when the White House is touting its government initiatives to champion “ innovation ,” the Obamacare innovation tax on medical device/diagnostic manufacturers will kill an estimated 43,000 jobs. The very job creators President Obama purports to support are balking at the tax regs and have called for repeal . The Advanced Medical Technology Association, America’s leading association for med tech manufacturers, blasts the new rules: “[The proposed IRS regulations] highlights the need for prompt action by Congress and the Administration to repeal this anti-competitive, job-killing tax,” Stephen J. Ubl, AdvaMed president and CEO said in a statement. “Failure to repeal the device tax flies in the face of the President’s comments during the State of the Union about the need to reform our tax system to make our nation more competitive in the world market, a view shared by members of Congress from both parties,” Ubl went on to explain, adding that “the tax will create a number of complex administrative and technical burdens that must be addressed.” I’ve reported before on how the medical device tax has already resulted in operational and job cutbacks in Massachusetts, home to many medical innovators. Fewer jobs. Fewer entrepreneurs. Fewer medical advances. Winning the future…by killing it.
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Your Friday IRS regulation dump: Obamacare’s job-killing medical device tax
Newt Gingrich has been suggesting for some time that other Republican presidential primary opponents should drop out of the race so he can consolidate support as the anti-Romney candidate. Texas Governor Rick Perry dropped out and gave Gingrich his endorsement just as the former Speaker was picking up steam before his South Carolina GOP primary win, and Gingrich once again suggested that Rick Santorum step aside in the days leading up to the Florida GOP primary. Santorum has stood his ground, and is now fighting back. Following Gingrich’s distant second place finish to Mitt Romney in Florida’s GOP primary Tuesday, a state where Santorum secured 13 percent of the vote after applying considerably less time and resources, the Pennsylvania senator has responded that Newt is the one who should back down. “If you don’t want Mitt Romney, obviously Newt Gingrich doesn’t have what it takes to win this,” Santorum told reporters from Las Vegas Tuesday night as Florida’s results projected Gingrich far behind Romney. “Let’s give someone else a shot.” “In Florida, Newt Gingrich had his opportunity,” POLITICO reports Santorum told supporters Tuesday. “He said, ‘I’m going to be the conservative alternative.’ … It didn’t work. He became the issue. We can’t allow our nominee to be the issue in the campaign.” Santorum’s attack against Gingirch went a step further Wednesday, when his campaign began airing a new Television ad in Nevada which aligns the former Speaker with President Obama and Rep. Nancy Pelosi. The National Journal’s Tim Alberta writes that the Santorum campaign noticeably spares the newly invigorated Republican front-runner Mitt Romney: “That Santorum would spare Romney from such an effective, well-orchestrated attack is puzzling. After all, Romney has been criticized for previously supporting these policies — cap and trade, amnesty, insurance mandates and bailouts — at various points during his two presidential campaigns. Indeed, some of those attacks have been leveled by Santorum himself. So why did the former Pennsylvania senator, who was forceful last week in tying Obama’s policies to Romney and Gingrich, choose not to kill two birds with one stone in this major post-Florida media buy? In short, because Santorum’s most pressing priority isn’t taking down Romney — it’s emerging as the consensus conservative alternative to him. And in order to do that, Santorum must first displace Gingrich — both in the polls and in the media narrative — as Romney’s main rival.” The Santorum strategy and Alberta’s analysis further exemplifies what has always been the overall rider of the 2012 GOP primary: there are two candidates; Romney and whoever claims the Anti-Romney mantel.
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New Santorum ad spares Romney while linking Gingrich to Pelosi and Obama
At The Hill , ” Crossroads GPS hits Obama over Solyndra with new ad campaign “: Crossroads GPS is taking aim at President Obama over his administration’s $535 million loan guarantee to failed solar company Solyndra with a new national television advertisement. In the new ad, the nonprofit group created by Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie paints the Solyndra loan guarantee as a corrupt deal aimed at benefiting the president’s campaign donors. “Laid-off workers forgotten. Tell President Obama we need jobs, not more insider deals,” the $500,000 ad, which will run on cable for a week, says. It’s the latest attempt by conservative groups to punish Obama politically over the loan guarantee. Americans for Prosperity — a group partially funded by the billionaire Koch brothers — has spent more than $8 million on two advertisements that hit Obama over the loan guarantee. More at the link .
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Crossroads GPS Goes Up With Huge New Ad Buy Slamming Obama on Solyndra
Republicans are seizing on President Obama’s decision not to exempt all religious employers from a federal requirement that health-care plans cover contraception services.
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GOP Seizes on Contraception Rule
Ugh. We’re back to this again. Yes, President Obama’s re-inflating the housing bubble to pander in an election year. Foreclosure avoidance is now a civil right. Long-term consequences be damned. Obama is outlining a proposal to allow millions more homeowners to refinance their mortgages at lower interest rates even if they owe more than their homes are worth. The White House says the average borrower could save about $3,000 annually. His first mortgage-mod program was fraud-ridden and failed . So, of course, he’s doubling down. Obama has also promised today to send a homeowner “bill of rights” to Congress. Maybe he should try abiding by the original one first. *** Over the past several years, I’ve written extensively about the bipartisan housing entitlement culture and the death of the stigma of default. I repeat: Property-value preservation is not a civil right. The truth is: Nobody wants to swallow tough truths. They just want their candy.
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Obama’s new campaign candy: More mortgage aid, homeowner “bill of rights”
People want jobs and for the government to take more from the wealthiest minority of Americans, big surprise. A new poll conducted by United Technologies and The National Journal surveying the American people’s support of key ideas laid out in President Obama’s State of the Union address last week found that the commander in chief could rely on overwhelming support for his proposal to tax American companies operating abroad, and more than average encouragement to tax anyone who earns at least $1 million at a minimum rate of 30 percent of their annual income. “By a whopping 76-percent-to-19-percent margin, Americans agreed with Obama’s proposal to ‘impose a minimum tax on money American companies earn from their operations abroad to discourage them from creating jobs overseas and encourage them to create jobs in the U.S.’ When it comes to the so-called Buffett Rule—named for billionaire investor Warren Buffett—65 percent surveyed agreed with the proposition that Congress should “establish a new rule that anyone who earns at least $1 million annually must pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes,’ while just 31 percent disagreed. ” While the President can hang his hat on public support to increase taxes on millionaires and businesses exporting jobs abroad, those surveyed were unhappy with the President’s decision to snub the Keystone XL pipeline and the thousands of jobs it could create, due to environmental concerns. “One thing the president did not mention in his speech was his position on the Keystone XL pipeline to carry oil from Canada to the United States. Supporters of the pipeline say it will ease America’s dependence on Mideast oil and create jobs. Opponents fear the environmental impact of building a pipeline. What about you—do you support or oppose building the Keystone XL pipeline?’ Sixty-four percent of respondents favored its construction, while only 22 percent opposed it.” The two populist issues both promise to create jobs and offer political gain for each party, support for the Buffet Rule taxing the rich to aid Democrats, support of the pipeline to aid Republicans. Either way, respondents are in agreement that the issues are likely not going to be solved any time soon, with an eye-popping 70 percent of those surveyed saying it was not too likely or not at all likely that the president and Congress would agree on the major ideas Obama presented.
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Poll shows strong support for both ‘Buffett rule’ and Keystone XL pipeline
