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• Tweet of the Week: On Budgets and Budget Directors

  Posted July 16th, 2010 at 1:00pm in Entitlements with 0 comments

  This week attention has been focused on President Obama’s pick of Jacob Lew to replace outgoing Peter Orszag as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. While Washington focuses on his record and qualifications, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) tried to focus attention back on the failure of Congress to pass a real budget this year, [...] More

• Tweet of the Week: New IRS Facility Will Have The Nicest Amenities Your Money Can Buy

  Posted June 4th, 2010 at 6:00pm in Ongoing Priorities with 17 comments

  Andy Roth, Vice President of Club for Growth, highlighted a Boston Herald article about renovations to an IRS facility in a tweet he sent out this week:.bbpBox15185634547 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1274144130/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #9ae4e8;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block}An IRS facility [...] More

• Tweet of the Week: Debt Raises by a Trillion Dollars

  Posted May 28th, 2010 at 3:20pm in Entitlements with 6 comments

  Government spending is increasing at an alarmingly quick rate. This is especially true when it comes to entitlement programs. In fact, entitlement spending will consume all tax revenue by 2052. But Congress is already spending at a breakneck pace accumulating unprecedented debt. Sen. George LeMieux noticed this and had a very interesting observation when he tweeted:.bbpBox14779227442 [...] More

• Tweet of the Week: 60% Believe Obamacare will Increase the Deficit

  Posted April 28th, 2010 at 8:00pm in Health Care with 14 comments

  Rasmussen Reports had an interesting tweet about Obama’s Health Care Reform legislation: @RasmussenPoll: 60% Believe health care law will increase deficit, 58% favor repeal… http://tinyurl.com/RR1383 Not only do 60% of Americans believe that health care reform will increase the deficit, but 58% also believe that the correct thing to do is repeal the law. Digging deeper into the [...] More

• Tweet of the Week: On Elvis and the Failed Stimulus

  Posted February 19th, 2010 at 4:30pm in Ongoing Priorities with 10 comments

  Representative Shock reminded Americans this week that more people believe that Elvis Presley is still alive than believe that Obama's failed stimulus has produced jobs. More

• Tweet of the Week: Daily Kos Founder Disses Spending Freeze

  Posted January 28th, 2010 at 5:00pm in Entitlements with 2 comments

  Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas weighs in on President Obama's proposed spending freeze. It goes without saying that when even the Daily Kos fails to find merit in the President's proposals, the Administration needs to step back and reevaluate its policies. More

• Tweet of the Week: @DavidSirota on Heritage and Haiti

  Posted January 15th, 2010 at 2:58pm in Ongoing Priorities with 0 comments

  Earlier this week, The Foundry carried a post by Jim Roberts, a Heritage Senior Research Fellow in Freedom and Growth, which wisely recommended that President Obama appoint former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to lead U.S. recovery efforts in the earthquake-stricken nation of Haiti. This type of high-level bipartisan leadership is critical in [...] More

• Tweet of the Week: @galluppoll

  Posted January 8th, 2010 at 12:39pm in Ongoing Priorities with 0 comments

  Our Tweet of the Week comes from the folks at Gallup. They’ve got good news for the conservative movement. According to a Gallup poll, 40% of Americans considered themselves “conservative” in 2009, higher than any other ideological group (liberals were 21%; moderates were 36%). From Gallup, here’s the Tweet of the Week: @galluppoll Conservatives Finish 2009 as [...] More

• Tweet of the Week: Jenny8Lee

  Posted April 30th, 2009 at 9:29am in Ongoing Priorities with 1 comments

  Yesterday, our friends at National Review discovered this comment on New York Times reporter Jennifer 8 Lee’s twitter profile: obama is good for the bottom line. @nytimes has sold $2 million worth of obama merchandise (book, commemorative editions, etc.) We are sure the editors of the New York Times are not thrilled to learn that Jennifer Lee [...] More