Tag: Congress

Very little to show for majorities in Raleigh, DC

Posted on January 18, 2026 by Brant Clifton

In Raleigh, there have been GOP majorities controlling The General Assembly since 2010. Democrats have little to no say as to what happens there. So, it is truly stunning that

Chuck Edwards helps preserve MILLIONS in wasteful spending

Posted on January 14, 2026January 17, 2026 by Brant Clifton

Soooo many Republican elected officials think they can snow us and sneak back into office by simply chanting TRUMPTRUMPTRUMPTRUMPTRUMP ad infinitum. Folks, it was never about the man. It’s the

DEM internal polling shows Chuck Edwards getting edged out in NC-11

Posted on January 7, 2026January 7, 2026 by Brant Clifton

Here’s yet another example where a weak top-of-the-ticket for the NCGOP could help take down an incumbent: […] The internal poll conducted by Impact Research and first shared with Newsweek

Another sheriff, another big political move

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The 2026 campaign season is starting to look like The Year of The Sheriff. In Rockingham County, sheriff Sam Page (R) is challenging the re-nomination of state senate president pro

An impressive GOP primary choice for Congress in NC-11

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Brant Clifton

I think you folks out west might have an opportunity to elect yourselves a really good one here. Army special ops veteran and current businessman Adam Smith (R) is tossing

Is ANYONE serious about getting our financial house in order? (Anyone, at all?)

Posted on September 24, 2025September 24, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It’s pretty safe to say that conservative ideas are what propelled the GOP to a position of power in North Carolina and the United States. Most of the GOP’s greatest

Greg Murphy talking out of BOTH SIDES of his mouth? (You don’t say.)

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Greg Murphy conned his way into Congress by posing as a born-again Freedom Caucus conservative and thumping his Bible extra hard. He dumped all that stuff, upon being elected, and

Conservatives call out GOPe’s slow-walk of approving Trump nominees. (NC’s Murphy defends it.)

Posted on July 26, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Congressman Greg Murphy has to be one of the most audacious, spectacular specimens of liar that I’ve encountered in my nearly four decades in politics. You can’t believe a damn

While DC balks at cutting spending, the numbers just keep getting worse

Posted on July 19, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Yes, I know we have a GOP majority in DC. But it is exasperating to keep having to call JD Vance in to break ties on votes to cut ANY

NC’s Pat Harrigan: Pass Big Beautiful Bill to fully-fund mass deports, riot crackdown

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The 10th congressional district’s Pat Harrigan may be one of the new kids in town for NC politics, but he’s apparently earned a heck of a national platform to make