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Obama drives US toward socialism, GOP says - The Boston Globe
WASHINGTON - Top Republicans accused President Obama yesterday of driving the United States toward socialism, while Democrats praised his spending plans as an ambitious roadmap to change healthcare, energy, taxes, and more. The rhetoric appeared to set the stage for another bitter partisan fight ...
Where's global warming? - The Boston Globe
boston.com — SUPPOSE the climate landscape in recent weeks looked something like this: Half the country was experiencing its... mildest winter in years, with no sign of snow in many Northern states. Most of the Great Lakes were ice-free. Not a single Canadian ... (more) Where's global warming? - The Boston Globe
Pelosi To House GOP: Be Thankful For What You Have
huffingtonpost.com — Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a message for House Republicans who think they weren't given enough time to... debate or amend the stimulus package that moved through Congress over an eight-day period earlier this session: You could have had much less. "To ... (more) Pelosi To House GOP: Be Thankful For What You Have
Boston Globe executes quick headline change
Boston Globe executes quick headline change
directorblue.blogspot.com — Four hours ago, the The Boston Globe's headline on its story covering the Obama "Fiscal Responsibility Summit"... was:Obama urges spending curbs, hands out $15 billionAfter the laughter reached the office windows of the Globe, some enterprising editor changed the headline to avoid the painful itch ... (more) Boston Globe executes quick headline change
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AP Ignores Cries Of ‘Socialism,’ Claims That Congressional Republicans Have ‘No Desire To Demonize’ Obama
Think Progress — ... – Last week, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) called Obama’s budget proposal “one big down payment on a new American socialist experiment.” ...

ThinkFast: March 2, 2009
The Hollywood Liberal — ... on Friday in describing his prime time speech earlier this week. DeMint, a fierce opponent of government expansion, told the CPAC crowd that conservatives might have to “take to the streets to stop America’s slide into socialism.” It isn’t just the backbenchers like DeMint who are demonizing Obama as a socialist. Members of the GOP congressional leadership are pushing that line of attack as well:– Last week, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) called Obama’s budget proposal “ one big down payment on a new American socialist experiment .” – Senate Minority Leader Mitch ...

The Gay Communist 90's
Obsidian Wings — ... !  And that's just the moderates.  Other leading conservative voices, from John Boehner to Rush Limbaugh to Jim DeMint have also hyped the New Red Scare! (which would be the tax rates during the Communist 90's as they're now known). ...

The Gay Communist 90's
Newshoggers.com — ... !  And that's just the moderates.  Other leading conservative voices, from John Boehner to Rush Limbaugh to Jim DeMint have also hyped the New Red Scare! (which would be the tax rates during the Communist 90's as they're now known). ...

Socialism, American-Style
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... Review. Echoing a flurry of warnings from other conservatives, author Mark Steyn says that those who liken President Obama's program to FDR's New Deal, LBJ's Great Society, or Jimmy Carter's unnamed nationalizations are making "nickel 'n'dime comparisons. It's all those multiplied a gazillion-fold and nuclearized -- or Europeanized, which is less dramatic but ultimately more lethal." Will this alarm -- and other expressions of concern by prominent Republicans including John Boehner, Jim DeMint, Mike Pence, Mike Huckabee and Michelle ...

Cantor: The Public Is ‘Finally Waking Up’ To The Fascist ‘One-Party Government’ In Washington D.C.
Think Progress — ... .” In fact, Cantor’s colleagues in the Republican leadership have been fanning the flames as well. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) called Obama’s budget proposal “a new American socialist experiment” while Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), the third-ranking House Republican, denounced Obama’s economic agenda as “ ...

More Government Does Not Mean ‘Reform’
Pajamas Media — ... their markets, we, in the United States, endeavor to (further) socialize ours. The Increase the Size of the Federocracy Plan — a.k.a. ...

John Boehner Claims He Never Called President Obama a Socialist
Crooks and Liars — ... unemployment, we ought to be looking to create jobs in America, not kill jobs in America. Their cap and trade proposal, all this spending, all of this debt and now their healthcare plan will make it more difficult for employers to hire people, more difficult and more expensive to have employees, which means we’re going to have less jobs in America. But Americans are scared. That’s why they’re speaking up and that’s why they’re engaging in their government. John Boehner Feb. 28, 2009-- Obama drives US toward socialism, GOP says : Representative John Boehner, the Republican ...

Republican Born Again Deficit Virgins
Blog For Arizona — ... under Ronald Reagan and doubled again under President Bush, House Minority Leader John Boehner in February decried the $787 billion emergency economic recovery spending as "one big down payment on a new American socialist experiment." By June, ...

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