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Carney, Jay, 122
Carter, Jimmy, 24, 179, 259
Castro, Fidel, 69, 137, 299
Castro, Raúl, 299
Catholic institutions, ObamaCare mandates and, 144–45
CBS, 58, 221, 294
Census, in 2010, 68
Center for American Progress, 67, 68, 130
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Holder’s investigation of and release of information about, 230–35
Chafee, Lincoln, 193
“Character of the Happy Warrior” (Wordsworth), 22
charitable giving, taxes and, 160, 162
Chávez, Hugo, 69, 213–14, 299
Check, Please (television program), 34
Cheney, Dick, 229, 356
Chevy Volt, 101
Chicago Tribune, 79–81, 82
China
military budget increases in, 283–85
U.S. debt and, 114, 123, 281
U.S. foreign policy and, 215–16, 278, 279–82, 351–52, 354, 356
Chirac, Jacques, 299
Chomsky, Noam, 166
Christie, Chris, 69, 193, 196
Chrysler, 67, 99–102
Citizen Action, 41
Clapper, James, 256
class warfare rhetoric
American as aspirational society and, 169
of Edwards, 33
of Obama, 33–35, 51, 73–74
redistribution of wealth and, 109, 147–55, 157–58, 161, 163
Clean Air Act, 182–83
Cleveland, Grover, 22
Clinton, Bill, 23, 25, 36, 112, 156, 179
Clinton, Hillary
Afghanistan and, 306
apologies made, as secretary of state, 215–16
China and, 283, 284
Egypt and, 255
Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal, 296
Honduras and, 299
Iran and, 251, 253
Israel and, 301, 304
Mexico and, 287–88
Russia and, 277
Syria and, 261–62
2008 primaries and, 208–9, 237
CNN, 221
coal industry, 181, 183
CODEPINK, 302
collective bargaining, by unions, 190–91
“collective salvation,” 44, 49, 53, 151
Commission for a Sustainable World Society, 66
Communications Workers of America, 144
Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, 141
community organizing
Axelrod and, 43
Obama and, 12, 34, 40, 42, 167
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), 179–80
“compassionate conservatism,” 85
Congress
Obama’s attitude toward, 59–60, 326
“terrorism-talking school” for, 222
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, 341
Congressional Budget Office, 133
Connolly, Gerry, 222
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), 180
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) agreement, 277
Conyers, John, 135
Cordray, Richard, 180
Corzine, Jon, 148
Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), 258
Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, 172
counterterrorism policy, of U.S. enhanced interrogation techniques, 228–35
euphemisms for Islamic terror, 219–22
Guantánamo Bay detention facility, 222–28, 357
illegal immigration and, 289
Obama and “absorbing” of terror attack, 305–7
credit downgrade, of U.S., 118, 121–23, 339
Crowley, James, 221
Crudele, John, 90
Cuomo, Andrew, 193, 196
Cut, Cap, and Balance (proposed legislation), 118–20
czars, appointed by Obama, 65–69, 180
Czech Republic, 274
Daily Caller, 57
Dalai Lama, 278–79
Daley, Bill, 52–53
Daley, Richard, 24
Daniels, Mitch, 193, 196
Davis, Frank Marshall, 38–39
debt, of U.S., 110–24. See also deficit spending
consequences to economy and national security, 114–24, 281, 334
credit downgrade of U.S. and, 118, 121–23, 339
Cut, Cap, and Balance (proposed legislation), 118–20
debt ceiling negotiations, 84, 116–17, 119–21, 152, 158, 341
growth under Obama, 112–14
interest on, 88
Obama’s attitude toward, 110–12, 322
Declaration of Dependence
foreign policy and, 206
Founders’ ideals and, 8, 126
redistributionist agenda and, 61–64
unemployment and, 175
Declaration of Independence, 4–5
decline, U.S. citizens’ anger over notion of American, 17–21
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 184–86
DeFazio, Peter, 60
Defense of Marriage Act, 326
defense spending cuts, 282–83
need to reverse, 347
deficit spending, 79–109. See also debt, of U.S.
