Kansas scores from Heritage: Tim Huelskamp 89%, Mike Pompeo 78%, Kevin Yoder 70%

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  September 6th at 09:02 AM  | 

Heritage Action is the 501c4 lobbying arm of theHeritage Foundation.  They’ve released what Daniel Horowitz at RedState describes as “the first comprehensive conservative report card of Congress.”  Horowitz writes, “We can now determine which members of the ‘Tea Party Congress’ drink a hardcore brew.” Unlike most other scorecards, this one was designed to separate the men from the boys.  Most traditional scorecards, and most prominently, the ACU | Read More »

Jerry Moran the only Kansan to vote against Obama’s temporarily-cut-taxes, spend-more compromise

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  December 18th at 03:52 PM  | 

Good for Senator Jerry Moran.  President Obama was quick to support this legislation, and establishment Republicans were quick to compromise.  It extends President Bush’s 2001 tax cuts for merely two years.  It also extends unemployment benefits for a year, but it provides no way of paying for those benefits, so it adds to the national debt. Conservative leader Mike Pence voted against the bill, along with | Read More »

Debt ceiling vote: Early test of courage for Kansas Representatives Huelskamp, Pompeo, Yoder, and Senator Moran

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  November 22nd at 12:09 PM  | 

A good article by The Wall Street Journal.  Future US House Speaker John Boehner will be pressuring all Republicans to support raising the federal debt ceiling above its current — and staggering — $14.3 trillion level.  I feel good about how Reps-elect Tim Huelskamp and Mike Pompeo will, but I’m unsure about the rest of Kansas’ delegation to Washington. But some of the incoming Republicans, such | Read More »