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Authors: Monica Crowley
ObamaCare and, 129, 131, 135, 137, 138, 144
unemployment and, 171–72
U.S. debt and, 107, 113
Penn, Kal, 143
Pennsylvania, 69, 343
People’s World
, 199
Perez, Antonio, 172–73
Petraeus, David, 243, 307
Petrobras, 186
Pfarrar, Chuck, 234
pharmaceutical companies, ObamaCare and, 130
Piven, Frances Fox, 39, 166
Plouffe, David, 46
Podesta, John, 65
Podhoretz, Norman, 24
Poland, 273–74
Portman, Rob, 335–36
Posner, Michael, 216
Power, Samantha, 266
premium-support model, for Medicare, 338
private property, ObamaCare and Founders’ intentions, 145–46
private-sector union membership, 196
Project Gunrunner, 294
Project Vote, 34
public housing, 83
public opinion.
See also
anger about Guantánamo Bay detention facility, 226
about ObamaCare, 131–32, 137–38, 141–42
about size of government, 86–87, 200
about socialism, 85–87
about unions, 196–97
public-sector unions
attempts to control pension and benefits costs of, 190–95, 343
public opinion and, 196–97
Putin, Vladimir, 123, 252, 272, 277
Qaradawi, Sheikh Yusuf al-, 245, 257
Radical in Chief
(Kurtz), 39
Rathke, Wade, 166
Reagan, Ronald, 5–6, 9, 25, 264
as Happy Warrior, 22, 23, 317, 319, 329–30, 359
taxes and, 95–96, 155, 156, 337
unemployment and, 171
recess appointments, by Obama administration, 326
Recovery Summer!, 96–97, 176
redistributionist agenda emotionalism and, 61–62, 148
expansion of government and, 59–74, 313–17
failure of, 326–27
foreign policy and, 346
Left and “virtuous” redistribution, 7–10, 26–28
Obama’s campaign rhetoric in 2008, 45–59
Obama’s education in socialist ideology, 38–44
Republicans’ naive beliefs about negotiation and, 71–73
taxes and class warfare rhetoric, 109, 147–55, 157–58, 161, 163
U.S. citizens’ anger over, 13–21
regulations, effect on employment, 178–88
REI, 143
Reich, Robert, 157
Reid, Harry, 21, 25, 148
Iraq and, 237–38
ObamaCare and, 131, 144
taxes and, 177
U.S. debt and, 108, 116, 119, 120
Rendell, Ed, 25
Republican Party.
See also
Ryan, Paul
disenchanted Democrats and, 25
failure to cut entitlement spending, 85
gains in elections of 2009–2011, 69–70
government shutdown in 1995 and, 104–5
naive belief in Obama’s willingness to cooperate on policy, 71–73
ObamaCare and, 131, 136
Tea Party’s growth and failure of, 331–32
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), 264
Revolutionary War, 15–16
Reynolds, Alan, 156
Rezko, Tony, 39
Rhode Island, 193
Rice, Condoleezza, 265
Rice, Susan, 215
Rivlin-Domenici commission, 337
Robb, Charles, 25
Robin Hood story, as false analogy to redistribution, 64
Rodriguez, Jose, 233
Rolling Stone
, 243
Romer, Christina, 91, 171, 172, 176
Roosevelt, Franklin, 22–23, 79–81, 82, 83, 84
Roosevelt, Theodore, 320
Roots of Obama’s Rage, The
(D’Souza), 205
Rose, Charlie, 75–76
Rose, Donald C., 43
Rules for Radicals
(Alinsky), 40–42, 62–63
Russia
Iran and, 252
U.S. debt and, 114–15, 123
U.S. foreign policy toward, 271–77, 350–51, 356
Ryan, Paul
budget plan of, 71–72, 107–8, 122, 334–40, 341–42
taxes and, 162–63
Sadat, Anwar el-, 254
Salafists, in Egypt, 259
Salazar, John, 226
Salazar, Ken, 185
Salvatrucha, Mara, 289
San Francisco Chronicle
, 58
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 262, 299, 304
Saudi Arabia, 69, 114, 137, 215, 355
Sawyer, Diane, 256
Schaller, Thomas, 57
Schultz, Eric, 58, 295
Schumer, Charles, 138, 226
Schweitzer, Peter, 94
Scott, Janny, 134
SEAL Target Geronimo
(Pfarrar), 234
Sebelius, Kathleen, 133, 141
Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever, The
(Sunstein), 66
SEIU (Service Employees International Union)
intimidation campaign of, 198
ObamaCare and, 130, 139, 144
Occupy Wall Street and, 165, 168, 199
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
Bush’s reaction to, 28–29
Obama’s reaction to, 203–6
Shahzad, Faisal, 220, 221
sharia law, Arab Spring revolts and, 245–46, 258–59, 268
Sharon, Ariel, 300
Sharpton, Al, 75
Shell Oil, 186
signing Statements, Obama administration and, 323
Simpson, Alan, 115
Simpson-Bowles deficit commission.
