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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
From the diaries by Erick. To quote my friend ‘Ironman’, “If an uncontested re-election doesn’t give John Thune the political courage to say no to BP and the ethanol robber barons, then he has no business getting near the White House when the successor to Obama needs to stop trillions in red ink.” ————- The ethanol mandates are one of the most regressive socialist interventions | Read More »
Let’s face it. The Democrats get away with murder. They pick an industry; from health care to energy, financial services to mortgages, and set a time bomb to blow it up through taxation, regulation, and or litigation. It often takes years, maybe even decades to destroy that industry by raising costs of its delivery and by extension, its price tag for consumers. By the time | Read More »
Everyone is busy analyzing what the Democrats have learned from the midterm elections. The real question is what Republicans have learned from this election. Within 25 minutes, 8 Republicans voted to continue the practice of pork barrel spending, while 15 voted to give the FDA unlimited power to shut down food producers and cut jobs. Here is a list of the 8 Republicans who voted | Read More »
Recently, reports have been circulating in the Capitol Hill newspapers that conservatives are planning to challenge Dick Lugar and other RINOs in 2012. Last week, former Missouri Senator John Danforth gave the following assessment of a potential primary challenge to Lugar: “If Dick Lugar, having served five terms in the U.S. Senate and being the most respected person in the Senate and the leading authority | Read More »
When the Republican led 112th congress is sworn in next January, the magnitude of the turnover will be most evident on the Judiciary Committee. Instead of radical John Conyers heading the committee, we will have border champion Lamar Smith as chairman. Also, instead of Zoe Lofgren chairing the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, Steve King will lead that panel. Today, the Miami Herald is reporting | Read More »
The government’s ethanol mandates embody everything that is wrong with Democrats, RINOs, and Marxists. It is an unconstitutional regulation that has enriched a few special interests with $7.7 billion taxpayer dollars, regressively drove up the cost of food and fuel; and by extension all products and services that rely on fuel based delivery. The tax credits for energy producers who blend fuel with ethanol have | Read More »
If there is anything that is clear from the outcome of the elections, it is that we have barely changed the Senate. Yes, we have gained some seats and moved some Republican open seats to the right for the 112th congress. However, there are still many Republicans that remain in the Senate who have shown no signs of changing their big government tendencies. Today, 16 | Read More »
While there is much debate concerning how “big of a tent” the Republican Party should be concerning social issues, there is no excuse for any Republican to damage our national security and support unilateral disarmament. The START treaty is a unilateral demand proposed by Vladimir Putin and its sole intent is to weaken our missile capabilities and our deterrent against Russia. When the treaty was | Read More »
There has been a pervasive misconception that has been promulgated by those within and outside of the Republican Party concerning the power of the GOP House majority . They assert that because the Democrats control the other branches of government, there is no way we can pass any meaningful conservative legislation until 2012. There seems to be an assumption that we can only scuttle the | Read More »
Here we go again. The same vicious cycle seems to repeat itself ad nauseum. We become all excited about the prospects of picking up Senate seats during the election. Then, within a few days these RINOs return to their old ways. The Hill is reporting that Mark Kirk is considering whether to vote with the Democrats and support the unconstitutional Disclose Act. Even though he | Read More »
Earlier today, three Republican Senators joined every Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to send the bill to ratify the START treaty to the full Senate. The three RINO traitors were Johnny Isackson (Ga), Richard Lugar (IN), and Bob Corker (TN). How ironic that in light of the recent debate about nominating RINOs in blue states, we have three RINOs from solid red states | Read More »
It is quite a unique political phenomenon when 11 candidates are running for the Republican nomination for Senate in the deep blue state of Maryland. It is even more special when one of those candidates is a passionate and articulate conservative, who has the gravitas and the energy to mount a serious challenge to arch-socialist, Senator Barbara Mikulski. Jim Rutledge is the candidate running for | Read More »
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