Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke at The Heritage Foundation yesterday. Sen. Paul, in 20 seconds, expressed the sentiments of many freedom loving Americans who feel violated every time they board a plane. “The next time you are in the airport. The next time the TSA asks you to hold your hands above your head. Little bit higher. Hey hun, just a little bit higher. And | Read More »
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has stepped up to the plate to fight reauthorization of the crony capitalist Export-Import Bank. I wrote yesterday that the Tea Party is losing on this issue despite the heroic efforts of Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) and other members who agree that the Ex-Im Bank is a high offense against free market capitalism. The Export-Import Bank was created in 1934 by FDR to facilitate trade | Read More »
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano disrespected Federal Flight Deck Officers (armed pilots) during a hearing yesterday in testimony presented to the House Homeland Security Committee. Sec. Napolitano showed a lack of knowledge about the program in addition to an intent to kill it over the next few years. The testimony yesterday provides further evidence of “President Obama’s Plan to Kill Armed Pilots Program.” Representative Chip Cravaack | Read More »
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) questioned Energy Department bureaucrat Kathleen Hogan before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee about consumer choice yesterday. See video below to watch Sen. Paul flush some bad energy regulatory ideas.
Tina Korbe of The Heritage Foundation, my employer, interviewed House Freshman on spending cuts. Korbe interviewed Representatives Mike Kelly (R-PA), Renee Ellmers (R-NC), Allen West (R-FL), Chip Cravaack (R-MN), Steve Southerland (R-FL) and James Lankford (R-OK). West declares in the video that ”it takes 5 miles to turn an aircraft carrier and if we don’t start now, we will never get this ship, the U.S.S. America, righted | Read More »
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) delivered his first Senate speech last week. Senator Paul discussed the idea of compromise. Please watch an excellent speech by an emerging conservative leader of our great nation. I will sit at Henry Clay’s desk. There is likely no legislator from Kentucky more famous than Henry Clay. He served as both the Speaker of the House and Leader of the Senate. | Read More »
From 4-7pm today, I will be on 630AM WMAL in Washington, DC with Derek Hunter and Mary Katherine Ham. You can listen at http://www.wmal.com/. Scheduled guests include Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Adam Baldwin from the show “Chuck” and the movie “Full Metal Jacket.” The call in number is 800-630-9625 or 202-432-WMAL. Feel free to call in or use the comments section of Red State to | Read More »
The Senate commenced debate on a filibuster reform today. Be aware that liberals in the Senate are using strong arm tactics to seize power. They are using something called the “Constitutional Option” and you need to understand that this is a rhetorical and procedural trick. There is nothing unconstitutional about the filibuster and the “Constitutional Option” is a means to ignore the explicit rules of the | Read More »
Christine O’Donnell is the buzz in Washington, D.C. today. She joins Ron Johnson and Joe Miller as the most recent additions to the Tea Party push for constitutional conservatism in the Capitol. The House has 23 votes scheduled on the Suspension Calendar. The Senate will continue debate on H.R.5297, the Small Business Jobs bill. Cloture was invoked on the bill thanks to Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) giving Democrats the necessary vote | Read More »
Tea Party Activists are likely to have another ally in Washington this Fall — Mike Lee, the Republican nominee for Senate from Utah. Lee will join Republican nominee from Kentucky Rand Paul and the Republican nominee from Nevada Sharron Angle as non-establishment Tea Party activist candidates for Senate. If these candidates are sworn into office, expect the Republican establishment to sound more conservative next year. The Senate | Read More »
Elites in Washington are looking over their shoulders today. There is a new Scarlet Letter in America and it is the Scarlet Letter “I” for incumbent. If you are a Senate candidate running for re-election or a member of the House, both Republican and Democrat, you are nervous that the people of America will kick you out of office because you are part of the problem. Rand Paul, | Read More »
I should rename my post today — “Today in Little Rock, Arkansas” or “Today in Lexington, Kentucky” or even “Today in Pennsylvania” — because all eyes in Washington will be watching to see if incumbent Senators Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and/or Arlen Specter (RD-PA) lose in their respective primaries. Also, inside the beltway eyes will be on Kentucky to see if Rand Paul, the ultimate outsider, can beat | Read More »
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