The GOP Sugar-Daddy

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  November 28th at 11:45 AM  | 

The General Accounting Office estimated that domestic sugar producers reaped about $1 billion in 1998 as are result of this policy. However, 42 percent of the total benefits to sugarcane and sugar beet growers went to just one percent of all producers; indeed, just seventeen sugarcane farms collected over half of all the cane growers’ benefits.

(HT: Café Hayek.com)

So let’s say someone on your Christmas List is lucky and up there in The Iniquitous 1%™. Let’s furthermore assume that She/He/IT cares about the 99%™ almost as much as Senator Warren and Ward Churchill bleed Indian Red, but not quite. What do you get the ruthless, plutocratic (expletive) that has everything for Christmas? The answer is obvious. !More Government!

Here’s how Proud Republican Congressman Tom Rooney helps fill the stocking of Amerikan Agri-OPEC.

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Our Lord And Savior Emperor Barack I

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  November 26th at 12:30 PM  | 

In the Potemkin world of Hollywood, President Barack Obama is held in a level of esteem that good men of ages past would have deemed utterly blasphemous. Jamie Foxx describes him as “Our Lord and Savior.” His political enemies are demonized and ridiculed. “Mitches” don’t really believe anything and are basically all just racist. But to truly see how Emperor Barack I’s act plays, it helps to see how his fellow world-leaders view our own almighty Nobel Peace Prize Winner.

We saw this in Blu-Ray as our Glorious Lightworker went east to conduct his post-election victory tour. It didn’t quite work out as well as he would have hoped. Amerika’s recently reelected Dominus et Deus, Barack H. Obama I, decided he would inaugurate a Trans-Pacific Partnership that would draw South-East Asia closer to the US and further from Communist China. It was almost like we were going back to Vietnam to win more hearts and minds.

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Obama’s Debt Outsourcing American Sovereignty, Distorting Trade

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  August 20th at 10:45 AM  | 

Any day now we will breach the $16 trillion debt mark.  Thank you Obama and the Democrats for mortgaging off the future of our children.  You won’t be around in 50 years to bail them out like you did your crony money-bundlers at GM and the UAW. One of the important components of our federal debt in the share of debt owned by foreign countries.  | Read More »

Reid Wants to Attach Export-Import Bank Provision to Bipartisan Jobs Bill

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  March 14th at 09:04 PM  | 

Last week, the House passed a slam-dunk jobs bill (H.R. 3606) 390-23.  The bill reduces red tape, securities regulations, and reporting requirements on small companies that desire to go public.  It also eliminated some of the new regulations implemented under Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley on companies that generate less than $1 billion in annual revenue.  With all the unctuous complaints about partisanship, one would expect the Senate | Read More »

Court Ruling Throws a Wrench in US – China Trade Relations

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  January 31st at 10:00 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Scott Lincicome to discuss a court ruling impacting the Obama administration’s US-China trade practices, how this will impact the American marketplace, and how the Senate may come to the rescue. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. | Read More »

Republicans Should Stop Reauthorizing Stuff they Denounced

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  September 19th at 12:16 PM  | 

There is an old adage that defines insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.”  What’s worse than insanity is hypocritical insanity, which may be defined as doing the same thing that your opponent did over and over again, while expecting different results.  Unfortunately, that is an apt description of the House GOP leadership of late. During the 2010 | Read More »

GOP Must Hold the Line Against Obama’s ATM Politics With Free Trade

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  August 16th at 12:56 PM  | 

As Obama travels through America’s heartland on his teleprompter tours bus, he is touting a new plan to create jobs.  While he has offered few specifics thus far, Obama is calling for the ratification of the free trade agreements (FTAs) with Columbia, Panama, and South Korea as vehicles for job creation.  The rest of his jobs (killing) plan will be released at some later date, | Read More »

Say No to Baucus Trade Deal

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 29th at 10:47 AM  | 

While Obama has spent the past two years pandering to leftist dictators in Latin America, he has also impeded ratification of free trade agreements with our allies.  Along with Democrat leaders in Congress, Obama has refused to approve the 5-year-old trade pacts with Columbia, Panama, and South Korea unless Republicans agree to renew a trade subsidy program known as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA).  Yesterday, Senator | Read More »

More Residual Effects of Obama’s Anti-Oil Policies

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 11th at 02:26 PM  | 

Obama’s oil free utopia is precipitating yet more mayhem on our economy.  Today, two major news stories concerning our lack of oil production highlight just how profoundly oil affects our economy. The first story concerns the Trans Alaska Pipeline.  The pipeline employs 2,000 workers and delivers 11% of our domestically produced oil to the other states.  During its early years, when we weren’t impounding the | Read More »

Tech at Night: AT&T, T-Mobile, Unions, FCC

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  March 21st at 11:30 PM  | 

So, read any good Tech posts lately? OK, I couldn’t think of a better way than that tonight to introduce a pair of RedState posts on the top story of the moment: AT&T’s announced plans to acquire T-Mobile USA from the Germans. It seems that there are two major conservative perspectives on this deal. One was described by LaborUnionReport on Sunday: if the non-union T-Mobile | Read More »

Tech at Night: Al Franken, Free Press, Trade, California

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  August 20th at 11:30 PM  | 

How do you know when the Net Neutrality proposals of the neo-Marxist group Free Press are really out there? When the 31337* Al Franken is building his mailing list off of promoting the radical fringe’s version of the Net Neutrality agenda, you know you’re off in loony land. Reading his poorly thought out rhetoric gives the same effect. He claims that we need massive government | Read More »