The debt ceiling: We were tricked, y’all!
American Hustle is not just lighting up the movie screens. It’s playing out on Capitol Hill as well. Following last week’s disgraceful surrender by House Republicans on the debt ceiling,
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GOP-controlled US House passes debt ceiling lift with almost NO Republican help
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed yet another increase in the federal debt ceiling by a margin of 221-201. Of those 201 NO votes, 199 of them were Republican. Boehner
Continue readingWhither the OPPOSITION party?
We’ve got a president operating well outside the boundaries of The Constitution — arbitrarily making changes to laws passed by the legislative branch. If a Republican president had tried something
Continue readingHere we go again: DC taking us back to the 1970s
I don’t know about you, but the 1970s is a decade I’d like to forget. For those of you too young to remember, Google these terms: gas lines, Iran hostage
Continue readingNC-02: Ellmers sweating the immigration issue
I got ANOTHER campaign mailer from Renee Ellmers this weekend disguised as “official business.” I know I have worked this issue over here and here. But it is just so brazen
Continue readingNC-02: Ellmers STILL campaigning on the taxpayer dime
On the last day of January, we told you about congresswoman Renee Ellmers’ taxpayer-funded constituent mailings that bear a striking resemblance to campaign literature — stuff that is not supposed
Continue readingO-Care: Lefties run damage control on Barry & Kay’s job-killing pet monster
The Congressional Budget Office — long the target of much love and affection by liberals and mainstream media types — is now feeling their wrath. The CBO dared to publish
Continue readingNC-02: Ellmers moves put amnesty for illegal aliens at the center of her primary fight
Renee Ellmers has been proud of her ties to House leadership. She once slipped up — I think — in a conversation with me, referring to House Speaker John Boehner
Continue readingOmnibus? More like Omni-BUST!
I went back in the Google time machine and found some comments from GOP leaders shortly after the Tea Party put them back in charge of the US House of
Continue readingBOHICA: The amnesty sellout cometh
Tea Partiers and other grassroots limited government types have been disappointed time and again by the Republican leaders on Capitol Hill they elected and elevated in 2010 and 2012. Spending.
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