Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) may cause a government shutdown. Senator Reid is employing a procedural strategy to deal with the House-passed long-term Continuing Resolution (CR), H.R. 1, that may make it more likely that the federal government will shut down when the government runs out of money on March 18. Remember this when we get closer to March 18 and both parties blame | Read More »
The House has 24 suspension votes scheduled for Thursday and a possible vote on the Senate Amendment to H.R. 5297 - the TARP, Jr. Act. A vote on TARP, Jr. has been postponed a few times. The Senate will vote on S.J. Res. 30, a resolution of disapproval dealing with the National Mediation Board sponsored by Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA). The Senate will then conduct a a vote on S. 3628, the unconstitutional DISCLOSE | Read More »
Thank you Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) for issuing the report, Summertime Blues. I have been laughing for one whole day after reading some of the project that President Obama considers “stimulus.” One needs to ask the ever smug Paul Krugman over at the New York Times to explain how $144,541 of your tax dollars spent to study how “monkeys react under the influence | Read More »
Many liberals are fleeing President Obama. Gallup has the President at 45% approval and 47% disapproval for a -2% gap today. In a story titled “Democrats Scatter Monday as Obama Comes to Town,” on the NBC affiliate for Atlanta, GA, further evidence is provided of this emerging phenomena: If you think this will be a time for Democrats running for office to rally around the chief executive- -you probably | Read More »
So much for President Obama’s promises of economic stimulus. The New York Times reports that moments after the President signed a new law to expand regulation over the financial sector, one business group complained that the new law will discourage job growth. The Business Roundtable complained in a statement that the law “takes our country in the wrong direction” and may discourage investment and job growth, echoing | Read More »
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 »
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 »
Clearly, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court Elena Kagan does not believe in a limited federal government. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) asked her whether the federal government has the power to tell Americans that they have to eat “three vegetables and three fruits every day.” Kagan declined to use that question as an opportunity to state that the federal government has limited powers and used the question as | Read More »
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