Archive for the ‘National’ Category

Orphan Earmarks

This well researched article in USAToday by Cezary Podkul and Gregory Korte explain things about earmarks that I never even imagined. Seems there are millions? billions? of dollars that are tied up in earmarks that were once appropriated but never spent. Using highway projects as an example, the authors explain that once appropriated, those dollars [...]

January 5, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: National, Tax/Budget/Spending  One Comment

Bring back the bulb!

We’ve talked about this before here and here. Now according to Alexis Levinson at The Daily Caller, it’s about to be raised in the House. In the early days of the 112th Congress, Reps. Joe Barton of Texas, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Michael Burgess of Texas, all Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee, [...]

January 5, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: National  No Comments

In Which Jay Cost proves Michael Steele is a tool

Jay Cost at the Weekly Standard calmly and with “a list” explains why Michael Steele is a tool. In John McCormack’s interview with Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee said: “Tell me what election we lost because I gave $15,000 to Guam.” And so Jay lists them. A list of potentially 26 [...]

January 5, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: National  No Comments

I Love This Man!

Governor Awesome continues to do battle. Rick Moran at American Thinker alerts us to this one… “The four-year-old state Division of Minority and Women Business Development has been quietly dismantled by the administration of Gov. Chris Christie, which continues to register small businesses and help them obtain state government contracts on a race- and gender-neutral [...]

January 5, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: National  No Comments

Spending Cut Lock Box

Richard E. Cohen had this story at Politico back in December, of a proposed change in House rules that would create a “spending reduction” account to accompany each appropriations bill. It appears this rule changes was pushed by Rep. Paul Ryan, but was strongly opposed by GOP members of the Appropriations Committee. It’s not a [...]

January 4, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: National, Tax/Budget/Spending  No Comments

Repeal Amendment vs. Madison Amendment

I’m just gonna tell ya … sometimes there is a lot of study to do before I can grasp all of the new things we are learning as newly awakened activists. So I”m going to suggest that you do some research yourself on the Repeal Amendment vs. the Madison Amendment. Both are said to be [...]

January 4, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: National  One Comment

*ACTION ITEM* Here’s the scoop on filibuster reform

In a blog posting titled “Fight Back!” over at Redstate, Erick Erickson lays out what will happen when the Senate convenes. It will largely be ceremonial. Then Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) will raise a point of order regarding whether the Senate is a continuing body or not. Then Harry Reid will put the Senate in [...]

January 4, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: National  No Comments

With the RNC Chair Debate on Monday at 1 PM …

… it is time to begin schooling ourselves on the candidates. Yes, this is yet another area of thought that I *NEVER* thought I’d care anything about, much less know anything about the candidates… but like many of us in the past 2 years, we have become well versed in things like GOP Chairmen, Precinct [...]

January 2, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: National, RINO Alert  No Comments

Republicans vow war on red tape

Louis Peck, writing at The Fiscal Times, has an even more in-depth article about the use of the Congressional Review Act. If I thought that Congress had the spine to follow through, I’d be sorta encouraged. The fact that the article quotes Jim DeMint quite a bit spurs that encouragement. One of the things I’ve [...]

December 30, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Congressional, National  No Comments

RNC Chair Debate Monday at 1 PM *WATCH ONLINE*

Americans for Tax Reform and The Daily Caller are co-hosting a debate Monday January 3 for the RNC Chairman candidates. The debate begins at 1 PM and will be streamed online. You can watch at the link above, and also at The Daily Caller site. Former Michigan GOP chairman Saul Anuzis, former Bush administration official [...]

December 30, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: National  No Comments