Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) expressed deep disappointment in Majority Leader Harry Reid for breaking his promise never to use the nuclear option in a statement following today’s vote. He also made note that the measure will allow shameless Democrats to
Amid the news of Sen. Harry Reid pushing through the so-called “nuclear option” that prevents filibusters for certain nominations–and President Obama’s statement supporting the new measures–the folks at the C-SPAN Video Library dug up an old clip of then-Senator Obama warning
On April 13, 2005, then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) stood up on the Senate floor to oppose efforts to invoke the so-called “nuclear option”–the same strategy that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid implemented on Thursday. “Mr. President, I rise today to
Richard Dreyfuss, Oscar winner, bipolar sufferer and grizzled political philosopher, appeared on Piers Morgan Live on Tuesday and sniveled that if the GOP doesn’t help the helpless Obama Administration fix ObamaCare, then they “should anticipate having the sick and the
Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis (R-FL), continues to push forward his pro-Constitution agenda of legislating, as he introduced a bill that would challenge President Obama’s Executive Orders on healthcare. In the video clip below, Fox News dug up a 2008
The federal government shutdown was rated by most observers as a disaster for Republicans. Yet the failure of Obamacare has sent Democrats into a panic, and should prompt a re-evaluation of the October fight. There is no doubt that Democrats
In my last post, “Washington & Wall Street: So Why Can’t We Prosecute the Banksters?,” we started to get into some of the historical antecedents of financial regulation. In this post let’s take the analysis a bit further and start
President Obama admitted to business executives in a speech on Tuesday his administration will need to “rebrand and re-market” the Affordable Care Act. Speaking at a forum sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, he confessed that he “underestimated the complexities”
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Census subcommittee chairman Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX), and Joint Economic Committee chairman Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent a letter to U.S. Census Bureau director John H. Thompson seeking
The disastrous roll-out of ObamaCare is exerting a profound gravitational pull on the nation’s political climate. Obama’s approval ratings are reaching the lowest point of his presidency. The short-term advantage Democrats enjoyed over Republicans in the wake of the government
Chicago Tribute: President Barack Obama said a piecemeal approach to achieving a U.S. immigration overhaul in the U.S. Congress is acceptable to him if it is easier than gaining passage of one large legislative bill. At a Wall Street Journal
An English professor for the taxpayer-subsidized Langston University, a historically black college in Oklahoma, took to social media Tuesday to deride congressional Republicans, specifically Rep. Tim Griffin (R-AR), for their efforts to expose the flaws of Obamacare amid its disastrous
Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL), a freshman congressman, was arrested on Oct. 29 in Washington, D.C., and charged with cocaine possession, Politico reported Tuesday. Radel was charged with cocaine possession on Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court, pursuant to the arrest a
One of these days, our bumbling Administration is going to get sued for big bucks by identity theft or credit-card fraud victims who got robbed after they were forced to use a crapware website the government knows is unsafe and
A pro-gun control video game posted at various online sites has players shoot children and teachers, then asks them to contact Congress and demand more gun control. According to National Review Online, the game is called The Slaying of Sandy
On Tuesday, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents the world’s most advanced economies, advised the U.S. to eliminate the debt ceiling, warning that repeated crises over the debt limit threatened the global economy. Instead, the OECD suggests,
President Barack Obama will attempt to convince Senators from both parties today that Congress should not slap new sanctions on Iran for failing to halt nuclear enrichment. But there are many reasons to reject the president’s request, especially the fact,
During the hearings last week regarding the nomination of Fed Vice Chairman Janet Yellen, the one thing you definitely heard nothing about was why the US government has not pursued fraud prosecutions against the officers and directors of the major
(AP) 3 wounded in bomb blast in Nepal election violenceBy BINAJ GURUBACHARYAAssociated PressKATMANDU, NepalA makeshift bomb exploded outside a polling station in Nepal’s capital Tuesday, as sporadic violence cast a pall over national elections aimed at ending years of political
The Pentagon and various members of Congress stand united against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) push for a vote to move sexual assault cases outside the military chain of command. Gillibrand’s proposal would “strip commanders of their authority to prosecute cases
The expansion of the federal government and the complexity of federal regulations and laws have made Washington, D.C. the nation’s foremost “Boomtown” with the most so-called “one-percenters.” The Washington Post describes what Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and Government Accountability Institute President
When former Obama adviser and campaign manager David Plouffe said on Sunday that running against Obamacare would be an “impossibility” for Republicans, his reasoning seemed dubious. By the fall of 2014, Plouffe insisted, “millions of people will be signed up,”
Last week, a portion of a treaty the White House has been secretly negotiating was leaked and became public. Wikileaks published an August draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Treaty, and the details are nothing short of unbelievable. The draft of the TPP
On Oct. 14, Breitbart News recalled that Congress once repealed Ronald Reagan’s “signature” health law. The article was inspired by the spurious arguments then being made by Democrats that President Barack Obama could not accept any changes to his own
David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s adviser and former campaign manager, told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ This Week Sunday Morning that it would be an “impossibility” for the Republican Party to run against Obamacare in the 2014 midterm election because
