Ericka Andersen is a Mid-Western girl from Indiana who came to DC after falling in love with conservative politics. She currently works for the House Republican Conference.
Last week, FreedomWorks’ hosted Blog Con — bringing together America’s top conservative bloggers from around the nation to connect in Washington, DC. Political conferences are nothing special but this one was different. FreedomWorks’ Tabitha Hale tracked down the Right’s most excellent online personalities — and got them all together for an entire weekend. In my […]
House Republicans are rocking townhalls around the country this August. They are taking action, listening to their constituents and ready to bring those concerns, ideas and complaints back to Washington next month. When it comes to the issues, Republicans have them covered and simply put, they are working for you. We thought that was an […]
It’s rather shocking that this Democrat Congress — well known by now for their spend-and-borrow tactics — would fail to produce even a budget outline for the coming year. Do the American people not deserve a little direction on where their hard earned taxpayer dollars will be going, and in what vague amounts? The most […]
House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence and Conference Vice-Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers have been speaking out for weeks against the U.S. helping to bailout Greece. Pence has noted that “future Americans may be picking up the tab for as much as $50 billion in additional loan guarantees for the rest of Europe in the form […]
Saturday night I was a party with my friends, all of whom happened to be of a different political persuasion than I. One in particular, who works for the Democratic Party, decided to announce that the Tea Party movement is full of racists. Umm, no. With half a glass of wine (thank God that was […]
It’s Tax Day — you know what means: President Obama is out touting how he’s “saved” you money, which is laughable. It’s been a year of record spending, topped off with the passage of government-run health care. The House Republican Conference debuted this video yesterday, just in time for Tax Day: “Your Taxes, Their Spending”:
Traveling to New Orleans for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference was a fun experience, in many ways because I spent time with some of the folks I interact with online.: When you are a blogger or work in new media, it’s rare you get to put a face with an email address, Twitter handle or […]
It’s been about three years since I first heard the name Sarah Palin. I remember my Human Events co-worker, John Gizzi, opining on the former Alaska Governor’s long shot chances at the Vice-Presidency in early 2008. She wasn’t even really on the short list.: Then, I heard she was pregnant and completely ruled her out […]