Tag: Congress

Put-up-or-shut-up time for MAGA, DOGE & the GOP

Posted on February 13, 2025February 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The news about all of the stuff uncovered by Elon Musk and his minions is fantastic. All the right people are squealing like stuck pigs and screaming bloody murder. The

One GOP senator fighting harder than anyone to block J6 pardons. (Go ahead. GUESS who it is.)

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Brant Clifton

People have been locked in solitary confinement. Others have been locked up for years without court hearings. Front doors of residences have been kicked in by paramilitary police. Lives have

Have both parties in Congress just performed a coup de grâce on social security?

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Brant Clifton

To prep for this article, please refer to the linked illustration of the real-time US debt clock. Now keep that information in mind as you read this: The Senate broadly

Greg Murphy: ‘We in DC are smarter than YOU.’

Posted on December 21, 2024December 21, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Congressman Greg Murphy is absolutely shameless. Despicable, too. When the guy first ran to replace the late Walter Jones in Congress, he ran around the district thumping his Bible and

Grifting while our national economy burns down

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Politicians are great — especially at election time – at telling us what we want to hear. *Oh, they’re tightening the belt. Oh, they’re getting tough on spending and the

Greg Murphy: STILL butthurt over Matt Gaetz

Posted on November 14, 2024November 14, 2024 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina’ 3rd district congressman can definitely hold a grudge. Murphy won a 17 person primary to fill the seat left vacant by the late great Walter Jones. Murphy dragged

Richard Hudson wants war with Russia.

Posted on September 15, 2024September 15, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Ninth District congressman Richard Hudson has really proven himself as a masterful pretender. He regularly tries to pass himself off as a conservative. (According to Heritage Action, lil’ Richard’s voting

US House GOP debates internally re: Biden and the 25th amendment

Posted on July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 by Brant Clifton

With an important election right around the corner, it seems many in Congress’s opposition party are split on how to handle the question of Joe Biden and his fitness to

Club For Growth: On Capitol Hill, Bishop best while Tillis one of worst on economy

Posted on June 27, 2024 by Brant Clifton

The Club For Growth is one of the heavy-hitters in Washington politics. It funds Republican incumbents who demonstrate a passion for fiscal conservatism, while frequently funding opponents for those Republicans

Fed spending for FY 2024 largest ever (outside a major crisis)

Posted on June 24, 2024 by Brant Clifton

That’s the word from a Congressional Budget Office analysis. ( “Major crises” can include events like wars, The Great Depression, and the COVID pandemic.) Just like in Raleigh, good ol’