Category: Government Waste

Illinois: Why Government Cannot be Trusted

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Government is often called the “necessary evil.” But whatever it is, as each day passes we see that the “evil” part of that axiom seems ever more true. We can see the pernicious qualities of government at every level from local, to the state, to the era of Obamaism in the federal government. But if […]

 

Union Chief: Senators Are ‘Terrorists’ For Not Voting With Big Labor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern said that Senators that vote against his ideas are “terrorists.” That’s right, folks, this union chief is saying that any politician that votes against the politically motivated ideas of Big Labor should be branded a “terrorist.” This is the sort of gutter rhetoric that union thugs specialize in […]

 

Heritage: Unions Ate Your Raise

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

James Sherk has a very good post over at the Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry blog about how unions have hurt us all by fighting for tax increases. Unions almost never go on strike anymore. Instead, they fight to get more for their members by lobbying for tax increases. Unions spent tens of millions of dollars […]

 

Which Ill. Candidates Have Signed Taxpayer Protection Pledge?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With the Illinois primary coming up in only a few short days (Feb. 2, Groundhog’s Day) Americans for Tax Reform (atr.org) has a post up today reminding us all just which Illinois candidates have signed ATR’s no tax pledge. It’s called the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and you can see the pledge HERE. Happily, almost every […]

 

Obama’s Lobbyist Slams Masks Big K Street Payday

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In his State of the Union speech, the president puffed up his chest, fixed his Mr. scornful face, and once again pulled out the populist’s handbook to bash those evil, monstrous lobbyists. Obama mentioned lobbyists seven times in his address and in every case they were used as a scapegoat to explain away Washington’s inability […]

 

Teachers Union Ruins NY Shot at $700M in Stimulus

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Being a good conservative, I am torn on this story! It seems that the teachers union in New York State refused to comply with some simple requirements in cooperation with the state government so that New York could qualify for $700 million in federal stimulus money from a program known as Race to the Top. […]

 

Exclusive Interview: Chief of Obama’s TelePrompter Advance Team

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I was excited to be able to snag an interview with the head man — or rather woman — in President Obama’s TelePrompter crew, Ima Prizenteur. Her official title is Special Assistant to the President for Elocutionary Support but her crew is best known as the Spiel Team. It is Ima’s responsibility to set up […]

 

Chgo Trib: Who Will Smack Down the Unions?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Dennis Byrne, a columnist with the Chicago Tribune, has a great piece asking the seminal question: what politician will take on the public employees unions? This is, of course, the question we’ve been asking here for years! Who will stop these union thugs that have bought for themselves a bevy of compliant politicians at the […]

 

What Lesson Did Brown Teach Obama/Democrats? Apparently Pass Bad Stuff Faster

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once Scott Brown took away the Democrat super majority in the Senate by becoming the Republican’s 41st vote based in large part on the fact that Massachusetts voters were unhappy with Obamacare, one would think that President Obama and the Democrat Party would learn a vital lesson. A look at a dozen or so stories […]

 

Perhaps Obama Could Propose Reductions In Congressional AGW Travel

Posted on by William Teach

So, apparently, Obama is also going to throw out that he will freeze some small portion of federal spending during Wednesday’s SOTU, as directed by Secretary Teleprompter President Obama will call for a three-year freeze in spending on many domestic programs, and for increases no greater than inflation after that, an initiative intended to signal […]

 

Union Membership Down Another 10%

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With some ups and downs, unions have been steadily losing members for quite a while and 2009 is no exception. According to the Labor Dept., private-sector unions lost 834,000 members last year. On Friday, the Labor Department reported private-sector unions lost 834,000 members, bringing membership down to 7.2% of the private-sector work force, from 7.6% […]

 

Obama Calls for Bipartisan Commission on Debt. Has He Tried, You Know, Adding?

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Image Courtesy of iowntheworld.com No, really. They need: a commission to figure out: why there is so much of that annoying debt stuff. President Barack Obama on Saturday called on Congress to pass a bill creating a fiscal commission amid reports that he will likely create an executive commission if Congress does not act.: Obama issued a statement […]

 

A Chicago Politician’s Arrogance

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Long time Chicago Democratic Politician Monique Davis is the poster child for arrogance. Davis is a State Rep that has been involved in many flaps centered around her assumption of personal imperviousness, her assumption that her office is a shield used to excuse just any activity at all on her part. She is above the […]

 

Public Employees Unions Are Sinking California

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Steven Greenhut has a great piece in the Wall Street Journal about how the evils of public employees unions are destroying California. Greenhut begins by noting that with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country California is losing its “productive citizens” to other states but is still saddled with an economy killing surfeit […]

 

