Category: Congress

Campaign 2012: Why Renee Ellmers has SO MANY opponents

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

David Bass, with Carolina Journal, is looking into why SO many people have filed to run against Congresswoman Renee Ellmers in her first reelection

Senator Burr: It’s all about ME

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina’s senior senator was recently featured in The Charlotte Observer pontificating on his personal ambitions within the world’s “greatest deliberating body”: Sen. Richard Burr

Worse than a powder keg: How DC politicos have made a mess out of our war on terror

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy — the guy who put the ‘Blind Sheik’, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center Attack, behind bars — has

GOP congressman drinks Occupy / Democrat kool-aid on taxing “the rich”

Posted on March 15, 2012March 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

AAAARRRRGH. (*That’s my frustration noise.*) We handed these Republicans a gift in 2010, gave them a mandate and specific instructions on how to proceed,

Congressman McHenry’s GOP opponent levels crony capitalism charge

Posted on March 15, 2012March 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Ken Fortenberry, Congressman Patrick McHenry’s GOP challenger in NC’s 10th district, is alleging that McHenry utilized his office and taxpayer funds to financially benefit himself

Senator Burr: Begging for a Primary

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Washington HAS changed Richard Burr. At one time, he was a Winston-Salem businessman fed up with the nonsense in DC. Now, as pointed out

A Peek Inside George Holding, Inc. : Mostly smoke and mirrors

Posted on March 12, 2012March 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

George Holding’s background is a campaign consultant’s dream come true. He’s the scion of the First Citizen’s Bank empire, a former aide to U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, and a former

Renee Ellmers: live and in living color

Posted on March 11, 2012March 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

One of the first people I bumped into at Saturday’s Moore GOP event was our new Member of Congress, Renee Ellmers of Dunn. Ellmers won a close race

Renee Ellmers getting back to her Tea Party roots

Posted on March 9, 2012March 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers has re-discovered her Tea Party roots just in time for the 2nd congressional district’s GOP primary. Many political observers say the work

How Rush SHOULD have done it

Posted on March 5, 2012March 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The MSM is abuzz over El Rushbo’s apology to the Georgetown law student who wants us all to pay for her birth control pills. Some video (h/t