Category: Members of Congress

GOP Looks To Change Spending Process – Obviously, Some Have A Problem With This

Posted on by William Teach

A very interesting notion is coming from the Republicans, especially the new guard House Republicans seem intent on blowing up the staid appropriations process when they take power in January – potentially upending the old bulls in both parties who have spent decades building their power over the federal budget. The plans include slicing and […]

 

Shame on Nancy: Dems Horse-Trade Haiti Orphans for DREAM Act

Posted on by Jane Jamison

CNN’s Anderson Cooper has an insight into some back-door maneuvering that : is being: traced directly back to the desk of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Shame on her. Scroll down: past the video for contacts: to her office. Knowing that the “Dream Act” for amnesty of illegal alien college students is going to be very unpopular and hard to […]

 

Video: CEI’s Vincent Vernuccio on Where Union Dues Go

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Vincent Vernuccio of the Competitive Enterprise Institute appeared on Fox Business Channel’s “Follow the Money” show and talked a little bit about where the dues that union members pay goes. Fox Business only gave a snippet of the video that CEI made so here is the full video.

 

FCC Chief Still Pushing Net Neutrality Without Congressional Action

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With the recent midterm election and the resulting GOP tidal wave that is about to inundate Congress, many people have wondered aloud if net neutrality was dead? Well if FCC Chief Julius Genachowski has his way, net neutrality will be implemented by fiat when he has his agency simply change rules without involving congress at […]

 

States that Force Union Membership Losing Population to Those that Don’t

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Americans for Tax reform have done a study (download .pdf) that shows a very interesting trend. States that are losing population the fastest are predominantly those that force employees to join unions as a condition for employment while those that are growing are mostly states that feature right to work rules. Because congressional representation is […]

 

Friday Awesome: Ron Paul Introduces American Traveler Dignity Act

Posted on by William Teach

With all the issues going on regarding the Transportation Security Administration, you just knew someone had to come up with some sort of legislation. And the winner is…..RON PAUL! Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation’s airports. […]

 

The Progressives’ “Nazi” Rhetoric Begins With George Soros

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Media Matters, a George Soros propaganda organization:  masquerading as a media watchdog is exhibiting its hypocrisy again today. In an article called Fox’s “Nazi” rhetoric also comes straight from the top, they took a comment by Fox News head Roger Ailes and used it as a starting point to attack almost every commentator on the […]

 

Obama’s Socialist-Admiring Medicaid/Medicare Chief Gets Hearing

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Donald Berwick, Obama’s nominee to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, made himself infamous earlier this year when video came to light showing him telling a British audience how much he admired their socialist healthcare system because it “redistributes” the Brit’s wealth. Berwick went all warm and fuzzy over the socialist features […]

 

Charlie Rangel Decides To Waste Our Money Instead of Stealing It

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Charlie Rangel has decided to change his tactics.:  Usually he finds a way to steal tax payer money, like giving earmarks to a school named in his honor, or neglecting to pay his taxes, or live in four rent-controlled apartments even though based on his income he probably doesn’t even warrant one. Today different, today […]

 

What We Need to Say, And Say, And Say

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If leftists are good at one thing it is staying on message. Since 2006 when Nancy Pelosi was raised to the dizzying heights of Speaker of the House of Representatives the left has been chanting over and over that the voters wanted the country to take a hard left turn. This month’s election, however, proved […]

 

Sunday Funnies: NY Times Editorial Board Tells GOP To Try Governing

Posted on by William Teach

Liberals have long been having fits on the editorial pages, ranging anywhere from Hissy to Conniption to Unhinged Tools. Saturday’s full feeling of the paper is wacky and unhinged enough to make one go WharrblGarbl! Try Something Hard: Governing Yeah, it can be hard, which is why a man with virtually no real world experience, […]

 

Politico Says Florida’s Allen West Will Become the Alan Grayson of the Right?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Lt. Col. Allen West is one of the most stand up guys you’ll ever meet. He first came to the public eye when his interrogation of an Iraqi yielded lifesaving results even as it was a bit unorthodox. His professional handling of that incident put him on a track to run for Florida’s 22nd District […]

 

Minimum Wage-Pushing Democrats Don’t Pay Congressional Interns

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Hypocrisy, they name is Democrat. Michigan’s Mackinac Center for Public Policy has laid bare another example of the hypocrisy of Congressional Democrats. In this case while those representatives that are all hot and bothered to push an ever rising minimum wage law are making noise about how inequities exist in the workplace, these same congressmen […]

 

