Tag: Congress

#nc-02: The Lyin’ Queen takes to the airwaves AGAIN

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Now, she’s mixing it up on us. In between taxpayer-funded campaign mail drops, Big Government Barbie is taking to the airwaves with the help of something called The American Action

#NC-02: Club for Growth bets it all on Jim Duncan

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The Club For Growth — arguably DC’s premier free-market, limited-government political action committee — has never been much of a fan of Renee Ellmers. They’ve issued some harsh criticisms over the

What WILL the GOP stand and fight FOR?

Posted on November 30, 2015November 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

One again, we’re hearing talk from our grand majority in Washington about surrendering before the battle even starts: A top House leader predicted Monday that Washington will avoid stumbling into

#nc-03: Jones, Syria and THE REST OF THE STORY

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve heard all kinds of coverage of this Syria refugee bill pushed through the Congress in response to the Paris terror attacks. We heard about 47 Democrats joining the Republican

#nc-02: STILL looking for that shame. (Anybody seen it?)

Posted on November 18, 2015November 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We chronicled our efforts earlier to identify at least ONE shred of shame in Renee Ellmers. Check out what Big Government Barbie™ is promoting on her campaign website: Hmmm.

#NCSEN: Thillis delivers for his donors

Posted on November 12, 2015November 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Only 62.4 percent of Americans are in the labor force. THAT is a 38-year low. Over 94 million people are not in the labor force. That means those people do

NC-03: Wow. Taylor Griffin IS being bankrolled by Wall Street & K Street.

Posted on November 1, 2015November 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve written extensively about this heightened environment of influence-buying in American politics. Over in the Third Congressional District GOP primary, we’ve got a clear example of deep-pocketed influence-peddlers in DC

Meet the new boss. Pretty much the same as the old boss. (Not as orange.)

Posted on October 30, 2015October 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

All of the DC-NY conservative intelligentsia are swooning and cooing over the rise of Paul Ryan to the speakership of the US House. I have never understood the conservative fascination

#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

#nc-02: Nee-Nee does the Ex-Im dance

Posted on October 27, 2015October 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The GOPe is at it again. Just when you thought it was dead, the Export-Import Bank is coming back from the dead with a vengeance like we haven’t seen since