Archive for March, 2011

All 47 GOP Senators Co-sponsor Balanced Budget Amendment

Emily Miller at Human Events reports all 47 Republican Senators have co-sponsored a “consensus Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The key provisions of the new balanced budget amendment (BBA) are: Congress must pass a balanced budget; the President has to submit a balanced budget; spending is capped at 18% of the Gross Domestic [...]

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The Games in Washington. While America Bleeds Out.

We all remember the $100 Billion we were promised by the 112th Congress that would be the minimum accepted figure for cutting spending in this budget. It didn’t take long for that to become $61 Billion. About as long as the plane rides from their districts to their DC swearing in took after the November [...]

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SC Education Lobbyist writes Op-Ed. Stunningly fact and evidence free!

Adam Schaeffer writing at Cato@Liberty has an unsurprising write up about an article written by Molly Spearman, executive director of the S.C. Association of School Administrators. Spearman *GASP* denounces the SC School Choice Bill. Schaeffer notes that her comments “reveal either a complete disregard for the basic facts and research findings, or an ignorance of [...]

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SC Legislators vote to merge criminal justice agencies

Matt Long at South Carolina Radio Network reports: Governor Nikki Haley and several lawmakers want to merge the agency that runs the state’s prisons with one that looks after the inmates once they are released. The House approved a bill Wednesday by an 81-21 vote to combine the state Corrections Department with the Department of [...]

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School Choice … Your Homework

We are planning to “do a few things” about the School Choice Bill in the next few weeks, some pretty fun stuff I think. I know some of you are very invested in this issue, have watched it and worked on it yourself for a long while. To get everyone up to speed on what’s [...]

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April 18 … two tea party events!

Our own Jim Lee, Upstate tea party patriot and veteran has been asked to emcee the Columbia Tea Party’s Tax Day Tea Party event at the statehouse in Columbia on April 18! The event begins at noon and runs until 2:00 PM. A Facebook pages has been set up for this event, you can go [...]

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Senate Education K-12 Subcommittee meets today

The Senate subcommittee hearing is this morning. If you can send some emails through the www.mysclegislator.com this am, that would be encouraging to Senator Fair in Greenville and Senator Hayes in Rock Hill and Senator Peeler in Gaffney as well as Senator Grooms in Berkeley county. They would appreciate hearing from you, thanking them for [...]

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SC Health Exchange bill loses last 2 GOP supporters

Stephen Largen writing at SJH reports: Wednesday, the S.C. bill lost its last two Republican co-sponsors after losing eight Tuesday, including House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Cooper, R-Anderson. The mass withdrawal of support for the bill from Republicans came as the activist groups urged their supporters to contact legislators from their districts to [...]

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While you were watching Wisconsin …

… things are happening in Ohio, Indiana, and Florida! MoeLane at Redstate gives us a short post filled with goodness. In Ohio, the final vote on SB 5 was 53-44; it’s already passed the Ohio Senate, but changes made to the bill require another quick vote on the legislation either today or tomorrow. This particular [...]

March 30, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

$73 Billion.

Ted Barrett at CNN has a report of a slightly larger amount for the budget compromise … $73 Billion. It’s still not $100 Billion. and we’re still not #winning.

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