Success: ‘Pay to Play’ Appointee Careen Gordon Steps Down‏

March 20, 2011 | Filed Under Americans For Prosperity, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, State Government | Comments Off

From Americans for Prosperity, Illinois…

Thank you to all our members who sent letters to the Senate Executive Committee requesting that they vote on the “Pay to Play” appointment of Careen Gordon.

In four short days, we generated over 5,000 letters to the Senate Executive Appointment Committee expressing outrage at what appeared to be the “Pay to Play’ style of politics that led to the appointment of Careen Gordon to the Prisoner Review Board.

Due to mounting pressure from AFP members such as yourself, the Senate Executive Appointments Committee finally scheduled hearings that were to begin on Thursday March 17th.
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Global Warming, R.I.P.

March 20, 2011 | Filed Under Alan Caruba, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, Science | Comments Off

-By Alan Caruba

Have you noticed that you rarely hear “global warming” mentioned on radio or television and the term rarely occurs any more in the print media?

One reason is that it has been replaced with “climate change” and the other reason is that the only people talking about climate change seem to be leaders of governments like the United States or Australia.

To borrow a line from Shakespeare, I come to bury global warming, not to praise it.

An early and unrelenting skeptic from the days it first debuted in the late 1980s, I rather instinctively knew that the only warming occurring was the same natural warming that always follows a cooling cycle; in this case the warming that began in 1850 after the Little Ice Age that began around 1300.

It never made sense to me that “industry” should be blamed for pumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when the amount of CO2 was a minuscule 0.038 percent with far greater amounts of hydrogen and oxygen that protect the Earth from becoming the galactic equivalent of a toasted marshmallow.
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Nevada Nanny State Nonsense: Banning Your Candles and Air Fresheners

March 19, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nanny State, Nevada, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Nevada has a nose for nonsense. This time the stink wafting from the Silver State is not from the back allies of its casinos but from its state house where politicians are sticking their noses in Nevada’s candles and air fresheners. Wallowing in true nanny state stupidity Democrats are considering a bill to ban candles and air fresheners because a tiny fraction of the population is allergic to the scents in them.

Las Vegas Democratic Assemblyman Paul Aizley on Monday presented AB234, which sets restrictions on pesticides, fragrances and candles to accommodate people with chemical sensitivities. Proponents said air fresheners give them migraines or asthma attacks and prevent them from going to the movies or to restaurants. A cocktail waitress at a casino said inhaling the fragrances piped through the ventilation system felt like a concrete slab on her chest.

Someone should consider a bill to ban nosy, buttinski Democrats instead…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.
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Help Launch this Ad, Beat the Unions‏

March 19, 2011 | Filed Under Freedom Works, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From Freedomworks…

All across the country, state budgets are dripping in red ink from years of public sector union extortion.

And in many states, bold conservative lawmakers are breaking this stranglehold by pushing legislation to curb collective bargaining powers for public employees.

The Big Labor backlash has been swift and severe. But FreedomWorks, with your help, is rolling out a massive program — including hard-hitting TV ads — to fight back!
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Ill House Republicans: We Need to Stop Spending Money We Don’t Have!‏

March 19, 2011 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Illinois House Republicans…

Finally, Democrats who control the Illinois House are starting to listen to what House Republicans have been saying for years and continue to say: We need to stop spending money we don’t have!

Last week the House unanimously passed HR110 establishing a conservative revenue estimate of $33.2 billion, $2 billion less than Governor Quinn is proposing to spend. To get our state’s fiscal house in order we must start by enacting a truly balanced state budget. Passing HR110 was an important first step.

Now that we have established how much money we can expect, the next step is to develop a plan to pay our bills and meet expenses without exceeding our limit. Today several pieces of legislation establishing a framework for reducing spending and paying down bills advanced in the House:
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My Latest for School Reform News: 2011 Looks Good for Reformers

March 19, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Chicago, Children, Dan Proft, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, Public Employees Unions, Taxes, Teachers Unions, The Heartland Institute | Comments Off

-By Dan Proft

In political terms 2010 may have been the year of the Tea Party movement, but in policy terms it was the year of school choice. And with courageous reformers at the helm of several states, 2011 could be even better.

