Via dday at Hullabaloo, Think Progress reports on a fine bit of hardball politics. Ever the blowhard Senator Jon Kyl, republican of Arizona, in an appearance last Sunday on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos says of the stimulus, which he believes is a waste of, well just about everything holy and patriotic, “What I […]

Our friends at the Grand Old Preventative are proposing a spending freeze. “We’re advocating that Congress freeze all federal spending immediately,” said Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the chairman of the House Republican Conference, during a Tuesday luncheon at the conservative Heritage Foundation. “People out there are hurting, and they understand what you do when times […]

It’s been a while since I’ve made a regular contribution to the blog. The reasons are varied for my absence. Suffice it to say I’ve been otherwise engaged. Last night the Congress, excuse me the Democrats, an Independent and three Republican Senators, came to the rescue of the American economy by passing the American Recovery […]

So Michael Steele is running around telling everyone government never created a job. Sure Michael and Ronald Reagan is alive and kicking. Regardless Mr. Steele is out of the gate lying as all good members of the Grand Old Preventative party are prone to do. The Congressional Budget Office estimates with the enactment of H.R. […]

The republican party in the US House of Representatives has officially given up trying to repair the economic disaster unfolding in America. In a vote today on H.R. 1 the Grand Old Preventative (GOP) determined that none of their members could support the American people’s need to resolve the current crisis. Speaking on the floor […]