Bill Shuster Wants to Bring Back Earmarks
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | June 6th at 09:16 PM |
Earlier this week, my PAC endorsed Art Halvorson against Bill Shuster in PA-9. As the House begins to debate the new water bill, Shuster is amplifying our point – that he is a big government Republican wasting the most conservative district in the state. Shuster has never been shy about his disdain for the earmark ban. Several weeks ago, he said that “at some point | Read More »
Mitch McConnell Supports Schumer’s Amnesty/Immigration Deform Bill
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | May 21st at 03:43 PM |
It looks like Mitch McConnell’s pass from Chuck Schumer to publicly remain silent on the amnesty bill has expired. While McConnell has come out of the witness protection program to attack the ‘low-hanging fruit’ IRS scandal with alacrity, he has remained silent on the most profound threat to our Republic – the Schumer immigration reform bill. How can the sitting GOP leader remain silent on | Read More »
Robert Rector’s Study: Open Borders + Welfare State = Disaster
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | May 6th at 12:08 PM |
We’ve noted many times throughout the debate over amnesty that you simply cannot legalize so many low-skilled people without reforming the welfare state. Some people don’t like to hear it, but the reality of today’s redistributive society is that the higher-skilled population transfers a tremendous amount of wealth to the lower-skilled population in the form of the tax code, entitlements, welfare, and social services. Do | Read More »
Gang Immigration Bill (S.744) is Comprehensively Flawed
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | May 2nd at 09:04 AM |
After picking apart the gang bill one issue at a time, I put out a summary of all the issues with the immigration bill for The Madison Project. Here it is for those who have not seen it. Note that some of this might be subject to change after the dust settles from the 350-page manager’s amendment that was tacked onto the bill.
It’s Time to Codify the Hastert Rule
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | May 1st at 12:08 PM |
Over the past few months, we have witnessed a dynamic in Washington in which House leadership is passing liberal legislation with support from the Democrat caucus. Instead of using their unfettered control over the House to advance conservative legislation and jam the Senate with popular bills, they are playing defense on Senate-passed legislation. On other occasions, they have wasted valuable legislative days on suspension bills | Read More »
States Have a Right to Protect Residents from Illegal Immigration
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 30th at 10:28 AM |
When the federal government stopped enforcing our immigration laws, a number of states – led by Arizona – began passing laws to do the job the feds wouldn’t do. In 2011, Alabama passed a law (HB 56) authorizing state and local police to check the immigration status of those already apprehended for breaking a law or those caught driving without a license. It also required | Read More »
Taking Dead Aim at Joe Manchin’s Pathetic Voting Record
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 29th at 03:13 PM |
Do you want to know the definition of pathetic? It’s someone who aggressively brandishes his pro-gun credentials in a campaign commercial, and then proceeds to invest his time into expanding gun control laws. In other words, Joe Manchin is pathetic. Just how unpopular is Obama with the voters of West Virginia? He lost all 55 counties last year in the general election, and 41% of | Read More »
The Permanent Cessation of Deportations
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 27th at 11:41 PM |
One question that proponents of endless amnesty can never answer is how they ever plan to stop future waves of illegal immigration if they continue to telegraph the message that deportations are taboo. That as long as they can reach our shores and “become part of the fabric of society,” they are here to stay. Indeed, Marco Rubio presciently warned about this lax attitude towards | Read More »
Chain Migration Will Bury the Republic and Republican Party
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 26th at 10:36 AM |
Throughout the past week, we’ve focused on many of the individual details in the Schumer/Rubio bill. However, it’s important to step back and look at the bill in totality. Between all of the amnesties, guest worker programs, and massive expansions in legal immigration, this bill will set off a seismic chain migration. The effects on the welfare system and our ability to absorb so many | Read More »
Get Ready for House Immigration Gangsters
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 25th at 09:13 AM |
It looks like we might have to get more conservative-Americans to do the job that the GOP-controlled House won’t do. In what has become a familiar routine, instead of fighting against the heaping pile of immigration deform emanating from the Democrat Senate, House Republicans are looking to tweak it with some honey and sugar in order to inveigle conservatives into eating this excrement sandwich. Whereas | Read More »
An Open Letter to Senator Marco Rubio
