Today in Washington – November 17, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  November 17th at 10:00 AM  | 

The Senate Republican Conference voted to ban earmarks yesterday.  A victory for conservatives — Hold on a second.  Moments after the announcement some Republicans stated that they would publicly flout the rule and Democrats pledged to fight to protect bloated pork barrel spending.  Although the President has pledged his opposition to earmarking, the true test may come soon if Congress sends him an Omnibus spending | Read More »

Marc Thiessen’s Courage and the GOP Establishment’s Betrayal

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  September 21st at 04:30 PM  | 

Marc Thiessen of the Washington Post has written an excellent Op Ed titled “Jim DeMint’s courage and Lisa Murkowski’s betrayal.”  I highly recommend you read the whole piece.  Thiessen wrote in the Post yesterday: The knives were out for Jim DeMint in the Senate last week, as Republicans laid into the South Carolina senator for supporting Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell over Rep. Mike Castle | Read More »

Today in Washington – June 11, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  June 11th at 11:25 AM  | 

Great news for sports fans — the World Cup kicked off today and the Celtics – Lakers series looks like it another classic.  You need some good sports news when most of the political news is bad in Washington.  The New York Times reports, “a government panel on Thursday essentially doubled its estimate of how much oil has been spewing from the out-of-control BP well, with | Read More »

Today in Washington – June 10, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  June 10th at 10:00 AM  | 

Conservatives argue that government usually makes a situation worse when it tries to help.  A great example of this is the decision by President Obama to impose a drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the spill.  From the LA Times, “Interior Secretary Ken Salazar also reassured congressional representatives from the beleaguered gulf states that a six-month moratorium on drilling that | Read More »

This Week in Washington – June 7, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  June 7th at 06:00 AM  | 

Rahm Emanuel on November 19, 2008 in a Wall Street Journal video product 2008 Shaping the New Agenda uttered the now famous words: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.  What I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Evidently, the left will not allow the Gulf of Mexico oil spill ”crisis to go to | Read More »