Category: Congress

#NCSEN: Thillis delivers for his donors

Posted on November 12, 2015November 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Only 62.4 percent of Americans are in the labor force. THAT is a 38-year low. Over 94 million people are not in the labor force. That means those people do

#nc-02: Nee-Nee sticks us with the bill

Posted on November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

What’s bad for brawlin’ Bobby E. is apparently A-Okay for Nee-Nee. (Gosh, we’re poetic this morning.) We’ve written extensively about stuff that show up in our mailboxes here in the Second

NC-03: Wow. Taylor Griffin IS being bankrolled by Wall Street & K Street.

Posted on November 1, 2015November 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve written extensively about this heightened environment of influence-buying in American politics. Over in the Third Congressional District GOP primary, we’ve got a clear example of deep-pocketed influence-peddlers in DC

Meet the new boss. Pretty much the same as the old boss. (Not as orange.)

Posted on October 30, 2015October 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

All of the DC-NY conservative intelligentsia are swooning and cooing over the rise of Paul Ryan to the speakership of the US House. I have never understood the conservative fascination

#ncpol: Tillis comes to aid of Democrats on Boehner-Obama budget deal

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

And why not? He’s got five years before he faces the voters again. *Forget those silly campaign promises!* Our US Senate delegation split on the vote to jack up federal

#ncpol: Pittenger, McHenry come to the aid of Boehner & Obama on budget

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina Republicans Robert Pittenger and Patrick McHenry were TWO of the seventy-nine Republicans who joined with ALL of the Democrats in the House to pass the debt-increasing, budget-busting deal

#ncpol: Ellmers joins Dems in bringing Ex-Im Bank back from dead

Posted on October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It was a nasty piece of government waste and cronyism. It needed to go. Its charter expired on June 30. It WAS dead. But congressional Democrats — and some Republicans

#nc-02: Nee-Nee does the Ex-Im dance

Posted on October 27, 2015October 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The GOPe is at it again. Just when you thought it was dead, the Export-Import Bank is coming back from the dead with a vengeance like we haven’t seen since

#BOHICA: More debt. More spending. Boehner & co. strike ANOTHER DEAL with Obama

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Great. Another closed-door deal. If major decisions are getting made by a handful of folks behind a closed door, WHAT IS THE POINT of sending 535 folks up there to

SC’s Mulvaney: amnesty foes ‘absurd,’ ‘stupid’