Category: Congress

OMG: FBI seizes Senator Burr’s cell phone

Posted on May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 by Brant Clifton

If there was ANYBODY who could divert the nation’s attention from the coronavirus, it would be our senior US senator: Federal agents seized a cellphone belonging to

All In The (Burr) Family?

Posted on May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 by Brant Clifton

We told you earlier about our senior US senator’s stock market transactions right at the start of this whole coronavirus brouhaha. Folks from both sides of the aisle

RINO, deny thyself.

Posted on May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 by Brant Clifton

It’s been a while since we’ve been able to invoke the holy sacred name of Charles Jeter. If you recall, he’s a Thom Tillis acolyte who held

From Russia — um, RICHARD, with Love

Posted on April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 by Brant Clifton

No, it’s not the title of Daniel Craig’s swan song as the fabled agent 007. We’re talking about the latest buffoonery from our special-needs senior US senator

Tillis polling worse than in 2014

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Thom Tillis has been sitting in Washington for nearly six years now. But if you look at his polling, it appears the man is — like one

Burr sold DC townhouse to lobbyist same month he co-sponsored lobbyist’s bill

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Brant Clifton

On his way out the door, Richard Burr is certainly prompting quite a bit of discussion on ethics and criminal law. His earlier (questionable) stock market trades

US Rep. Greg Murphy’s prescription for coping with, coming back from coronavirus

Posted on April 11, 2020April 11, 2020 by Brant Clifton

One of North Carolina’s newest Members of Congress has offered up his two cents on the current crisis and how to find our way out: Periods of

GOPe: Throwing Richard Burr under the bus?

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Brant Clifton

It’s one thing to see conservatives and RINOs squabble, but it definitely IS a head scratcher when a RINO-on-RINO fracas breaks out. For instance, take

Meadows already making waves in his new job

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Mark Meadows has apparently exported the hard-nosed style that made him famous (or infamous) on Capitol Hill down the street to his new digs at 1600 Penn:

ANOTHER Richard Burr stock market scandal?

Posted on April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 by Brant Clifton

We all know about the stock sales just before the coronavirus lockdown crashed the economy. This time, it apparently involves a Dutch fertilizer company: The chairman