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 Tough Sales Job Despite President Obama’s Taxpayer Financed PR Campaigns, Americans Think He ‘Made Things Worse’   SEN. MITCH McCONNELL: “The President needs to face facts. Americans don’t want him spending their hard-earned money trying to spin policies they don’t like.” (Sen. Mitch McConnell, Floor Remarks, 5/23/12)   NBC/WSJ Survey: President Has ‘Made Things Worse’ Q: “For each [...]

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Dems Divided On Surtax In 2009 Democrats Warned That A Similar Surtax Would ‘Negatively Affect Small Businesses,’ Said It Would Be ‘A Very Tough Sell’ In The Senate   DEMS: Tax Hikes Will ‘Stifle The Recovery’   SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN (ID-CT): “I wouldn’t do anything to raise taxes in the foreseeable future because that’ll stifle [...]

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This week marks the second anniversary of the historic inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th President of the United States. Arguably, no president in the history of this country has come into office with higher hopes and expectations from the American people. A lot of promises were made during the campaign, none more [...]

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RICHMOND – The Obama Administration today suspended exploration for oil and natural gas off the coast of Virginia for at least the next seven years.  Likewise, the Administration blocked similar development in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. Americans for Prosperity’s Virginia Director Ben Marchi [...]

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(Washington, D.C.) Today, U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann voted against the Dodd-Frank conference report on financial regulatory reform that perpetuates bailouts and the “too big to fail” mind set. She released the following statement after final passage of the bill in the House: “Clearly, reforms need to be made to our financial regulatory system, but unfortunately the bill the [...]

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This was just too delicious to resist: The Telegraph (a UK newspaper) had this article calling for the end of the Federal Reserve.  Yes, Andrew Jackson hasn’t had this much fun since the Second Bank of the United States was abolished on his watch in 1836!  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has this to say about the professional economists: However, Dr [...]

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Virginia Right! sat in on a Conference Call with Senator Orrin Hatch yesterday afternoon. The main topic was the two bills Senator Hatch introduced to repeal two of the provisions in the ObamaCare law which many feel are both harmful and unconstitutional.

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While the Mainstream Media and the Democrats are still in full spin mode, remaining determined to continue to blame Bush for the recession, Obama nears his one year mark as president.

Democrats were quick to blame the Bush war spending on the economic downturn in spite of the fact that they took over the House and Senate prior to the beginning of the recession, in 2006. Almost as soon as Pelosi and Reid began pushing their liberal agenda, the economy took a nose dive. Barney Frank’s use of Freddie and Fannie as his personal welfare housing slush fund tore the foundation from beneath the economy.

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Yesterday, Tim Kaine announced another adjustment due to his horrible budgeting skills, and attempted to blame others. State Senator Mark Obenshain had a few words to say about Kaine’s blame game on his Facebook page.

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As most Eastern Shore families will tell you, our economy has been dealing with a serious economic downturn for quite some time now.

While my opponent laments the budget woes of Virginia, he reveals himself to be yet another out-of-touch politician who failed to adequately forecast realistic revenue projections.

Unfortunately he doesn’t see the current dire circumstances faced by a great many Eastern Shore families as an opportunity to champion the kind of limited government policies that create jobs and prosperity, nor does he dissociate himself from those in Richmond and Washington who continue to legislate our jobs and businesses out of existence.

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