Category: Congress

We now pronounce you Thom and Dickie …

Posted on November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Our *dynamic duo* in the US Senate just had to flip us off one more time before the Burr Era on Capitol Hill officially comes to a rather unspectacular

You made the bed. Lay in it.

Posted on November 13, 2022 by Brant Clifton

My patience is running out with all of these low-T folks blaming Donald Trump for Tuesday. Trump WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT. The Republican establishment made no changes since

The on-going Tillis fraud

Posted on November 13, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Who out there in politics is dumb enough to admit that he lied to his voters? Apparently, our soon-to-be senior senator is: […] Cunningham said he had the idea to

The 2022 After-Party

Posted on November 9, 2022November 9, 2022 by Brant Clifton

*That ‘Red Wave’ was SOMETHING, eh?* I don’t see how ALL those alleged GOP leaders keep their jobs after this one. (But Raleigh and DC have astounded me before.)

If you didn’t get enough on Tuesday …

Posted on November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 by Brant Clifton

You can register to watch and listen to Thom Tillis and Cal Cunningham rave about their cross-the-aisle friendship. *Of course, the coming ‘red wave’ is ALL about increasing cooperation

Tillis trying to get Robinson out of 2024 NCGOV race?

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Brant Clifton

That’s the word coming over the transom. I picked up this nugget from someone with knowledge of the internal workings of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s (R) political operation. My

Sippin’ on that Tillis kool-aid

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Check out this quote in DC’s The Hill newspaper: […]“North Carolina is a true purple state. Thirty percent of our voters are registered Republicans, 34 [percent] are registered as Democrats,

Jail time for criticizing Feds?

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Brant Clifton

You never thought it could happen here. In Cold War-era Eastern Europe, maybe. The Soviet Union, and possibly current Russia. Any current or former Latin American dictatorship. But it IS

Senators (Not Tillis or Burr) warn DOJ against political attacks on pediatric sex-change critics

Posted on October 13, 2022October 13, 2022 by Brant Clifton

A group of US senators is taking a stand in this era of authoritarian government and blatant attacks on The First Amendment: Senate Republicans are warning Attorney General Merrick Garland

#ncsen: Showdown at the Spectrum Corral

Posted on October 11, 2022October 11, 2022 by Brant Clifton

I’ve had time to soak in the developments from Friday night’s US Senate debate. I’ve talked to some not-so-political folks as well as my usual coterie of political animals. Here