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4
Julie Schmit, “What went wrong with foreclosure aid programs?”
USA Today
, December 12, 2011.
5
Noam Scheiber,
The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery
(Simon and Schuster, 2012).
6
Ibid.
7
Ross Kaminsky, “No Friend of the Middle Class,”
American Spectator
, December 30, 2011.
8
Alyene Senger, “Side Effects: Employees Lose Insurance and Taxpayers get the Bill Under Obamacare,” Heritage Foundation
The Foundry
, May 2, 2012.
9
Alyene Senger, “New Report Shows Health Spending Spikes Under Obamacare,” Heritage Foundation
The Foundry
, June 15, 2012.
10
Steve Zelnak, “How Obamacare Hurts Job Creation,”
U.S. News & World Report
, Economic Intelligence, March 30, 2012.
11
Ibid.
12
Ibid.
13
Barack Obama's Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009.
14
“Who Pays for Cap and Trade?”
Wall Street Journal
, March 9, 2009.
15
Ibid.
16
Richard Burr, “Cap-and-trade bill will cut jobs, not emissions,”
The Hill
, July 21, 2009.
17
Declan McCullagh, “Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year,” CBS News, September 15, 2009.
18
“The Cap and Tax Fiction,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 26, 2009.
19
Ibid.
20
“Dingell: Cap and trade a ‘great big' tax,”
Politico
On Congress, April 24, 2012.
21
Pete Chagnon, “Cap-and-trade—‘Largest tax increase of all time,'”
OneNewsNow
, March 30, 2009.
22
Peter Roff, “Obama Considers Middle Class Tax Hikes for Healthcare, ‘Cap and Trade,'”
U.S. News & World Report
, June 29, 2009.
23
Garrett Haake, “Romney says Obama ‘kept promise' to raise the price of gas,” NBC News
First Read
, March 18, 2012.
24
Juliet Eilperin, “EPA announces plans to regulate power plant, oil refinery emissions,”
Washington Post
, December 23, 2010.
25
Ibid.
26
John M. Broder, “E.P.A. Issues Tougher Rules for Power Plants,”
New York Times
, July 7, 2011.
27
“EPA's Regulatory Train Wreck,” American Legislative Exchange Council.
28
Kerry Picket, “EPA imposes Obama's cap and trade regs—energy prices ‘skyrocket,'”
Washington Times
, August 20, 2011.
29
“Energy Policy Explored As Cap-And-Trade Dies,” NPR, November 5, 2010.
30
Alexandra Petri, “Keith Judd takes 41 percent of West Virginia Democrat votes—for he's a jolly good felon,”
Washington Post
, May 9, 2012.
31
Fred Lucas, “WV Democratic Governor Not Backing Obama,” CNS News, May 2, 2012.
32
Josh Lederman, “Sen. Manchin might not vote for Obama,”
The Hill
, April 20, 2012.
33
Doug McKelway, “Cracks showing in Democratic Party's ‘big tent' strategy ahead of convention,” Fox News, June 25, 2012.
34
Ben Geman, “Oil executive: ‘Very stressed relationship' between industry, Obama White House,”
The Hill
, June 17, 2012.
35
Darren Goode, “Obama: Oil companies ‘hitting the American people twice,'”
Politico
, March 29, 2012.
36
Neil King Jr. and Stephen Power, “Times Tough for Energy Overhaul,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 12, 2008.
37
“They Said It! Biden: ‘Our Energy Policy Is The Best It's Ever Been,'”
GOP.com
, April 2012.
38
Jennifer A. Dlouhy, “Obama postpones final call on Keystone XL pipeline,”
Houston Chronicle
, November 11, 2011.
39
David Lerman and Jim Efstathiou Jr., “TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline's Environment Risk Limited, U.S. Finds,”
Bloomberg.com
, August 26, 2011.
40
“Boehner Pushes the XL Pipeline, Obama Gets Soggy,”
Salem-News.com
, February 29, 2012.
41
Steve Hargreaves, “Keystone pipeline: How many jobs it would really create,” CNN, December 14, 2011.
42
Elizabeth Mendes, “Keystone pipeline: How many jobs it would really create,” Gallup, March 22, 2012.
43
Steve Gelsi, “Keystone Pipeline Environmental Review Re-starts,” FoxBusiness. com, June 15, 2012.
