Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be making some house calls for one-on-one courtesy meetings with Senators. I can’t tell you how many times over the past two days I hear conservatives say “yeah, Kagan is bad, but if she is defeated or withdrawn, we will get somebody worse.” As many teams are finding out right now in the NBA and NHL playoffs, never look past | Read More »
Yesterday, President Obama rolled out Elena Kagan, the current Solicitor General and nominee to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. The left wing noise machine distributed talking points to fight the argument that Kagan’s lacked necessary judicial and legal experience for the Supreme Court. Nobody, right or left, really knows anything about Kagan’s judicial temperament or philosophy, because of her absence of a body of legal writings. | Read More »
Elena Kagan, Diane Wood, Merrick Garland, and Sidney Thomas are all on the short list to be President Obama’ nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court according to the Wall Street Journal. An announcement is expected as early as this morning. Kagan is widely believed to be the one to be chosen by The One. The Senate will put in another week on the ObamaBailout bill as the House deals with | Read More »
President Obama is expected to announce at 10 am this morning that Elena Kagan will be submitted to the Senate for confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. From FoxNews.com: President Barack Obama is to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his pick to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, NBC News reported Sunday. Let the vetting begin. A preview of the Senate debate on Kagan to be Supreme Court Justice can | Read More »
Elena Kagan — get to know the name. The Senate and House have a no votes scheduled for today. Yesterday the Senate completed work on another day of amending S.3217 the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010″ (also known as the ObamaBailout bill). The buzz in Washington today is about Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, being President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court to replace Justice John | Read More »
Last year, the Senate voted to give $108 billion of your tax dollars to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF is now pledging to “loan” $39 billion as part of a $145 billion bailout package to Greece. This is all happening as the Senate debates and amends the S.3217 the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010,” in an effort to protect the economy from a repeat of | Read More »
The Senate continues debate on S.3217 the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010″ (The ObamaBailout bill) and votes on amendments will be fast and furious today. The House is voting on “Cash for Caulkers” later this afternoon. The House will complete some committee work on a campaign finance bill and Attorney General Eric Holder will be testifying to a Senate Appropriations Committee asking for money. Conservatives should watch the | Read More »
Yesterday was yet another day in the Senate of gridlock on the ObamaBailout bill and today will probably be more of the same. A Senate committee will be holding hearings today on ways to chip away at the 2nd Amendment. Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) made a splash yesterday when he circulated legislation to expand the conditions for the government to strip U.S. Citizens of Citizenship. The | Read More »
Hot day in Washington and things are going to heat up in the debate on the ObamaBailout bill. Conservatives should focus on understanding the debate in the Senate today on amendments to S.3217, the so called Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010. Expect more talk and floor speeches about the Gulf Coast Oil Spill and the level of BP’s financial responsibility in the disaster in Washington. Also, the talk of the town this | Read More »
This week, the Senate will start work on amending the ObamaBailout bill as the House takes up “Cash for Caulkers.” In the wake of the attempted terrorist attack in New York City’s Times Square and the oil spill in the Gulf, expect discussion this week in the House and Senate about anti-terrorism and offshore drilling. Oversight hearings are expected on both issues. Conservatives eagerly await | Read More »
The Senate has failed to invoke cloture on S.3217, Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010, by a 56-42 vote today (60 votes needed to shut off debate). This is the third failed cloture vote in 3 days and sources close to the negotiations tell me that opponents of permanent bailout authority for the federal government are “hanging on by a thread.” My employer, The | Read More »
As the Senate votes on setting up a permanent authority for the federal government to bailout Wall Street, the House is readying action to provide statehood to Puerto Rico. Global Warming and immigration will be on the long term agenda for Congress and we may see some renewed efforts on the part of the Obama Administration to vet Supreme Court nominees in anticipation of a big fight this Summer | Read More »
Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform has an excellent Op Ed, Don’t Give Obama a VAT, on the Value Added Tax (VAT), also known as Obama’s National Sales Tax, in Human Events today. Grover, like other pundits, believe that the actions of this Administration point to the fact that President Obama is seriously considering imposing a VAT on the already over taxed citizens of the | Read More »
As President Obama prepares to throw some fastballs at the heads of the American taxpayer, Conservatives need to be aware of the issues at the plate on Capitol Hill. Liberals in Congress have plans that will transform America into a European style social democracy. The Senate is gearing up for another battle over a liberal Supreme Court nominee and Congress has quite a few left wing legislative issues in the on | Read More »
The coalition in the Senate to take a one year break from earmarking has gained the support of Senator Bob Corker (R-TN). The Hill reported yesterday that Senator Corker has withdrawn all of his earmark requests for this year. Other Senators should follow the leadership of Senator Corker and conservatives should applaud him for pulling out of the “fundamentally flawed” earmarking process.
President Obama is vetting a new national sales tax (commonly referred to as a VAT) to extract more wealth from the private sector to sustain his insatiable hunger for more government spending. Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker and current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have commenced a vetting strategy to convince Americans that they need to give more and more money to an every-expanding and bloated | Read More »
The left is upset that the major news media is reporting that the “Slaughter Rule” may have some constitutional problems. Lefties are apoplectic that somebody would dare to argue that the House has to actually vote on the Senate passed ObamaCare bill before it is sent to the President and signed into law. Article 1, Section 7, states that “Every Bill which shall have passed the House of | Read More »
Lefties (Daily Kos, TPMDC, and Huffington Post) are defending against allegations that the “Slaughter Rule” proposed strategy to pass ObamaCare without a vote is unprecedented and unconstitutional. The Slaughter Rule has the support of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and is the Democrats preferred strategy to pass ObamaCare. Liberals are peddling a talking point that self-executing rules like the Slaughter Rule have been done before and it was the Republicans that used | Read More »
On FOX News Sunday, Assistant to the Speaker of the House Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) followed his own advise contained in a memo leaked to Politico that advises silence on unconstitutional ObamaCare procedure. The Constitution clearly states that bills have to be voted upon in the House before being presented to the President. Leaders in the House are considering a complicated procedure to pass ObamaCare | Read More »
House leaders have scheduled a vote for next Friday or Saturday according to Politico on ObamaCare. Reports indicate that House leaders are planning to pass ObamaCare without a vote. Assistant to the Speaker Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) advised Democrats not to talk about the procedure to pass the bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has come up with a very complicated procedure to get ObamaCare to the | Read More »
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