The Obama administration announced today a new Climate Service, akin to the National Weather Service. It will “provide Americans with predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea levels,” according to The Washington Post.

The toughest part of fighting back against big-government liberals these days is to keep up with all the reckless choices they make with our money and freedom.

You might have noticed, for instance, that Senate Democrats just voted to raise the federal "debt ceiling" -- the maximum amount Washington politicians can borrow on the backs of our children and grandchildren -- by an eye-popping $1.9 Trillion. Let's just hope and pray that Obama does not know what comes after a trillion.

President Obama and Budget Direct Peter Orszag have thrown transparency out the window and created a black box for taxes and spending on climate change hidden inside their 2011 budget.

February 02, 2010
By Phil Kerpen - FOXNews.com

The big news in last year’s budget release was the revelation that the Obama administration planned to use cap-and-trade to raise $646 billion dollars over ten years to finance its big spending programs. At the time I wrote here in the Fox Forum that estimate was a lowball of what actually constituted the biggest tax increase in U.S. history, something White House economist Jason Furman later admitted when he revealed the real revenue would likely be triple the official estimate. So the first thing I checked in this year’s budget was how much revenue was expected from the cap-and-trade energy tax, to which the president reiterated his commitment in his State of the Union address last week. The surprising answer is the budget actually has, literally, a blank line for the cap-and-trade tax. A black box. A slush fund. A secret budget-within-the-budget. Talk about a lack of transparency.

Read the rest at FOX Forum.

Listen to a related 2-minute KerpenCast here.

Catch AFP President Tim Phillips as he joins other conservative leaders for a special live Webcast tonight, Feb. 2!

What: "State of the Union: Voice of the People" -- a conservative response to the president
Where: Webcast on http://tvtownhall.com/ (broadcast live from Family Research Council)
Who: Herman Cain, host, with leaders from the Media Research Center, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, FreedomWorks, AFP, Institute for Liberty, Tea Party Patriots
When: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m. ET -- live Webcast

Join Americans for Prosperity New Hampshire for a townhall event with The Wall Street Journal's Steve Moore to respond to President Obama's speech in Nashua. Get past the spin and rhetoric and learn about the challenges facing the country from health care to the debt.

Register here for the free event below:

Date: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Time: Doors Open at 3:30pm - the event starts at 4:00pm
Location: Marriott Courtyard Nashua (2200 Southwood Drive)

Today AFP blasted the White House for quietly removing the estimated cap-and-trade “climate revenues” that it showed in its 2010 budget from the new 2011 blueprint, while remaining committed to enacting an expensive cap-and-trade energy tax.

The Post recently launched an interactive webpage to profile President Obama’s record on his campaign promises after one year in office. The Post put the promises into three categories: To Do, In Progress and Completed. However, conspicuously missing from the graphic is a list of the campaign promises the president has broken in his first year in office.

AFP offers the following corrections to the Post’s analysis, which it sent to the paper to assist it in offering a more complete portrayal.

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Last night from Hot Springs, Arkansas I watched with over 300 grassroots activists at our Americans for Prosperity town hall meeting as President Obama attempted one of the more embarrassing political conversions in American history.

It might be called a "jobs bill" or some other sweet-sounding name but it will be filled with just as many political giveaways and pork barrel projects as last year's "stimulus". A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey found that three out of four people think half of the stimulus money was wasted.

Not only was the money wasted, it didn't accomplish what President Obama promised. Since the "stimulus" was enacted we have lost over 3 million jobs and hit an unemployment rate of up to 10%.

Today the Pew Research Center released a poll of the public's top priorities for 2010. Not surprisingly, the "economy" and "jobs" are the top priority with 83% and 81% respectively. Coming in dead last is "global warming". Only 28% of people think global warming should be a top priority in 2010.

Join Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips to discuss the upcoming State of the Union Address and the legislative outlook ahead. 8pm EST TONIGHT (call will include Q&A).

In the wake of Massachusetts’ stunning rebuke of the Pelosi/Reid/Obama leftwing agenda, liberals in Congress are scrambling to save their key policy priorities. Over the last year, their attempts to cram through dangerous policies such as Card Check, Cap-and-Trade, and a government takeover of healthcare have all been dealt devastating blows. With President Obama preparing to deliver his State of the Union Address this Wednesday, and liberals moving quickly to pivot their policy priorities, it is more important than ever that we be prepared for the battles still ahead.

WASHINGTON—The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today reacted to a statement by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis that the Obama administration continues to support card check legislation. AFP President Tim Phillips released the following statement:

"Secretary Solis’s insistence today that Congress still needs to pass card check legislation is an embarrassment. The administration has clearly not gotten the message the American people have been sending over the past year. Americans are fed up with Washington’s inside baseball, especially favors for the special interests that put them in office.

Statement from AFP Vice President for Policy Phil Kerpen:

"Senator Murkowski's bipartisan resolution of disapproval is a huge step forward to restoring some sanity to economic policy by stopping the EPA's runaway bureaucracy. EPA's blueprint for its outrageous global warming power grab includes 18,000 pages of proposed regulations to control every aspect of the economy--everything that moves: planes, trains, buses, automobiles, tractors, lawn mowers, livestock--and lots of things that don't move, including commercial buildings and commercial kitchens that use natural gas as a cooking fuel.

"Sens. Lincoln (Ark.), Landrieu (La.), and Nelson (Neb.) deserve credit for crossing party lines and joining Murkowski's effort to reclaim control of economic policy for Congress. Under the Congressional Review Act it only takes 30 signatures to force a floor vote, so this will get voted on. It will only require 51 votes to prevail, and we encourage all senators to join this bipartisan effort not to outsource our economic future to bureaucrats at the EPA."

Sen. Murkowski's statement is available here (PDF)

Last night, the people of Massachusetts spoke. In crystal clear fashion, they told President Obama and Congressional Democrats to end this health care takeover now. 

The meaning and magnitude of Scott Brown's historic victory is truly stunning. 

It was a race against the clock from the beginning.

America doesn’t like single party government. The hold Democrats have on Congress and the White House was fraught with pitfalls from its inception. No checks and balances, no real negotiating power for the minority, no one to temper well-intentioned but ill-drafted policies. Democrats have run wild the first year of the Obama Administration and it’s cost them dearly.

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Progressives have large majorities and it is still possible they can shove their unpopular policies on the American people. But the window is closing fast.

No matter what the outcome of today’s special election in Massachusetts, the political games in Washington have changed. What makes this election so important is that it will serve as a referendum on the health care debate from one of the most liberal states in the country. People across the country have grown furious over the past several months, viewing the closed door negotiations and interest-group bribery with disgust.

Last night in closed-door secret negotiations, President Obama cut a sweetheart deal with the big labor unions to exempt them from taxes that this health care takeover will levy on millions of Americans.

In all the years I’ve been in the political world, I’ve never seen a deal this brazen, this outrageous – and of course they did it in secret.

Americans for Prosperity announced a stunning public comment campaign that resulted in more than 22,000 comments from regular Americans opposed to new regulations in the name of "net neutrality" or an "open Internet."

AFP Vice President for Policy Phil Kerpen issued the following statement: