WNO: Pence Says Obama Has Failed On Economy

Interview with Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN)

Chairman, House Republican Conference

Who: Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN)

What: Exclusive Interview with Rep. Mike Pence on variety of issues

When: June 22nd, 2009

Where: National Taxpayers Union Conference

Pence Soundbite #1: Obama fails on economy:

"I think the Obama Administration to date has failed to address our economic crisis by applying the principles and ideals that have characterized our free market economy for generations."

Pence Soundbite #2: House Republicans united for limited government:

"House Republicans are more united than they have ever been before in our commitment to fiscal discipline and limited government."

Length of Full Interview: 2:15

Click for full video file: http://washingtonnewsobserver.com/?p=101

AFP - Take Action: Stop EPA Overreach

Stop EPA Overreach

Carbon Dioxide is NOT a Pollutant

AFP is engaged in a pitched battle against environmental extremists and we need your help to stop them. The Left has mobilized their grassroots to tell the EPA to choke off economic activity in this country.

Last year we battled an EPA proposal to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, a proposal that would allow bureaucrats to control everything that emits carbon dioxide in our country, including: cars, trains, planes and even your lawnmower.

Since the Obama Administration has taken hold, things have only gotten worse. The EPA is feeling emboldened and have submitted a proposal that would find carbon dioxide "endangers the public health and welfare."

That's right; the essential gas that has always been a critical component of the planet's natural life cycle will now be officially labeled by the U.S. Government as a pollutant.

Click here to take action.

Once this "endangerment finding" has been reached, the EPA will be empowered to advance carbon dioxide regulations to their heart's content. But even if they wanted to take the severe economic impact of this proposal into account, they can't. Once the endangerment finding is final, they would be compelled to work aggressively to eliminate it across the economy.

One lawsuit by a fringe environmental group could bring our economy to a standstill.

But, before the EPA can pass this ridiculous rule, they are required by law to listen to the people.

Click here to take action and tell EPA that you oppose this new regulation

CHQ - Conservatives/Liberals Agree on Some Judicial Merits

"Judicial Deference" is a Bipartisan Ideal--Unfortunately
Wall Street Journal - Many conservatives who think of themselves as proponents of limited government would be surprised to discover that conservative judges begin their constitutional analyses in almost every context by placing a thumb firmly on the government side of the scale. It's called "judicial deference." Many liberals, who take pride in being "empathetic," would be surprised to learn that liberal judges also subscribe to judicial deference. [Find the Link in News From the Front]

Daily Lickskillet: Read today's Lickskillet comic here to find out why the cats have had enough.

Articles in News From The Front:

The Economy Is Still at the Brink

Limp-Noodle Republicans v. Senora Sotomayor

Greg Mankiw: What's the Point of a Public Option?

The Indignity of Allowing More Government in our Lives

A Brief Victory For Political Free Speech

NRCC - Carol Shea-Porter Out-of-Touch on the Economy

Despite More Job Losses Ahead, Congresswoman Says Country Is In Jobless “Recovery”

Washington- Rep. Carol Shea Porter (D-NH) revealed last week that she is out-of-touch with the economic downturn and the increase in unemployment in her home state. While her constituents are suffering from the recession in New Hampshire, Shea Porter met with city business leaders last Thursday and exposed her naivety to the reality of the economic forecast:

“‘I do believe the country is in recovery,’ said Shea Porter, noting that the rate of job loss is slowing. ‘For a while we were hemorrhaging jobs.’” (Ober, “Shea Porter reports on business concerns,” The Citizen Of Laconia, 5/29/09)

Meanwhile, Dennis Delay, an economist with the NH Center for Public Policy Studies and New Hampshire Forecast Manager for the New England Economic Partnership, said that the recession has yet to hit rock bottom in New Hampshire as residents are expected to lose another 13,000 jobs before even seeing the beginning stages of recovery. (“Economist expects more job loss in NH,” New Hampshire Union Leader, 5/20/09)

“As job losses mount and housing prices continue to fall, Carol Shea-Porter’s constituents in New Hampshire must be confused by her hype over a jobless economic ‘recovery,’” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. “If Shea-Porter is so oblivious to the economic pain of her constituents, how can she be in any position to help solve it?”

