Obama and Liberals Shouldn’t Be “Shocked”

American Issues Project highlights the hypocrisy of “change” amidst AIG bonuses and overall spending.

Washington, DC – March 24, 2009 – American Issues Project launched a major television advertising campaign today, highlighting how the Obama administration and Congressional leadership protected the American International Group (AIG) bonuses and faked shock after the fact. The ad also reveals that Sen. Chris Dodd and President Obama each received more than $100,000 from AIG in 2008. It will air on FOX News, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNBC and FOX Business Network.

“Our elected officials are feigning shock over schemes that they themselves have overseen,” said Ed Martin, the organization’s president. “While it’s a clever PR stunt in the face of sharply declining approval ratings, two-faced politicians are not helping the American economy—and, more importantly, the American people—recover.”

The ad also criticizes Congressional liberals for voting to spend $1 billion per hour and passing legislation without reading the full text of the bills.

“American Issues Project will not rest until this reckless spending spree comes to a halt,” said American Issues Project President Ed Martin. “History shows us that increasing government control and accruing unsustainable amounts of debt does more harm than good. Washington is out of control and we owe it to our children, the heirs of this irresponsibility, to hold power-hungry politicians accountable.”

The ad urges concerned citizens to text ENOUGH to 97180 if they want to join the organization. An electronic version of the ad, plus full documentation for all statements made, is available at American Issues Project’s website.

About American Issues Project
American Issues Project is a 501(c)4 organization representing a coalition of conservative activists committed to raising important issues that deserve deeper examination given their impact on policy and politics. In accordance with federal law, American Issues Project only solicits and accepts contributions from individuals and not from any business corporation.

Line By Line, Or Lie After Lie

March 26, 2009 | by: Matt Margolis

 

Does anyone remember the promises made by Barack Obama during the campaign and after he won? Let’s refresh our memories…

During the final presidential debate last year, Obama said, “We need to eliminate a whole host of programs that don’t work. And I want to go through the federal budget line by line, page by page, programs that don’t work, we should cut. Programs that we need, we should make them work better.”

This wasn’t just rhetoric from a presidential candidate. This was a promise he made again as president-elect, a few weeks after the election:

“We cannot sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programs that have outlived their usefulness, or exist solely because of the power of a politicians, lobbyists, or interest groups. We simply cannot afford it. This isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about building a smarter government that focuses on what works. That is why I will ask my new team to think anew and act anew to meet our new challenges…. We will go through our federal budget, page by page, line by line‚ eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way.”

He made the same claim during his press conference yesterday.

And we will continue to go line-by-line through this budget, and where we find programs that don’t work, we will eliminate them.

Line by line.

So, Barack Obama said he would go line-by-line through the budget as a candidate, as president-elect, and said he’d continue — not start, but continue — to go through his budget line by line.

So why then, were there over 8,500 pet projects in his budget?

Why does his budget put our country into $9.3 trillion in debt in ten years?

He said he’d go line-by-line through the budget… with a scalpel.

Would Obama’s teleprompter care to explain?