Barack Obama and the Democrats have "proposed a tax for not having health insurance."
Goldman Sachs was Barack Obama's "No. 1 private contributor."
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... creates an entitlement that will cost another $1 trillion over the next 10 years."
In the health care bill, "The 'Health Choices Commissioner' will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None."
"We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)."
"Yes, this would be the same congressman (Rep. Pete Hoekstra) who last year Tweeted the whereabouts of a top-secret mission to Iraq."
The Republican Party has "21 percent party ID and shrinking."
President Obama has never received a paycheck from a profitmaking business in his entire life.
Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."
"The administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes, including a light switch tax that would cost every American household $3,128 a year."
Obama nominee Dawn Johnsen "called motherhood 'involuntary servitude.'"
"Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, placed an amendment in the ‘stimulus’ bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money — including AIG — to hand out huge bonuses."
Republican leaders said "no" to "tax cuts for 95% of working Americans."
"In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined."
"The president campaigned against this type of legislation."
"Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income."
The stimulus bill contains "$20 million for the removal of small to medium-sized fish passage barriers" and "$25 million to rehabilitate off-roading trails for ATVs."
Energy nominee Steven Chu has called coal "his worst nightmare."
"Geithner still didn't correct the same type of error for some years, even after the Internal Revenue Service flagged him for the failure to pay the taxes in other years."
The Rev. Rick Warren "has called Christians who advance a social gospel Marxists."
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