Liz Carter gets in, impresses candidate forum

By: Frederick (Diary)  |  June 3rd at 06:40 PM  | 

Liz Carter got her chance to appear at the Georgia 4th Congressional District candidate’s forum, after all.  Liz, one of four Republican candidates, had been told she could not attend the event (see earlier RedState coverage here).  A flood of calls, messages and tweets to Jim Welcome and Maynard Eaton, the event’s organizers, combined with bad press, convinced them to permit Carter into the forum. | Read More »

America Speaking Out: Your Voice Matters

By: Congressman Frank Lucas (Diary)  |  May 27th at 03:58 PM  | 

I am proud to join my Republican colleagues to announce the creation of America Speaking Out.  America Speaking Out is a project to create a new set of policies to generate real solutions for the problems our country is current facing – and it gives every American the opportunity to take part in the discussion of exactly how to do that. The Democratic leadership in | Read More »

Unprecedented: Calderon Slams US From House Floor. Receives Standing Ovation

By: Lori Ziganto (Diary)  |  May 20th at 06:35 PM  | 

Unprecedented, indeed. But, not surprising, given that our own President has done nothing but the same. I’m wondering if Calderon at least read the Arizona bill first, before demonizing an American state. That would actually be unprecedented, amongst our alleged leaders, at least. President Obama, for once, forewent bowing. Not to worry, though! The Democrats in Congress picked up his slack and went one further. | Read More »

‘Mad Ducks’ should refill their Zoloft prescriptions.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 6th at 09:25 AM  | 

Loathe as I am to link to Mickey Kaus* until after the California primary is over, the fact remains that I saw this Fred Barnes WSJ article via his site (H/T: Instapundit): Washington has never been held in lower esteem by Americans than it is today. Yet those in control of Washington—President Obama and congressional Democrats—are bent on enacting a series of sweeping domestic policy | Read More »

Dan Benishek: “Enough is Enough” Michigan’s 1st District

By: Representative Dr. Dan Benishek (Diary)  |  May 4th at 08:00 AM  | 

Leaving Behind 18 Years of Democratic Representation This past weekend, Americans For Prosperity sponsored the “Defending the American Dream” Summit.  Hearing Sarah Palin, the keynote speaker for Conservatism, was of course the highlight.  It was a wonderful opportunity to be there, listen and participate in an event which is part of a broad effort to take back our country. As I listened to the words | Read More »

Pelosi Spends Hundreds of Thousands on Travel, Alcohol

By: James Richardson (Diary)  |  February 3rd at 12:20 PM  | 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has squandered over $101,000 tax dollars on “in-flight services” on congressional delegations since 2008, according to new documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch. Expenditures on Pelosi-led CODELs, the group’s report shows, include thousands for liquor, beer and wine. Receipts show purchase of Johnny Walker, Grey Goose, Beefeater, Maker’s Mark, Courvoisier, Dewars, Bombay | Read More »

Congress is Taxation Without Representation

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  July 20th at 04:59 AM  | 

We are speeding headlong toward a time when our Congress will have become just like Mad King George’s Parliament, that body from which in 1776 the American colonists separated with the rallying cry of “no taxation without representation.” Our national government is fast becoming just as unrepresentative of the people as far off Briton was when we went to war to become the United States | Read More »

Maxine Waters (D-CA) Insists on a Monument to Herself

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  June 15th at 04:03 PM  | 

An incredibly arrogant, venal and stupid move from an incredibly arrogant, venal, and stupid Member of Congress: A plan by House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) to ban “monuments to me” in this year’s appropriations bills has been sharply criticized behind closed doors by a senior Democrat who wants to direct $1 million to an employment center in her district bearing her name. Rep. Maxine | Read More »

Senate Budget Bill held up in Congress, delayed until Monday.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 6th at 07:31 AM  | 

Repeat: “may.” Congress has an impressive talent at somehow managing to find new and exciting ways to spend your money. Senate bogs down over $410 billion spending bill WASHINGTON – The Senate, tied up in a fight over a huge omnibus appropriations bill, will have to pass a stopgap spending measure Friday in order to avoid a partial government shutdown. [snip] The huge, 1,132-page spending | Read More »

It’s time for a broadside on SCHIP

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 14th at 01:47 PM  | 

Congress is currently debating legislation that would force Americans to pay billions of dollars to take an unpopular taxpayer-funded program for poor children and expand it so that non-poor, non-children will be granted access to benefits. The program is the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a taxpayer-funded health coverage program that provides federal dollars to states in an effort to give children in working | Read More »