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In all likelihood, the Republicans will retake the House in November. There are those who will say they won’t get the 39 seats they’ll need to make John Boehner the Speaker of the House, but don’t believe them. The GOP is ahead by 10 points on the generic Congressional ballot at present, which is a [...]

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The Heritage Foundation’s Morning Bell has the story of what can only be described as an alarming admission of failure by the Obama administration – which, to no surprise, was disclosed late Friday afternoon when nobody was watching.

Filed under: 2010 Elections, Barack Obama, Budget, Congress, Economics, John Boehner | 48455 Comments »http://thehayride.com/2010/07/hideous-economic-news-from-administrations-friday-docu-dump/Hideous+Economic+News+From+Administration%27s+Friday+Docu-Dump2010-07-26+14%3A27%3A21macaoidh

Michael Kinsley once famously said that the real scandals in Washington are those that are legal, not illegal. So much of the relentless growth of government has nothing to do with massive new unfunded entitlements (Obamacare) or new layers of regulation limiting economic growth (financial services “reform”) or even fighting the War on Terror (or [...]

Filed under: Budget, Congress | 47831 Comment »http://thehayride.com/2010/07/some-budget-numbers-the-legacy-media-wont-bother-you-with/Some+Budget+Numbers+The+Legacy+Media+Won%27t+Bother+You+With2010-07-22+13%3A36%3A04Mark+Zelden

Hi. How are you feeling? Blood pressure OK? You a little stressed out right now? If you are, don’t hit the link. You might stroke out. If not, come with me.

Filed under: Abortion, Barack Obama, Budget, Corruption, Islam | 46482 Comments »http://thehayride.com/2010/07/ohhh-youre-gonna-blow-your-stack-on-this-one/Ohhh%2C+You%27re+Gonna+Blow+Your+Stack+On+This+One...2010-07-15+19%3A20%3A40Oscar

The below list of mind-boggling atrocious economic statistics originally appeared at The Coto Report, and Doug Ross noted it in a post on Sunday cataloguing the frightening state of the U.S. economy (which is where we found it). It’s a list of 50 facts about the current state of the American economy. And if you [...]

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As we’ve done with his opponent Jeff Landry, The Hayride got hold of 3rd District congressional candidate Hunt Downer for a few questions on why he’s running, some key issues in the race and and his philosophy. Answers are below…

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Word is that White House budget director Peter Oszag is gone by the end of next month. Whether he’s resigning or being fired like Stanley McChrystal is unknown. Orszag would be the first of President Obama’s cabinet to leave, though rumors of a Rahm Emanuel exit at the end of the year are widespread. The [...]

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Consider the plight of the ordinary working-class Americans when they interface with fiscal issues today; it must be awfully scary to them. Not that long ago, working families placed their savings in banks and savings and loan companies literally in their neighborhoods. For the most part, those institutions kept the dollars in the community and [...]

Filed under: Budget, Bureaucracy, Economics | 3512No Comments »http://thehayride.com/2010/05/the-little-guys-fiscal-phobias/The+Little+Guy%27s+Fiscal+Phobias2010-05-21+22%3A23%3A51dan+juneau

Back in the malaise years of the 1970s, the United Kingdom was commonly referred to as “the sick man of Europe,” a mantle the Brits inherited from the Turks of some 100 years before. Most people tend to forget now after Margaret Thatcher’s revolutionary reforms just how poor Britain’s economic performance was relative to Europe [...]

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If you haven’t seen this Reuters piece yet, you might not know that the April federal budget deficit was $83 billion. Last year, the April deficit was $21 billion. Wall Street projected this April’s deficit to be $40 billion. It came in at $83 billion.

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