Today in Washington – November 30, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | November 30th at 11:30 AM |
They just don’t get it here in Washington, DC. The Senate voted today for business as usual — against an amendment by Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) to ban earmarking by Senators. The vote was conducted under a suspension of the Senate’s rules, yet it garnered only 39 votes in favor of an earmark ban for the whole Senate. They love pork on Capitol Hill. | Read More »
This Week in Washington – July 26, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | July 26th at 11:00 AM |
Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) is the Republican key for the Obama Administration to pass New START Treaty this year. 67 Senators are needed to pass any treaty, therefore the support of Republicans is necessary to pass START. Republicans may want to stall passage of the treaty into the next Congress, because the New START Treaty may harm national security. The Obama Administration may have signed a side agreement | Read More »
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Kagan “Loved” the Bork Hearings
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | June 22nd at 11:00 PM |
President Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court Elena Kagan “loved what happened in the Bork hearings.” “The Bork hearings were great…the Bork hearings were the best thing that ever happened to constitutional democracy.” (HT to BreitbartTV and Big Government)
O’Keefe and Adeleye Investigate LA Census
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | June 2nd at 07:00 PM |
Today, James O’Keefe and Shaughn Adeleye over at Big Government rolled out Round 2 of a series of investigative pieces documenting alleged fraud at the U.S. Census. Yesterday, James O’Keefe released some undercover video from his investigation of the Census in New Jersey from April 27, 2010. O’Keefe provided video evidence of ”four Census supervisors encouraging enumerators to falsify information on their time sheets.” Adeleye’s video report today is from Lafayette, | Read More »
Secret Vapor Conference on ObamaCare
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | December 24th at 07:17 PM |
Now that ObamaCare has passed the Senate, it is time for Democrat leaders to retire behind closed doors to craft another secret vapor deal. The media, Republicans, and average Americans are banned from this meeting to determine the future of health care. Democrat leaders will secretly craft an ObamaCare bill that they think can pass in both the House and Senate. This is yet another example of the | Read More »
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