Matthews, Chris, 55
McCain, John, 102, 170–71
McChrystal, Stanley, 241–43
McDonald’s, 142–43
McDonnell, Robert, 69
McGovern, George, 24
McKinney, Cynthia, 302–3
Meacham, Jon, 85
media
Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal, 295
ideological affinity to Obama, 55–58, 75–76
Shahzad’s motives and, 221
support of Obama’s programs, 58
Medicaid
costs of, 84
need to reform, 338
ObamaCare and, 140, 340
as percentage of mandatory spending cost, 88
redistributionist agenda and, 62
Ryan plan’s proposal for, 107, 338–39
Medicare
costs of, 83, 84
as nontaxable income, 176
ObamaCare and, 132, 139–40, 340
as percentage of mandatory spending cost, 88
redistributionist agenda and, 62
Ryan plan’s proposal for, 107, 338
Medicare Part D, 85, 112
Medvedev, Dmitry, 252, 272, 274–75
Megrahi, Abdelbaset al-, 264
Meister, Stephen, 341
Melson, Kenneth, 297
Mendell, David, 35
Merkel, Angela, 212
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, 291
Mexico
H. Clinton in, 216
illegal immigration from, 285–98
MF Global, 148
Michigan, 69
military tribunals, 223, 228
Milton, John, 333
missile defense shield, in Europe, 273–74, 277, 283, 347
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh (KSM), 223, 224, 226, 228, 229–30, 233
Mondale, Walter, 24
Montgomery, Ed, 68
Moody’s, 122
Moore, Michael, 153, 192, 218
Morales, Evo, 299
“more perfect union” speech, of Obama, 47–49
Morocco, 259, 352
Mottaki, Manouchehr, 251
Mousavi, Mir Hossein, 248
Moussaoui, Zacarias, 224
MoveOn.org, 130
Mubarak, Hosni, 254–57, 261–62, 355
Mughrabi, Dalal, 302
Mullen, Michael, 307
“multiplier effect,” of Keynes, 81–83, 89, 91
Muñoz, Cecelia, 293
Muslim Brotherhood, 261–62
Egypt and, 254–61, 303
Muslim Students Association (MSA), 258
Napolitano, Janet, 294, 296
National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), “healing” relations with Muslims and, 215
National Bureau of Economic Research, 155
National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Simpson-Bowles deficit commission), 111, 115–16, 198, 337
National Council of La Raza, 293, 297–98
National Economic Research Associates, 183
National Institute on Money in State Politics, 195
National Labor Relations Board, 178–79
National Legal and Policy Center, 197
National People’s Action, 41
national security, Obama’s leading from behind and, 210–11
National Security Strategy, under Bush, 219
NATO, 347
natural gas exploration, 342–43
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 301, 302, 304
NetJets, 155
Nevada, 70, 144
New Deal, 79–81, 82, 83
New Jersey, 19, 69, 144, 193
New Party, 166
Newsweek, 85
New York City, 33, 153, 225–26
attempted car bombing in, 220, 221
New Yorker, 210–11
New York State, 70, 193, 293
New York Times, 75, 99, 140, 141, 217, 275
Nixon, Richard, 24, 25, 231, 279–80, 284, 341, 345
Nobel Peace Prize, 216–19
No Child Left Behind, 85, 112
Non-Proliferation Treaty, 275
North Korea, 275, 281, 351–52, 356
nuclear weapons
Obama’s promise not to use, 275–77
Obama’s revelation of U.S. arsenal size, 276
plans to cut U.S. arsenal size, 282
proliferation of, 249–50, 264, 274, 275, 349–50, 356
Nunn, Sam, 25
Obama, Barack on American exceptionalism, 6
campaign rhetoric in 2008 and redistributionist agenda, 45–59, 249, 271, 278, 300
Constitutional constraints ignored by, 44–47
education in socialist ideology, 38–44
as “grievance identifier,” 54
health care goals, 128
inaugural address in 2009, 59, 60
as keynote speaker at 2004 convention, 34–35
as perfect radical Left candidate, 11–13
policies and redistributionist agenda, expansion of government, and permanent Democratic majority, 59–71
self-regard and self-confidence of, 35–37
speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, 320–22
taxes and, 147, 149, 151, 160
“virtuous” redistribution and, 7–9
Obama, Barack, Sr., 38
Obama, Michelle, 37, 46, 52
quotes Alinsky, 42–43 2008 campaign and, 48, 325
Obama, Onyango, 293
ObamaCare, 124–46. See also health care reform
autoworkers and, 100
consequences to economy, 122, 138–39
consequences to health care system, 139–41
deficit spending and, 88, 106
Founders’ vision of private property and, 145–46
individual mandate and, 51, 127, 135
media and, 58
Obama on, 323
politics behind writing and passing of, 130–36
provisions and costs of, 133–34, 136–38
reforms needed, 339–40
regulations of and unemployment, 179
Republican alternatives to, 136
single-payer system aimed for, 128–30, 139
waivers from, 142–45
Occupy Wall Street movement, 41, 164–69, 199
Tea Party movement contrasted, 166–67
offshore drilling, 342
Ogden, David, 296
Ohio, 144, 193
oil and gas industry
hydrofracking and, 342–43
regulation of, 184–88
taxes paid by, 187
Olmert, Ehud, 300
Olympic Games, 1972, 264
$100 bills, flawed, 87–88
one-worldism, 345
Onyango, Zeituni, 293
Open Society Foundations, 166
Operation Wide Receiver, 294, 295
Opinion, La, 288
Oregon, 63
O’Reilly, Bill, 257
Organizing for America, 193
Orszag, Peter, 176
Ortega, Daniel, 69, 213
Osawatomie, 320
Osegueda, Julio, 59
Osorio-Arellanes, Manuel, 286
“ozone rule,” 183
Paine, Thomas, 27–28, 312
Pakistan, 244–45, 353–54, 356
Palestinian Authority, 348
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), 12, 39, 264
Palestinians, 302–4
Pan Am flight 103 bombing, 264
Panetta, Leon, 229, 282, 283, 304
Paracha, Sayfullah, 230
Paracha, Uzair, 230
Parkinson, Mark, 226
Path to Prosperity (Ryan budget plan), 71–72, 107–8, 122, 334–40, 341–42
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. See ObamaCare
Paul, Rand, 332
Pelosi, Nancy, 21, 25
enhanced interrogation techniques and, 232
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
entitleme
nt 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
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