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More than 20,000 protestors from around 160 organizations will swarm the National Mall Sunday in hopes of intensifying the pressure on President Obama over climate policy. The president has not yet detailed the specifics of how he will address the issue, aside from a pledge made in the State of the Union address to take executive action on climate if Congress fails to make progress. Demonstrators are likely to offer plenty of loud suggestions in what green groups are branding the largest ever United States climate rally. “We’re really past the point of playing games with any of this stuff,”...

I originally thought that the story of Linda Morrison which will follow after the jump would be all about the Obama campaign completely misreading the situation surrounding a question asked of GOP vice-presidential nominee at a Clinton County, Iowa town hall forum. It turns out that it's actually biased reports from their good friends in the establishment press which led the overeager campaign to do something embarrassing. Here's how Shushannah Walshe at ABC News described the question Ryan was asked and the answer he gave (bolds are mine throughout this post): Paul Ryan Gets Asked for More Specifics, But This...

Hey! Who replaced the dithering guy who lives in the White House with somebody who acts like he wants to be President? On the heels of the large jobs plan announced earlier this month, President Obama has announced his own plan to reduce the deficit by up to $3 trillion. (Details, .. $1.5 trillion in higher revenues, through limiting deductions, shutting loopholes and letting the Bush tax cuts expire, and $1.5 trillion in spending savings from tinkering with entitlement programs and counting savings from winding down operations in Iraq and Afghanistan). Like the jobs plan, this deficit reduction plan doesn't...

President Obama this week challenged the Tea Party movement to "be specific" and outline its plans. Wow. Is it really possible the prez still doesn't get what's fueling Tea Partiers' white-hot resentment and mounting electoral victories? Because surely they couldn't be clearer about their priorities: * Less spending. * Lower taxes. * Smaller government. "The challenge for the Tea Party movement is to identify specifically: What would you do?" Obama said. "It's not enough to say 'get control of spending.' " We're not sure why not. But it remains that Tea Party (and other) candidates have racked up wins based...

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care The president's proposals would give unelected officials life-and-death rationing powers. By SARAH PALIN Writing in the New York Times last month, President Barack Obama asked that Americans "talk with one another, and not over one another" as our health-care debate moves forward. I couldn't agree more. Let's engage the other side's arguments, and let's allow Americans to decide for themselves whether the Democrats' health-care proposals should become governing law. Some 45 years ago Ronald Reagan said that "no one in this country should be denied medical care because of a...