government revenue versus, 89
history of growth of, 79–89
Obama on, 322
reforms needed, 333–39
stimulus bill and expansion of welfare state, 89–102
and threat to shut down government, 102–9
Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), 25–26
Democratic National Conventions 1968, 24
2008, 58–59
Democratic Party
“Happy Warrior” wing of, 22–25
radical Left and, 11–12, 24–28
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), 39, 166
DeParle, Nancy-Ann, 58, 68
Development, Relief and Education
of Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act), 290, 293
Dodd, Chris, 99, 180
Dodd-Frank bill. See Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank)
Dohrn, Bernardine, 12, 320
domestic policies, reforms needed in, 333–45. See also specific policies by name
Douglass, Linda, 58
Dreams from My Father (Obama), 37–39, 46
Dreier, Peter, 39
D’Souza, Dinesh, 205
Dukakis, Michael, 11, 24
Dunham, Stanley Ann, 38, 134
Dunn, Anita, 44
Earned Income Tax Credit, 84, 158
economic policy. See also economic stimulus
Hoover on economic planners, 328–29
Obama and, 50, 324
economic stimulus. See also deficit spending
bailouts and, 97–102
Obama and, 60, 68, 322
“saving or creating” of jobs and, 92, 95–96, 170–74
taxes and, 163
unions and, 197
uses of funds, 91–95
Edwards, Doug, 159
Edwards, John, 33
Egypt, 253–62, 270, 303, 352, 355
election of 2004, 34–35, 38
election of 2006, 87
election of 2008, 39, 45–59, 87, 112, 152–53, 208, 249, 271, 278, 300
election of 2009, 69
election of 2010, 19–20, 25–26, 69, 87, 106, 138
election of 2011, 70
election of 2012, 58, 332, 360
electricity rates, 181, 182
Emanuel, Rahm, 52, 65, 80, 194
Employee Free Choice Act, 197
employment. See “jobs bills”; unemployment
energy independence, need for, 342–43
energy industry, regulation of, 180–88
Energy NOW News, 183
England. See Great Britain
enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs), 228–35
Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act, 353
entitlement spending. See also specific programs by
name
deficit spending and, 83–85, 88
illegal immigrants and, 288
need to reform, 338
taxes and, 153–54, 162–64, 176, 177
environmental protection, redistributionist agenda and, 62
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), effect on employment, 180–88
Erdoan, Recep Tayyip, 355
ethics, Obama administration and, 323
Evans, Jodie, 302
Evergreen Solar, 92–93
Fair Tax, 336
Fannie Mae, 97, 180, 335
Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal, 58, 282–86, 294–97
Fazi, Mullah Mohammed, 246
Federal Communications Commission, 326
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), 288
Feldman, Martin, 185
Ferrer, Fernando, 33
Fiat, 101
financial sector increased government role in, 97–99
Obama on financial reform, 50
regulation of, 179–80
flat tax, 336
Florida, 69, 144
food stamps, 83, 88
increase in entitlement to, 63, 84
as nontaxable income, 176
Ryan plan’s proposal for, 339
Forbes, Steve, 336
Ford, Harold Jr., 25
Ford Motors, 99
foreign policy. See also counterterrorism policy
Afghanistan, 214, 218, 240–46, 306–7, 353
American decline and, 206–12, 305–8
China, 215–16, 278, 279–82, 351–52, 354, 356
defense spending cuts, 282–83
Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal, 58, 285–86, 294–97
human rights, 284–85
illegal immigration, 285–94, 297–98
Middle East and, 236–40, 247–71, 306–7
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize and, 216–19
Obama’s apologies to international community, 206–16
reforms needed, 345–58
Russia, 271–77, 350–51, 356
September 11 attack response and, 203–6
Tibet, 278–79
treatment of allies and enemies, 69, 298–305
Foster, Richard, 107, 139
Founding Fathers. See also U.S. Constitution
American exceptionalism and, 4–5
four branches of government and, 28
individual responsibility and, 313, 316–17
Fox News, 58
France, 213, 299
Frank, Barney, 99, 180
Franklin, Benjamin, 16, 313, 327
Freddie Mac, 97, 180, 335
Free Gaza movement, 302–3
free market. See capitalism and free market
Friedman, Milton, 82, 162
Gadhafi, Moammar, 264–69, 356
Gallaway, Lowell, 197
Gamaliel Foundation, 41
Gates, Robert, 276, 306
Geithner, Timothy, 97, 98–99, 121, 176
General Motors, 67, 68, 99–102
Germany, 212–13, 299
Ghailani, Ahmed, 227
Ghonim, Wael, 256, 257
Gibbs, Robert, 255
Gibson, Charlie, 149
Gingrich, Newt, 336
Global Engagement Directorate (GED), 219, 231
global warming, 181–82
Gore, Al, 11, 24
Goss, Porter, 232
Grayson, Trey, 331–32
Great Britain
entitlement spending in, 163–64
Obama’s treatment of, 69, 298–99
Thatcher and socialism in, 358–59
“green energy”
global warming and, 181–82
Obama on, 323
stimulus and, 92–94
subsidies for, 187–88, 335
Green Revolution, 248
Gregory, Paul, 101
Guantánamo Bay detention facility, 222–28, 357
Gulf of Mexico oil spill, 184–86
Hamas, 256, 258, 260, 289, 348
Hamdi, Faida, 247
Hammond, Darrell, 28–29
