What Is Going On With Senate Republicans? I Think I Know
It’s apparent Senate Republicans have made some kind of deal with Reid and Senate Democrats. But why?
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Where Do We Go From Here?
Senate Republicans, especially Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who did a great job on Harry Reid’s power grabbing Omnibus farce, stood firm and forced Reid to blink; Reid pulled his bill and will vote to pass a continuing resolution to allow the whole federal government to operate through March, by which time Republicans will have the majority in the House. And the House finally voted | Read More »
“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
This is what it’s like to work with statist politicians like Barack Obama and Harry Reid, those who adhere to the Darth Vader approach to deal making. Did Republicans learn anything? I know Democrats didn’t, but they don’t care. So first we get this really bad tax deal (which will probably pass the House; even Paul Ryan says we have to “suck it up”), now | Read More »
“I plan to renounce any Republican who renounces Phyllis Schlafly.”
Robert Stacy McCain ends his post with the title of my post. Democrats are trying to jump on some comments conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly recently made: “One of the things Obama’s been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living. For example, do you know what was the second-biggest demographic group that voted for | Read More »
Jim Bunning: Tearing Through The Liberal Crud
The treatment of retiring Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) by the left is nothing if not remarkable. It’s not remarkable for its intellectual honesty, but remarkable for its complete lack of intellect and seriousness. We’re being told that Bunning is holding up extending $10 billion in unemployment benefits for those who have been out of work for some time. The $10 billion the Democrats want us | Read More »
Democrats Haven’t Changed From Their Pre-Civil War Days
All I can say is that when Matt Yglesias makes statements such as this, in a whiny post about the filibuster [emphasis mine]: If the framers had deemed it crucial that the Senate operate via supermajority, they could have written that into the constitution. What’s more, it’s not really clear what relevance the framers have here—they wanted an un-elected Senate, they wanted slavery, they wanted | Read More »
Give Credit Where Credit Is Due To The NRSC And RNC
Turns out Scott Brown had a lot of Republican help in his campaign over the last couple of weeks. But to maintain his independence, the NSRC and the RNC kept really quiet about what they were doing. Ed Morrissey: This was a brilliant move by both the NRSC and the RNC. They didn’t fall into a Democratic trap by trumpeting their involvement with Brown, who | Read More »
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BREAKING: Shadegg Retiring
I just heard this on Fox News Radio, Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) is retiring at the end of this term. He had been elected to his seat 8 times. I remember when there was a battle to replace Tom Delay as House Majority Leader after Delay stepped down due to the unfounded charges filed against him by Texas Democrat. Shadegg, along with Roy Blunt of | Read More »
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Pathetic in the Senate
Anybody want to wager that the fix was in to pass the $410 billion omnibus bill? Don’t bet against it; it’s a sucker bet.
President Hope N. Change to Reform Government Spending by Cutting…Defense Spending…During a War?
How many remember this: (Source) Since Carter, every Democratic President and Democratic Presidential candidate has targeted the Department of Defense for major cuts in spending in order to make a claim at being fiscally responsible, even though they also want to be seen as serious about the nation’s security. Usually, like the hapless Michael Dukakis, they show themselves to be pure hypocrites and are rejected | Read More »
CA Republicans Cave
Kansas Republicans stood firm against Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ attempt to tax refunds and paychecks for government workers hostage in that state’s recent budget crisis: Sebelius’ budget director had asked the Kansas Finance Council — made up of Sebelius and eight top lawmakers — to approve the transfers Monday to get the state through a cash-flow problem. The state had already borrowed $550 million from | Read More »
House Republicans Stand Firm, Vote Against Porkulus; Bill Passes House – UPDATE
Here’s the roll, 246-183. Every Republican that voted went against it (176; 2 didn’t vote). A big thank you from me to John Boehner and Eric Cantor for lining up against this travesty, along with every other Republican (Rep. Price, Rep. Shaddeg, etc.) who presented the American people with all the ethically questionable activity by the Democrats in getting this bill passed, and for standing | Read More »
Liberals Redefining Patriotism?
Not long after 9/11, President George W. Bush made famous his phrase “You’re either with us or against us in the fight against terror.” He was making those remarks towards foreign governments who were known to have had assisted Islamist terrorists, most notably Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Libya. Bush was helping to rally the country for the long fight ahead, trying to ratchet up the | Read More »
BOHICA
BOHICA – Bend over, here it comes again. As everyone knows, the Senate worked late last night to line up a "deal" on the Porkulus bill between three Republicans (Collins and Snowe of Maine, and Specter of Pennsylvania) and representatives of the remaining 56 Democrats and 2 Independents (Lieberman of Connecticut and Sanders of Vermont). Based on what I saw, the other 38 Republicans don’t | Read More »
Democrats and the “New” Math
Reading leftists can be highly educational. For example, Greg Sargent has information from House Democratic staffers that says the House Republican plan actually raises taxes on quite a few Americans. Of course, to Democrats, a welfare check is something they call a tax cut, while Democrats call a real tax rate cut a tax rate increase; this is kind of like when Democrats say a lower | Read More »
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