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John Boehner, Pete Sessions, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence and Kevin McCarthy, have pledged to match the first $50,000 in contributions to double their strength - meaning every dollar contributed up to $50,000 will be doubled.

So go here and give what you can. Remember, spending laws start in the House. We take it back, Obama’s budget is DOA.

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During this unprecedented time in our nation’s financial history, Americans everywhere are experiencing hardships and personal crises they never would have imagined.
But with these difficult times often come great courage and perseverance.

House Republicans want to know your story.

While President Obama’s team tells us that only the most successful Americans will soon be subject to a massive tax hike, the simple truth is that every single American who flips on a light switch is taxed under the President’s budget. In fact, an MIT study examining the effects of an energy tax similar to the President’s plan will cost American households an average of $3,128 per year. Republicans want to hear how this tax increase will affect your ability to pay your health care premiums, send your children to college, start a small business, or otherwise achieve your American Dream.

Now go here and tell them your story.

Guess who’s still talking (and telling the GOP to turn “Hard a’Port!”)? Yep, it’s Obama Voter (and New York Times house “conservative”) David Brooks, who uses his formerly-coveted space in the Times today to tell Republicans that actually returning to a platform based in promoting fiscal conservatism and opposing radical, unprecedented borrowing/spending and government expansion is “totally misguided.”

Thankfully, GOP leaders appear to be wisely ignoring his “advice.”

Brooks, like David Frum, is a faux-conservative pundit who inexplicably claims that the way for the Republican party to succeed is to become a poor imitation of its Democratic opposition. Of course, Brooks — a self-proclaimed “moderate” — voted for that Democratic opposition this past November, despite the GOP nominating a “maverick” moderate who should have been not only palatable, but exciting, to a person like Brooks.

The House GOP is finally getting back on track, as evidenced by its unanimous opposition to the $1,000,000,000,000.00 pork-laden “stimulus” bill, its fiscally-responsible counterproposals to Democrats’ runaway spending plans, and its pledge to work with President Obama to reduce spending, cut waste, and improve transparency.

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Last Friday, ten House Republican leaders sent a letter to President Barack Obama. In it, they offered to work across party lines and Congressional divisions with the new president to achieve the latter’s stated commitment “to fiscal transparency and accountability and ensuring that [all] spending commitments are paid for without burdening our children and grandchildren with excessive debt,” and to “slash[ing] earmarks to no greater than 1994 levels and ensur[ing] all spending decisions are open to the public.”

The Republican leaders wrote:

In keeping with these pledges to the American people, we urge you to veto the so-called “omnibus” spending bill passed this week if the Senate fails to reject it.

Like the trillion-dollar “stimulus” spending bill that was rushed through Congress without any Member having read it, the $410 billion legislation passed this week openly defies your commendable objectives of fiscal transparency and accountability. It contains nearly 9,000 “airdropped” earmarks, most of which were not even considered in committee let alone on the House floor as is routine — compared to roughly 4,000 in 1994. …

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Awesome. There are two important numbers today. 800 and 0.

800 billion dollars worth of bad Democrats. Zero complicit Republicans in the House. Oh wait, and three more important numbers. (And by the way, don’t forget to use CapWiz if you feel like contacting the House GOP to congratulate them.)

Consider this an Open Thread.

That’s the amount the entire district is on the hook for– over $2.5 billion. You can see how the rest country’s GOP districts break down here (all averaged out to $2,761 per person); a sample of those numbers is below:

AZ-2: $2,474,391,634.00
FL-5: $2,334,577,355.00
GA-7: $2,334,199,098.00
UT-1: $2,325,954,752.00
CA-45: $2,263,658,309.00
TX-3: $2,233,546,843.00
(See the rest here)

At least the entire Republican caucus (along with eleven Democrats) had the good sense to oppose this additional debt being levied on their constituents for the sole purpose of funding legislators’ pet pork barrel projects.

Unfortunately, we’re about to get saddled with the cost — and lack of benefit — anyway.

The House GOP held the line. They voted unanimously to oppose the Obama Stimulus Plan. The Democrats will now own this failure.

Earlier today I said we must make our side feel pain when they displease us. But we should be prepared to say thanks too.

I’m giving a $22.00 donation to the National Republican Congressional Committee, the group that elects House Republicans.

We may not agree with them every time. But it is quite important that we say thanks to them when they hold the line on the advance of socialism.