Last year, school choice moved beyond the think tanks and policy journals and squarely into popular culture.

The first annual National School Choice Week in late January was a fitting recognition that the issue has been successfully entered the zeitgeist even as education remains mainly (and appropriately) a state and local issue.
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Government Shutdowns and Death Threats… Bring It On

March 19, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Frank Salvato, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Public Employees Unions, Republicans, Taxes, Teachers Unions, Unions, Wisconsin | Comments Off

-By Frank Salvato

Maybe you’ve heard this one. What do you get when fourteen Democrat Senators go AWOL from their jobs in Wisconsin? You get fiscal responsibility, the tools to balance an out-of-control budget and a boatload of evidence that the Progressive Left is prone to violence and thuggery over process. Thank you very much and goodnight. Be sure to tip your waiters, waitresses and bartenders on the way out. You’ve been great.

Seriously, does anyone else find it abhorrently hypocritical for Progressives and Democrats to proclaim an abdication of process in the Republican’s out-maneuvering of them on the issue of limiting – not eliminating – collective bargaining rights for public-sector union employees, especially when their own national leadership just jammed Obamacare down our throats? Wasn’t “deem-and-pass” an abdication of “the process?” Weren’t behind closed door meetings used to craft Obamacare; meetings where Republicans were excluded in total, an abdication of “the process?” Wasn’t the democratic “process” abandoned when lawmakers were given a 2,700 page piece of legislation and less than 72 hours to absorb its content?

Spare me the tears about “abandoning the process”…and if you’re a Wisconsin Democrat and a State Senator, dry your eyes in Illinois. Elections, as the Obama Democrats have espoused, have consequences. Remember Mr. Obama’s “I won” and “You can ride with us if you want, but you’ve got to sit in the backseat” comments?
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Yeah It’s a Crap Song, But Why That Hatin’ On This Poor Kid?

March 18, 2011 | Filed Under Children, Entertainment, Music, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Rebecca Black has been, like, totally taken aback by the, like, amazing fame her little YouTube song has brought her… but she is bummed by all the h8ters, too. She shouldn’t be too surprised that people hate her song though. It really is crap of the lowest… or is it highest… order. But, I have to agree with the poor kid. The vitriol she’s faced is simply unfair and unnecessary.

It is times like this that I h8te the Internet, myself.

Now, I won’t burden you with the song here on RightPundits.com. Here is a YouTube link to the song if you dare to click on it. This pop tune will drain every ounce of intelligence from your brain and it is three and a half minutes that will seem more like an hour.

This dreck is titled “Friday,” and apparently our little Miss Black likes… er… Friday…. or something. She also likes “parties, parties, parties,” and “fun, fun, fun” with her “Friday, Friday, Friday.” UGH! I feel like I am getting a headache just typing out these fetid lyrics….

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.
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Democrat Election Fraud: Fake Tea Partiers Charged

March 18, 2011 | Filed Under Conservatives, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Michigan, Regulation, Republicans, Vote Fraud, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Early in 2010 two former leaders of the Michigan Democrat Party came up with a brilliant idea, one that has just gotten them charged with election fraud.

Back in May of 2010, it was discovered that a new party was circulating petitions to get itself official recognized by the state as an official political party. It was supposed to be called “The Tea Party.” Local activist and blogger, the late Chet Zarko, tracked down who was behind the petition drive and found that this “Tea Party” was being pushed by a group well known to be a fixture in Michigan democrat Party activism. This called into question the legitimacy of this “Tea Party” party.

