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America wants adults in Congress — instead, we have Harry Reid

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

In January 2011, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) declared that Social Security is in fine shape. A few days past 18 months later, and with disturbing new information about the truly bleak future of Social Security, Reid has not publicly adjusted his statement, nor do I expect he plans to. This is not the […]

Obama & His Donors

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

On Thursday, the Romney campaign announced that it had raised over $100 million in June, between the campaign, the Romney PAC, and the Republican National Committee. On Monday came news that the President, for the second month in a row, has been outraised by Romney quite handily — and Romney’s campaign had over 500,000 donors […]

The President’s nifty new tax proposal just stinks — politically and mathematically

Posted on July 9, 2012July 9, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

Today, according to Fox News, the President will make a speech that includes a proposal to raise taxes on those making more than $250,000 per year. Fox says Obama will make the pitch on the grounds of “tax fairness.” While the effect of this tax warfare strategy for the President during the rest of his […]

Is the individual mandate a penalty or a tax? Washington doesn’t seem to know

Posted on July 7, 2012July 7, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

Since the Supreme Court ruled the individual mandate is a tax, the various Washington-based interests have pulled out all of the political stops in order to convince the American people that it’s a tax, unless it’s a penalty, in which case it’s a fine. Want to know for certain? Ask the 2009 version of President […]

Bipartisanship & Big Government Buddies

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

On June 13, Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow in Labor Policy James Sherk released a paper analyzing how the Obama Administration’s auto bailout could have cost the taxpayer nothing in the long run if the United Auto Workers (UAW) had received normal bankruptcy treatment. Instead, they were provided special treatment which violated numerous aspects of traditional […]

Senator Rand Paul: Bringing Sanity to Congress’ Voting Process

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

Last week, Congress passed a flawed transportation/flood insurance/student loan bill that became law soon thereafter. The bill’s issues, which I outlined at the above link, include the following: The conference report combined three unrelated bills into one, a too-common practice on Capitol Hill to offset costs and garner votes by putting “must-pass” legislation around bills […]

The House, Senate, and the Transportation Bill

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

Today, the House and Senate are set to vote on the conference version of the transportation bill. With a transportation cost of $120 billion, and a total cost of $271, it’s far lower in spending than what liberals want for a bill that funds until the end of Fiscal Year 2014, and far more than […]

The Supreme Court, the Mandate, and “Taxes”

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

In light of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA), conservatives have by and large been apoplectic. A picture with Chief Justice Roberts above the word “traitor” has made its way around Facebook, his Catholic faith has been called into question, and Mitt Romney’s campaign says 42,000 donations […]

Interview with Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) on energy reform and the Supreme Court’s PPACA decision

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) is a first-term Senator from North Dakota. Formerly governor of North Dakota for ten years, he is one of the Senate’s most avid supporters of a reformed, “all of the above” energy strategy for America. He sat down with me this morning to discuss a variety of aspects of energy policy […]

Random Thoughts Related to the PPACA & Tomorrow’s SCOTUS Decision(s)

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

With the Supreme Court deciding tomorrow on the constitutionality of parts and the whole of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the political world is switching from tense to excited to nervous on what seems to be an hourly basis. The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein is not-so-subtly undermining the legitimacy of overturning the […]

More of the Same…With a Twist

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

In last year’s Budget Control Act, $2.1 trillion in deficit reduction policies over a ten-year period were enacted. Rather than a serious, substantive attempt to at least reduce America’s enormous deficits, the Act took a hodgepodge of bad policies and put them into place. Then Congress took this hodgepodge and made each policy’s impact so […]

Rep. Charlie Rangel’s (D-NY) Last Hurrah?

