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Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill) new video: Eating Away at the American Dream

Our country’s debt continues to grow — it’s eating away at the American Dream. We need to make real cuts now. We need Cut, Cap, and Balance.

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Can we just agree the Senate is a bunch of hypocrites and actually get...

As Senate “Leaders” from BOTH parties talk about having a short term debt limit increase (what were they so busy working on for the last few years that they didn’t know this was coming? Certainly not a...

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Hill Update: Going on Recess Edition

LIFE ON THE HILL Patent Overhaul Passed in House The House passed, 304-117, amended legislation (HR 1249) that would overhaul the U.S. patent system, making changes to the way patents are awarded,...

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Where in the world is Barack Obama?

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) asks the question, following up on the President’s accusation of Congress taking time off during the debt crisis:   I am not sure where he is today, but we do have a clue...

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Senator “Cowboy Poet” Reid: “Why can’t things be as good as when the...

Once again Senator Harry “proposing a Democrat budget would be foolish” Reid (D-Nev.) has proven that maybe it was a good thing he go re-elected.  Yesterday he complained “[It's] time we return to the...

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Cut Cap and Balance or CR deja vu?

Here is an update on the Cut, Cap and Balance pledge:   The Cut, Cap, Balance Coalition of over 60 outside organizations and more than 150 Tea Party groups today announced that four Governors have...

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800 Days and What Do You Get? Another Day Poorer and Deeper in Debt

Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) has decided he won’t unveil his budget to the public this week, leaving it up to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to decide if and when to release...

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Separation From Power: Choke and Imbalances in the McConnell Plan

From Day By Day   Yesterday the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) introduced a “solution” that would severely unbalance the separation of powers while virtually guaranteeing that real...

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New Debt Deal Struck: The Deviled Ham is in the Details

Wasting Time in Congareesaville On Friday forty-three Republican Senators signed a letter opposing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s plan to hike the debt limit.   “We are writing to let you know...

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The Obama Downgrade: Debt Man Walking

FRC Action criticized it. As did Heritage, Patton Boggs as well as a number of other organizations, conservatives and Members of Congress.  They were all ignored, but you can’t ignore the criticism...

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