Debra Heine

The WWII Memorial is an open space that is funded almost entirely by private donations with almost no oversight from Park Police personnel, who as Mike Flynn notes, are exempted from the government shutdown, anyway.  There is no reason to block veterans from

In response to There’s nothing but crying in community organizing:  The people who want freedom from Big Government are apt to get visits from the NSA, FBI, and IRS if they talk about “fighting” to keep government from taking away

In response to Obama’s Charm Offensive On U.S. Military: Okay, I’ve got a thing or to to say about this… Obama: Unfortunately, Congress has not fulfilled its responsibility. It has failed to pass a budget and, as a result, much

In response to The cult of government: Even creepier than the cult of government is the cult of Obama as exemplified by a caller on CSPAN, today. Via Twitchy: C-Span caller: “It’s a sin” to dislike Obama. ~ #PersonalityCult —

The House GOP reworked the Continuing Resolution on Saturday to include a delay of the implementation of Obamacare for 12 months – a position that most of the public supports. Via Twitchy:  After the House Republican meeting, this afternoon, a

Cloture invoked 79-19 (60 vote threshold, there are 54 D, 46 R Senators) This was the vote that mattered because Harry Reid could only get the 60 votes he needed with Republican help.  25Rs joined 54Ds to end debate on

Uh oh…I think we have another case for the nation’s “chief civic decency officer” (as John Hayward calls him), Senator John McCain:  Senator Barbara Mikulski called in to Andrea Mitchell’s MSNBC show, today and wheezed “the reason Ted Cruz stood up and asked

The vote to invoke cloture on the CR passed as expected, moments ago with the final tally 79-19. 19: Vitter,Paul,Lee,Cruz,Crapo,Enzi,Fischer,Roberts,Scott,Heller,Grassley,Toomey,Moran, Rubio, Shelby,Risch,Inhofe, Portman, Sessions — Byron York (@ByronYork) September 27, 2013 NRSC’s leadership – chairman Jerry Moran and vice chair

HHS announced on Thursday more delays in implementing ObamaCare. Enrollment for small businesses and Spanish speakers have both been delayed. Via The Hill: Small businesses will not be able to buy health insurance through new online marketplaces when they launch

In response to Boehner Rejects Obama’s No-Negotiations Stance – Ties 1 Year ObamaCare Delay To Debt Ceiling Hike: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia broke ranks with fellow Democrats, today saying he’d support the Republican plan to delay the

In response to 61% Of Americans Disagree With Obama’s Refusal To Negotiate With Republicans: Speaker Boehner (and the American public) have rejected out of hand the president’s repeated assertions that he will not negotiate with Republicans. The Speaker telling reporters

In speech after speech in Washington DC and across the country, Obama (who it must be noted voted against a debt ceiling increase in 2006) has been making it clear to all with ears to listen, that he will not

Leftism explained in one word: Yes. RT @IngrahamAngle: People don’t have a lot of things including health care. Should the gov give everyone a home or maybe new shoes too? — Touré (@Toure) September 25, 2013

In response to Chris Matthews Admits: Cruz has 30%…Harry Reid Doesn’t Have 30% Behind Him: Harry Reid doesn’t need the American people behind him. He has The New York Times. NYT, 6/25/13, on Wendy Davis: ‘The Great Abortion Filibuster.’ NYT,

Some people really wear their hearts on their sleeves. One of those people is Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), who cares so much about the loyal opposition, he tweeted out this touching sentiment on Twitter, Tuesday night: I take no joy

It’s like this president lives in an alternate universe…. “Not only are premiums lower than they were, they’re lower than the most optimistic predictions.” –President Obama on Obamacare #CGI2013 — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 24, 2013 Obama optimistically predicted in

Ted Cruz has been staging a filibuster on the Senate floor since 2:41 this afternoon (livestreaming video here, live updates, here) with assists from Senators Lee and Vitter  (who was viciously attacked because of his amendment to end the exemption

Just last week, Nancy Pelosi was invoking her Catholic faith to attack Republicans on food stamp reform.  ” On the floor of the House the Republicans are trying to cut $40 billion, that’s 50 percent of the nutrition program –

The Senate is debating the motion to proceed to the Continuing Resolution passed by the House last week that will fund the federal government through December 15 and defund Obamacare. Senator Cruz wanted to filibuster the CR because of Majority

Senator Jeff Sessions, appearing on Breitbart News Sunday, yesterday with Steve Bannon, explained why he was supporting freshman upstarts Cruz, Lee, and Paul in their Defund ObamaCare effort. “Well, there’s division sometimes just over tactics like the healthcare bill and

In what Twitchy staff called “as predictable as the sun coming up in the east”, the president used the Navy Yard memorial service as a venue to push his gun control agenda. President Obama, addressing yet another memorial gathering after

In response to Peeling back the banana republic: ” No one in the media pins Obama down and asks him to contrast his “What, me worry?” attitude toward limitless debt today with the 180-degree-different rhetoric he was dishing out when

The Campaigner in Chief visited a Ford plant in Liberty, Missouri today to harangue Republicans about the need to raise the debt ceiling. “This is the United States of America – not some banana republic”, he said. “This is not