#NCSEN: Tillis, Burr split on Omnibus spending orgy
The travesty that got started in the House has been completed in the Republican Senate. By a vote of 65-33, a $1.1 TRILLION spending orgy has passed and is headed
Continue readingThe omnibus: Bleeding us dry. Lying to our faces. Killing our country.
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
Continue reading#ncga: David Lewis. On The Phone. Unhinged.
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
Continue reading#ncga: Moore, Lewis. (Pay to Play, anyone? )
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
Continue reading#ncga: Phil Berger and, um — THE TEAMSTERS ????
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
Continue reading#NCSEN: Burr aide hit with calls for firing, ethics complaint in Cruz probe kerfluffle
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
Continue reading#ncgop: MORE Dallas mischief?
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.
Continue reading#ncga: A RINO retreats
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
Continue reading#NCSEN: Burr says Muslim immigration ban ‘a huge mistake’
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
Continue reading#NCSEN: Burr probing Ted Cruz
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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