Tea Party Traitors The recent meltdown of the Republicans in the debt ceiling negotiations reminded me anew that the Republicans are good at talking the conservative talk, but when it comes down to actually walking the walk—they morph into Tea…
Conservative Ratings of Congress Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York City, used to open his press conferences with the question: “How am I doing?” How would conservatives answer that question posed by our current representation in Congress?…
In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on August 16, 2011, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack called the Department of Agriculture’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) which was formerly known as the Food Stamp Program an “economic stimulus” that drives…
In response to an email I sent to his office, Senator John Thune (R-SD) sent me a snail mail letter which defends his vote in favor of the Budget Control Act of 2011. You will recall that the Budget Control…
As of July 31, 2011 the cost of US Military Intervention in Libya is at $896,000,000 (that’s $86 million US dollars) according to the Pentagon. As a reminder, this “war” (pronounced “kinetic military action”), ostensibly waged by NATO, is the…
Obama and the Democrats (pronounced Debtocrats) would have you believe that they inherited huge deficits from George W. Bush and the Republicans. The facts say otherwise. When Barack Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, he did inherit…