Tag: "Thad McCotter"
No, Thad McCotter, I Don’t Think I’ll Cheer Your Noble Sacrifice Today.
Color me underwhelmed by Thaddeus McCotter’s heroic action to fold up his own superfluous committee. McCotter chairs the House Republican Policy Committee that is supposed to develop policies for the Republicans in the House to introduce as bills. McCotter made big noise when he took over as one of the “we need to get back [...]
Give ‘em Hell Thad!
Back in May, I took a pretty good whack at Republican Congressman Thad McCotter for his capitulation on the humongous Farm Bribe and Pork Bill. However, today, he’s deserving of praise for taking on President Bush’s refusal to call Congress back into session to vote on the Republicans’ domestic drilling bills. Hot Air has an [...]
Free Speech? Not if You’re a Republican in Congress
To borrow a riff from Glenn Reynolds: They said that with George Bush as President, members of Congress would be muzzled and forced to communicate with their constituents only through approved channels and they were right! It looks like Nancy Pelosi and Company, fresh from being scalded by insouciant conservative Congressman Thad McCotter on YouTube, [...]
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 [...]
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