Mitt Romney Fans the Flames of Free Market Energy Policy

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  July 31st at 10:45 AM  | 

Mitt Romney actually stood for bold colors yesterday.  For conservatives, it should be the biggest story of the week. Conservatives are rightfully focused on the impending tax cliff that is facing American taxpayers at the end of the year.  But we must not forget the subsidy cliff either.  Dozens of special interest tax preferences, known as tax extenders, are slated to expire at the end | Read More »

We’ve Defeated Fred Upton!

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  July 24th at 08:40 AM  | 

Well, not exactly.  Fred Upton has defeated Fred Upton. As the primary season progresses, we’ve see this pattern repeat itself on numerous occasions.  There’s an old bull Republican who has been pushing for big government and anti-free-market policies for years.  Then, as soon as his primary opponent begins to sow the seeds of disquiet in his district, the old bull lurches to the right, introduces | Read More »

The Cycle of Government: Subsidize the Living; Tax the Dead; Benefit the Corporate Cronies

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  July 23rd at 11:46 AM  | 

In recent weeks, we’ve been subjected to mellifluous pandering to our nation’s farmers by liberals in both parties.  They admonish us about the need to provide farmers with a “safety net” and to protect them from catastrophic events.  To that end, they are pushing a massive $1 trillion Ag subsidy, which happens to contain over $750 billion in food stamp spending. Aside for the fact | Read More »

Dick Lugar Haunts the Free Market from the Grave

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 23rd at 10:45 AM  | 

You might have thought that we vanquished Dick Lugar from the levers of power a few weeks ago.  But if nothing is done to stop the impending 5-year Farm Bill, he might harm us with his regressive policies long past his time in Washington. Last month, the Senate Agriculture Committee passed a 5-year farm bill that continues to serve as one of the most potent | Read More »

It’s Time to Dump Upton for Jack Hoogendyk in MI-6

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 15th at 07:56 AM  | 

It’s hard to think of a more liberal Republican that occupies a more consequential position in Congress than Fred Upton.  It’s not just the fact that the Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the most powerful House panels, is a big supporter of green energy.  It’s not just the fact that this same man was the Thomas Edison of the incandescent light | Read More »

Some GOP House Members Beg Leadership for Ex-Im Bank Extension

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 30th at 10:54 AM  | 

Undoubtedly, as we pursue a limited government agenda, we face an arduous task in reducing personal dependency on government.  Democrats have successfully created a scheme where almost half the population pays no income taxes, while 40% receive something from the government.  Their relentless demagoguery makes it difficult to wean people off welfare and entitlement programs.  However, there is a lower hanging fruit in the statist | Read More »

The Chamber of [Government Run] Commerce

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 19th at 02:00 PM  | 

Recently, some of my friends have expressed shock and dismay over the Chamber of Commerce’s endorsements of big-government establishment Republicans like Dick Lugar and Jon Bruning.  After all, they suggest, isn’t the Chamber a bastion of free-market, pro-growth policies? The answer is really simple.  It is no enigma.  The Chamber of Commerce is not conservative, pro-free-market, or even necessarily pro-growth.  They support the special interests | Read More »

Question for GOP Leaders: How long halt ye between two opinions?

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 12th at 06:34 AM  | 

As Republicans, we have ridiculed Obama’s stimulus, bailouts, picking winners and losers, crony capitalism, Keynesian economics, European-style socialism, and Solyndra-style loans.  Yet, there might only be 50 Republicans in the House who are willing to block a GOP effort to reauthorize a New-Deal policy that represents all of the aforementioned vices. Roll Call is reporting that Eric Cantor is negotiating with Steny Hoyer in an | Read More »

Quash the Ethanol Beast in Honor of Iowa Caucuses

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  January 2nd at 06:00 PM  | 

As the clock struck 12 am January 1, one of the most anti free market government interventions expired without renewal and without fanfare.  In honor of the Iowa Caucuses, we can now declare that the ethanol subsidies and tariffs are finally dead.  However, before we celebrate this rare piece of good news, we must remember that in order to deracinate the ethanol beast from our | Read More »

Hold the Line Against Venture Eco-Socialism in the CR

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  September 25th at 07:26 PM  | 

No wonder Democrats casually disregard our budget crisis.  They have a penchant to drop zeros from government expenditures!  Last month, Democrat congressional candidate Dave Weprin thought that the national debt stood at $4.0 trillion.  Now Harry Reid has filed cloture on his version of the FY 2012 CR that has a missing zero from some of the disaster aid expenditures.  According to CQ Politics, Reid’s | Read More »