Category: Members of Congress

Senator Tom Coburn Kicks You Know What

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

I’ll say he kicks “arse” so as to make it fancy pants, as befitting one who is made totally of awesome. Switch your vote in exchange for some cushy appointment, as is the Chicago Way? Guess again. The Oklahoma Way will stop you. “I want to send a couple messages to my colleagues in the […]

 

Stupak Amendment Exposes Obamacare’s Dirty Little Secret: Eugenics

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Originally posted at RedState The other day, when Bart Stupak revealed that he was told “If you pass the Stupak Amendment, more children will be born and therefore it will cost us millions more”, I mentioned that it was no real surprise. Abortion is an agenda to the Left, it’s not about life or some […]

 

Paul Ryan: ‘We are not governing here today, we are greasing the skids’

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

So said Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) during today’s Budget Committee farce wherein the “shell” bill was passed. It now heads over to be marked up and can include whatever they want, including public option, and can be loaded with earmarks to secure wavering or undecided votes. Like I said last night, everything is now on […]

 

Does The ‘Shell’ Health Care Bill Have Any Teeth? Dead Sister’s or Otherwise?

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

?(Originally posted at RedState) The short answer is: Do not trust. And verify. Upon the release of the ’shell’ 2,300 page reconciliation health care bill, which includes a public option, immediately some started issuing calls to calm down, that it’s a shell bill that will allegedly be stripped by the Rules Committee. Allegedly is the […]

 

Senator Scott Brown Delivers Devastating GOP Weekly Address

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Senator Scott Brown Delivers Devastating GOP Weekly Address Associated Press Then ‘Blames’ Senator Brown for Failure to Pass Health Care Bill Last month, I defended Scott Brown on his vote for cloture on the ridiculous jobs bill. While I obviously thought that it was a mistake, I wasn’t ready to break out the pitchforks. Scott […]

 

Stupak: Dems Told Me Funding Abortion Is Good, Because Kids Are Costly

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Bart Stupak just had a revelation. And it’s a disturbing one. Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes […]

 

House Republicans Approve Earmark Ban

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

This is a step in the right direction at curbing spending. You have to start somewhere and pork-barrel spending is a good place to start. While the numbers involved aren’t huge, in relation to total spending, at the very least it means that the GOP is listening and starting to take heed. Usually, one isn’t […]

 

Dear America, Admit That You’re Stupid! Love, Nancy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The founding fathers debated bills for weeks. They then wrote them, referred them to committee’s of style and prose, brought them back to the floor, debated them again, wrote newspaper articles about them, went home to their districts to discuss them, and finally passed them — or not — after much deliberation. Today’s Speaker of […]

 

Government Health Care Is Not About Health Care; It’s About Government

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

“Government Health Care is not about health care; It’s about Government.” So reads the last line of Mark Steyn’s latest brilliant article, which I strongly suggest that everyone read. He’s right, of course, but I’d go even a step further. It’s not just about government, it’s about a mindset and a freedom-squashed way of life. […]

 

Associated Press Tries to Tie Jim DeMint to the Pentagon Shooter

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

No, really. Not only are members of the media trying to irresponsibly and erroneously tie Joseph Patrick Bedell, a registered Democrat, a Troofer and a total loon, to the “right-wing” in general, but they are now upping the defamation by attempting to libelously imply that the words of Jim DeMint “fed the rage.” Jim. DeMint. […]

 

Dear Harry Reid: Is Your Ivory Tower Padded?

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

If Harry Reid’s Ivory Tower isn’t padded, it should be, because he is cuckoo pants. I submit as exhibit A: Only 36,000 jobs lost, which is UP from last month. What a super awesome day! Who wants evil private sector jobs anyway, right Harry? The rhetoric of the Democrat’s has moved from incomprehensible to absolutely […]

 

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Bribe ‘Em: Obama Now Trading Judgeships For Votes

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Chicago-style politics once again coming home to roost. The Weekly Standard is reporting that Obama is now selling judgeships for health care votes: Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to […]

 

Dem Leaders Knew of Massa’s Sexual Misconduct, Will Dems Be Held Accountable Like GOP Was Over Mark Foley

