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And They Shall Assemble

February 26, 2010

I was doing some research that involved looking up something in the U.S. Constitution, and came across this section, which struck me:
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
Oh, if only they would [...]

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Obama Proposes Takeover of America’s Health Care System

February 23, 2010

Barack Obama put forth his health care proposal yesterday, a nearly $1 trillion budget-busting takeover of 1/6 of the U.S. Economy.  Now, usually, American Presidents typically propose legislation before both houses of Congress pass their own versions, but I digress.  The plan is very similar to the Senate plan, but imposes new taxes, weakens the [...]

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Are House Democrats 100 Votes Short of Passing ObamaCare?

February 16, 2010

So says Michael Barone, who is one statistician that I am prone to trust.  His analysis rings true.  The Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts had the effect that many of us predicted.  Democrats in Republican-leaning districts (and there are many of them, that is how the Dems captured the House in 2006) are nervous about [...]

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Obama’s State of Denial

January 25, 2010

Obama is in a state of denial.  He still thinks he is the messiah, and that all bow down and worship at his feet.  Today, Rep. Marion Berry (D-AR) announced his retirement, citing fears of a 1994-redo in the making.  When pressed further, he mentioned that Obama was in complete denial, thinking that he would [...]

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Colonel Allen West For Congress!

December 16, 2009

I only heard yesterday about this clip from Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, who’s running for Congress in Florida’s 22nd Congressional district.  If we could get more Republicans speaking like this (and willing to put their money where their mouth is), I might actually unclip my nose when voting for them:

I’m not ready to literally charge [...]

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Memo to RNC, NSCC, and NCCC: Enough With The RINOs!

November 2, 2009

Dede Scozzofava is the poster child for the RINO problem that has infiltrated our party.  The pattern is predictable.  The Republican establishment props up and supports a RINO candidate against a Conservative candidate who stands a chance of winning.  The Conservative base makes noise and is told to shut up and support the Republican candidate [...]

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DeMint on Term Limits

October 28, 2009

Sen. Jim DeMint recently penned an essay posted on his Senate website on the subject of term limits.  DeMint is planning to introduce a Constitutional amendment to impose term limits of two 6-year terms for Senators and three 2-year terms for Congressman.  In his short essay, DeMint talks about why term limits are needed and [...]

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Democrats Don’t Have the Votes for ObamaCare

October 27, 2009

It’s starting to look like the Democrats don’t have the votes for the public option.  An internal Democrat memo today shows that the Democrats in the House of Representatives have less than 200 of the 218 votes needed to pass Health Care Reform with a public option.  Similarly, in the Senate, Joe Lieberman announced today [...]

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The Sarah Palin Bombshell

October 23, 2009

Sarah Palin shook up the political world yesterday by endorsing Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman for President in New York’s 23rd Congressional District special election.  Hoffman is running as a Conservative party candidate because New York does not have primaries in special elections, and the GOP establishment appointed mega-RINO Dede Scozzafava, a RINO who supports [...]

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Congress Flexes Muscles on Gitmo

October 5, 2009

A bi-partisan amendment passed in the House last week (opposed by the Democrat Party’s liberal wing) to prevent ANY federal funds to be used to close Club Gitmo at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to prevent any federal dollars to be used to transport Gitmo prisoners to U.S. Soil.  It seems that on a bi-partisan basis, [...]

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Republican Revolution II?

August 25, 2009

Things are starting to point towards a shifting tide in the mood of the electorate.  With the economy still floundering and the American People’s lack of enthusiasm about ObamaCare, Democrats should start to get worried.  Dick Morris was on Hannity last night, discussing the Democrat’s problems, and predicted that Republicans could very well pick up [...]

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Candidate Recruitment Holds Promise for 2010

July 27, 2009

Candidate recruitment for the GOP is looking promising, providing the GOP with the best crop of candidates for the House and Senate races since 2004.  Coupled with the difficulties that Democrats are currently having for recruitment and the high prospects for the party out of power during an off year election, and the prospects for [...]

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Health Care Legislation On The Brink

July 27, 2009

Health Care legislation appears to have stalled somewhat, with the Senate no longer planning to vote on the bill before the August recess, and the house likely to follow suit, dealing a major blow to Obama’s stated objectives and making ultimate passage of the bill far more difficult.
In the Senate, the finance committee is working [...]

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Health Care Bill Outlaws Private Insurance

July 16, 2009

With the Health Care plan now having passed one committee in the Senate, more details are being uncovered as the language of the bill is being scrutinized.  It seems the line “you will be able to keep your health insurance” is quite true literally.  You will be able to keep your health insurance, but health [...]

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Barone: Congress in Chaos

July 13, 2009

Michael Barone’s piece in the Washington Examiner yesterday describes a Congress in utter chaos.  Barone sees a President who is big on talking points but inattentive to details of legislation and of the process necessary to achieve results in Congress.  He sees Cap and Trade as well as Health Care proposals stalled in the halls [...]