Another Reminder: ACORN Isn’t Dead

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The New York Post reminds us of an important fact: ACORN isn’t dead. It is merely attempting to morph into a new group with a different name in order to shed its ruined reputation. It has no intention, though, of disappearing entirely like it should. I’ve also mentioned before that this assumption that the Association […]

 

Democrat’s Anti-Capitalist Net Neutrality Wounded, But Not Dead

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Just before election day the liberal blogs were aflutter with news that 95 Democratic Congressional candidates had taken the pledge to support Net neutrality if they were elected. That turned out to be a very big “if.” More like a forlorn hope, if you will. Of those 95 Democrats, the number actually going to Congress […]

 

Saddest Letter Ever From One of Our Military Vets!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Major Mike Banzet of the U.S. Air Force retired this year after more than 20 years in service to his country. He didn’t do so happily, either. To explain himself he published a long letter in the Daily Inter Lake that is a spot on attack on America’s misguided support of the Democratic Party. As […]

 

Unemployment Worsens: What Happened to 3.5 Million Workers, Mr. President?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge asks an interesting question about the latest jobs data that the Obama administration has released to the public — and to a mostly unquestioning Old Media. As Durden calculates it, 3.5 million workers have mysteriously disappeared from the work force. If this is true then the unemployment rate is a […]

 

Face it, GOP ‘Moderates’ Are Party Traitors

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A party is a party. Sure, in politics there are internal fights, jealousies, and intrigues, but when the final push to election day is upon its members, a party supports the one carrying the party banner. They may be disgruntled because the man they supported didn’t win the primary, but they hold their tongue and […]

 

Nevada Union Illegally Coordinating with Reid Campaign for Votes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Elizabeth Crum has a great report over at National Review detailing a series of emails between the campaign staff of Senator Harry Reid and union members of Harrah’s casino in an effort to coerce workers to vote for Harry Reid. Crum reveals emails between Reid’s office and the union folks telling them to force their […]

 

A Warning To The GOP, Voters Don’t Love You As Much as They Hate The Dems

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Approximately 40-48 hours from now, the results of the 2010 Mid-Term election will be clear.:  The Republican party will have near historic gains in the house and may very well win control of the Senate.:  The size of this political tsunami poses a great danger to the GOP, they may very well misinterpret their victory […]

 

Texas Patriots Facing The Left’s Smear Machine

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am here all week in Texas in Houston’s 18th Congressional District observing the energetic and determined work of the King Street Patriots as they implement their poll-watching initiative, True The Vote. True The Vote made news early this month when initiative Chief Catherine Engelbrecht discovered that a […]

 

On The Road With the King Street Patriots of Houston, Texas

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left is in high dudgeon here in the 18th Congressional District in Houston, Texas. Democrat Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a long-time left-winger, has held this seat since 1995 and she isn’t going to go away quietly. She is quite upset at the gall of a new conservative group that launched a poll watching effort […]

 

RNC Launches No More Frankens Website

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is little doubt that Al Franken’s namesake is a perfect analogy because he is certainly a Frankenstein of a Senator. When he barely won the Senate seat for the Democrats in Minnesota over incumbent Norm Coleman several years ago it was painfully obvious that major improprieties and problems marred that election. His win was […]

 

Unions Give More Campaign $$ To Dems Than Corporations To GOP

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left’s meme about campaign contributions since the Supreme Court beat down some of the McCain/Feingold Act has been that the Republicans are awash in illicit political donations from those eeevil corporations — and unfair donations at that — and this puts the poor Democrats at a disadvantage. Why all those evil rich corporate raiders […]

 

Democrat Teacher Can’t Believe Kids Would Vote For Republican

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week I spied a short piece at Illinois Review about a post on My Suburban Life that detailed the story of a left-wing teacher that was shocked that a majority of her students in DuPage County, Illinois voted for Republican Representative Peter Roskam in the school’s mock election. Social studies teacher Lori Keough of […]

 

Former ACORN Worker Justifies Preventing Pledge of Allegiance at Illinois Candidate Debate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Thanks to Jeff Dunetz at Yid With Lid we have found out that a former ACORN worker turned director of the League of Women Voters has been heard justifying actions of the debate moderator who tried to prevent the audience at an 8th District candidate debate from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance last week. As […]

 

‘Call Me Madam’: Let This Video Be My Apology for Once Supporting Sen. Boxer

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

David Zucker has made a great video slamming Barbara “Senator Ma’am” Boxer. It is very funny. Call Me Madam Joe from RightChange on Vimeo. Zucker says on BigHollywood.com, “I was motivated to do something on this after I saw the video of Barbara Boxer interrogating the General.” I remember immediately feeling embarrassed that a member […]