Eric Holder may have an *exquisitely* painful day today over at House Judiciary.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 15th at 09:45 AM  | 

I know, I know: you are wounded unto death about such a thing occurring. Wounded unto death. Attorney General Eric Holder will testify before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, where Republicans say they’ll grill him about the Justice Department’s secret review of Associated Press phone records and the IRS targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny, among other issues. The oversight hearing had already | Read More »

The Associated Press demonstrates professional ethics in terror bomb case.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 8th at 09:30 AM  | 

…No, actually, the AP demonstrated professional ethics. Twice. The Associated Press reports today that it learned last week of a thwarted Al Qaeda-affiliated plot to bomb a U.S.-bound airplane, but did not report on it because of an agreement with the White House and the CIA. However, the AP did decide to report the story one day earlier than the White House had requested. “The | Read More »

Hill poll: American electorate apparently *not* addicted to soaking rich.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 27th at 08:00 PM  | 

The most immediate thing to take away from this Hill poll is what the article on the subject leads with: which is, that something like three-fourths of the American electorate thinks that that the tax rate for the wealthy should be lower than it actually is (about the same proportion has a similar attitude towards similar tax rates for corporations). So far, so good – | Read More »

This Week in Washington – September 19, 2011

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  September 19th at 10:45 AM  | 

The President will be making a speech today from the Rose Garden (echoes of Carter?) mapping out proposed savings of $3 trillion over the next 10 years.  According to the AP, the President’s new plan contains an old idea — massive tax increases: $1.5 trillion in new revenue, which would include about $800 billion realized over 10 years from repealing the Bush-era tax rates for couples | Read More »

Debt Limit Surrender

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  June 8th at 08:15 PM  | 

Members of the Tea Party and the conservative movement need to be prepared for some serious disappointment if news reports are correct. News reports have emerged indicating that that “dollar for dollar” cuts to spending promised as part of a grand bargain to increase the debt ceiling may be pro-rated over 10, 20 or even 25 years. It is easy for politicians to promise future | Read More »

Can’t Afford Gas For Your Car? Trade It in, Rubes Says Obama

By: Lori Ziganto (Diary)  |  April 7th at 06:00 PM  | 

According to the AP, after bravely running away from the impending Government shut-down Crisis ™, President Obama attended a townhall meeting in Pennsylvania. During the course of the rally townhall meeting, he had this to say in response to a father of ten children relaying that he could not afford to fill his gas tank: Obama says little short-term help for gas prices “Obama needled one | Read More »

Today in Washington – September 28, 2004

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  September 28th at 12:00 PM  | 

The House has 85 suspension votes scheduled for today.  The Senate will vote on whether to debate S. 3816, the so called “Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act.”  If that vote fails, as expected, then there will be a vote on cloture H.R. 3081, the underlying bill containing a continuing resolution.  The House and Senate must pass a continuing resolution by October 1st to keep the government running | Read More »

AP: Sharron Angle “is Anti-Anything Latino”

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  September 14th at 11:19 AM  | 

You know what would really shake things up for the Angle campaign? A little push-back against the Press that ends up with a solid hit on Harry Reid. In fact, if she could make this SOP with every little hit piece that comes along, I’d bet she’d see a leap in her numbers. For example, NR’s Jay Nordlinger’s eye recently fell on this gem of | Read More »

Tech at Night, er, Morning: Banning books, Net Neutrality, Free Press, NPR

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  September 7th at 07:59 AM  | 

Yes, I’m sorry. When I found out yesterday morning that it was Labor Day, I did shift gears and relax a bit. By the evening I was treating it like a weekend and forgot all about Monday’s Tech at Night. So we’re making it a Tuesday morning Tech in the Morning instead. Let’s get started with what happens when you let government regulate: they begin | Read More »

Rationing at the Food and Drug Administration

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 07:00 AM  | 

During the year long ObamaCare debate, there was a spirited debate of the proposition that ObamaCare would cause rationing by the federal government of services and drugs.  Government rationed health care services and drugs have evolved from rhetoric to reality.  On July 28th, Senator David Vitter (R-Louisiana) raised drug rationing concerns, because of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pending decision to take the cancer drug Avastin off the list of approved drugs for breast cancer.   This example | Read More »

This Week in Washington – July 19, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 19th at 11:00 AM  | 

Last week, WH Press Flack Robert Gibbs declared the House is lost and this week it was up to Vice President Joe Biden to bring a happy message to Democrats.  Biden declared his opinion yesterday on This Week.  “I don’t think the losses are going to be bad at all.  I think we are going to shock the heck out of everybody.”  AP reports: Vice President Joe | Read More »

Today in Washington – July 15, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 15th at 11:00 AM  | 

The White House spent yesterday crowing about how many jobs they “saved or created” at a time when they are managing an economy with almost 10% unemployment and destroying jobs in the Gulf of Mexico by banning drilling for 6 months.  The AP reports, “Obama has traveled the country telling voters that as bad as things are, they’d be worse without the stimulus. He acknowledges | Read More »

Today in Washington – May 19, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 19th at 11:00 AM  | 

Elites in Washington are looking over their shoulders today.  There is a new Scarlet Letter in America and it is the Scarlet Letter “I” for incumbent.  If you are a Senate candidate running for re-election or a member of the House, both Republican and Democrat, you are nervous that the people of America will kick you out of office because you are part of the problem.  Rand Paul, | Read More »