Yesterday, the Washington Post broke a blockbuster. A memo was leaked detailing all the current House Ethics Committee investigations. And guess what, most of them are Democrats. In fact, the only Republican mentioned in it was Sam Graves, who has been cleared by the Committee. So what did we learn? The Post says, regarding the inquiry of lawmakers tied to PMA, a now defunct lobbying | Read More »
Two stories emerged this week that demonstrate the absolute intellectual bankruptcy of the media reform agenda. It is just another attempt to gain power for the left. A Huffington Post writer argued that Clear Channel and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire should be broken up by the FCC and the DOJ’s anti-trust division: The Obama Administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and a revivified Anti-Trust Division of | Read More »
Earlier Redstate’s Pejman Yousefzadeh argued that Nancy Pelosi misread her caucus. I have an alternative hypothesis: she wanted the bill to fail. I have three pieces of evidence. First, yesterday, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), the House Majority Whip told the Politico that he was not whipping the vote and was not asked to whip the vote: Asked about Monday’s vote on the bailout bill, House | Read More »
The Messiah thing just doesn’t let up. Ben Smith has Nancy Pelosi describing Barack Obama as “a leader that God has blessed us with at this time.” Maybe he is the one? In the meantime, Obama says that McCain is “the devil” but that Obama is merely “unknown”: “Even when people are having a tough time, sometimes the devil you know may be preferable to | Read More »
How did this not get more attention? With reporting deadlines looming, congressional officers have issued revised guidelines that ease some of the lobbying disclosure requirements enacted last year. The revised guidance, issued by the Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate, relaxed the rules for disclosure of lobbyist contributions to parties at this summer’s Democratic and Republican national conventions, among other changes. So, | Read More »
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