Happy Warrior concept
American exceptionalism and political agreement on, 22–26
American people and, 360–61
essential concepts, 317–19
need for new brand of, 26–29
Reagan and, 22, 23, 317, 319, 329–30, 359
Thatcher and, 358–59
Haqqani network, 353
Harkin, Tom, 129, 139
Harman, Jane, 222
Hasan, Nidal Malik, 220–22
Hawk, Tony, 19
Hayden, Michael, 230
Hayes, Chris, 57
Health and Human Services, Department of, 132–33, 142, 144
health care, seen as entitlement, 83
health care reform. See also ObamaCare
attempts before ObamaCare, 126–28
market-based proposals for, 340–41
redistribution and, 62
Henry, Patrick, 313
Heritage Foundation, 138, 141
Hezbollah, 258, 260, 289
Hindu, 245
Hintz, Gordon, 192
Hoffa, Jimmy, 196
Holder, Eric
counterterrorism and, 225–29, 231–33
declines to enforce laws, 326
Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal, 296
illegal immigrants and, 291–92, 297
leaks to press, 122
Holdren, John, 68
Homeland Security, Department of, 149, 289, 293
Honduras, 299
Hoover, Herbert, 327–29
Horowitz, David, 24, 40
housing
bailout of sector, 98
unemployment and, 174–75
Hoyer, Steny, 103–4
Hu Jintao, 279, 280–81
human rights, in China, 284
Humphrey, Hubert, 23–25
Hurt Locker, The (film), 235
Hussein, Saddam, 248, 263
Hyde Park Herald, 203
hydrofracking, 342–43
Illinois, 293
Immelt, Jeffrey, 172
immigration
economic, criminal, and national security costs of illegal, 285–94
reforms needed, 343–45
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, “prosecutorial discretion” and, 290, 293
Independent Patient Advisory Board (IPAB), 137, 140
India, 354
Indiana, 193
Indonesia, 216
Industrial Areas Foundation (IDA), 41
Inhofe, James, 183
Inspector General Reform Act, 95
Interior Department, 185
International Association of Machinists, 179
International Atomic Energy Agency, 251
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 144
International Monetary Fund, 114
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), of Pakistan, 353
“invest,” used as euphemism for spending, 148
Iowa, 69
Iran, 248–53
Bush and, 248
need for foreign policy reform and, 349–50, 356
nuclear weapons and, 249–50, 274, 275
Obama and, 214, 238–40
Iraq
Bush and, 207, 248
need for foreign policy reform and, 348–49
Obama and, 214, 236–40, 299, 306–7
Islam, Obama’s “healing” relations with, 214–15
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), 258
Islamists
Arab Spring and, 247–71
Free Gaza flotilla and, 302–3
U.S. foreign policy and, 352–53, 356
Israel
Egypt and, 254, 255, 259–60
Islamists intentions toward, 245–46, 249, 251, 252, 256
Obama’s treatment of, 300–305
U.S. diplomacy and, 348, 350
Issa, Darrell,
296
Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 24
Jackson, Linda, 182–83
Jackson, Michael, 5–6, 9
Jackson, Reverend Jesse, 192
Jagland, Thorbjørn, 218
Jalil, Mustafa Abdul, 268
Jarrett, Valerie, 38, 46, 52
Jarrett, Vernon, 38
Jarrett, William, 38
Jefferson, Thomas, 28, 333
Jerusalem, U.S. embassy and, 348
“jobs bills,” 108, 148, 177. See also unemployment
John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy, 197
Johnson, Kevin, 95
Johnson, Lyndon, 83, 84
Jones, James, 242
Jones, Van, 66–67, 199
Joseph, Peggy, 49, 53, 54
JournoList, 57
justice, social and economic. See redistributionist agenda
Justice Department, 122, 149
declines to enforce laws, 326
illegal immigrants and, 291–92
Iran and, 250–51
Kahn, Richard, 82
Kaiser, George, 93
Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 179
Karroubi, Mehdi, 248
Karzai, Hamid, 214
Kasich, John, 193, 196
Katyal, Neal, 51
Keeler, Sharon, 218
Kellman, Gerald, 42
Kenin, Wendy, 227
Kennedy, Edward, 69, 135, 141
Kennedy, John F., 23, 24, 156
Kerry, John, 11, 24, 33
Keynes, John Maynard, 81–83, 89, 91, 327
Keystone XL pipeline, 186–87, 264
Khalidi, Rashid, 12, 39, 258, 300
Khan, Majid, 230
Khan, Samir, 214
Kim Jong-un, 351
Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 24
Koh, Harold, 268
Krentz, Robert, 285–86
Kristol, Irving, 24
Krugman, Paul, 89
Kucinich, Dennis, 129
Kundra, Vivek, 67–68
Kurds, 299
Kurtz, Stanley, 39
Kyl, Jon, 60
La Belle nightclub bombing, 264
Laffer, Arthur, 156
LaJuenesse, William, 295
Landrieu, Mary, 185
Latin American, U.S. foreign policy toward, 357
Lavrov, Sergei, 271–72
laws, Obama administration’s decline to enforce, 326
“leading from behind,” 210–11
Left
anger and tactics of, 20–21
anti-Americanism of, 206–12
Obama as perfect radical candidate, 11–13
radical movement of 1960s and, 11–12, 24–28
U.S. citizens’ anger over statism, redistribution, and notion of American decline, 13–21
Lehman, John, 347
Lenin, Vladimir, 164
Lerner, Stephen, 199
Libbi, Abu Faraj al-, 233
Libya, 218, 263–69, 352, 356
Lieberman, Joseph, 25
Lincoln, Blanche, 70
Lizza, Ryan, 211
lobbying, Obama administration and, 323
Los Zetas, 289
Lundestad, Geir, 218
Mack, Connie, 335–36
Mackey, John, 189
Massachusetts, 19, 69, 293