Tag: "Republicans"
It’s Just A Bill. Yes, It’s Only A Bill. And It Got Screwed Up on Capitol Hill.
I think everyone who watched Schoolhouse Rock remembers how a bill becomes law. Apparently, Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats didn’t catch that particular episode. Or maybe they saw some special version where Bill gets to the White House missing an arm, a couple toes, and a big chunk out of his side like he [...]
The Big Government Cash Machine Marches On, with Conservative Help
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been getting regular updates from a young and very promising member of Congress, Thaddeus McCotter. He’s a conservative who had taken a pretty strong stance against wasteful government spending and for smaller more effective government. He’s invented some innovative ways of bringing conservative principles back to the attention [...]
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 [...]
Reviving Conservatism, Part I: What Happened?
(Part II will follow in a couple of days. This post is a long one, as is the one to come. They’ve taken a lot of thought and and lot of work to write. This post alone has taken well over two hours to write.) I’ve been thinking a lot about the coming election and [...]
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 [...]
Republican Leader to America: We do too have an agenda!
It helps if you read everything after the colon in the title using in the whiniest, most juvenile voice you can muster. That’s basically the tone John Boehner’s office is using to explain why its slapdash concotion of platitudes and lukewarm political spittle amounts to a legislative agenda worth more than a small handful of [...]
Arlen Specter is What’s Wrong with the Republican Party.
Lots of people are opining today about the impending Republican doom. They’re offering their two cents on what’s wrong with the Republicans and if the Republicans can continue to exist and offering all sorts of helpful suggestions. I submit that Arlen Specter demonstrates exactly what’s wrong with the Republican Party. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell believes [...]
Let’s Hunt Us Some RINOs! And John Boehner, too.
If this were a world where Republicans had the courage of their convictions, Pat Toomey would be a Senator from Pennsylvania. Instead, he is the President of the Club for Growth, a conservative think-tank and advocacy group. The Club for Growth has run afoul of the Republican political machine in recent years for not holding [...]
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