Tag: budget

#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

#BOHICA: More debt. More spending. Boehner & co. strike ANOTHER DEAL with Obama

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Great. 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

#ncga: The money fairies of Jones Street

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Politicians 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

#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

#ncga: Limited government and the GOP formally separate

Posted on September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’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

#ncga: Showdown at the Jones Street corral

Posted on September 14, 2015September 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

According 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

#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