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 24th at 12:43 PM |
Dear Senator Rubio, As the public finally gets an opportunity to read and analyze the bipartisan gang of 8 immigration bill, it is clear that there will be some irreconcilable differences between your vision of immigration reform and that of many conservatives across the country. However, we should all agree that this is an extremely consequential bill and must go through a long process – | Read More »
Internet Sales Tax is Interstate Power Grab
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 23rd at 04:33 PM |
The Commerce Clause of the Constitution has been used as a garbage can of left-wing jurisprudence to grant the federal government infinite power over the the citizenry for years. Ironically, the original intent of the Commerce Clause was to serve as a check on state power grabs across state lines, not as a new power for the Feds to wield over the people. Here’s what | Read More »
Rubio: Then and Now
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 23rd at 10:44 AM |
As far as amnesty, that’s where [Charlie Crist] and I disagree. He would have voted for the McCain plan. I think that plan is wrong…if you grant amnesty…you will destroy any chance we will ever have of having a legal immigration system that works here in America. [Marco Rubio, Fox News Sunday debate with Charlie Crist, March 28, 2010] It’s this sort of straight talk | Read More »
5 Reasons Conservatives Should Oppose Anything ‘Comprehensive’
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 22nd at 03:33 PM |
The politicians in Washington are repeating the bromide that we need to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform so often that they are beginning to sound like the sheep in Animal Farm. Any issue or concern we raise about mass legalization before enforcement is implemented is met with the chant “we need it to be comprehensive.” Well, passing legislation with comprehensive and disparate components is an anathema | Read More »
Immigration Deform Bill is a National Security Risk
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 21st at 08:34 PM |
When it comes to the Gang of 8 immigration deform bill, night is day and up is down. The latest iteration of preposterous declarations comes from John McCain and Lindsey Graham in response to the Boston bombing and its implications for open borders. They had the unbridled impertinence to suggest that their bill, which will bring in millions of more temporary and permanent immigrants from | Read More »
When Will Republicans Understand Free Market Healthcare?
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 18th at 04:47 PM |
Healthcare is one of the most complex policy issues. The lack of free market healthcare, engendered by endless government interventions (and secondary interventions to fix the original interventions), has made policy solutions even more cumbersome. But the overarching principle of any reform must begin with the understanding that federal intervention in the healthcare industry has inexorably driven up the cost of healthcare and health insurance. | Read More »
The Stock Act: A Look into Drive-by Lawmaking
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 17th at 10:12 AM |
Did you know that Congress and the President quietly repealed misguided aspects of the Stock Act a few days ago? I thought not. Late in 2011, CBS’s “60 Minutes” aired a sensational news story detailing allegations that lawmakers were profiting from investments spawned by non-public information. Harry Reid seized the moment, and in a highly political calculation, brought the STOCK Act (S. 2038) to the | Read More »
How to Give Vulnerable Democrats Cover on Guns
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | April 12th at 11:28 AM |
Yesterday, 16 Republicans voted along with the Democrats to break the filibuster against the Reid gun control bill (S.649). Although Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn voted against it, they failed to whip against the vote, exerting no pressure on these wayward Republicans to put the brakes on this fast moving train wreck. The end result is exactly what the Wall Street Journal editorial page advocated | Read More »
The Magical Word “Women”
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | February 27th at 09:20 AM |
If we’ve come to the point where Republicans believe that dealing with domestic violence is within the purview of the federal government, we should just stick a fork in the party. Yet, not only do Republicans in the House plan to reauthorize the wasteful and politically-motivated Violence Against Women Act, they plan to pass the Senate version (S.47), which contains egregious anomalies. The Senate bill | Read More »
Harry Reid Plotting to Abolish the Filibuster
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | January 7th at 02:40 PM |
There is no breathing room this year for those of us who fight endless GOP capitulations in Washington. Within the first few weeks of the new session, we must confront a grave assault on the Filibuster in the Senate. Harry Reid is plotting some version of the “nuclear option” to limit the filibuster when the Senate convenes to adopt the rules package for the new | Read More »