The Daily Haymaker

#ncgop: Gettin’ all stupid up in here!

Posted on October 2, 2015October 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

”Yo, you don’t even know what stupid is. It’s about to get all stupid up in here!” — Michael Scott, Dunder-Mifflin Paper Co. ——————————- All of the spin about unity

Heritage Action: Jones top NCGOP conservative in DC; Ellmers, Tillis and Burr most liberal NCGOPers in Congress

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Heritage Action has updated (as of October 10 their Congressional score cards. For the North Carolina delegation, Walter Jones is on top with a conservative ranking of 89 percent.

#nc-03: Emerson Electric, Boehner tag-teaming Walter Jones?

Posted on October 2, 2015October 2, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That’s what it looks like. Take a gander at this invitation for a September 29 fundraiser in DC for Jones’s primary opponent, *local boy* Taylor Griffin: Subject: Fwd: Taylor Griffin Please Join

The problem with the VA: illustrated in ONE voicemail

Posted on October 1, 2015October 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

My top secret hotline rang unexpectedly today. I saw on the caller ID that it was a number I did not recognize from Fayetteville. So, I decided to introduce the

#ncga: We don’t need exceptions. We need a REPEAL.

Posted on October 1, 2015October 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve recently heard news about the General Assembly issuing “exceptions” to the state Certificate of Need rules to Belhaven hospital and another one out in western North Carolina. For

#ncpol: RIP, NCGOP

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It’s a new day in North Carolina politics. We’ve been saying for a while that the political parties no longer matter much. They are a great vehicle for getting the

#ncpol: McHenry, Tillis vote to FUND Planned Parenthood, amnesty

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have been fretting about a “government shutdown.” Even though there has been no evidence whatsoever of past government shutdowns hurting the GOP at the ballot

#nc-03: Some advice for Taylor Griffin

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It looks like the GOP primary for US House is not going to look anything like the last go-around. The Walter Jones campaign got caught flat-footed in 2014 and nearly

#ncga: Legislators to voters: ‘Screw You.’ (Power Grab NOW EVEN WORSE)

Posted on September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I swear. You almost have to harken back to the Soviet Union or look to Cuba to find a government that has such utter, comparable, contempt for its people. NCGOP

#ncga: Binky spies a bigot