Eventually it was discovered that the new “Tea Party” party was the brainchild of then Oakland County Democratic Chair Mike McGuinness and Democratic Operations Director Jason Bauer. They intended to use it to cause chaos on the ballot and split the Republican vote by fooling voters into thinking that a “Tea Party” candidate was, well, a Tea Party guy.
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For Nancy Pelosi It’s Lonely at the… Bottom

March 18, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, Nanny State, Regulation, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston, Washington D.C. | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Politico has a sad tale to tell about former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (I just love that: former. Say it with me, FORMER House Speaker). The once powerful California Representative held a big one-year celebration of Obamacare to show off her keystone legislative victory and like the kid nobody likes, her invites to the party were ignored by all the top Democrats. Not just some of them, ALL of them!

This is a far cry from the power she wielded only months ago. Back in the old days when Pelosi sent out an invite to a press availability, like she did this week with her Obamacare celebration, the entire leadership would dutifully drop anything they were doing and they’d show up to Pelosi’s little show and they’d do it with bells on.

These days, not so much.
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Tolerant Union Protester Damages Capitol Armed with Knife

March 18, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Michigan, New Jersey, Public Employees Unions, Taxes, Teachers Unions, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Law breaking and violence has always been the stock and trade of unions and today’s budget conflagrations are no different as witness the most recent threatening actions by a union thug, this one in Lansing, Michigan, the Wolverine State’s capitol city.

On March 17 a man was arrested at the Capitol armed with a “sharp-edged weapon,” after he broke through a window and assaulting officers. 13 other protesters accompanying the man in his illegal entry and were charged with trespassing.

Meanwhile, in Camden, New Jersey, the police union chief there has compared Governor Chris Christie to Hitler. More of that “new tone” we keep hearing about from Democrats, I suppose.
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Union Thugs Attack Petition Worker, Destroys Petitions

March 18, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Michigan, New Jersey, Public Employees Unions, Taxes, Teachers Unions, Unions, Warner Todd Huston, Wisconsin | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

From Joe Schoffstall we find yet another example of the way unions and Democrats use thug tactics to force their way on those around them, yet one more example of how Democrats and union thugs don’t care about democracy or the American system when it comes to their ill-gotten gains and freebies paid for on the backs of the working poor.

The scene was a petition drive aimed at recalling a Democrat state senator and the participants are a bunch of union thugs one of whom grabbed up all the completed petitions, defaced them, and then ripped them up.

As Schoffestall explains:
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Municipal Elections Early Voting Started March 15

March 18, 2011 | Filed Under Chicago, Cities, Cook County, Elections, Government, Illinois, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Municipal elections are here again. Throughout Cook County folks are running for village trustee, alderman, library board member, village president… all sorts of local offices are up for grabs.

Early voting has already started for the April 5th election. Early voting runs from March 15 to March 31.

If you need to find out where you can vote early check out the Early Voting Locations list on the County Clerk’s website.

If you aren’t sure who is running in your local jurisdiction, go to the Cook County Clerk’s Virtual Ballot page and see who is running for what in your area.

AND DON’T FORGET TO VOTE
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We Won Wisconsin – But the Fight Goes On

March 18, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Freedom Works, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Scott Walker, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston, Washington D.C., Wisconsin | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

We may have won a small victory in Wisconsin with the brave work of Governor Scott Walker and his state’s Republican leadership but there is a greater battle looming. There is a bigger crisis coming for the states as the major troubles of pensions/unfunded liabilities/debts come to a head and the unions are pushing hard to force us all to pay them off instead of reform it all.

Video courtesy of FreedomWorks.
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Rep. Peter Roskam: Want a Fresh Start?

March 18, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Economy/Finances, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Jobs, Peter Roskam, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the office of Congressman Peter Roskam (R,IL)…

The American people gave House Republicans some very clear priorities last November, like focus on creating jobs, stop spending money we don’t have, and work to end the Democrats’ job-destroying health care law.

That is the message I heard from my district, and that is exactly what I am working on in Washington.

