Tag: NCGOP

Trump tired of Thom Tillis TOO?

Posted on February 15, 2025February 15, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Welcome to the party, Mr. President. If you recall, there was a lot of drama around the confirmation of Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense. Word came out that our

Rockingham sheriff has senator Berger in his sights

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Folks, we may have the chance to rid ourselves of TWO scoundrels in one primary. US senator Thom Tillis has at least one primary opponent. Now, it’s clear that

Berger backs BIGGER unemployment checks

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The de facto leader of the NCGOP is defying his party’s national fervor for cutting spending and waste. State senator Phil Berger, his chamber’s president pro tem, has made it

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