Charting a Path To Reauthorizing Free Markets and Ending Statism

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 17th at 12:44 PM  | 

When it comes to free-market fiscal policy, Republicans are always manufacturing excuses to exempt themselves from their own doctrine on numerous issues.  There are always excuses why specific industries must be recipients of government interventions.  They say that exporters cannot function without the Ex-Im Bank; farmers cannot subsist without government welfare despite record high prices; the financial markets cannot survive without bailouts.  The latest exception | Read More »

Republicans Already Showing Weakness on Keystone Pipeline

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 16th at 04:00 PM  | 

Well, that didn’t take long.  Just one week into the conference committee on the highway bill, Republicans are showing signs of caving on their insistence that the Keystone pipeline be approved as part of the deal. Throughout the past few months, we have been chronicling how Republicans have been apathetic to the underlying vices of the highway bill (S. 1813).  They basically told the Democrats | Read More »

It’s Deja Vu All Over Again With Debt Ceiling Fight

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 15th at 04:00 PM  | 

“ Once the Democrats know that the debt ceiling will invariably be raised, they have no incentive to play ball. The end result will be another raw deal that is worse than doing nothing.” There is much hullabaloo in the media about John Boehner’s shot across the bow in the upcoming battle over the debt ceiling this fall.  Specifically, Boehner warned that he “will again | Read More »

It’s Time to Dump Upton for Jack Hoogendyk in MI-6

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 15th at 07:56 AM  | 

It’s hard to think of a more liberal Republican that occupies a more consequential position in Congress than Fred Upton.  It’s not just the fact that the Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the most powerful House panels, is a big supporter of green energy.  It’s not just the fact that this same man was the Thomas Edison of the incandescent light | Read More »

GOP Leaders: “Let’s Just Get Something Done”

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 13th at 10:29 PM  | 

Over the past few weeks, we’ve observed the Republican form of bipartisanship on display, particularly, with regard to Cantor’s deal to extend the Export-Import Bank.  Democrats wanted the extension with a 40% increase in the lending cap, GOP leadership wanted a 13% increase, while conservatives wanted to wind it down.  The grand bipartisan deal was finally forged, and the House voted to increase the lending | Read More »

End Corporate Welfare: Tell Congress to Reject the Export-Import Bank Reauthorization

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 9th at 12:30 PM  | 

Update: Only 93 Republicans voted against Ex-Im. Here is a video illustration from Heritage Action of what is wrong with the Ex-Im Bank.  The House will be voting on the bill under suspension at 2 PM.  Call your members now Watching the House debate on CSpan, you’ll see that the problem in Washington is that there is not enough partisanship, not too much.

Vote Down the Export-Import Bank

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 9th at 08:30 AM  | 

We had an opportunity to draw a sharp contrast with Democrats over the all important issues of crony capitalism and market distortions simply by doing nothing.  How so?  Well, the Export-Import Bank reauthorization deadline is May 31.  By simply abstaining from the reauthorization – something that can be done with control of just one-half of one-third of government – this bastion of corporate welfare would | Read More »

Victory in NC and IN, But There’s More to Do

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 8th at 11:19 PM  | 

The big news of the night is that Richard Mourdock absolutely eviscerated John Kerry and Vladimir Putin’s favorite Republican 60-40%, an unprecedented feat going up against a 35-year incumbent.  On the other hand, it’s not surprising, and yet, it serves as a potent lesson for the Tea Party going forward. Richard Mourdock wasn’t always this inexorable juggernaut.  He was way behind in the polls for | Read More »

Legislative Alert: Abolish the Economic Development Administration

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 8th at 03:30 PM  | 

Today, the House began debate on the first of the 12 annual appropriations bills; the Commerce, Justice, and Science bill (H.R. 5326).  So far, Republican leaders have agreed to abide by their pledge to bring these bills to the floor under an open rule.  This allows conservative members to offer amendments to cut more spending and eliminate wasteful and unconstitutional programs.  It’s the votes on | Read More »

The Cycle of Capitulation Continues

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 7th at 03:00 PM  | 

In the past, we have chronicled the cycle of capitulation that is so emblematic of Republicans in the 112th Congress.  It goes like this: Democrats propose some odious and profligate legislative idea or budget bill and call for tax hikes as “pay-fors.”.  Conservatives advocate that we uproot the entire premise of the destructive legislation by drawing a line in the sand on the principles that | Read More »

Ron Gould for Congress in AZ-4

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 2nd at 03:30 PM  | 

Editor’s note: This is the next endorsement on behalf of The Madison Project PAC in a continuing series of conservative endorsements for the 2012 congressional elections. Over the past year, we have learned the hard way that not all freshmen House members turned out to be the Tea Party champions that they claimed to be.  Many of them cast their lot with leadership, eschewing all | Read More »

Some GOP House Members Beg Leadership for Ex-Im Bank Extension

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 30th at 10:54 AM  | 

Undoubtedly, as we pursue a limited government agenda, we face an arduous task in reducing personal dependency on government.  Democrats have successfully created a scheme where almost half the population pays no income taxes, while 40% receive something from the government.  Their relentless demagoguery makes it difficult to wean people off welfare and entitlement programs.  However, there is a lower hanging fruit in the statist | Read More »

Eric Cantor Tries to Stop Stalwart Scott Keadle in NC-8

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 27th at 10:40 AM  | 

This has been a tough week for conservatives in Washington.  Republicans in both houses are caving on the postal bailout, highway bill, appropriations, Ex-Im Bank, Violence Against Women Act, and the student loan bailout.  It’s not going to get easier when they come back from recess in May.  This is why we need game-changers like Scott Keadle in Congress.  Keadle is running in NC-8, the | Read More »

Mark Meadows for Congress in NC-11

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 16th at 01:01 PM  | 

Editor’s note: This is the next endorsement on behalf of The Madison Project PAC in a continuing series of conservative endorsements for the 2012 congressional elections. Earlier this year, Heath Schuler decided that masquerading as a conservative Democrat in the era of Obama and Pelosi had become too cumbersome, and summarily announced his retirement.  This western North Carolina district has become even more Republican after | Read More »

Question for GOP Leaders: How long halt ye between two opinions?

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 12th at 06:34 AM  | 

As Republicans, we have ridiculed Obama’s stimulus, bailouts, picking winners and losers, crony capitalism, Keynesian economics, European-style socialism, and Solyndra-style loans.  Yet, there might only be 50 Republicans in the House who are willing to block a GOP effort to reauthorize a New-Deal policy that represents all of the aforementioned vices. Roll Call is reporting that Eric Cantor is negotiating with Steny Hoyer in an | Read More »