In the aftermath of the GOP Presidential debate in New Hampshire, the DC and establishment-centric bloggers have all pronounced the winners and the loser. They have all decided that Romney, Bachmann, and Gingrich won. The biggest loser of the night was Pawlenty. I am going to listen to Rush for his take on this later today. Here are my morning after reflections. I do not | Read More »
Tim Pawlenty shines on Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace, much to the chagrin of Chris Wallace. An earlier interview Wallace had with Herman Cain revealed a weakness in the area of foreign policy. Herman Cain had not studied enough to know what the phrase “right of return” means when Chris asked him the question. Tim Pawlenty was not flummoxed by anything that Chris | Read More »
SITTIN’ ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY – written by Otis Redding and Steve Cropper – lyrics as recorded by Otis Redding December 7, 1967, just three days before his death in a plane crash outside Madison, Wisconsin – #1 for 4 weeks in 1968 Sittin’ in the mornin’ sun I’ll be sittin’ when the evenin’ come Watching the ships roll in And then I | Read More »
On June 13th, the next major GOP Presidential debates will take place in New Hampshire. The moderators and panel who are asking the questions are no friends to these GOP candidates. They have a vested interest in Obama winning reelection. He can not run on his record. The economy, since he got elected, is worse than it has ever been. The only thing he can | Read More »
On Tuesday evening a vote in the Senate on a bill sponsored by Sen. Schumer, Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act, was rejected. Sixty votes were needed for passage, and it only received 50 D votes and 2 R votes. The No votes included 45 R votes and 3 D votes. On Wednesday afternoon a vote in the Senate on a bill sponsored by Sen. | Read More »
I found an excellent website to obtain statistics for government spending. The bar graph on the federal deficit is a major blow against Obama getting reelected. Those last three years of deficits are at unsustainable, uncharted economic waters that a majority of Americans can not support. The Republican governors who served for eight years of issuing executive orders, vetoing bad bills, selecting competent directors to | Read More »
The two I have in mind are not exceptional in my opinion for any special speech or special award since becoming a member. They are exceptional to me because they won election into the US House from the grassroots efforts. Neither of them have ever been elected to any city or state office, and yet they won an election to a national office. The following | Read More »
RedState diarist Cold Warrior has a new kindle book, Taking Back Your Government: The Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy, that can be purchased at Amazon for just $3.99. Now some regulars at RedState will groan and mutter under their breath how sick and tired they are of hearing this message. How self-centered of them to think they are the only ones receiving this message. There | Read More »
I have been keeping an eye on what is happening in seven Statehouses with GOP ladies as Governor or Lt Governor. So far I have not been disappointed. These lady Governors and Lt. Governors are stepping up and even in purple states like Florida and Iowa the people can recognize cream rising to the top no matter that there is an (R) after their name. | Read More »
Credit markets dried up and tens of thousands of people were left in poverty. The President could not solve the economic mess (or did not have enough time for the economy to right itself) and the office he occupied was going to be an easy target in the upcoming Election. Land values soared. States splurged on new programs. Then it all went bust, bringing | Read More »
Wonderful things are already happening in four of the seven statehouses that I am keeping my eyes on. The four are New Mexico, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Florida. While I see nothing especially wonderful to report about Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Iowa so far, I will remain vigilant. New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez impressed Rush enough for him to talk about her today. APNewsBreak: Martinez halts | Read More »
In a few weeks a lot of attention is going to be paid to what the new GOP majority House does, and how the White House and the Dem majority Senate will react. This is understandable, but for the long run attention should also be paid to what happens in some statehouses. There are actions with serious consequences that happen outside of Washington, DC. This | Read More »
Following the 13th census, in 1910, Congress enlarged the House to 435 members from 386 members and there it has remained, even as the number of Americans has more than tripled, from 92 million to 308 million. Ever since, the apportionment process has been able to allot new House seats to the fastest-growing states only by taking them away from states growing more slowly. Voters | Read More »
It is an easy call on this last 111th Congress being the worst Congress ever. What this liberal writer calls the major accomplishments are more like a list of the major damages this Congress did to us. I can understand anyone not wanting to read a liberal writer’s list of major accomplishments of the 111th Congress, but let me translate some of them. If I | Read More »
Check the Facts on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) “Small Business Scorecard for the 111th Congress“. The map is here For the 111th Congress, SBE Council has scored members of the U.S. Senate on 27 key votes. Members who scored 90%-100% are “Champions of the Entrepreneur.” Those scoring 80%-89% are “Advocates of the Entrepreneur,” and Members scoring 70%-79% are “Friends of the Entrepreneur” | Read More »
This report from the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council ranks the 50 states and D.C. according to 38 major government-imposed or government-related costs affecting investment, entrepreneurship, and business. Some people might have a MEGO, (My Eyes Glazed Over) episode reading this 50 page report, and so I decided to crunch out a piece that shows a table for tax policy and a table for spending | Read More »
WHERE HAVE ALL THE CAPITALISTS GONE? Where have all the capitalists gone? Long time passing Where have all the capitalists gone? Long time ago Where have all the capitalists gone? Useful idiots have attacked them every one When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? What is unsatisfactory with present-day academic conditions – not only in this country but in most foreign nations | Read More »
I am looking real hard for signs of good news. Signs that indicate an opportunity for the US to recover from the assault that has been occurring on our market based economy. I was looking for them in all the wrong places. It was an error on my part to look for them in Washington, DC. The conservative media hosts were all trumpeting how a | Read More »
It did not take long for the euphoria of a wave election to wear off. All it took for me is one of the first things the US Senate did in the lame duck session. They passed a 1.4 Billion dollar food safety bill that virtually makes all food a controlled substance like vicoden by greatly expanding the powers of the FDA. It was passed | Read More »
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