See
National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
single-payer health care system, 128–30
Slaughter, Louise, 105, 139
Smith, Adam, 82
Smith, Alfred E., 22, 23, 24
socialism.
See also
Left
American exceptionalism and, 10–11
as government-directed redistribution, 8n
Obama’s czars and, 66–69
Obama’s education in ideology of, 38–44
Thatcher on immorality of, 359
Socialist International, 66
social justice.
See
redistributionist agenda
Social Security
increasing costs of, 83–84
need to reform, 339
Obama’s threat to withhold benefits, 118
as percentage of mandatory spending cost, 88
redistributionist agenda and, 62
Solyndra, 93, 264
Soros, George, 166
Sotomayor, Sonia, 48
South Carolina, 292
South Korea, 299
Specter, Arlen, 332
Standard & Poor’s, 121
Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), 67
START treaty, 276–77, 282
Stephanopoulos, George, 57
Stern, Andy, 198
Stewart, Jon, 59
stimulus.
See
economic stimulus
Suleiman, Omar, 255
Summers, Larry, 176, 196–97
Summit of the Americas, 213
Sunstein, Cass, 66
Supplemental Security Income, 84, 88
Supreme Court
ObamaCare and, 127
Obama on Warren Court, 44–45
Sotomayor and, 48
Sutton, Percy, 39
Syria, 260, 261–62, 352, 356
Taliban, 245–46, 258, 353, 354
Tariq al-Mansour, Khalid Abdullah, 39
TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), 68, 97, 98, 99, 112, 117.
See also
economic stimulus
taxes, 146–69
class warfare rhetoric and, 109, 147–55, 157–58, 161, 163
deductions and maneuverings to limit tax liabilities, 157–62
deficit spending and, 82
economic benefits of low tax rates, 95–96, 155–57
entitlement spending and, 153–54, 162–64, 176, 177
government’s lack of stewardship of tax revenues, 148–49
income redistribution and, 51
paid by oil and gas industry, 187
paid by wealthy, 161–65
reforms needed, 336–38
Ryan plan’s proposal for, 340
stimulus money and back taxes, 94–95
Sunstein on, 66
Teamsters, 144, 195–96
Tea Party movement
elections of 2010 and, 19–20
Occupy Wall Street contrasted, 166–67
Republican Party and, 331–32
Ryan’s budget plan and, 106, 108
Tennessee, 144
Terry, Brian, 286, 295, 296–97
Thatcher, Margaret, 164, 317, 319, 358–59
Third Way, 222
Thomas, Evan, 55, 85
Tibet, 278–79
Tides Center, 166
Tides Foundation, 130
Time
magazine, 80
“too big to fail” concept, 98, 99
Toomey, Pat, 332
Truman, Harry, 24
Trumka, Richard, 197–99
Tunisia, 254, 259, 352
Turkey, 214, 302, 303, 355
Tyler, Alexander, 313–14
unemployment, 170–88
“green jobs” and, 93–94
increasing rate of, 2007–2012, 63, 170–74
Obama’s “saving or creating” of
jobs, 92, 95–96, 170–74
regulations’ effect on, 178–88
stimulus and, 95–96
unemployment benefits and dependence on government, 84, 88, 174–77
unions and, 196–97
unions
auto bailouts and, 99–101
Boeing and, 179
costs to economy of, 197
ObamaCare and, 130
ObamaCare waivers and, 143–44
states’ attempts to control pension and benefits costs, 189–95
support of Obama’s programs, 195–99
unemployment and, 196–97
United Auto Workers (UAW), 100–101
United Federation of Teachers, 166
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, 189
United Nations, 206, 301, 357
United States
founding principles, 312–13
individuals’ changing relationship to government, 313–17
past warnings to, 327–29
UN Security Council, 350
UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 181
U.S. Congress.
See
Congress
U.S. Constitution
balanced-budget amendment proposed, 118–19, 341–42
Obama’s intention to “break free” of constraints of, 44–47
U.S. Supreme Court
Arizona’s immigration law and, 291, 292
Obama on Warren Court, 44–45
U.S. Treasury securities, foreign holdings of, 114–15
Utah, 292
Vedder, Richard, 197
Venezuela, 356
Virginia, 19, 69
voter identification requirements, 344
Wagoner, Rick, 101
waivers, from ObamaCare provisions, 142–45
Walesa, Lech, 274
Walker, Scott, 190–93, 196
Wall Street Journal
, 143
Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), 99, 180, 342
Walpin, Gerald, 95
War Powers Resolution, 268
Warren Court, Obama on, 44–45
Washington, Harold, 43
Washington Post
, 65
waterboarding.
See
enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs)
Waters, Maxine, 108
Waxman, Henry, 141
Weather Underground, 320
Webster, Daniel, 327
West Point, Obama’s Afghanistan speech at, 243–45
WFAA-TV, 58
White Castle, 143
Whole Foods, 189
“Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City” (Obama), 42
Wilson, Joe, 132–33
Wisconsin, 151, 190–93