That’s *OUR Girl* !
The legislative giant who told us John Boehner is her “boss” and that ”you can’t just take a law away because you want it to go away,”
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US House approves tax increase, spending increases in Murray-Ryan deal (Some NC, SC GOPers help)
John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and the rest of the House GOP leadership have pretty much stomped out the last vestiges of the GOP’s claim to being the party
Continue readingMurray-Ryan budget deal: selling us a bill of goods
We’ve got 535 voting members of Congress. Yet. this “bi-partisan”, “disaster-averting” budget deal announced yesterday got hammered out in private talks between Senate Budget Committee chairman Patty Murray and House
Continue readingHeritage: Raise the minimum wage? O-Care has ALREADY done it.
The mainstream media has been dutifully regurgitating the lefty press releases demanding that the minimum wage be doubled immediately. We even got PR events showing the paltry Thanksgiving
Continue readingNC-02: Frank Roche hits the ground running in primary bid against Ellmers
Wake County Republican Frank Roche has launched a web site promoting his 2014 primary challenge to incumbent congresswoman Renee Ellmers. You may remember Roche from his 2010 primary bid
Continue readingThe politics of pre-school
The richest man in North Carolina was in DC to demand even more taxpayer-funded preschool: Jim Goodnight, the CEO of Cary software company SAS, spoke at
Continue readingNC-6 GOP: Coble’s retirement from Congress throws open the barn doors
The dean of the North Carolina congressional delegation is calling it quits. Greensboro’s Howard Coble — an 82 year old moderate who rose to prominence in Raleigh in the
Continue readingRichard Burr stands by his man. (And THAT man is Mel Watt.)
Barry Obama is trying to appoint the most leftist member of North Carolina’s congressional delegation to a key administration post. And North Carolina’s only Republican senator is trying to help
Continue readingNo Chance to Win? Change parties, bash your old one.
Jason Thigpen is ripping a page from former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s political playbook in his race against Walter Jones in North Carolina’s Third Congressional District. In 2010, Crist was
Continue reading“Official” or “unofficial”? Loophole allows Congress, staff to weasel out of O-Care compliance
The stuff the, um, honorables on Capitol Hill think is so good for us is apparently not always so good for them and their staffs. Word is coming
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