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Alec Baldwin Considers Run for Congress

July 8, 2009

With Arnold Schwarzenegger running California into the ground and Al Franken returning Minnesota to joke status, Alec Baldwin has decided that now is the perfect time to float the idea of running for Congress.  Oddly, Baldwin doesn’t know which state he wants to represent, though he says that his dream is to challenge Joe Lieberman [...]

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Congress Balks at Closing Gitmo

June 19, 2009

In passing the war supplemental to fund the ongoing U.S. presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, Congress also placed serious restrictions that will make it extremely difficult to close Guantanamo Bay.  The new supplemental does not allocate any funds to the closing of Gitmo.  In addition, the bill contains the following new laws:

No Guantanamo Bay [...]

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Bailouts Go International

June 17, 2009

The House of Representatives passed a $108 Billion bailout of foreign nations, payable to the International Monetary Fund.  As Michelle Malkin reports, Obama pledged this money to the IMF in April, without even consulting congress.  The vote passed 226-202, with 32 Democrats voting against the bill and 5 Republicans supporting it.  With our financial house [...]

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Obama’s Czar Problem

June 6, 2009

So far, Obama has been all about appointing and keeping “czars” beyond the traditional Drug Czar or Security Czar, to all sorts of new czars:  bank bailout czar, energy czar, car czar, US border czar, urban czar, regulatory czar, stimulus accountability czar, Iran czar, Afghanistan czar, Pakistan czar, Middle East czar, cyber security czar, Great Lakes [...]

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NY-20 Down To The Absentees

April 1, 2009

With 100% of the ballots counted, Democrat Scott Murphy leads Republican Jim Tedesco by a mere 65 votes.  The election is now in a holding pattern as there are some 6,000+ absentee ballots and even more provisional ballots yet to be counted, which have been sealed by a court and will not be counted until [...]

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Community Service Bill Marginalizes Organized Religion

March 26, 2009

The House of Representatives passed the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act (GIVE), creating a mandate for community service among high school and college students.  The bill spends $6 billion on beefing up government-paid and sponsored national service programs, and paves the way for future mandatory service by establishing a commission to explore the feasibility [...]

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Newt’s Response to Congress’ Debacle

February 14, 2009

The Stimulus Package is going to be law by Tuesday.  We all knew from November 4th that we weren’t going to win many battles.  This is no exception, in fact it’s the perfect example:  We tried. We lost.  That’s that.  No use whining anymore;  it’s happened.  The time has come for action in the arena [...]

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The Stimulus Vote and the Suspension of Democracy

February 13, 2009

First a bit of reality.  The stimulus is going to pass.  Only two scenarios could prevent that.  First, in the House, if 39 Blue-Dog Democrats (there are 49 in the Blue-Dog caucus) bolt and vote with the Republicans.  Not likely to happen.  Second, now that Kennedy cannot vote due to his health, if one of [...]

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Could Blue-Dogs Hold the Key to Stopping Stimulus?

February 7, 2009

The Blue-Dog Democrats in the House have been somewhat disenchanted with the Democrat leadership, and have been wanting to flex their muscles.  They realize that they are in districts that could go Republican in 2010, and may be the key to defeating the stimulus package.  Today, a letter signed by 49 Blue Dog Democrats was [...]

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Obama Unhinged

February 6, 2009

Obama gave a speech last night to the Democrat Party Congressional Retreat, and gave up any pretense of being the Great Unifier.  We now see Barack Obama for who he really is (which I and many of us already knew), a partisan hack:

Barack Obama is nothing more than a partisan hack who will tow the [...]

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Obama Looking for Republican Cover

January 27, 2009

Barack Obama is looking for Republican Cover regarding his stimulus package, by meeting with Republicans today on Capital Hill.  He is hoping to convince them to support his $850+ billion stimulus package, thinking that he would placate them by removing the contraception-funding provisions.  What he forgets is that the contraceptive funding is only one example [...]

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Republican Stimulus

January 23, 2009

Senate and House Republicans unveiled their own stimulus plan today.  The GOP Plan has a completely different focus than the spend-fest crafted by The One.  The bill as designed by house Republicans would include:

Cutting the two lowest marginal tax rates, moving the 10% bracket to 5%, and moving the 15% bracket to 10%.  Because the [...]

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Pork By Any Other Name Is Still Pork

January 12, 2009

Democrats love pork.  Obama promised no more earmarks.  What to do?  Instapundit has found that the liberals will just call earmarks by a new name, thus allowing the pork to continue while allowing Obama to save face.  Says House Majority Whip James Clyburn:
I know the politics of all this. I just think they’re wrong about [...]

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Boehner: No More Bailout Money

January 12, 2009

House Minority Leader John Boenher announced yesterday that he opposes releasing the remaining $350 billion of the TARP Bailout fund unless there is a proven need.
I think until there is a demonstrated need in our economy and a plan to address that need, I think it would be irresponsible for Congress to release the additional [...]

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This Time, I Can Support McCain-Feingold

January 9, 2009

The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform was a complete disaster.  We have spoken with disdain regarding it on many occasions here at AOR.  The Hill reports that McCain and Feingold are partnering up again to push another reform-based regulation.  This time, it’s the complete banning of earmarks. John McCain (D-AZ) and Russ Feingold (D-WI), along with [...]

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