The Last Time We Were Really Anti-Free Trade? The Great Depression

By: Seton Motley (Diary)  |  February 20th at 10:06 AM  | 

The cinematic classic “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” made the broader public aware of the greatness that is Ben Stein.  Already a lawyer and speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Stein was cast as the atonal Economics teacher droning his students into stupor. Stein was asked to improvise on camera a lecture.  He chose to in part address one of the fundamental contributors to | Read More »

The GOP establishment just doesn’t care anymore

By: stridentconservative (Diary)  |  February 13th at 12:49 AM  | 

Several key moves by the “leadership” of the Republican Party over the past few weeks have made one thing abundantly clear; even to the casual observer, they just don’t care anymore about the issues important to the Conservative base of the party. They are just going to bide their time, raise their money, and try to buy their re-elections in November. It began with the | Read More »

Obama & Congress Your Bags are Packed

By: littletboca (Diary)  |  February 10th at 12:13 PM  | 

It’s time to write a letter to “Congress” and discuss their reckless spending and their reluctance to be good stewards of our money. Obama and Congress have lost our trust – we actually are beginning to realize that they in fact are our enemy. OBAMA & CONGRESS YOUR BAGS ARE PACKED! “We need to relay the message in plain English don’t spend more than you | Read More »

In Which Congressman Lankford Proves Our Point

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  January 20th at 09:20 PM  | 

Earlier today, Congressman James Lankford announced his candidacy to replace Senator Coburn in Oklahoma.  Groups like Senate Conservatives’ Fund and Madison Project (my day-job employer) pointed out that Lankford has gone along with the establishment leadership in the House on a number of critical votes and that he’d offer more of the same in the Senate.  They called on Congressman Jim Bridenstine to get in | Read More »

Obama Kicks “Redistribution” into High Gear

By: littletboca (Diary)  |  January 20th at 10:38 AM  | 

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ― | Read More »

Obama delays the budget process yet again

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  January 7th at 01:30 PM  | 

A new report from Congressional Quarterly suggests that ObamaCare isn’t the only item being delayed in the White House these days. Apparently the official White House budget proposal, which is required by law to be submitted to Congress no later than the first Monday of February, is on track to be “at least a month behind” schedule: From the CQ Morning Briefing: WHITE HOUSE BUDGET DELAYED: The | Read More »

New Year Opens With Big Spending Bang

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  January 2nd at 01:14 PM  | 

Congress plans to kick off the new legislative session the same way it ended the last one.  They will continue to spend more money. When Congress voted on the Ryan-Murray budget deal before adjourning for Christmas, members were only signing off on the topline discretionary spending figures, not the individual accounts for all the departments and agencies.  They agreed to repeal part of the sequester | Read More »

Putting 2013 in Perspective

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  December 19th at 03:59 PM  | 

2013 has been a rough year for conservatives. This year began with the passage of the $620 billion tax hike, along with $332 billion in stimulus spending.  It ended with Republicans in both houses helping pass a bill that raises taxes, raises spending, makes it easier to raise taxes in the future, destroys our leverage for two years, screws disabled veterans, and paves the road | Read More »

Ryan-Murray and the Fundamental Lack of Seriousness in Washington

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  December 19th at 04:30 AM  | 

Yesterday, Republicans in the Senate blamed Harry Reid for cutting veterans’ pensions. But the House of Representatives passed the legislation first. The GOP could have fixed it there had Speaker Boehner spent more time reading his legislation than attacking conservatives. Once passed, the House of Representatives headed home for Christmas. Had Harry Reid let the amendment through on Ryan-Murray, the Senate would have had to | Read More »

Hope Yes, Vote No is Not a Winning Equation

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  December 16th at 10:02 AM  | 

Despite the fact that the Ryan-Murray budget deal passed the House with overwhelming support, it was not a slam dunk in the Senate as of late last week.  Without Paul Ryan’s strong influence, individual GOP senators were leery of the deal.  Even the defense hawks view this deal as ‘too little too late.’ The Senate whip count began with only one Republican – John McCain | Read More »

Encouraging News for Tea Party – GOP Worried About Money

By: dhancock (Diary)  |  December 16th at 10:00 AM  | 

A story this morning in the Wall Street Journal offers encouraging news for those looking to challenge the ruling class in Washington. In an article titled “GOP Incumbents Lean on Donors,” Dion Nissenbaum of the Wall Street Journal indicates that established Republicans are expressing concerns about primary threats, fearful that they may not have the money to fight them off.  The author quotes a source | Read More »

We’re Back to the “Next Fight”

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  December 15th at 11:38 AM  | 

The past three years of GOP control in the House have been marked by the rallying cry of fighting “the next time.”  With every budget deadline comes a degree of leverage from which Republicans can extract concessions on reducing the size of government.  Yet with every budget battle, House leadership shirks from the fight and blithely points to the next battle – the debt ceiling | Read More »

The Broken GOP House

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  December 12th at 06:42 PM  | 

We’ve noted many times that the GOP Senate Conference is rotten to the core, as Harry Reid can count on a supermajority at any given time to pass liberal legislation.  Many of us thought that the House was significantly better, although far from perfect.  Sadly, the GOP-controlled House adjourned the 2013 session with a bust. Ever since the details of the budget detail were released, | Read More »

This Must Be Stopped

By: rightappeal (Diary)  |  December 11th at 12:22 AM  | 

The Ryan-Murray deal is a horrific blow to fiscal sanity because it discards the hard won ceiling on government spending enforced by the sequester. If this deal passes, it will be much harder to resist new rounds of spending increases, and much more difficult to force Dems to accept cuts in some programs in order to save others. It gives up one of our best | Read More »

A Washington Budget Deal: Republican Style

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  December 10th at 08:01 PM  | 

Earlier today, Democrats utilized the nuclear option for the first time.  They pushed through the nomination of Mel Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).  Now, one of the biggest supporters of affordable housing mandates will guard the hen house at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Additionally, Democrats pushed through the nomination of two more liberal judges to serve on the D.C. Circuit | Read More »