Category: Congress

Federal deficit DOUBLED

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Last month, the federal government recorded a deficit that was TWICE what it was at the end of May 2011: The U.S. government posted a budget

Holding taking heat over decisions re: John Edwards

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

George Holding, former US attorney and current GOP nominee for the 13th congressional district, is facing questions from Edwards case jurors, legal experts, and the mainstream

The Pilot: pushing far-left talking points, telling half of the story, and mocking the few readers it has left

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

You have to just LOVE Yankees who move down here and chastise us for not being more like the morally and fiscally-bankrupt blue states they fled. Steve Bouser, The Pilot’s

Our very own Senator Sock Puppet keeps marching along to Chuck Schumer’s orders

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

U.S. Senator Kay Hagan — also affectionately known in these parts as “Chuck Schumer’s sock puppet” — was in The Charlotte Observer groaning and moaning about “The War on

GOP-controlled U.S. House: more debt in 15 months than in ALL of the first 97 Congresses COMBINED

Posted on June 4, 2012June 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It took nearly 200 years for previous Congresses to do what John Boehner, Eric Cantor and the rest of the Honorables have managed to do in 15

Why is this man smiling? (Answer: He — um — GOT OFF.)

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

After lengthy deliberations, a federal jury has found former senator (and all-American baby-daddy) John Edwards not guilty on one criminal count, and got hung up

I’ll take endangered big spenders for a trillion, Alex

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The folks at the NRCC in Washington have come up with a creative little web site that should appeal to the fans of the popular long-running game show Jeopardy.

Renee Ellmers making overtures to GOP’s left wing?

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Brant Clifton

A TV ad during the May primary promoted congresswoman Renee Ellmers as “North Carolina’s most conservative member of Congress.” It also plugged her as a fighter for “traditional marriage”

Charlotte Observer, Hudson tee off on Scott Keadle

Posted on May 26, 2012May 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Richard Hudson and The Charlotte Observer have JUST discovered that the DC-based Club for Growth is endorsing and supporting Eighth Congressional District Republican candidate Scott Keadle:

Lt. Ellmers goes off to war …

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I got YET ANOTHER emailed release from congresswoman Renee Ellmers’ taxpayer subsidized PR flack. I started reading it, and saw our Renee risked life and limb this