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
Continue readingGreat. Another closed-door deal. If major decisions are getting made by a handful of folks behind a closed door, WHAT IS THE POINT of sending 535 folks up there to
Continue readingPoliticians using the public treasury to pay off or payback cronies back home is nothing new. But it is something different when the crowd that spent decades griping about such
Continue readingMitch 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
Continue readingWe’ve heard some tough talk. Everyone is beating their chest getting ready for the upcoming elections. But the chest-beaters are apparently ready to send to the governor a budget that
Continue readingAccording to Miss Mollie, speaker Moore’s easy-on-the-eyes spokesmodel, the rubber just might meet the road today: From: Mollie Young (Dir. of Communications, Speaker Moore’s Office) Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 4:38 PMTo: @House/Republican/Members; @House/Republican/LAsCc: @Speaker
Continue readingSpeaker 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
Continue readingYes, 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
Continue readingThat 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
Continue readingThere 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
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