Quote of the Day

[Obama’s claim] “that there is nothing he can do about oil prices is pure unadulterated bullshit...If he announced to forward markets that the United States was going to get serious about starting to produce its energy…. it would put down pressure on price, huge downward pressure.” 

Dan Kish, senior vice president at the Institute for Energy Research.

Quote of the Day

"Barack Obama recently proposed increasing the subsidy for electric cars by 25%, to $10,000, in order to help "Government Motors" sell the Chevy Volt. Evidently, even that generous incentive is failing to entice more people to buy them. 

The Washington Examiner reported last week that GM had hoped to sell 45,000 Volts this year. But they sold just over 1,600 in January and February. At that pace, they will sell fewer than 10,000 of the electric/gas cars. CNN reports that the $40,000 starting price turned off potential buyers, especially when similarly sized vehicles were half the price. Even at $5.00 a gallon, $20,000 buys a lot of gas! 

So it wasn't at all surprising when GM announced Friday that it was temporarily suspending production of the Volt and laying off 1,300 workers. This isn't rocket science. It's fundamental economics. Like Solyndra and other stimulus projects, Obama's "green" bets are not paying off."

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

Quote of the Day

#NewOccupyChants

“Our concept of rebelling! Is riots, rapes, and yelling!”

“We’re the 99%! With some cash the unions spent!”

“What’s the point behind this fad? Mostly to get back at Dad!”

“Two, four, six, eight! After that, our math’s not great!”

“Hey hey! Ho ho! This phase is one we might outgrow!”

“The people! United! Deluded and shortsighted!”

“99% are we! In our tents is where we pee!”

Read more

Quotes of the Day

"Though today's job growth numbers are good news, it's the equivalent of winning a foot race with a cinder block strapped to your leg. Sure, you might cross the finish line, but you could get there a lot faster if you cut off the dead weight. America's economy is struggling to break free from the dead weight of debt, reckless spending, uncertainty, over-regulation, high taxes and a convoluted, counterproductive tax code."

The Heritage Foundation

_______________________________________

"The National Prayer Breakfast is an annual event that attracts over 3,000 people. Every U.S. president in recent decades has attended and spoken, and all of them have shed politics at the door. But not Barack Obama. 

Yesterday he shamelessly wrapped his left-wing socialist political agenda in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I don't think Obama wears glasses, but he clearly needs a pair. He has looked at Karl Marx and confused him with Jesus Christ."

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

_______________________________________

"Liberals accuse us of trying to create a theocracy, when they're the ones trying to attach biblical significance to big government! The Left engages God when it's convenient, and draws a line between church and state when it isn't."

Tony Perkins

Family Research Council

Quotes of the Day

"Obama is murder on American commerce, but he has been very good for China."

Human Events

"What we have witnessed over the last three years has been not just the rapid erosion of our traditional American morals and values, and our constitutional republic and political system, but the growth of a mindless lawlessness, an attitude that the ends justify the means, even if you have no clear idea of what the ends actually are. We have witnessed the growth of institutional nihilism, based on the destructive, half-baked Marxism of Saul Alinsky and the New Left of the 1960s, and its uncritical acceptance by the mindless Marxist minions who make up the base of today’s Democrat Party. Totally uncool."

Michael Oberndorf, RPA

Quote of the Day

"Obama's attempt to redefine American values in his and Karl Marx's image is a violent and evil yet devious attack at the heart of America itself.  His values are not American values.  His principles are diametrically opposed to our time-tested founding principles.  He is at war with them and he must be defeated, his policies must reversed, and constitutionally limited government must be restored."

Matthew Burke

Video Picks of the Day

Quote of the Day

"Last month a bi-partisan majority in Congress passed legislation demanding a decision on the pipeline within 60 days. Congress took this unusual step because the Obama White House said it would wait until after the 2012 elections to make a decision. The administration now claims it is denying approval because it can't make an informed decision in 60 days. But according to the Wall Street Journal, "The U.S. government has been reviewing the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline since 2008." 

So this project has been under government review for four years -- that's 1,460 days -- and Obama still can't give us an answer? We developed the atomic bomb in less time. We built the Empire State Building in less time. The Hoover Dam took less than five years to build. 

But Obama just can't bring himself to approve a pipeline that would provide America with oil from Canada and create tens of thousands of jobs in the process -- even when his own advisors recommend it. He rejects the one really "shovel ready" project on his desk while spending billions on failed alternative energy companies. 

Why would Obama do this? Because the radical environmentalist movement has made the Keystone pipeline a litmus test issue. They have drawn a "line in the sand" on the use of "dirty" tar sands oil. 

But the oil will be used. The pipeline will be built -- going west, instead of south, to load the oil on Chinese tankers. China desperately wants it. In fact, the Chinese are already aggressively buying up interests in Canada's tar sands and Prime Minister Harper is headed to China next month. According to Canadian news reports, "A decision by U.S. President Barack Obama to delay approval for a major pipeline expansion through the country led to Harper talk about finding other customers for Canadian oil." 

By the way, petroleum analysts are warning that 2012 could be "the most painful year at the pump that we have ever seen." 

My friends, let me remind you what President Obama's former National Security Advisor, Gen. Jim Jones, said last month about the failure of this administration to develop a serious energy policy:

"If we get to the point where we cannot bring ourselves to do what is in our national interest, then we are clearly in a period of decline… A nation that fails to secure the energy its citizens and its economic engine need to keep functioning leaves itself vulnerable to external contingencies in a dangerous and uncertain world and to the whims of foreign leaders and other actors who may not always have its interests at heart.""

