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The omnibus: Bleeding us dry. Lying to our faces. Killing our country.

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It’s $1.1 trillion dollars.  It’s 2009 pages.  It was written by FOUR lawmakers and a bunch of lobbyists.   Politicians like Renee Ellmers want to sell it as a great

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campaign 2016, Congress, David Rouzer, George Holding, Mark Meadows, Media, NCGOP, Patrick McHenry, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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#ncga: David Lewis. On The Phone. Unhinged.

Posted on December 18, 2015December 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That’s how participants described a rather unusual conference call held Thursday among some House Republicans.  The meeting was moderated — some would argue dictated and dominated — by beleaguered House

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Moore, Lewis. (Pay to Play, anyone? )

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Speaker Tim Moore’s *faaaaaaaaaavorite* TV reporter is at it again:  State Representative David Lewis (R-Harnett), who chairs the powerful House Rules Committee, is answering new questions about changes made to a

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Phil Berger and, um — THE TEAMSTERS ????

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Don’t you just love it when politicians who know NOTHING about a subject try to lecture people who DO KNOW something about a subject?  Law enforcement and military folks get

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCSEN: Burr aide hit with calls for firing, ethics complaint in Cruz probe kerfluffle

Posted on December 17, 2015December 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It looks like Tricky Dick’s taxpayer-funded mouthpiece-ette really stepped in it:  Last night, Becca Glover Watkins, communications director for Chairman Richard Burr of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, engaged

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campaign 2016, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Richard Burr
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#ncgop: MORE Dallas mischief?

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Holy cow.  I am starting to believe Dallas Woodhouse and Curtis Watkins may be taking political strategy advice from the same person.  (Yet, Watkins had the decency to step down.

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Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: A RINO retreats

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It appears that the bearded RINO will not be lumbering around the North Carolina Senate chamber in 2016 after all.  We wrote earlier about how, um, *classy* it is to

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCSEN: Burr says Muslim immigration ban ‘a huge mistake’

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The guy who once told us defunding ObamaCare was “the dumbest idea [he’d] ever heard” is expressing similar sentiments about clamping down on immigration to the U.S. as part of

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Richard Burr
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#NCSEN: Burr probing Ted Cruz

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Our senior senator is apparently in hot pursuit of Texas’s junior senator:  A key Senate Republican is looking into whether Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) discussed classified information during Tuesday night’s

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Richard Burr
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NC-02: (GI Jane?) Nee-Nee knows MORE than the Air Force

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

nurse. mom. wife. politician. military tactician.  *Boy, Renee Ellmers does it ALL.* Big Government Barbie™ — who has yet to file for reelection — appears to be campaigning via every

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campaign 2016, Congress, Renee Ellmers
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