44
“Hoeven: State Department's Expanded Keystone Environmental Review Unjustified After Four Years of Exhaustive Study,” News Releases, June 15, 2012.
45
Mario Loyola, “How Obama is Choking Off U.S. Oil Production,” National Review Online, March 9, 2012.
46
Ibid.
47
Alison Vekshin, “Solyndra's Loan Guarantee ‘Was Rushed,' Treasury Audit Says,”
Bloomberg.com
, April 3, 2012.
48
Matthew L. Wald, “Solar Firm Aided by Federal Loans Shuts Doors,”
New York Times
, August 31, 2011.
49
Ibid.
50
Ibid.
51
Jim Snyder and Christopher Martin, “Obama Team Backed $535 Million Solyndra Aid as Auditor Warned on Finances,”
Bloomberg.com
, September 12, 2011.
52
Adam Clark Estes, “Obama's Big Bet on Solar Power Is Backfiring,”
National Journal
, September 2, 2011.
53
Matthew L. Wald, “Solyndra Was Asked to Delay Layoff News Till After Midterms, Memo Says,”
New York Times
, November 15, 2011.
54
“Solyndra Bankruptcy Confirms $535 Million Loan Guarantee Was a Bad Bet for Taxpayers from the Beginning,” Press Release, House Energy and Commerce Committee, August 31, 2011.
55
Ibid.
56
Rachel Weiner, “Solyndra, Explained,”
Washington Post
, June 1, 2012.
57
C. J. Ciaramella, “Bankrupt solar company with fed backing has cozy ties to Obama admin,”
Daily Caller
, September 1, 2011.
58
Carol D. Leonnig and Joe Stephens, “E-mails show Energy Department was moving toward second loan for Solyndra,”
Washington Post
, October 5, 2011.
59
Charles Lane, “Doubling down on ‘green energy' bad bet,”
Washington Post
, June 19, 2012.
60
Ibid.
Chapter 7: Obama's Generational Theft
1
Jonathan Alter,
The Promise
(Simon and Schuster, 2010), 43.
2
“Obama's Commencement Address at Arizona State University,”
New York Times
, May 14, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/us/politics/13obama.text.html?pagewanted=all
. .
3
Amanda M. Fairbanks, “2011 College Grads Moving Home, Saddled With Historic Levels Of Student Loan Debt,”
Huffington Post
, May 13, 2011.
4
Jessica Godofsky, M.P.P., Cliff Zukin, Ph.D., Carl Van Horn,
Work Trends, Unfulfilled Expectations: Recent College Graduates struggle in a Troubled Economy
, May 2011.
5
Jordan Weissmann, “53% of Recent College Grads Are Jobless or Underemployed—How,”
Atlantic
, April 23, 2012.
6
“Unemployment Among Young Adults Is 12.1 Percent in May, Signals More Bad News for a Generation Whose Careers and Dreams Are Delayed Due to the Lack of Jobs and Economic Opportunity,”
PR Newswire
, June 1, 2012.
7
Dennis Jacobe, “One in Three Young U.S. Workers Are Underemployed,” Gallup, May 9, 2012.
8
Lauren Fox, “Gas Prices Grow More Under Obama than Carter,”
U.S. News & World Report
, April 9, 2012.
9
Blake Ellis, “Average student loan debt tops $25,000,” CNN
Money
, November 3, 2012.
10
“Student Loan Debt Exceeds One Trillion Dollars,” NPR, April 24, 2012.
11
Don Lee, “Report on college loan delinquency rate raises alarms,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 5, 2012.
12
Aimee Groth, “Actually, College Grads Are More Likely To Be Bartenders Than Engineers,”
Business Insider
, April 23, 2012.
13
Pew Research Center, “Young, Underemployed and Optimistic,” February 9, 2012.
14
Ben Feller, “Candidates back effort to combat college debt,”
USA Today
, April 25, 2012.
15
Vicki Needham, “CBO estimates $9.8 trillion in deficits over 10 years,”
The Hill
, March 24, 2010.
16
Jeffrey Anderson, “The Cost of Obama,”
Weekly Standard
, February 14, 2012.
17
Ibid.
18
National Federation of Independent Business, et al.
v.
Sebelius, Secretary of Health And Human Services, et al.
