The ObamaCare Hustle
It’s easy to talk big and tough about cutting stuff when you KNOW your grand-standing is going to get vetoed by the president. But it’s a whole new ballgame —
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#ncpol: Solar goons teaming with Hudson to sink claws into tax $$$ for hydropower?
That’s what it looks like. Here’s an excerpt from Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s schedule for the House floor this coming week: Check out HR 2786, sponsored by Rep. Richard
Continue readingPittenger: Change The Rules. Here’s Some Cash. (Remember to vote.)
Conservatives have long had heartburn over the very existence of government departments of agriculture. Far too often, those institutions have been little more than farm community vote-buying apparatuses. In recent
Continue readingGOPe keeping ObamaCare taxes, too.
We heard earlier from Rand Paul about his disgust over his colleagues’s ObamaCare hijinks. Now comes word, via The Wall Street Journal, that Senate Republicans are A-OKAY with the taxes
Continue reading#nc-03: “Outsider” Dacey hits up DC lobbyist pals for cash (Oh, yeah. We’ve got mail!)
Congressman Walter Jones’s challenger in the 3rd district, Scott Dacey, is making a big deal out of Jones’s lengthy tenure in DC and playing up his own service to the
Continue readingThilli$$$$$: We need MORE foreign workers!
Yep. Our junior senator is carrying water for his patrons in The Chamber AND causing trouble for President Trump all in one fell swoop: The White House complained Monday about
Continue reading#ncpol: Thom WHO ???
That’s right. According to a major national survey, a whopping 30 percent of North Carolina voters say they either Don’t Know who Thom Tillis is, or have No Opinion of
Continue reading#nc-03: Dacey client sent $100K to RNC while seeking Bush White House meeting
A $100K check is bound to get SOMEBODY’S attention. Here’s The Arizona Daily Sun: Just months after President Bush took office, the Republican Party accepted a $100,000 check from an
Continue reading#nc-03: Dacey lobbied Clintons to kill pro-Republican Indian tribe’s casino deal
THAT is according to a 1997 article in a Racine, Wisconsin newspaper: A trio of Wisconsin Indian tribes waged a furious lobbying effort to derail a controversial off-reservation casino project
Continue reading#nc-03: Dacey donated to Dems, had prominent role in Clinton-era federal ethics probe
Records indicate that, as late as 2006, Scott Dacey was giving campaign contributions to congressional Democrats from other states. Dacey, a long-time lobbyist on federal issues, announced this week his
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