Pelosi: We Hate Spending Trillions of Your Money, But We Love America Enough to Spend Much More

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  March 10th at 04:17 PM  | 

Nancy Pelosi has got some stones: House Dems eyeing another stimulus bill At a special meeting of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee on Tuesday morning, Democrats heard again from their trusted band of economists and came away reinforced that Congress would need to spend billions of additional taxpayer dollars in the coming months to help pull the economy out its severe recession. One proposal | Read More »

House Liberals Firmly in Control

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  January 2nd at 04:17 PM  | 

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: House Democrats tentatively plan to repeal term limits for committee chairmanships when the 111th Congress convenes on Tuesday, according to senior House aides. The result would remove one of the signature reforms from the 12-year House Republican rule and likely would cause angry debate during the usually ceremonial opening day festivities. Although the prospective rules change | Read More »

The Big Three Pass the Plate

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  November 6th at 03:49 PM  | 

Representatives of the UAW, Ford, Chrysler and GM met today with Speaker Pelosi to outline their interest in a big new pot of taxpayer money: Lawmakers jump-started a $25 billion direct loan program for automakers as part of the continuing resolution (PL 110-329) signed into law by President Bush earlier this fall. It remains unclear, however, when those funds will begin to flow, a situation | Read More »

Before Bristol Palin, Liberals Defended Kids’ Privacy

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 3rd at 07:14 PM  | 

How many remember the story of Graeme Frost — the 12-year old boy selected by Democrats last year to deliver a radio address on children’s health insurance? The Left went absolutely bonkers over the efforts of conservative bloggers to learn more about Frost and his family, to better determine whether Frost lacked health insurance because his family couldn’t afford it, or because they chose not | Read More »

Liberal Browshirt Group Has Surprising Inspiration

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  August 8th at 12:30 PM  | 

The New York Times writes today about the newly-formed liberal ‘watchdog’ group, Accountable America: The newly formed group, Accountable America, is planning to send “warning” letters to nearly 10,000 major Republican donors next week listing the potential legal and publicity headaches they might face if they decide to finance one of these groups. The mailings will also include an announcement of a $100,000 reward for | Read More »