We are now getting word from inside Congress that the “fix” may be in on a Boehner-Reid deal to fund the government until March 31 -– more or less on Barack Obama’s terms. Thus, Republicans would agree to fund ObamaCare, fund IRS agents to arrest ObamaCare dissenters, fund Obama’s anti-gun agenda, fund Planned Parenthood -– and then plea for the votes of people who are | Read More »
I was the sole general chairman of the New Hampshire campaign of Pat Buchanan in the winter of 1995-6. I was alone because my co-chairman, faced with unmoving single-digit poll numbers, had fled for the Dole campaign. I remember Pat’s consternation about our seemingly stagnant poll numbers. And yet, when New Hampshire voters began focusing on the election, those polls became meaningless. Just a few | Read More »
The main problems with the Boehner proposal are: Most of the initial $1.2 trillion of discretionary cuts are (1) from defense, or (2) are phony, out-year, and easily avoided. The compensatory immediate $1 trillion increase in the debt limit is, on the other hand, very real. Even worse, however, the notion of giving a Reid/Pelosi/McConnell/Boehner-appointed commission the power to devise non-filibusterable, unamendable tax increases (or, | Read More »
Consider this: A monumental piece of legislation — affecting a sector spanning over one-sixth of the economy — is negotiated behind closed doors by legislators for the purpose of slamming through the finished product before anyone has an opportunity to figure out what’s in it. ObamaCare? No… It’s the continuing resolution (CR) about to be sprung on Congress by the Democratic and Republican leadership. And the | Read More »
From the diaries by Jeff. No “Mute” button here – this is very important. Now comes news that House Republican Leader Eric Cantor (R.-Va.) is refusing to commit that the Pence amendment to defund Planned Parenthood will be in the final version of the bill which will fund the government for the rest of the year -– the “long-term continuing resolution.” This, despite the fact | Read More »
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