Czarina Elizabeth – it’s not just the confirmation end run we should worry about

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  September 18th at 07:06 AM  | 

Criticism of President Obama’s appointment of Elizabeth Warren to oversee the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – the Dodd-Frank Act’s contribution to growing the federal bureaucracy – has focused on Obama’s end-run around the Senate confirmation process.  By making Warren the White House czar for the CFPB instead of the agency’s director, Obama allows her to “effectively run the agency” (quoting the | Read More »

How to Structure a Political Economy

By: Congressman Tom Price (Diary)  |  June 29th at 09:57 AM  | 

The last few years of taxpayer-funded bailouts, backstops, and so-called “stimulus” spending have left Americans with a political economy in which Washington, not the market, decides where to allocate capital. Until now, Washington’s interventions have been put together in haphazard fashion – $300 billion here, $700 billion there, etc. But under the guise of “financial reform,” Democrats last Friday unveiled their plan to make this | Read More »

There’s Not Much Left To Take Over Now, Mr. President

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  June 25th at 03:51 PM  | 

If WaPo is to be believed, Obama’s takeover of the country is nearly complete… takeover of the private sector by the Federal Bureaucracy, that is. And it’s getting nearly impossible NOT to be cynical, a little bitter, and a LOT disgusted with the way things are going since Bambi took over the reigns from George W. (by God, YES George…we DO miss you) Bush. There’s | Read More »

This Stuff Is Not Supposed to Happen in America

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 24th at 05:00 AM  | 

“When it becomes fair game to attack and intimidate private citizens and their families to advance a public policy, we cross over from an orderly civil democracy to something decidedly third world.” I would like to be gloating this morning that Charles Djou is the newest congressman from Hawaii. This won’t get a lot of play probably, but it should. Djou won Barack Obama’s home | Read More »

The SEIU, the NPA & Organized, Premeditated Intimidation

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  May 19th at 04:45 PM  | 

Promoted from the diaries by Caleb. It wasn’t a secret.  They were planning it for weeks.  Their plans were to protest and intimidate.  And, protest and intimidate they did. They even brag about it on their website: A little rain didn’t stop thousands of people from gathering on K Street to call out the big bank lobbyists corrupting our democracy. After two days of confronting | Read More »