Tag: Congress

Waiting on Howard

Posted on December 31, 2011December 31, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Howard Coble, the Republican congressman representing North Carolina’s Sixth District, appears to be playing the part of Hamlet here at the end of 2011. Fresh off of hospital stays

Miss Nancy is BUSTED! (Livin’ la vida 1%)

Posted on December 31, 2011December 31, 2011 by Brant Clifton

(I bet Pinehurst mayor — and faithful Haymaker reader Nancy Fiorillo — had a conniption and spit out her coffee when she saw that headline. ) Our friends at

Time for Sally Struthers to leave Africa and go film a commercial on Capitol Hill?

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Brant Clifton

I’ve heard of Feed The Children, but FEED THE CONGRESSMEN? It’s clearly a slow news time here at the end of the year. The Washington Post did a story

Merry Christmas! BarryO wants another $1.2 TRILLION.

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Brant Clifton

That debt ceiling deal Republicans sold us on a few months back is going from bad to worse. We were told the country would go into

GOP in DC waves the white flag on limited government and fiscal sanity

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Well — looking back at the developments in DC this past week — we learned that we cannot count on John Boehner, Richard Burr, Howard Coble, or Renee Ellmers to

DeMint: Big-spending business-as-usual in Congress

Posted on December 21, 2011December 21, 2011 by Brant Clifton

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), writing in The Hill over the weekend, says The Tea Party needs to finish what it started in 2010 if real change

Boozing it up — on the clock — on Capitol Hill

Posted on December 10, 2011December 10, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The latest dispatch from “The NW Daily Marker” — a Seattle based political blog — is giving Seattle area congressman Rick Larsen (D) a perpetual migraine.

For BarryO & the gang, GAY is OK as the word of the DAY

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The economy is in the the toilet. Our troops are at war. Political chaos is popping up all over the globe. BarryO, “Dingy Harry” Reid, and Miss Nancy are

One More Time: Government DOES NOT CREATE JOBS

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Economist Paul Gregory has an excellent piece on Forbes.com slapping down the notion put forth by BarryO and his allies that MORE government spending is

Renee Ellmers: THERE she is …

Posted on December 6, 2011December 6, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Renee Ellmers is beginning to give a lot of ‘street cred’ to those blonde jokes. I watched a recent floor speech by the 2nd district congresswoman dealing