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 »

Earmarxists Make Best Case Against Earmarks

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 3rd at 10:45 AM  | 

The Republican-controlled House is currently operating under a moratorium on earmarking.  But if several GOP earmarxists have their say, this will change in the near future. Throughout the past decade, most of the arguments against earmarks have been focused on wasteful spending, corruption, cronyism, and self-ingratiating monuments.  Robert Byrd’s monuments and the Bridge to Nowhere became symbols for such bad behavior.  To that end, even | Read More »