From the diaries by Erick The Republican Study Committee, the conservative House caucus, released a bill this week to cut $2.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years. This plan, which is summarized in a two page document, includes cuts in specific Obama programs, as well as the elimination of old programs and subsidies. The main objective of the RSC plan is to pass | Read More »
Thankfully, the Republican controlled House just passed the repeal of Obamacare by a 245-189 margin. Three Democrats; Mike Ross (AR), Dan Boren (OK), and Mike McIntyre (NC), joined every Republican in support of repeal. This means that 10 of the remaining 13 Democrats who voted against Obama Care to win reelection last year, showed their true colors by opposing repeal. Here are the ten Democrat | Read More »
The Democrats have a habit of sabotaging our economy and then demanding that we pass their legislation to avert impending doom that would result from their original policies. Unfortunately, Republicans credulously accept their premises and acquiesce to the emergency legislative actions. We watched this unfold during the debate over TARP, in which Republicans naively bought into the notion that the Great Depression would return unless | Read More »
As Americans continue to shiver from the cold, they will continue to pay more to heat their homes and power their cars. Sadly, yet ironically, the culprit is the man-made hoax of global warming. For years, the left has attempted to demonize oil and energy producers with their hateful rhetoric. Now, they are turning their vituperative rhetoric into action. Oil prices surged again yesterday following | Read More »
Despite the triumphant ascendancy of conservatism in our times, many Republicans are impetuously ‘punting on first down’ in the battle for social conservatism. Some prominent GOPers feel that not only is social conservatism not a priority, it is something that should be unconditionally and unilaterally surrendered to the left. There are elected Republicans supporting the repeal of DADT, radical homosexual organizations sponsoring CPAC, and party | Read More »
When Bernie Madoff was caught running a Ponzi scheme, he was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment. Needless to say, the Ponzi scheme was prorogated immediately. Unfortunately, when the leftists in government were caught purloining the funds from the mandatory Social Security retirement program, they were rewarded with reelection. Worse yet, they still have the power to force us to contribute more, receive less, and raise the | Read More »
he day of reckoning for Obama Care is rapidly approaching as the Republicans have scheduled a vote next week to repeal this unconstitutional, job killing piece of socialism. They plan to schedule two votes; one on the full repeal of Obama Care (Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act), and another on a resolution which instruct four committees to craft a new health care bill. | Read More »
Al right. That is not precisely the title of the latest headline at Roll Call, but it is close. The actual headline reads, “Reid Set a Filibuster Record”. In other words, thanks to RINOs, Harry Reid became the most successful Majority Leader in terms of killing filibusters through cloture. Keep in mind that the Democrats had 60 seats only for a short time during the | Read More »
Back in 2005, when Republicans controlled the House, Senate, and presidency, they were contemplating a “nuclear option” to end the filibuster on judicial nominees. We were all aghast at the unprecedented number of filibusters that were mounted by Democrats to block highly qualified nominees to Federal Appellate courts. At the time, the ever perspicacious George Will warned conservatives of the counter-intuitive consequences of squelching the | Read More »
Roll Call reports today that the DCCC is already formulating a strategy to target the most vulnerable Republicans in the upcoming election cycle. The DCCC is defining a “marginal Republican district” as one in which Obama carried in 2008, or a seat that the Republican won with less than 55% of the vote. According to Roll Call, the GOP holds 61 seats won by Obama, | Read More »
Here are the thirteen Republicans who gratuitously gave Obama his biggest foreign policy victory of his presidency. They pointlessly voted to entrust Putin and Obama with our missile defense, and capitulated to a tyrant during a time when American is exuding weakness throughout the world. All they had to do was hold out for two days and the session would have been over. Not only | Read More »
It is widely being reported that the data from the new decennial census provides us with good news. The new reapportionment based upon the population shifts will have ramifications on the presidential election and on House seats. We’ll start with this article by analyzing how reapportionment affects our prospects to win the presidency in 2012. The New Reapportionment States gaining Congressional seats: Arizona (1), Florida | Read More »
Richard Lugar has become the leader of the rampaging RINOs. Ever since the November electoral repudiation of liberalism, Lugar has voted for the FDA farm takeover, Amnesty for illegals, and co-sponsored the child nutrition law. Lugar also opposed the moratorium on earmarks. He has also been the chief architect of the near confirmation of the START, unilateral disarmament treaty in the Senate. In fact, he | Read More »
“I know this is a seminal moment, because for the first time since I’ve been here, we stood up and said ‘enough.’” These were John McCain’s comments regarding the successful GOP filibuster of the Omnibus bill. Hey, Senator McCain, now that you realize the effectiveness of a united Republican front against the liberal assault on this country, maybe you will use it more often? You | Read More »
Our brave soldiers have been dying every day in Afghanistan due to political correctness and egregious rules of engagement. Unfortunately, conservatives have failed to importune public outrage over the misdirection of the war because everyone is focused so keenly on the Democrats’ unrelenting, multi-pronged assault on our freedoms back home. However, in light of the killing of a border agent on our own soil, we | Read More »
From the diaries by lexington_concord… It’s always politically advantageous to support tax cuts. However, it takes more intransigence and fortitude to oppose big government programs and special interest handouts. It is even more arduous to oppose such programs when they are coupled with tax cuts as part of a backroom compromise. Based upon Senator Jim Inhofe’s comments to NRO, it appears that there aren’t too | Read More »
President George W. Bush and his compatriots introduced a new typology of conservatism called “compassionate conservatism”. They believed in big government, entitlement and transfer programs, market distortions such as ethanol mandates, and special interest handouts. They felt that it was all fine and dandy to grow government, as long as they advocated for tax reform. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has always been a paradigm | Read More »
As conservatives, we understand that not everything that is dubbed as a tax cut is a good thing. Liberals are wrought to describe handouts as tax cuts and tax cuts as handouts. Thus, the extension of the regressive, job killing, price hiking ethanol subsidies are not good tax cuts and should not be extended. Yet, through all of the discussion concerning the deal on the | Read More »
The GOP won their greatest electoral victory since 1938, but you wouldn’t know it from most of the recent news. Let’s round up some of the GOP’s greatest hits since November 2nd. The House Republican Steering Committee, led by leadership, appointed big government, big liberals Fred Upton as Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Hal Rogers as Approps Chair, and Spencer Bachus (R- Freddie | Read More »
John Kyl is proud of his compromise with Obama that has resulted in an agreement to extend all of the Bush tax cuts until the next election, except for the death tax. Those who are content with the death tax compromise are remembering the time when 55% of anything over $1 million was taxed upon death. They therefore are praising the new rate of 35% | Read More »
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