If he gets his way on healthcare. A former soldier pulled his own teeth out with a pair of pliers because he could not find a dentist to take on NHS patients. Iraq War veteran Ian Boynton could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe pain. The 42-year-old, | Read More »
The House Democrats tonight have denied Republicans the opportunity to offer any amendments at all on spending bills. Any. This is the first time in the history of our Republic that this has happened. Senate Republicans should stick up for their House brethren and shut down the Senate as the House GOP is now pretty much powerless.
The Blue Dog Democrats have genuinely boxed themselves in lately on their consistency regarding Iran. On September 25, 2007, all the Blue Dog Democrats who were then in Congress voted in favor of H.R. 1400, the Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007. The legislation would have prevented Iran from joining the World Trade Organization, imposed economic sanctions on the nation including banning the import of all | Read More »
One must wonder these days if the Democrats are wrapping themselves around Chicagoland rough and tumble politics, or are they wrapping themselves around the politics of hyper-inflation experiencing third world thugocracies. In Chicagoland politics, like third world thugocracies, opponents of government get gunned down, thrown in jail, threatened by the powers of government, etc. We saw this happen a few months ago when a bank | Read More »
We need to get the Blue Dog Democrats to slow down budget approval in the House of Representatives. The vote in committee is tonight. STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING. PICK UP THE PHONE. CALL 202-224-3121. Ask for one of these five Congressmen: 1. Alan Boyd of Florida 2. Bob Etheridge of North Carolina 3. Charlie Melancon of Louisiana 4. Chet Edwards of Texas 5. John | Read More »
Chuck Schumer wants the White House’s Office of Management and Budget to tell states they have no choice in the use of porkulus funds. Below the fold is the entire letter. It’s is amazing in its reach. In effect, states will have zero discretion in how they spend the money and which parts they take. This stems from Gov. Bobby Jindal and others saying they | Read More »
It was bound to happen. “I’m not predicting any third waves here,” the Maryland Democrat said in remarks at a forum sponsored by Georgetown University and Politico. “If you look at first midterm elections historically, the president’s party loses seats,” he said. “The historical trend is pretty clear for Democrats.” Rather than trying to expand the Democratic House majority in 2010, Van Hollen believes his job | Read More »
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (“LCCR”) is a far left interest group. The group opposed conservative judges. The group agitates for card check. The group is in favor of the Fairness Doctrine. It is chiefly an agitator for affirmative action programs and tries to pressure banks into giving high risk loans like those that caused the housing crisis. If you oppose them, they label | Read More »
Freedom Works has put up a post on twenty facts about the stimulus. You need to know them. Check out the whole post here. Assuming they won’t mind, I’m going to list all 20 and do it above the fold because they are all worthy of attention: 1. The $825 billion package slated for a House vote later this week will exceed more than $1.1 | Read More »
Wow. An email from a friend: Tonight in the House Rules Committee, Rep. Thad McCotter (R-MI), introduced an amendment to the President’s stimulus bill (H.R. 1) that would require any new infrastructure project – roads, bridges, schools, post offices or any other buildings — created by funding provided in H.R. 1 to be named after a member of the United States Armed Forces who was | Read More »
I’m off the NYC for work. Never been up there in the winter time. Before I leave, I wanted to make sure you all saw this great video from Katon Dawson, the South Carolina GOP Chair running for RNC Chairman:
Mark Ritchie is the Secretary of State of Minnesota. He is, by law, to fairly carry out the laws of the state and fairly enforce the rules relating to elections in the state. Instead, he has operated as a partisan hack. At a time when surveys are showing Minnesotans increasingly think the recount has been unfair to Coleman and Franken is growing increasingly unpopular, Ritchie, | Read More »
When people on the left start favorably linking to this Wall Street Journal article, you know the bailout has problems. [I]n the other American auto industry you rarely read about, car makers are gaining market share and adjusting amid the sales slump, without seeking a cent from the government. These are the 12 “foreign,” or so-called transplant, producers making cars across America’s South and Midwest. | Read More »
The Democrats are passing out a flyer in Wisconsin that tells people just how easy to vote in Wisconsin. One of the bullet points is this: No proof of residence? You can still register to vote if you bring an eligible voter from your municipality who shows proof of residence and affirms that you live at your address. There is just one problem. That’s not | Read More »
Mark Impomeni has a great piece over at AOL about Obama and the Democrats wanting to pay back union support by getting card check passed. “Card Check”, typically referred to by Democrats in Orwellian fashion as the “Employee Free Choice Act,” would require that employees vote for or against unionizing while standing in front of union thugs without a secret ballot. Tonight, during the 2nd | Read More »
The Saturday Night LIve skit lampooning the mortgage bailout has been yanked from the internet by NBC. GregInFla [mentioned this] (http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/06/snl-bows-to-liberal-pressures-as-nbc-shows-i/) yesterday. The skit correctly pointed out that the Democrats blocked oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when President Bush and the Republicans warned them there was a problem coming. Likewise, the skit mocked Herbert and Marion Sandler and George Soros, three of the | Read More »
You can see his response here. He claims my headline is misleading because I identify “Democrats” as releasing the information. if he knows that Democrats released it, he has better sources than I do. Who among you really believes a Republican did it? He then writes e Social Security umber is missing its last four digits. That is, it’s already been redacted, in an apparent | Read More »
If you haven’t see the Sarah Palin cover of US Weekly, you will. Compare it to this one. Who is flogging this story? See this email: Thought I would send over our Us Weekly/Sarah Palin cover story, on stands Friday, if helpful in your coverage. Might be useful as an illustration of how the news is playing out.(Us Weekly has 12 million, mostly female readers) | Read More »
The Politico has received an opposition research file from the Alaska Democrats. You can read it in PDF here. In the file, the Democrats have released Sarah Palin’s social security number minus the last four digits. Also tied to the information are her various home addresses. Back in 2005, Democrats used Michael Steele’s social security number to get his credit record. It is atrocious that | Read More »
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