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Photo: iStock Photo Message from the Chairman Meanwhile, the U.S. economy the White House gutted our missile de- and the President continued to hemorrhage jobs, making fense program, then negotiated a deeply a mockery of White House claims that fl awed nuclear arms treaty with Russia. hroughout the year, Washing- its $800 billion “stimulus” had “created These choices left the American ton’s liberals made choices that or saved” nearly 2 million jobs in 2009. people fuming… and brewing tea. Tdumbfounded most Americans. By mid-2010, the Bureau of Labor Surveys found up to 85 percent said First there was a monstrous 2,000-page Statistics reported that the ranks of the the country was on the wrong track; 58 health “reform” bill. In poll after poll, jobless had swelled by more than 2.2 percent supported repeal of ObamaCare; the people registered their disapproval. million since January. three-fourths said the stimulus spend- Yet House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted But Washington’s liberals were ing was money wasted. If the Left could on passing it. Her through-the-looking- working overtime: imposing the largest- make choices that affected their lives, so glass logic: “We have to pass the bill, so ever increase in costly regulations, piling could they. that you can fi nd out what is in it.” up unprecedented debt (to $14 trillion Anchored on the bedrock principle She rammed the bill through the total, with $1 trillion of that racked up of constitutionally limited government, House without a single Republican in just the last nine months of 2010) and the Tea Party movement spread like vote. As Main Street Americans choked plumping for job-killing tax hikes that wildfi re. TeaPartyPatriots.org listed on Washington’s blatant power grab, could only make the sick economy sicker. more than 2,800 Tea Party organizations the liberal commentariat exulted. On the global scene, the Admin- across America by year’s end. ObamaCare