Tag: "Conservatism"
More Committees! More Staffers! More Embarrassing Republican Losses!
If you’ve read my post my post on the plight of conservatism this morning, this news story ought to look pretty familiar. You can file it under all three problems I wrote about, all at the same time. After a week of tension and recriminations following a special election loss in Mississippi, House Minority Leader [...]
It’s Worse than Pork. It’s Bribery.
I could not have said it better myself. Pathetic. Craven. Irresponsible. Unprincipled. Those and similar adjectives apply to every member of Congress who voted for the bloated, anti-consumer piece of legislative corruption known as the Food and Energy Conservative Act of 2008 a k a as “the farm bill.” The most egregious piece of this [...]
Is John McCain Conservative? Show Me.
A staffer on Capitol Hill wrote this today this to Kathryn Jean Lopez of NRO. On the one hand, John McCain, who stands for smaller government and lower spending, is bemoaned as a non-conservative. On the other hand, House Republicans are chided for participating in a big spending farm bill boondoggle and not being conservative [...]
That’s What You Said