, No. 11-393, June 28, 2012.
19
Alyene Senger, “Obamacare's 2
nd
Anniversary: No Gift for Young Americans,” Heritage Foundation
The Foundry
, March 21, 2012,
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/21/obamacares-2nd-anniversary-no-gift-for-young-americans/
. .
20
Avik Roy, “Obamacare Increases Costs of College Health Plans by as Much as 1,112%,”
Forbes
, June 5, 2012.
21
“The Uncertainty Of ObamaCare Is Causing Small Business To Flat-Line,”
GOP.com
, February 2012.
22
Neil Munro, “Obama, White House officials visit more than 130 universities, schools in massive campaign for young voters,”
Daily Caller
, April 27, 2012.
23
Joshua Gilder, “Obama's Student Loan Proposal Won't Lower College Costs,”
U.S. News & World Report
, June 7, 2012,
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/joshua-gilder/2012/06/07/obamas-student-loan-proposal-wont-lower-college-costs
.
24
Michael Barone, “Obama Losing Rock-Star Status Among Young Voters,”
Washington Examiner
, April 30, 2012.
25
Frank Newport, “Young Voters Back Obama, but Many Aren't Poised to Vote,” Gallup, April 26, 2012.
26
Esten Perez, “OBAMA BOUNCING BACK, WIDENS LEAD OVER MITT ROMNEY AMONG MILLENNIALS, HARVARD POLL FINDS,” Harvard University Institute of Politics, April 24, 2012.
27
Ibid.
28
Lydia Saad, “Majority in U.S. Dissatisfied With Next Generation's Prospects,” Gallup, June 4, 2012.
Chapter 8: The Deceit and Division of Obamacare and the “War on Women”
1
Exit Polls: Virginia,
CNNPolitics.com
, Election Center, February 12, 2008.
2
Exit Polls,
New York Times
, November 5, 2008.
3
“Clinton, Obama try wooing women voters,” Associated Press, February 9, 2008.
4
Jeffrey M. Jones, “Obama's Initial Approval Ratings in Historical Context,” Gallup, January 26, 2009.
5
Women Members of the House GOP Caucus, “2010: The Year of GOP Women,”
Politico
, December 15, 2010.
6
The EMILY'S List Women's Monitor Poll: Winning Back The Obama Defectors
, available at
standwithgabby.org/assets/pdfs/Women_Monitor_Memo.pdf
.
7
“Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval,” Gallup Politics,
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval.aspx
.
8
National Women's Law Center, September 2011.
9
Michael W. Chapman, “780,000 More Women Unemployed Today Than When Obama Took Office,” CNS News, July 6, 2012.
10
Terrence P. Jeffrey, “324,000 Women Dropped Out of Labor Force in Last Two Months—As Number of Women Not in Labor Force Hits Historic High,” CNS News, May 9, 2012.
11
Vicki Needham, “Slower jobs growth for women voters could cost Obama in election,”
The Hill
, March 25, 2012, 05
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/801-economy/217989-slower-jobs-growth-for-women-voters-could-cost-obama-in-election
12
Ibid.
13
Ibid.
14
Michael W. Chapman, “780,000 More Women Unemployed Today Than When Obama Took Office.” And “U.S. poverty rate for women and children Hit 17-year Record High,”
InfoWars.com
, May 25, 2012,
http://www.infowars.com/us-poverty-rate-for-women-and-children-hits-17-year-record-high/
.
15
Leslie Bennetts, “Women: The Invisible Poor,”
The Daily Beast
, September 14, 2011.
16
2004 Kaiser Women's Health Survey, Kaiser Family Foundation.
17
Dr. Scott W. Atlas, “Obama policies threaten the most vulnerable,”
Washington Times
, May 1, 2012.
18
Ryan Ellis, “Obamacare's Tax War on Women,”
ATR.org
, March 20, 2012.
19
Ibid.
20
Ibid.
21
Ibid.
22
Blake Ellis, “Tanning Salons Burned By Health care Bill,” CNN
Money
, March 24, 2010.
23
Ryan Ellis, email to author, May 24, 2012.
24
Helene Cooper and Laura Goodstein, “Rule Shift on Birth Control Is Concession to Obama Allies,”
New York Times
, February 10, 2012.

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