Tag: budget

#ncga: Sniff, sniff. I smell PORK.

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Brant Clifton

The drivebys are trumpeting a great agreement on the budget between the two chambers on Jones Street. This agreement is loaded with the same kind of pork-flavored crap we’ve grown to

#ncga: Trying to make cents of all those budget dollars

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Well, the honorables on Jones Street have killed A LOT of trees to try and explain their spending plan for 2016-2017. Republicans will tout it as fiscal responsibility, while Democrats

#ncga: “De plane. De Plane.” (…ain’t gettin’a dime.)

Posted on May 19, 2016May 19, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Fresh off of getting his spending spree card punched for two more years by his low-information Wake County constituents, “Little Lord” Nelson Dollar one again failed to, um, disappoint. The N&O’s

#ncga: Driving to Raleigh to spend other people’s money is HARD.

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Brant Clifton

That’s the pitiful plea that we’re hearing from Jones Street: Describing themselves as being in a “Catch 22” over their compensation, a committee of state lawmakers on Monday approved a

#ncga: The big fight for the short session? Tax reform vs. MORE SPENDING & PAY RAISES

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Contrary to the prurient desires of The Gay News & Observer, HB2 is not being seen as the big fight in the GOP-dominated General Assembly during this short session. John

#ncga: A conservative direction? (THAT is not what the numbers tell us.)

Posted on January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 by Brant Clifton

If you believe the GOPe campaign rhetoric, they’ve got our state headed in a “conservative direction.” *Wow. That sounds great. We must be cutting taxes and the size of government

#ncpol NCGOPe: Delay of Game

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Brant Clifton

The riffraff with the pitchforks and flaming torches are at the front door. What, oh what, is a good elitist to do? The answer — at least for Saturday’s NCGOP

Paul & Renee’s big FAT Lie

Posted on December 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

In the real world, if you mislead people in order to get them to hand over their money to you — It’s a crime. In Raleigh and DC, it’s

#ncpol: Tillis comes to aid of Democrats on Boehner-Obama budget deal

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

And why not? He’s got five years before he faces the voters again. *Forget those silly campaign promises!* Our US Senate delegation split on the vote to jack up federal

#ncpol: Pittenger, McHenry come to the aid of Boehner & Obama on budget

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina Republicans Robert Pittenger and Patrick McHenry were TWO of the seventy-nine Republicans who joined with ALL of the Democrats in the House to pass the debt-increasing, budget-busting deal