Update from AFP President Tim Phillips

Michele Bachmann had finished her speech to our 2,500-plus activists on Friday night at AFP Foundation's 4th annual Defending the American Dream Summit.  The crowd was still roaring. CLICK HERE FOR PICTURES AND FOOTAGE

Americans for Prosperity Foundation just wrapped up the fourth annual Defending the American Dream Summit yesterday with a great day at Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally.

2010 Defending the American Dream Summit, day one

AFP Foundation's fourth annual Defending the American Dream Summit is off to a roaring start! Tomorrow we will be at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" event. Take a look at our pictures from day one above!

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1576455824&play=1

A new television ad will run in four states and 13 media markets beginning Thursday, August 26, to educate citizens about the straining effects of wasteful government spending on small businesses. To view the ad, click here.

The ad states that small businesses create two-thirds of new jobs in America, “but at every turn, Washington is making it harder for small business to succeed.”

Update from AFP President Tim Phillips

Recently I told you about President Obama's shrill, negative attack on AFP and our 1.2 million grassroots activists - folks like yourself.

In case you missed it, you can hear an audio recording of the President's attack in AFP's new Internet ad below:

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/finance/2010/August/Recovery-Fears-Rise-with-Plunging-Home-Sales/

We had another big Spending Revolt bus tour event in Wausau, Wisconsin yesterday. Check out the scene at the nascar short track!

Joe Miller has a narrow lead over Sen. Lisa Murkowski in a surprising Alaska Senate primary. If the absentee ballots break hard for Murkowski she may narrowly escape, but at the moment it looks at least as likely that Miller will pull the upset. If he does, Murkowski’s support for energy taxes may be one of the major reasons.

Read the rest at FOX Forum.

Mark Kirk gets it exactly right on lame duck. Delaware and West Virginia are in the same situation. Will candidates there promise to stop the lame duck threat?

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We recently wrote about the importance of Illinois for the lame duck in the State Journal-Register.

What's the biggest danger to our prosperity, our jobs and more broadly our economic freedoms today?

It's got to be government spending and the relentless growth of government bureaucracy and regulation at every level.

That's why Americans for Prosperity Foundation just launched a $4,100,000 television ad effort to educate Americans on the dangers of this massive government spending and I want you to see it. CLICK HERE TO VIEW.

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2010/August/Will-Lame-Duck-Session-Follow-Nov-Elections/

Throughout the health care debate, conservatives warned what a government takeover of our health care would mean for America’s health care system. Conservatives said government intervention would restrict access to affordable and quality care, government spending and premiums would skyrocket and Americans would be forced out of their current health care plans. Important decisions would not be made by doctors and their patients but through bureaucrats in Washington who would put cost above quality care in their decision-making.
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In the coming months, there will be a big test on rationing care. Medicare may end its coverage of two successful anti-cancer drugs, Provenge and Avastin. Provenge is used to extend the life of patients with prostate cancer, while Avastin, the world best selling anti-cancer drug, helps to prevent the spread of breast cancer in late stages.

With his poll numbers dropping rapidly because of his big government agenda, the President is now making shrill, desperate attacks on Americans for Prosperity and our 1,200,000 AFP grassroots activists across the nation.

The President is losing on the issues. Americans continue to be disenchanted with Obamacare, his uncontrolled spending habits, and vain attempts to pass an energy tax. This is why thousands of new activists continue to join Americans for Prosperity every day. President Obama can continue his attacks but that won’t change the fact that November is coming.

At a time when Americans are closely monitoring important policies being discussed in Congress, Americans for Prosperity Foundation will host its 4th annual Defending the American Dream® Summit to arm citizens with the facts and help them become informed and engaged citizens. Pultizer Prize-winning journalist and political commentator George Will is confirmed to headline the event held on August 27-28 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.

The Pelosi/Reid Congressional leadership crew is planning a "lame duck" session AFTER the election to push their left-wing, big government agenda unless we put the heat on them right now. 

They know that November is coming and the American people are fed up with the big government policies coming out of Washington, D.C. so they are planning one last push AFTER the election to get their agenda passed.

More great November is Coming bus events and grassroots training sessions across Pennsylvania yesterday in Greensburg and Myerstown! Activists from across the state are coming out in full force to make their voices heard.
Check out www.Novemberiscoming.com to see when our tour is coming your way.

November is Coming tour in Pennsylvania.