When the Democrats failed to pass a budget in the last Congress, House Republicans took the challenge of funding the government as an opportunity to begin our cost-cutting work. We voted to pass a long-term continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year – cutting $100 billion from the President’s budget request.
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Illinois Legislative Leaders Fail To Obey Budget Law

March 18, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Taxes, Truth in Accounting, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From The Institute for Truth in Accounting…

(Chicago, March 17, 2011) – On every third Wednesday in March Illinois’ House and Senate are required to adopt a joint resolution that is equivalent to a family deciding how much it will have available to spend in next year’s budget. The day was yesterday, March 16, and just like the past three years the legislators blatantly ignored the law.

“This law is in place because only after understanding your funds available can you decide how much to spend,” asserted Sheila Weinberg, founder & CEO of the Institute for Truth in Accounting. “This is the first step in budgeting. Our legislators need to follow this law and take Budgeting 101.”

The Illinois Constitution provides that the general assembly can only spend the “funds estimated to be available” for the budget year. State statute 25ILCS 155/4 requires the Commission on Government Finance and Accountability (CGFA) to submit to the legislature an estimate of that amount. The House and Senate may debate the accuracy of the CGFA figure, but the legislators must adopt some estimate of the funds available to be spend in the fiscal year 2012.
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An Orgasm for the Children

March 18, 2011 | Filed Under California, Children, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Larry Sand, Liberals, NEA, Public Employees Unions, Teachers Unions, Unions | Comments Off

-By Larry Sand

NEA’s reprehensible sexual agenda goes on unabated and the MSM is MIA.

At a time when teachers’ unions are battling for their collective bargaining lives, courtesy of Governors Scott Walker, Chris Christie, John Kasich et al., it’s hard to go a day without reading a newspaper account of the latest union news. However, there is a story involving the National Education Association that has flown under the mainstream media radar.

I could not find a single MSM account of a talk given at a UN conference on March 3rd where Diane Schneider, representing the NEA at the “Commission on the Status of Women” said:
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House Votes to Defund NPR

March 17, 2011 | Filed Under Banks, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, NPR, PBS, Republicans, Senate, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston, Washington D.C. | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

On Wednesday morning the GOP led House of Representatives voted to end federal funding for National Public Radio. Saying it made good fiscal sense it is also safe to say that the GOP was catering to its base, a group that has been against funding for NPR for some time.

The bill passed in a 228-192 vote mostly along party lines and will prohibit local NPR stations from using federal funds as well as cut all current funding. This eliminates almost $5 million in federal funding that NPR receives. The bill would not prevent the use of federal funds for producing programs by private firms and individuals…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.
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Citizen’s Right to Know Under Attack in Illinois!

March 17, 2011 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Senate, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Illinois Senate is currently debating SB1645 which would arbitrarily limit a citizen’s “right to know.” If a citizen asks more than fifteen questions per year under FOI rules (Freedom of Information Act Requests), the citizen’s requests would be characterized as a “vexatious” requests.

With this appellation applied, FOI requests can then be ignored.

Now, at first this may seem sensible in some way. After all, if Joe Blow from East Peoria keeps bombarding the state with FOI requests this might seem odd or troublesome. But what about journalists? What about public watchdog organizations? These folks are highly likely to be requesting many bits of public information. Are they to be shut down too?

Even still, so what if Joe Blow does ask for a bunch of FOIs? Isn’t it the right of a citizen to know what his government is doing?

So, what does the government have to hide? Further how arrogant of them to say that we, the people, are “vexing” them!

Please contact your legislator, click here and tell them to vote “NO” on SB1645.
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Drunk with Debt (a St. Patrick’s Day special)

March 17, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Liberals, President, Republicans, Senate, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston, Washington D.C. | Comments Off

Courtesy of BankruptingAmerica.org

Criminal Element: Ill. Democrat Was Convicted Felon Before Being Elected

March 17, 2011 | Filed Under Chicago, Cities, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois Policy Institute, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Lisa Madigan, Michael Madigan, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

It has been revealed that Illinois State Representative Robert Rita was a convicted felon before he ever ran for office for the fist time, a violation of state law. Being a convicted felon should have barred him from even running for office.

