This is a very odd group: believers in "term limits" they refuse to limit their seemingly endless self-appointed terms as "kingmakers." Strenuous advocates of "states' rights" they feel free to meddle in any state that amuses them. Screamers for government transparency, they hide behind an endless series of "fictitious business names" and "charitable" foundations to hide their money from the voters and from the tax collectors.
On January 1, I wrote "School Choice” is a big part of the “Tea Party” agenda, even if they don’t realize it yet." Little did I realize how right I'd be.
The deep cuts in federal spending House Republicans approved last month “would do damage” to U.S. border security, according to one senior senator. Another goes so far as to say the cuts in the GOP spending plan don’t actually “save any money.” Angry Democrats sounding off against Speaker John Boehner and his team? Nope. The senator complaining about cuts to border security? That would Sen. John Kyl of Arizona, the second-highest ranking Republican in the Senate. And the senator...
A new government report exposes how massive duplication of federal programs and operations wastes billions of taxpayer dollars a year. But instead of being fuel for further conservative attacks against the government, it ought to become a weapon of smart Democrats to fend off the current Republican budget-cutting rampage. Let me explain. Before the results of this Government Accountability Office (GAO) study were even known, House Republicans last month approved an array of deep, and often harmful, spending cuts...
With the clock ticking, Washington Democrats are trying to coax GOP House Speaker John Boehner and his team to back off their “our way or the highway” approach to government spending, and negotiate a solution to the federal budget stalemate. Signing a short-term budget resolution that prevents a shutdown of the federal government, President Obama on Wednesday called for congressional leaders of both parties to sit down with Vice President Biden to hash out a spending plan for the...
Historian and satirist Thomas Carlyle said “a lie cannot live.” However, Mark Twain casually remarked, “It shows that he did not know how to tell them.” More than a century later, newly-elected Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-dominated Wisconsin legislature have proven themselves to be “quick studies,” having learned how to tell whoppers about the working class and unions. Here are just a few. LIE: The public workers’ pensions are what caused much of the financial crisis not just...
A House subcommittee is scheduled to approve legislation to dismantle an array of federal programs aimed at helping homeowners avoid foreclosure. Among the programs the panel would end is the Obama administration’s troubled Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). The House Financial Services Committee’s insurance, housing and community opportunity subcommittee is set Thursday to take up four separate bills. “We need to break down barriers that have delayed the housing recovery, including expensive and ineffective government programs that have failed...
In railing single-mindedly against the federal budget deficit — as open to charges of hypocrisy as it is — Republicans provided a rationale for their new, unrelenting rampage of budget cuts. The stench of hypocrisy, of course, comes because the GOP began crying about the deficit only after it forced a temporary extension of tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, all of which are financed by deficit spending. Nevertheless, let’s leave that 800-pound double-standard alone for the time being....
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