Political Quotes

“on Tuesday, President Obama released his budget for the next fiscal year. As usual, there was a lot of new spending the American people don't want and a lot of new taxes the American people can't afford. It is interesting. Politico had a headline about the budget in Tuesday's paper. It says ``Obama launches liberal offensive in his final budget.'' A liberal offensive in his final budget. It called the budget ``aggressively liberal.'' Well, one of the big, ``aggressively liberal'' things the President put in his budget is an enormous tax increase on gasoline. This tax would add over $10 to the price of a barrel of oil. That equates to about 24 cents to a gallon of gasoline at the pump. This increase in tax would raise about $319 billion over 10 years. President Obama knows his budget has zero chance of becoming law, not just because Republicans won't vote for it; Democrats won't vote for it. Last year his budget was defeated by a vote of 98 to 1. Only one Member of his own party voted for his budget last year, and now Democrats in Congress are running away from this gas tax as fast as they can. The problem is, this tax is about more than just the budget; this is a sign that the Obama administration is still committed to continuing its assault on energy production in this country--red, white, and blue energy. The American people understand there are enormous national security implications to what the President is proposing in his budget.…”