Lee Williams of the Illinois Policy Institute tells us that Rita, a Blue Island Democrat and a five-term state rep., has always been ineligible to seek elected office, absent a pardon.

Rita was convicted of DUI and attempted bribery in Nye County, Nevada in 1991. Lee Williams reports that this was confirmed by Jamie Kostiuk, a Nye County records clerk. Hard copies of the files, though, could not be located.

Lee Williams, however, tracked down some other sources of the conviction.
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Corruption and Political Intrigue in Government Employee Pensions

March 17, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Business, California, Cities, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Financial Reform, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Los Angeles, Pensions, Public Employees Unions, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Los Angeles Times has a disheartening report about the graft, corruption, and nest-feathering infesting the administration of California’s government employees pension fund, CalPers (California Public Employees’ Retirement System). It reports that subordinates were pressured into investing in to firms run by political buddies and that one of the former CalPERS administrators was “lucky” enough to have been handed a high paying new job in one of those politically connected firms after he left the government agency.

Some of these officials now under investigation are also accused of falsifying documents to further their schemes of self-enrichment at the expense of the people, accepting large gifts that went unreported, and earning millions in “placement agent fees.”
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Food for Thought: The US Has Three Government Broadcasters

March 17, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Frank Hyland, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media, NPR, PBS, Taxes | Comments Off

-By Frank Hyland

In the midst of the uproar over National Public Radio (NPR), one factor either has been ignored or simply not even realized: The United States already has an official US Government “voice.” It is The Voice of America (VOA), a longtime broadcaster offering listeners around the world the official views of the US Government in an unabashed fashion.

Straight from the VOA website (http://www.voanews.com) in their own words, with no spin by those pro or con, the agency itself says: “The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is an international multimedia broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The VOA broadcasts approximately 1,500 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of 123 million people.” Why, then, you are asking yourself, do we need to give The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and National Public Radio (NPR) taxpayer money approaching half a billion dollars this year? All of those organizations, I hasten to add, have every right to continue to exist. They have every right to compete for our eyes and ears, for our money spent on advertised products. The line should be drawn, however, at the receipt of your tax dollars.
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AFP Illinois: Stop ‘Pay to Play’ Appointment Now!‏

March 17, 2011 | Filed Under Americans For Prosperity, Chicago, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Illinois chapter of Americans for Prosperity…

Your voices are being heard! After nearly 10 weeks on the taxpayer’s dime, the Senate Executive Appointment Committee will be voting on Careen Gordon “Pay to Play” appointment to an $85,000 a year spot on the Prisoner Review Board.

Now is the time to contact the Senate Executive Appointment Committee and tell them to vote “NO” on the appointment of Careen Gordon! We need to take action today as the scheduled hearing is tomorrow at 9am!

In case you missed it, last week AFP asked our members to contact the Senate Executive Appointments Committee and demand that they hold a hearing on the appointment of Careen Gordon to an $85,000 a year spot on the Prisoner Review Board.
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Join Us: Lessons in Leadership from ‘Governor Veto’ – March 23‏

March 17, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Conservatives, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois Policy Institute, Republicans, Taxes, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Illinois Policy institute…

MARCH 23: Lessons in Leadership from “Governor Veto”

He vetoed 750 bills and thousands of line items to reduce wasteful spending, cut taxes 14 times during his two terms, and saw the state GDP increase by almost 30 percent during his tenure. When he left office, New Mexico had a balanced budget and $1 billion surplus. What lessons can Illinois learn from this? Join us as we host Gary Johnson for a cocktail hour discussion. Read More

Is Your Group A RepealTheTaxHike.com Coalition Partner?

