Framing the Debt Ceiling Debate: Attach a Balanced Budget Amendment

    If a balanced budget amendment is attached to raising the debt ceiling, the bill will either pass and the amendment will go to the states for ratification (where it will surely succeed), or it will fail and the failure will be at the hands of Democrats in Congress. Either way, it is a victory for the GOP, and especially for conservatives. It is truly amazing | Read More »

    Earmarks: How Some Miss the Point

    Sometimes the people over at National Review just seem to completely miss the point. And then today they publish a commentary by Andrew C. McCarthy which takes aim at Speaker-elect John Boehner’s support for banning earmarks. Can you be any more tone deaf? The debt is what the election was about: the growth-killing tab that runs up another $4 billion every day . . . | Read More »