Tag: NCGOP

While MAGA cuts in DC, Raleigh is fattening up

Posted on February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Since 2017, we’ve been hearing talk from the General Assembly about revenue surpluses. Surpluses in revenue occur when they take too much money from us in April of each year.

DISLOYALTY: Is somebody in Raleigh about to get ‘The Richard Morgan Treatment’?

Posted on February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Those of you who have been in North Carolina politics for a few decades — at least — are likely to remember Moore County’s very own state Rep. Richard Morgan

Tillis & RINO comrades fuming over Trump J6 pardons

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

You could question The Capitol Police about those videos of their officers giggling maniacally as they shot at the heads of January 6 protesters with flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets.

One GOP senator fighting harder than anyone to block J6 pardons. (Go ahead. GUESS who it is.)

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Brant Clifton

People have been locked in solitary confinement. Others have been locked up for years without court hearings. Front doors of residences have been kicked in by paramilitary police. Lives have

Ex Parte time: As The (Berger) World Turns

Posted on January 14, 2025January 14, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It’s hard to watch – or discuss, for that matter — Republican power politics in Raleigh these days without bringing up lawyers or antics worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster script.

David Rouzer: STILL Congress’s Wizard of Wall Street

Posted on January 9, 2025January 9, 2025 by Brant Clifton

He’s been a bureaucrat, a congressional staffer, a lobbyist, and a state senator. But that background hasn’t stopped congressman David Rouzer (R-NC) from becoming one of Capitol Hill’s most successful

It’s Phil Berger’s World. We’re just allowed (for a price) to live in it.

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Brant Clifton

“Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” was a popular game making the rounds of pop culture some years back. The object was to take any random individual or event or object

How many times will we keep falling for this government-shutdown cliffhanger ?

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Never mind that a budget is the leading constitutional responsibility for Congress. Never mind that a deadline for passing a budget comes at the same time(s) every year. Never mind

Will The Jones Street Mob maintain its iron grip on state GOP?

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Brant Clifton

We shall see. The state Republican Party is in the midst of updating and revising its primary governing document — The Plan of Organization (PoO). We’ve talked with quite

Thom Tillis STILL struggling with the truth about his own schooling

Posted on December 16, 2024December 16, 2024 by Brant Clifton

North Carolinians aren’t as worried as you’d think about their politicians possessing college degrees. In fact, neither of our US senators serving from 1993 to 1999 had earned college degrees