On April 15th, at a rally at the Capitol, the Illinois Policy Institute will announce the results of our petition to repeal the historic 67% Illinois income tax hike. So far we have 7,300+ signatures on the petition, and 12 coalition partners.
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Cook County Board: It is almost Spring‏

March 17, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Cook County Board, Economy/Finances, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the office of Cook County Commissioner Timothy O Schneider…

Forest Preserve – The Chicago Conservation Leadership Corps

This program for high school students is the result of a great partnership between Friends and The Student Conservation Association. In the program’s inaugural year of 2009, we received more than 600 applications and awarded 56 internships.

The internship is a 6-week program that includes a stipend. Students learn about local ecology and get their hands dirty working on conservation projects. See below to download the application and fact sheet. Applicants should have an interest in conservation and doing physically active work outdoors. Click here to apply.
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HuffPo’s Politics Daily Called Muslim Democrat Congressman a Republican

March 16, 2011 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Huffington Post, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, RightPundits.com, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

She was touted on Politics Daily as the “Capitol Hill Bureau Chief,” but Patricia Murphy doesn’t seem to know to which party the first Muslim member of Congress belongs. Amusingly enough, Politics Daily is one of those websites that Huffington Post has absorbed as a result of AOL’s $15 million buyout of the left-wing screeder.

Murphy starts off her coverage of Peter King’s hearings on radical Islam last week by saying that Rep. Keith Ellison is a Republican from Minnesota. This, of course, is wrong, wrong, wrong. Ellison is most decidedly a Democrat from Minneapolis, not a Republican…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.
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Rep. Roskam: Remember We’re Still Cleaning Up the Dems Failure to Pass Last Year’s Budget!

March 16, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Peter Roskam, President, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

On Wednesday afternoon I had a chance to talk to Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam (R, IL) about the budget and these continuing resolutions (CRs) that the House is laboring to pass and he reminded me of a point that we are not discussing quite enough. The fact is that these CRs have become necessary because the Democrats spent all of last year not proposing and passing a budget at all!

The Democrats fiddled around for the whole of last year never passing a full budget. Now the GOP led House is trying to play catch up with these few sort term CRs so that they can get the full budget written and passed.

“No one wants to vote on short term CRs,” Roskam told me, “but this is where the Senate Democrats must come up with a plan. We’ve done our part and it’s their turn. But they have offered nothing.”
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Nevada Democrats Avoiding Voters, Hiding Actions From Public, Firing People Without Cause

March 16, 2011 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Nevada, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Once in a while a story of the sort of arrogance in government that should make every fair-minded American sick at heart comes out to show how Democrats act when have a lock on power and when they think no one is looking. This time we find an amazing amount of arrogance in Nevada, one that is obviously a violation of Thomas Jefferson’s axiom that men are not born to be ridden “booted and spurred” by government but are free men. This government arrogance is truly as un-American as can be.

There are many instances of Democrat arrogance, of course. Like when North Carolina Democrat Congressman Bob Etheridge Democrat Al Green hectored a Washington Times reporter about the KKK (when it was Democrats that created the terror group in the first place), or when Congressman Charlie Rangel stormed out of an ethics hearing after being convicted on 11 counts because, well, he was incensed that anyone had the temerity to call him on his perfidy. Well, there are just too many to cover fully.

Chuck Muth of Citizen Outreach has the outrageous story of a lowly legislative aide fired for no reason whatever because a public record email was released to the public. Imagine the people thinking that they have a right to see the official emails of their own government officials! The gall of those voters!
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Democrats Discover How to Beat GOP… it’s… Twitter

March 16, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Liberals, Senate, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

… no really. Roll Call is reporting that the Democrats have finally figured out how to use Twitter and now they think it will win them the 2012 elections. I guess Al Gore, the inventor of the Internet, gave the DNC a call and let them in on that whole Internet tubes and when they went there they discovered this Twitter thingamajiggie. Crying eureka, the DNC then ran to the press to trumpet its new discovery.