On a historic night this past Thursday, a new Tea Party Republican Congress completely transformed U.S. economic policy. Elections matter, and so do their ideas. Smaller government, low taxes, and less spending were key election themes in the Republican landslide.
From AFP: The US Senate on Saturday blocked a White House-backed bill to offer a path to citizenship to young undocumented immigrants who attend college or enroll in the military. Lawmakers voted 55-41, largely along party lines, to end debate
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was a no-show.
We may just get a Defense Authorization bill out of this lame duck Congress, the question is whether that is a good thing. There is a bill in the Senate right now that has had many of the controversial measures
Next week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is anticipated to try to push through net neutrality regulations in the course of its December 21 meeting. But as a letter released this week by thirty Republican senators makes clear, key members
Sen. Mark Kirk told the Don and Roma Show that Harry Reid is now trying to close Gitmo during the lame-duck session.
The United States Senate is poised to take one of the most fateful votes in its history. It is expected – perhaps as early as tomorrow – to decide whether to impose the radical homosexual agenda on America’s armed forces.
There’s a lot of attention being paid to yesterday’s landslide vote in the House to prevent a big tax increase next year. If you’re a glass-half-full optimist, you will be celebrating the good news for taxpayers. If you’re a glass-half
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announced yesterday that it would ration the late-stage cancer drug Avastin for breast cancer patients. (Ironically, the same day, the EU announced it would not ration access to Avastin.) The reaction to the FDA’s
The following comes from the Traditional Values Coalition: “Traditional Values Coalition Executive Director Andrea Lafferty issued the following statement regarding the Omnibus Spending Bill’s $8 million earmark for a shrine to the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). ‘Just when Americans
“There is nothing short of a naked abuse of power underway at the moment as members of the House and Senate who have been repudiated at the poles hijack the will of the American people. – Frank Gaffney Get wise
Americans can tell when we are being lied to. We’re being lied to when Harry Reid tells us that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia is a bit of unfinished business that the Senate must ratify because it’s
A sign of desperation, or further evidence that Joe Biden continues to suffer from logic deficiencies? Remember, Biden supports START. From Foreign Policy: “Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry (D-MA), in a press conference today, said that Vice President
No, this is not a joke. The Mother of All Earmarks… Liberal Representative Emanuel Cleaver has proposed a whopping $48 BILLION EARMARK that would redistribute wealth to the inner cities. Rep. CLeaver will lead the Congressional Black Caucus next year.
At Claremont McKenna, America’s best conservative liberal arts college, President Pamela Gann’s administration still hasn’t issued a statement on the views of Bassam Frangieh, its Hezbollah-and-Hamas-supporting Middle East Studies director, despite repeated requests from alumni, students, and faculty. With his
I am very excited to announce this news… Ambassador, Proven Republican Leader, Visionary, and “West Point Mom” — Ann Wagner is running for RNC Chair. Ann Wagner stands with the troops. Who is Ann Wagner? Ann Wagner, former co-chair of
From the Associated Press: The Senate Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a sweeping tax package that would save millions of Americans thousands of dollars in higher taxes while also reducing their Social Security taxes and extending jobless benefits. President Barack Obama swiftly
Evidently, at least one member of Congress thinks that $500,000 of your tax dollars is appropriate to construct a fish passage barrier for salmon in Alaska. Although the Republican conference in both the House and Senate has sworn off earmarks,
When can you call the most powerful person in the world a victim of those conniving right-wing radicals in the US Senate? When you’re Chris Matthews and you have your own little silly Sunday show, you can. Watch the video,
A formidable array of current and former leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives, together with top nuclear weapons and arms control experts, came together yesterday to oppose President Obama’s New START Treaty and his insistence that it be
From Stuart Rothenburg in Roll Call: On one level, it’s entirely reasonable for liberal Democrats to oppose the [tax cut extension] compromise. Those Democrats have different priorities and values than Republicans, and many of them represent very liberal constituents who
It’s been obvious for a long while that Democrats have little appreciation of the power of incentives and disincentives when it comes to setting marginal tax rates. Democrats refuse to acknowledge, for example, that raising marginal tax rates sends powerful
From Mike Allen at Politico: Norm Coleman — former U.S. senator from Minnesota and the current chief executive officer of the American Action Network and Forum, a key outside GOP group — is likely to enter the race for Republican
The announcement of election results favoring the party of president Rene Preval has given the appearance of a stolen election in Haiti and triggered several days of violence, according to the Montreal Gazette. From 2004 – Poor neighborhood in Haiti
The programmes of the “Two Minutes Hate” varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity. All subsequent crimes against