Unions Sign On To Obama’s Penalizing of Banks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

According to The Hill, “several union officials” plan to make Obama’s newest attack on America’s banking industry part of their criteria for determining which candidates to support for 2010. So, the unions want to use support for this economy killing tax as a criteria for supporting a candidate. If a politician is for it, then […]

 

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty Throws Taxpayer Money to the Wind

Posted on by Dave Blount

Appalling moonbattery from north of the border, where Big Government and Samsung are teaming up to empty citizens’ pockets in the name of the flourishing polar bears: In a dramatic move yesterday, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty struck a green electricity deal — allegedly the biggest of its kind in the world — that will transmit […]

 

Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams On Government Pay

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Why are Federal and State workers getting pay raises when the private sector has lost 7 million jobs? Michael Williams, the Texas Railroad Commissioner refused to take a $45,000/year raise and refused wage increases for his state employees. He says, “we should all be in this together.” Kay Bailey Hutcheson has said that she’d step […]

 

CATO on Brown: This is like Ted Kennedy being elected in Utah

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston There’s a lot of analysis out there on why Scott Brown defeated nearly 50 years of Democratic rule of the Massachusetts Senate seat, but the CATO Institute has some cogent, logical points that we should all carefully consider. But before I give you the CATO video, remember this…. it’s time to […]

 

NBC’s Viera Scolding Scott Brown on Today Show

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Meridith Viera seemed a bit annoyed that she was interviewing the newly elected Republican Scott Brown instead of Democrat Martha Coakley now that Massachusetts voters made their choice in the Tuesday special election for the open Senate seat there. Viera did her level best to phrase the results of the election in an agenda driven […]

 

Louisiana Legislature Floating Bill Making Obamacare Illegal in State

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Louisiana State Senator A.G. Crowe (R, Slidell) is introducing a bill for the 2010 legislative session in Baton Rouge that would make Obamacare illegal if it violates state laws, effectively making Obamacare null and void in the Pelican State. Senator Crowe states that his bill “provides that no law or rule shall compel, directly or […]

 

Krugman Says Obama Doesn’t Blame Bush Enough?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the worst writers in political punditry, a man with a little deserved reputation as a thinker and analyst, is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Sometimes the things he says are so absurd that it is hard to believe that even he believes what he is writing. Aside from his discreditable insistence that […]

 

Found: A “Green Job”

Posted on by Dave Blount

Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar” — the self-avowed communist and “rowdy black nationalist” Van Jones — was driven out of office by Glenn Beck’s exposés having spend $60 billion to create exactly 0 green jobs. As even the Obama sycophants at Newsreek sheepishly admitted, no one could even define a green job at the time. But […]

 

Old GOP Doesn’t ‘Get’ Tea Parties

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Neil Cavuto of Fox News had a visit with former Vice President Dan Qualyle on Jan 13. Ostensibly the interview was about the earthquake in Haiti and the efforts that Quayle was saying needed to be made for the victims there, but Cavuto also asked the former veep about his feelings about the Tea Party […]

 

Corrupt Politics in Cook County Illinois, Some History

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Everyone is always talking about how corrupt Illinois politics is. Well, it’s been that way since day one. Since I live here (I’ll take your condolences) I thought I’d give a brief history of Cook County, the home of the City of Chicago. There is a saying about Chicago’s weather: if you don’t like the […]

 

Now WE Will Pay for Unions Fancy Healthcare Packages

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As if there were ever any doubts, the unions bosses that descended upon the White House earlier in the week appear to have succeeded in getting their members excluded from the so-called Cadillac taxes on expensive healthcare packages. The Obama administration, having been bought and paid for by unions, agreed to demands that unions be […]

 

Watching Liberals Turn On Each Other is Fun!

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

When Nancy Pelosi loses the old crank, Jack Cafferty, of all people, you know times are tough for the Democrats. Heck of a job, Nancy! Seriously, I mean it. You are improving my mood greatly, due to the many pointing and snickering opportunities that you provide. Cafferty: pulled one of his: famous hit and runs, only this […]

 

Chgo Trib Wants ‘Reform,’ Yet Endorses Machine Candidates

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Dec. 27th, the Chicago Tribune sternly scolded our Illinois political class saying that we need “reform” in Illinois. The Trib announced that with all the past corruption they’d had “enough.” And they promised to launch a “pre-primary push to elect better” politicians. Well, who could disagree with that? Illinois has one of the most […]

 

Book Review: What Are These Tea Parties About, Anyway?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new book about the Tea Party movement — and a movement it really is — will soon be hitting the shelves. “A New American Tea Party” penned by John M. O’Hara, one of the many folks that helped bring us some of those protests in early 2009, is a book that hopes that the […]