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

Quote of the Day

"After three years of Barack Obama, the verdict is in. The official slogan for the era of Obama should be: “Dude, where’s my welfare?”"

Patrick Chisholm

"Almost a year ago, Obama promised in his State of the Union address to create a leaner, more efficient federal bureaucracy. Since then, Republicans — both on Capitol Hill and in the presidential campaign — have charged that the administration’s health-care, environmental and financial reforms have added layers of red tape and costs at the worse possible time."

Cowboy Byte

Quote of the Day

"Truly, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) belongs in a museum somewhere in an exhibit about what can happen when you elect Democrat majorities to the House, Senate and White House. Like so much else in the Democratic agenda (Dodd-Frank, environmental regulation, mortgage relief), it relies not on incentives, competition or patient choice but on blatant government coercion."

Mona Charen

Quote of the Day

"The Obama strategy is banking that counterinsurgency and small conflicts, not long land wars, are in the future.

Poor predictions."

Rowan Scarborough

Quote of the Day

"Memo to Obamanites: Please don't bore me with your "Obama didn't start the war - Bush did!" argument, just as you do with your "Obama didn't screw up the economy, Bush did!" excuse. We (you) hired Captain Teleprompter to fix things,did we (you) not? His continual whining - and that of his sock puppets - about everything being Bush's fault has reached its political statute of limitations; Dear Leader has been at it for three years, loons; wise up."

Michael Miller

Quote of the Day

"If Iran's ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons are thwarted, it will be despite Obama, not because of him."

Caroline Glick

Quotes of the Day

"An administration that came to power calling George W. Bush a bully who sought to impose Western ideology on foreign countries feels entitled to behave imperialistically on [the gay agenda]."

George Neumayr

_______________________________________________________

"If we get to the point where we cannot bring ourselves to do what is in our national interest, then we are clearly in a period of decline… A nation that fails to secure the energy its citizens and its economic engine need to keep functioning leaves itself vulnerable to external contingencies in a dangerous and uncertain world and to the whims of foreign leaders and other actors who may not always have its interests at heart.

"The delay, and possible rejection of this pipeline, could have significant and long-range national security implications for our nation."

General Jim Jones, Ret., Barack Obama's National Security Advisor from 2009 through most of 2010

_______________________________________________________

"Here's the truth: House Republicans passed a one-year extension of the payroll tax cut last week, which is what President Obama has been asking for. It was the Democrat Senate that managed to approve only one-sixth of what the president wanted. Experts are now warning that the two-month extension "could create substantial problems" and "cannot be implemented properly."

Rather than continue to have this debate every other month for the next year, House Republicans are demanding a better bill that gets it done now so that families can have some certainty in their paychecks next year!"

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

Quote of the Day

"It is clear that this decision of a complete pullout of United States troops from Iraq was dictated by politics, and not our national security interests. I believe history will judge this president’s leadership with the scorn and disdain it deserves.”

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee


Read more on Newsmax.com: McCain: Obama Deserves 'Scorn and Disdain' for Iraq Pullout
Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!

Quotes of the Day

"You know the president says that the American people 'can't wait' on jobs. Well guess what -- we agree wholeheartedly with the president.

"The Keystone pipeline project will create tens of thousands of jobs immediately. It has bipartisan support in the House and Senate. It's pretty clear that the president's decided to push this decision off for a year -- conveniently until after his next election. Well the American people 'can't wait,' as the president said, and at a time when the American people are still asking the question 'Where are the jobs?' I think this is a bipartisan proposal that the president ought to endorse."

Speaker John Boehner

_________________________________________

"Meanwhile, in prepared testimony, Jon Corzine told the House Agriculture Committee that he was "stunned" to learn that more than $1 billion of investors' funds were missing. Where have I heard that before? Right -- that was Chris Christie who said he was stunned to learn just after taking office that Jon Corzine had left him with a $2.2 billion deficit.

Corzine clearly has a history of losing people's money. When Corzine says he's "stunned" by missing money, there is a bit of a credibility issue at stake here."

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

Dec. 9th: Friends of Liberty Reception in Amissville, VA

The Friends of Liberty

will host a

pre-holiday reception and meeting on

Friday, Dec. 9

from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

at Gray Ghost Vineyards

14706 Lee

Highway (Rt. 211)

in Amissville, VA.

We invite you to join us for a glass

of wine

and learn more about our efforts and our cause.

(See our webite at www.friendsofliberty.org)

This event is free of any admission.

Gray Ghost will serve a variety of its

wines at a cash bar.

Our guest speaker will be James A. Christopherson,

executive director of

Judicial Action Group (www.judicialactiongroup.org).

He will speak on his

organization's efforts on

the Obamacare Supreme Court case

and Justice

Kagan's role in the case.

For further information about the Friends of Liberty,

contact Jim Gannon at

gannon54@comcast.net or

Mike Cioffi at mcioffi@hughes.net.

Quote of the Day

"Obama has few good ideas about how to create jobs and grow the economy. His trillion-dollar stimulus plan was a failure. If Obama's model worked, why is Europe collapsing?

Obama is a one trick pony, and his trick is very simple. Like all good socialists and the Occupy demonstrators, he thinks he can convince everyone else that they are hurting, not because he and his policies have failed but because someone else is succeeding."

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

Quote of the Day

“I actually do study history – and unlike the President, I study American History.”


Newt Gingrich