1. Implement Constitutional Adherence. The list of possibilities here in endless, isn't it? 2. Implement Limited Government. For starters, someone can show me where in the Constitution it says that taxpayers are supposed to bail out banks. If no one can, then maybe we can consider NOT BAILING THEM OUT. 3. Implement Fiscal Restraint. Refuse [...]
Four sunrises. Saturday. Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. Four sunrises. Then the fifth, the first of 730-plus sunrises of consequences. I consider these next few days a countdown to as close as you’ll ever get to a do-over in politics. On November 5th 2008, the sun rose on a different America, and those who won the elections [...]
An interesting commercial by Citizens Against Government Waste during this election cycle.
In spite of the gloomy forecasts we read daily, the Dems continue down that twisting road with the same old song, that being spend, spend and spend. Now The Hill is reporting they may try to pass another $1 trillon in spending during the lame duck session immediately following the November election. It becomes more [...]
If, as pundits predict, Republicans recapture the House of Representatives from the Democrats in elections next month, Congressman Eric Cantor (R-Va.) would most likely become majority leader, and “he could be Barack Obama’s worst nightmare,” according to an October 2 Wall Street Journal article by Steve Moore, senior economics writer for the WSJ editorial page. Cantor [...]
From WaPo Some of the nation's largest mortgage companies used a single document processor who said he signed off on foreclosures without having read the paperwork - an admission that may open the door for homeowners across the country to challenge foreclosure proceedings. As head of Ally's foreclosure document processing team, 41-year-old Jeffrey Stephan was [...]
...remaining original member of the crack White House Economics Team. Bloomberg is reporting that Larry Summers is expected to quit his post as director of the president's National Economics Council after the November elections. Other members who've abandoned ship include Peter Orzag, who paddled away after announcing his resignation in June, and Christina Romer, who [...]
It depends who you ask. If you ask the GOP leadership, "we're all the Tea Party..." Read about it here. To excerpt: House Republican leader John Boehner says: "There really is no difference between what Republicans believe in and what the Tea Party activists believe in." Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele says: "If I [...]
...why both so-called parties of fed dot gov don't want to deal with the illegal immigration issue: illegals are helping keep the Social Security system afloat. I've always known it was about demographics, but a recent WaPo article confirms it: by paying SS taxes but being ineligible to receive benefits, illegal immigrants are making a [...]
Google defines "enabler" as a person who through his or her actions allows someone to achieve something. Most often the term "enabler" is associated with people who allow loved ones to behave in ways that are destructive. For example, a friend enables a compulsive spender by lending them money to get out of debt. In [...]
Alan Greenspan, before he sold out and became a tool: "In the absence of a gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. [...]
Top Ten Reasons Why Congress Hates the Tea Party & Patriot groups (and why you should register for the Oct. 8-9 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention at www.vateapartyconvention.com): 10. Most Tea Party & Patriot group supporters actually work for a living, and it’s human nature not to like people who are so very different from [...]