Nancy Pelosi’s Heavy-Handed Reign

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  January 6th at 08:40 AM  | 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her Democrat allies are poised to rewrite House rules today, ending term limits for committee chairmen and curtailing a procedural motion for Republicans to offer alternative legislation. Changing the rules will make it easier for Democrats to raise taxes without opposition. Republicans successfully used the “motion to recommit” several times in the 110th Congress, often frustrating Pelosi. The GOP’s crafty | Read More »

Democrats Get Greedy on Stimulus

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  January 2nd at 10:00 AM  | 

One of the first acts of the 111th Congress will be an all-Democrat hearing stacked with five sympathetic witnesses who favor some version of a massive economic stimulus package. Republicans aren’t invited and no conservative viewpoints will be presented. Is this the openness and honesty that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) promised when she was elected? To hear Pelosi tell it, there’s no reason to delay | Read More »

Republicans Have a Chance at Redemption

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  November 18th at 06:54 AM  | 

Michelle Malkin offers sound advice for Republicans on Capitol Hill: The first step toward GOP redemption is to stop the automakers’ bailout and roll back the creeping conversion of the Crap Sandwich 2.0 into an all-purpose bailout bonanza for every last American industry and corporate special interest in financial peril. For those of you who don’t read Malkin regularly, Crap Sandwich 2.0 is her description | Read More »