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember when Florida Congressman Mark Foley was outed for sexual misconduct with male pages in the House of Representatives in 2006? You’ll recall that the Democrats and the Old Media and the left were in some high dudgeon over the claim that Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert knew all about it before the […]

 

Representative Paul Broun is Getting Jersey With It

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Yesterday, Republican Representative Paul Broun, of Georgia no less, played the Jersey card. He not only invoked Snooki, of the Mtv show Jersey Shore, but also “The Situation.” You go, Pauly! Broun: Snookie has more substance than Obama’s bipartisanship “offer” (Washington, D.C.) U.S. Representative Paul Broun, M.D. (GA-10) released the following statement after President Barack […]

 

VIDEO: Four Key Minutes from Obama’s Failed Healthcare Summit

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A great video from the Heritage Foundation that shows how the Republicans really made Obama look the fool at his healthcare summit last week. My favorite is Louise Slaughter (D, NY) who was all upset that a women in here district was “wearing her dead sister’s teeth” because the woman could not afford dental care. […]

 

Washington State’s SEIU Bought Republican

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On February 24, Moe Lane posted a short piece alerting one and all to the fact that one of the Republican candidates for Washington State’s 3rd Congressional District is a favorite of the hard-core lefties in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) — one of Obama’s favorite Big Labors cohorts. Mr. Lane, though, was sure […]

 

Longtime Dem Consultant Torpedoed by Union Thugs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In Democrat political consulting circles Pat Caddell is a big name. One-time adviser to President Jimmy Carter and longtime political strategist for the left, Caddell isn’t someone you throw off a campaign easily. But the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) doesn’t care about past success. It only cares about its power. After being thrown off […]

 

Happy Anniversary, Stimulus Package! Boondoggle: Great NRSC Ad

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

This is an excellent ad by the Senate Republicans, released to coincide with the one year anniversary of the boondoggle known as the stimulus package. You know, the one that has served to create or save nothing but debt and further unemployment. This ad needs to run everywhere, and often.:  In fact, it needs to […]

 

Most People Angry And Upset With Washington? Who Knew?

Posted on by William Teach

Hard to believe, eh? What could possibly make the American people so upset and angry in the era of Hopey Changey? Two-thirds of Americans are “dissatisfied” or downright “angry” about the way the federal government is working, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. On average, the public estimates that 53 cents of every […]

 

Pia for Pennsylvania’s First District

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pia Varma, an American of Indian background… not not a redskin, an actual Indian… wants you to send her to Congress, Pennsylvania. And so she has announced her run for Pennsylvania’s First District Congressional seat (Philadelphia). She tells us that her grandfathers were fighters in the Indian Independence movement of the 1960s, though she was […]

 

CT Senate Race Gets ‘Retarded’ Over Wrestling Queen’s Shows

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Retard-gate is growing, apparently, and it’s coming to the Connecticut Senate race over the mistreatment of a developmentally disabled wrestling character that Senate candidate Linda McMahon’s entertainment company created in 2004. For those of you unaware, wrestling queen Linda McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, is running for the Senate in Connecticut against conservative […]

 

John Boehner is Kidding Himself

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Yesterday our Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives proved that he still isn’t seeing the problem with the GOP. He’s living in denial, at least he is if we can take his words at face value. On the Mike Gallagher radio show yesterday, leader Boehner insisted that there is no substantive ideological differences […]

 

Dem Senate Hurries To Push Liars and Symps into Power Before Brown Comes to Town

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s Katie bar the door as the Democrats in the Senate try to push as many liars and Big Labor crooks into positions of power in the Obama Administration as they can before they lose their super majority once Scott Brown of Massachusetts is seated on the 4th of February. On Monday, the Democrats pushed […]

 

Obama’s Aide David Axelrod, Portrait of a Demagogue

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This weekend Obama adviser David Axelrod gave us a perfect example of the art of empty demagoguery. Comments made by Axelrod concerning Obama’s state of the union speech shows an over statement meant to mask the truth in order to evoke sympathy for his boss, the President. Sadly, the truth is the victim here. The […]

 

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 […]

 

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 […]