Potential Commander-in-Chief Michele Bachmann has followed in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps … well, in a way, as Ms. Bachmann appeared yesterday on the legendary 50,000 watt WHO 1040-AM, the same station where Ronald Reagan got his start in radio. Ms. Bachmann got to sit in the “Hot Seat” while Jan Mickelson, the leading conservative radio personality [...]
2011 was a year that made tabloid journalism feeding Low-Information Constituents the norm, thus the resolution for 2012 needs to be the return of the Well-Informed Voter. The Republican Party is in the midst of determining who their Presidential nominee will be … yet the focus has been misplaced on irrelevant matters. Michele Bachmann (R-MN-06) [...]
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR Dec. 24-25 Contact: press@occupywallst.org 347.292.1444 For this action only: Sebastian OWS, 503.954.4229 OWS INTERFAITH CELEBRATION IN LIBERTY SQUARE 24 Hour “Occupy Christmas” Prayer Vigil, Sharing of Food, Poetry, Music Occupy Wall Street is hosting an interfaith gathering in barricaded “Zuccotti Park,” inviting people of all cultures and religious beliefs to come [...]
Highlights from In The Loop column : Feeling the cold these days? Then hurry on down to sign up for House Majority Leader John Boehner’s week-long, fact-finding trip to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico taking off on Jan. 8. The Ohio Republican is scheduled to escape the chill with John Kline (R-MN-02) and four other members [...]
The conclusion is obvious after reading the Wall Street Journal story entitled Inside Capitol, Investor Access Yields Rich Tips … Tim Walz’s H.R. 1148 Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act should have been enacted years ago. Here are the highlights from the WSJ Capital Gains column : When Senate Democrats finally brokered a compromise [...]
The television screens are in constant replay of Speaker John Boehner calling for the Democrats to return to Washington and address the payroll tax issue … well, that was commercial television … instead if you tuned into CSPAN this morning, you saw the Opening Gavel of a new legislative day precisely at 10:00:46, a morning [...]
ADAGE : If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it’s a duck. Minnesotans have heard John Kline (R-MN-02) QUACK about “earmarks” ever since the Republicans lost the majority in the House of Representatives … and Mr. Kline attached the “earmark” symbol as the cause of America’s [...]
Mitt Romney is a visionary. On page 33 of Believe in America : Mitt Romney’s Plan for Jobs and Economic Growth, the plan warns that it “does not promise the immediate creation of some imaginary number of jobs, because government cannot create jobs—at least not productive ones that contribute to our long-term prosperity.” While the [...]
House Republicans argue that H.R. 3630, the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011 must contain a provision that would require the President to issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline (unless he determines that the pipeline would not serve the national interest.) The Republican public reasoning that this construction of [...]
Raymond Cravaack (R-MN-08) earned the nickname “Crash” during his military days (link to the Star-Tribune story), but his taxpayer-paid Congressional website lists the innocent-sounding moniker “Chip” … well after reading his latest press release, his next nickname may be “Baffling” or “Unbelievable” or “Untrustworthy”. Mr. Cravaack explained his vote on H.R. 2055 which covers spending [...]
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