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

This morning, Politico took a look at the race of longtime Representative Charlie Rangel (D-NY). Rangel, who has suffered from poor health and according to the article spent three months away from the House at one point this year, is running against three opponents whose combined efforts could very well prevent him from having a […]

Sequestration, thermonuclear war, and the F-35 engine: an interview with SLD Forum’s Ed Timperlake

Posted on June 22, 2012June 22, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

Ed Timperlake is the Former Principal Director of Mobilization Planning and Requirements for President Ronald Reagan and a former Marine fighter pilot. He is currently the editor of SLD Forum, a website dedicated to a robust discussion of national security issues. We sat down earlier this week to discuss a myriad of pressing national security […]

The RAISE Act Debate Shows the Desperation of Unions & Their Allies

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

In recent weeks unions have been making major national news. First it was the failed Wisconsin recall. Next it was micro-unions, which have D.C.-based business interests very concerned about gerrymandering within individual businesses that could end up causing many businesses, including retail and grocery stores, a great deal of financial harm. Most recently, though, it […]

Interview with RSC Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH)

Posted on June 20, 2012June 20, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is the Chair of the Republican Study Committee (RSC). Otherwise known as the reason the Speaker Boehner is having a tough time corralling his Members on tough spending votes (nearly three-quarters of the House Republican Conference is in the RSC), the RSC has been a force in moving the Republican Party […]

Rare Kudos to the New York Times

Posted on June 19, 2012June 19, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

On Sunday, the New York Times published an editorial about the “fiscal cliff” pundits and politicians are concerned will hit the nation on January 1, 2013. Consisting of spending cuts and tax increases, the “cliff” is based upon the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) expectations that the nation will be put back into recession if the […]

Call the President’s Bluff, Part 2

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

This morning The Hill reported that seven Senate Democrats are opposed to ending the Bush tax policies on anyone, even the wealthy, without a deficit deal along the lines of Simpson-Bowles. This puts the President in quite a tight spot, especially in light of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s statement on June 6 that […]

Interview with Jonathan Bydlak, President of Coalition to Reduce Spending

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

Jonathan Bydlak is the President of the Coalition to Reduce Spending, a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to one thing: reducing federal spending to balance the federal budget. Jonathan, a former fundraiser for the 2008 Ron Paul for President and 2012 Gary Johnson for President campaigns, believes the debt is the greatest threat to the future […]

Interview With Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

Over the last decade 11 years America’s federal budget has nearly tripled, the size of government has doubled, and our country has lost its AAA rating for the first time. During his time in the House during the 1990s and as a Senator since 2004, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has stood in opposition to the […]

Media Matters: The Message is More Important Than the Facts

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

Since its release last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on the long-term fiscal scenarios facing America has drawn a myriad of reactions from across the political spectrum. Liberals have said it shows we need to raise taxes, conservatives have said it shows we need to cut spending, and libertarians have said it shows […]

The UAW and the Administration – working together at the expense of the taxpayer

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

On Wednesday morning, The Heritage Foundation released a paper by Center for Data Analysis Senior Fellow James Sherk on the cost of the 2009 auto bailout. The Treasury Department estimates that the auto bailout will end up costing taxpayers $23 billion and, according to Sherk, all of those losses are the result of the Obama […]

Interview with Star Parker on the HHS Mandate and the 2012 Elections

Posted on June 12, 2012June 12, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

Star Parker is the President of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and a leading pro-life activist. A nationally syndicated columnist, she has led the fight against the HHS contraception/sterilization/abortifacient mandate, both in writing and publicly speaking out against its violations of a myriad of American rights and traditions. These speeches and columns […]

Krugman Keeps Pretending Spending Has Gone Down

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

In his June 08 column, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says a major part of the reason the recession under Reagan recovered more quickly than the current recession is because of government spending. From the column: Why was government spending much stronger under Reagan than in the current slump? “Weaponized Keynesianism” – Reagan’s big […]

Call the President’s bluff, or beat him at his own game?

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the President would not extend current marginal tax rates for those Americans who make $250,000 or more annually, even on a temporary basis. With major debt ceiling, sequestration and tax policy debates on the horizon, should conservatives call the President’s bluff on the matter? Or should […]

In The Fight For Entitlement Reform, We’re All Thieves

Posted on May 25, 2012May 25, 2012 by Dustin Siggins

In the debate over how to deal with America’s looming budget problems, liberals and conservatives have starkly different solutions to entitlement reform. Necessary for the financial security of America, entitlement reform is difficult for a myriad of political, ethical and financial reasons. As Michael Linden of the liberal Center for American Progress stated last year: […]