CEI Weekly: California: The failed model

>>Shaping the Debate

[VIDEO] Myron Ebell on Car Mileage Regulations

Myron Ebell featuredon CNBC

http://ceiondemand.org/2009/05/19/myron-ebell-on-car-mileage-regulations/

[VIDEO] Sam Kazman Debates Obama’s Car Mileage Regulations

Sam Kazman featured on CNN

http://ceiondemand.org/2009/05/19/sam-kazman-debates-obamas-car-mileage-regulations/

Supreme Court To Hear Sarbanes-Oxley Challenge

Hans Bader featured in The Washington Examiner

http://cei.org/articles/2009/05/21/supreme-court-hear-sarbanes-oxley-challenge

Florida flirting with fiscal hurricane disaster

Eli Lehrer featured The Gainesville Sun

http://cei.org/articles/2009/05/20/florida-flirting-fiscal-hurricane-disaster

Rather than vilify bottled water, scale back recycling programs

Angela Logomasini featured in The Post Standard

http://cei.org/articles/2009/05/18/rather-vilify-bottled-water-scale-back-recycling-programs

Business Will Miss Justice Souter

Hans Bader featured in the The Wall Street Journal

http://cei.org/articles/2009/05/19/business-will-miss-justice-souter

>>Best of the Blogs

California here we come?

by Myron Ebell

"California’s voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a series of tax increases that Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic-controlled state legislature claimed were necessary to save the State from bankruptcy. The voters have it right, as do the conservative Republicans in the legislature."

http://www.openmarket.org/2009/05/21/california-here-we-come/

New fuel economy rules will make cars more costly, less safe, trigger regulatory cascade

by Marlo Lewis

"At some point today, the EPA and the Department of Transportation (DOT) will propose a first-ever joint regulation to establish first-ever greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for new motor vehicles . .. This is bad news for three reasons . . . New cars will be less safe[,] . . .New cars will be more costly[,] . . . The GHG standards will starta regulatory chain reaction with potentially devastating economic impacts.

http://www.openmarket.org/2009/05/19/new-fuel-economy-rules-will-make-cars-more-costly-less-safe-trigger-regulatory-cascade/

EWaste Recycling Bans: Wasting Opportunity

by Angela Logomasini

"To sum it up, developing nations don’t have the same environmental standards as we do for the same reasons they don’t have the same labor standards—they are too poor. Keeping them poor will only keep them poor! That’s hardly a policy for progress!"

http://www.openmarket.org/2009/05/20/ewaste-recycling-bans-wasting-opportunity/

Class Warfare Against the Financially Responsible

by Hans Bader

"Earlier, the Obama Administration pushed through $250 billion in mortgage bailouts, to bail out even some high-income borrowers with normal mortgage payments, and forced financial institutions it took over in the name of fiscal responsibility, like Freddie Mac, to run up billions in losses bailing out irresponsible borrowers."

http://www.openmarket.org/2009/05/21/class-warfare-against-the-financially-responsible/

Fulfilling Prophecies

by Ryan Young

"CBO estimated today that unemployment will top out at around 10.5% before it recovers. Congress is doing its part to make CBO’s dire prophecy a reality .. . The Congressman may be unaware that when workers become more expensive to hire, employers hire fewer of them. Or else he is more concerned with making CBO’s predictions come true."

http://www.openmarket.org/2009/05/21/fulfilling-prophecies/

>>CEI in the News

The Financial Post--Myron Ebell

http://cei.org/citation/2009/05/20/biggest-and-worst-0

Business Insurance--Eli Lehrer

http://www.businessinsurance.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?articleId=27658

The Chicago Tribune--Myron Ebell

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-na-emissions19-2009may19,0,3995555.story

St. Louis Post Dispatch--Myron Ebell

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/livegreen/story/3FAED3CFD0E72D74862575BC000ABD3E?OpenDocument

>>Podcast

Episode 43: A House in Gross Disorder

On the news front, we discuss pending “cap and trade” legislation for greenhouse gases, scandalous corruption charges in the British Parliament, and new hope for economic and political reform in India. We also return to Craigslist’s fight against state attorney general activism and some highly competitive Olympic News.
http://www.libertyweek.org/

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