The Daily Haymaker

The cost of government

Posted on September 13, 2015September 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There is a lot of hubbub about the state budget right now. We’re hearing a lot from county and city officials moaning about how hard it is to do business

#ncga: Stop the presses! An update from Miss Mollie on THE DEAL

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Speaker Moore’s spokesmodel chimed in today with an update for all of us in the House Republican caucus: From: Mollie Young (Dir. of Communications, Speaker Moore’s Office) Sent: Saturday, September

McConnell: Planned Parenthood defund effort ‘exercise in futility’

Posted on September 12, 2015September 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Yep. That’s the POV of our,um, *fearless* leader in the latest POS-tico: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in an interview Friday he will back a plan to fund the

#ncga: DEAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted on September 11, 2015September 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Yes, the word has come down from on high: From: Mollie Young (Dir. of Communications, Speaker Moore’s Office) Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 7:05 PM To: @House/Republican/Members; @House/Republican/LAs Cc: @Speaker

#NC-02: The three faces of Renee

Posted on September 11, 2015September 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There’s a classic book and a movie out there called ‘The Three Faces of Eve’ — focusing on a woman’s multiple personalities. Here in the second congressional district, we’re ‘blessed’

#ncga: Six things that have slowed the budget process

Posted on September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That is, in essence, what the story in today’s N&O was about. (Off the top of our heads, we can think of at least ONE BIG obvious one.) Here is

#ncga: Dollar-Lewis-Moore counting on Dems, planning culling of conservative herd

Posted on September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There WILL be war. That’s what my sources from all four corners of Jones Street are telling me amidst the poker-game-with-other-people’s-money called “budget conference negotiations.” Said one well-placed House GOP

That lonely one-way street called party loyalty. (And its sidewalks are packed with WHORES.)

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We conservatives are ALWAYS lectured about party loyalty. *We need to suck it up and support Pat McCrory, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Thom Tillis and Richard Burr.* This year, the

#ncga: Somebody call a plumber.

Posted on September 9, 2015September 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Some folks were seething inside a House GOP caucus meeting today. What were the accelerants for all that burning — that fire? I’m told there were two things: (1) the fact

#ncga: Nelson STILL ain’t happy. (But movie incentives are BACK!)