This will come as no surprise to the RTP audience, but the Wall Street Journal is reporting on how we’re already seeing the beginnings of ObamaCare’s forcing the retraction of health care options for patients:
This is an excellent articulation of why the Tea Party movement is a focused political force with precise goals and doesn’t fit the Left’s caricature of a self-contradictory mob of angry people just looking to shout at someone for no rational reason. Here’s an excerpt: Americans are a generous people, unwilling to tolerate the poor [...]
In the wake of defeats of establishment candidates in recent Republican and Democrat primaries around the country, two Virginia Tea Party leaders are personally continuing that trend by endorsing non-establishment candidates in their respective districts. Karen Miner Hurd, Founder of the Hampton Roads Tea Party, privately endorses Ben Loyola for Congress in the GOP primary (2nd [...]
I mentioned in my Thursday post about Senator Murkowski’s EPA resolution that this was happening because the legislative process for cap and trade (tax) has failed. So far. A person posted an accurate comment that a new version of cap and trade has been introduced called the “American Power Act” that you need to be [...]
I want to follow up on Jamie’s post yesterday about the pending Cap and Trade resolution scheduled for next week. Because the Senate has been unable to pass legislation on this, the EPA is preparing to simply regulate CO2 on their own without a single vote or word of input from you. Senator Murkowski, though, [...]
Two quick things for today: 1) If you are a Republican, remember that the Republican Party is holding a Party Canvas in Chesterfield today from 4pm-8pm to select their nominee to run in the special election to fill Delegate Sam Nixon’s vacant seat (27th House District). Click here for details on the canvas and here [...]
Two days ago, the Richmond Times-Dipatch printed a response to Jamie Radtke’s April 25th article "Tea Party: Right Wing or Mainstream?". In it, the author does a good job of quickly explaining why Senators were originally appointed by state legislatures and not elected by popular vote, as instituted by the 17th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Here's [...]
I should have included this link in my post two days ago about repeal, because it might have headed off a response challenging the validity of my assertion that the public supports repeal of the health care legislation. (That’ll teach me to rush through my posts when my 4-year-old is clamoring to play Wii with [...]
The following is a post from RTP board member Susan Lascolette. A patriot’s work is never done! Just because the gigantic overhaul of our health care system has been signed into law, many continue to fight against it. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) has introduced a bill in the US House – HR 4309 – to repeal [...]
Not that this is surprise, but Republicans aren’t supporting total repeal of the health care legislation that will (by design) ultimately morph into a single payer government health care system, giving them more direct control over our lives than ever. The public overwhelmingly supports repeal, providing Republicans a clear issue to run and win huge on [...]
Two years ago, most of us had no idea what a “community organizer” was. But as then Senator Obama’s campaign started to accelerate and steamroll his opponents, we got a glimpse into the machine that had been carefully constructed for years to squash the liberty the Founders sacrificed so much to ensure. And after he [...]
So it turns out President Obama received roughly a million dollars of contributions from Goldman Sachs-affiliated executives and employees. Goldman Sachs is currently under public scrutiny for a potential $1 billion of fraud. Remind you of anything? From the Washington Examiner: Campaign contributions from Goldman Sachs employees to President Obama are nearly seven times as [...]