Obama, alone, decides if soldiers get paid during a shutdown

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  April 8th at 10:39 PM  | 

Media never mentions who decides which government employees are “essential” It will be morally outrageous if President Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Senate sacrifice the funding of  our armed forces for the next six months  on the altar of government-funded abortions in the District of Columbia. But the preemptive announcement by the administration that U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines must work without pay during a | Read More »

Dr. Gridlock or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Government Shutdowns

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  February 27th at 03:19 AM  | 

Boehner and Ryan may have best strategy on budget battle after all Soon after the new GOP-majority House convened in January, this column endorsed endorsed a “selective government shutdown” strategy in which congressional Republicans would pre-emptively prepare the public for what seemed to us an inevitable confrontation over government spending with the new party of “no”, i.e. status quo Democrats. Like Byron York, we think the political | Read More »