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Obama’s Union Point Man
By Phil Kerpen for National Review Online
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Happy Birthday President Reagan
Washington, DC – Today Americans for Prosperity, the nation’s premier advocate for economic freedom, released a very special “Happy Birthday” message to honor President Ronald Reagan on his 101st birthday.
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Conservative Groups Applaud Passage of Pro-Growth Budgeting Act
This afternoon, the House of Representatives passed a bill to fill a long-time gap in the Congressional Budget Office's analysis of major legislative proposals: estimating the impact that new policies would have on the American economy in addition to estimating the impact on the federal budget. The bill passed by a vote of 242-179.
Three free-market organizations -- Americans for Prosperity, the American Family Business Institute, and Heritage Action for America -- released the statement below responding to the good news.
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AFP’s Tim Phillips tells CNN: Obama "has not lived up to its own lofty rhetoric"
CNN has taken notice of AFP's ads exposing the Obama Administration's cronyism and disturbing backdoor dealings of the Solyndra gamble. Read more below...
Campaign analysis: GOP outside groups try to anchor Obama in D.C. 'swamp'
Washington (CNN) -- As Republican candidates attack one another on the campaign trail, Republican outside spending groups are taking aim at President Barack Obama over failed energy company Solyndra.
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Indiana Embraces Worker Freedom
Today, Indiana’s state Senate stood up for Hoosier workers by passing legislation to make Indiana the 23rd Right to Work state. The bill has already passed the Indiana House and now heads to Governor Mitch Daniels, who will sign it later today.
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Obama by the Numbers
On Monday night President Obama held an online “Hangout,” where he again repeated the same two statistics being held out as proof of his Administration’s success. Although the president keeps repeating favorable statistics, the full picture is quite different.
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White House Memos Highlight Basic Flaw in Central Planning
Recently, the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza released White House memos showing President Obama’s advisers contemplated multiple options for the original so-called stimulus package. The President’s advisers, including economists Larry Summers and Christina Romer, argued that multiple areas of the economy needed federal stimulus.
Despite the advisers’ agreement that the President should engage in some type of big government intervention, the economists and the President differed greatly in their approach to dealing with the economic crisis. The memos reveal that the centralized planning inherent in big government stimulus is not quite the rational process that the Left would like us to believe, but rather a messy amalgam of competing political interests from individual planners.
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Conservative Coalition Comes Together to Stop NAT GAS
Today AFP joined a group of 16 conservative coalition partners in renewing their strong opposition to the NAT GAS Act and urging Members of Congress to reject the legislation in 2012.
H.R. 1380, introduced by Representative John Sullivan (R-OK), and S. 1863, introduced by Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), would create new and expand existing special tax treatments for the production, conversion, and sale of of natural gas-powered vehicles -- all at a time when Congress should be simplifying the tax code instead of adding more special handouts for favored interests.
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Oklahoma Leads on Income-Tax Repeal
The state has proposed a radically pro-growth agenda.
By Phil Kerpen & Stuart Jolly
When Ron Paul talks about repealing the income tax and replacing it with nothing, most people think it can’t be done. But at least on the state level, it can. In fact, there are nine states, including Paul’s home state of Texas, that don’t levy income taxes. Those states have far outperformed high-income-tax states on every measure of economic success. Now Oklahoma is poised to fully repeal its income tax and join the ranks of non-income-tax states. While Oklahoma is already a relatively business-friendly, low-tax state, income-tax repeal would launch it into the top tier of the most economically competitive states and the best places to live and work.
Read the rest at National Review Online.
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Another Obama-Backed Energy Company Goes Bankrupt
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2012/January/Parent-of-Obama-Backed-Battery-Maker-Bankrupt/
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Gov. Perdue's Decision to Retire Reflects Bad Policies, Has Implications Beyond the Governor’s Office
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue announced yesterday that she will not seek re-election this fall. Given that North Carolina is a swing state and host to the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Perdue’s retirement has policy implications beyond her personal future.
The announcement came just one week after her ill-timed proposal to raise $800 million in taxes and after a year of having her vetoes overrode by the state legislature. Residents in North Carolina have signaled that they favor economic freedom, low taxes, and limited government over heavy regulation and out-of-control spending.
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Americans for Prosperity Hosts Watch Parties, Responds to State of the Union Address
Americans for Prosperity Hosts Watch Parties, Responds to State of the Union Address
Arlington, VA - Last night hundreds of activists gathered at a dozen different State of the Union Watch Parties around the country. Remarks from Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips and special guests such as Virginia Governor McDonnell were broadcast live online, and drew a stark contrast between the principles of economic freedom and the big-government policies President Obama would go on to defend.
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A message from AFP President Tim Phillips
Today hundreds of citizens attended AFP State of the Union watch parties all across America, gathering together to contrast the policies of economic freedom with the President's philosophy of big-government spending, cronyism, and the other issues President Obama tends to "conveniently forget" when he's giving speeches. We joined together to send the message that while our President may forget, we still remember that his policies have led to high unemployment and skyrocketing national debt. Some of our watch parties featured a live broadcast with special guests including our kickoff in Tampa, Florida, as well as a very special appearance by Virginia Governor McDonnell in Richmond!
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Obama Forgets: State of the Union Pictures
Pictures from our Obama Forgets State of the Union Watch Parties happening across the country:
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President Obama Forgets – Policy Reminder #7
President Obama Forgets that the Constitution Doesn’t Give Him Unlimited Power. But AFP activists want to remind the President that he can’t side-step checks and balances at every turn and impose his own polices at will.
Obama frequently attacked President George W. Bush for executive power grabs while on the campaign trail in 2008, but now that he holds the reins Obama has regularly ignored the Constitution to relentlessly pursue his big-government agenda.