‘Disaster’ Health Plan Breaks Obama Cost-Cut Vow in CEOs’ View – Bloomberg.com

Alex Nussbaum
President Barack Obama’s $1 trillion health-care overhaul won’t buy corporate America relief from medical costs that more than doubled in the last decade, chief executive officers of more than a dozen U.S. companies said.
Private companies, providers of benefits to 132 million Americans, will see little savings from legislation under debate in Congress, CEOs at [...]

RealClearPolitics – Obama’s Fantasy Jobs Plan

By Steve Chapman
This is that wonderful time of year when a roly-poly, white-bearded fellow descends from the North Pole to lavish us with presents. So when President Obama follows suit, maybe it’s just his way of getting into the spirit of the season.
He sounded uncannily like Santa Claus the other day in a speech taking [...]

My Big Fat Government Takeover – WSJ.com

Rule by the best and the brightest.
William McGurn:
Some mistakes are so big that only smart people are tempted to make them. One is the faith in Big Government.
We’ll see that in full force today, when Barack Obama gives another major address on the economy. On the generalities, there won’t be much real disagreement. But at [...]

Obamanomics Isn’t Producing Jobs! Gosh, How Can This Be? – Townhall.com

Austin Hill :
“As Obama holds jobs summit, frustrated left complains about slow growth.” This headline appeared at Foxnews.com last Thursday, and it was at least the fourth time in a week that I had noticed America’s left-wing expressing concern over the Obama economy.
The weeklong liberal’s lament seems to have started last Sunday with Arianna Huffington. [...]

7 stories Obama doesn’t want told – Yahoo! News

John F. Harris
Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds.
No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in part because they were [...]

Obamanomics 101

No cheers for capitalism.
by Fred Barnes via TheWeeklyStandard.

Jobs Saved or Created in Congressional Districts That Don’t Exist – ABC News

By JONATHAN KARL
Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.
There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th [...]

Obama course, obstacles all too familiar

BY STEVE HUNTLEY
In a bit of political irony, the administration of President Obama is turning out to be the mirror image of the White House of President George W. Bush.
Democrats accused Bush of taking his eye off the ball, the war of necessity in Afghanistan, for a war of choice in Iraq. Now Republicans charge [...]

This Is Obama’s Economic Crisis Now – NYTimes.com

By CHARLES M. BLOW
In October 2008, the candidate Barack Obama delivered a major economic speech in Toledo, Ohio. In it he said: “Right now, we face an immediate economic emergency, and that requires urgent action. We can’t wait to help workers and families and communities who are struggling right now — who don’t know if [...]

‘Created or saved’ doesn’t add up – POLITICO.com

Joseph Lawler -
It is hard to reconcile Friday’s dismal Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report with Vice President Joe Biden’s claim from the previous Friday that “the Recovery Act is operating as advertised.” The BLS related the news that almost 200,000 more jobs were lost in the past month – the 14th consecutive month with [...]