Lindsey Graham Steps Up

At a closed door meeting of U.S. Senators and limited government advocates in Washington, D.C. earlier this week, there was an unlikely attendee … and an unlikely champion for the adoption of an uncompromising position on the ongoing debt ceiling debate.
His name? Lindsey Graham.
“He was the most aggressive voice in the room,” one of the [...]

Tom Coburn: On The Shutdown

By Tom Coburn || With a budget deadline looming, politicians in Washington are flirting with a shutdown, not of the government but our economy. In the face of what Erskine Bowles, co-chair of the president’s own fiscal commission, frequently calls the most predictable crisis in our history, the alarm bells have not yet rung in [...]

“Unobligated” Billions

If America’s $14.2 trillion debt and $1.6 trillion deficit have you pissed off, then wait till you hear about this …
Apparently, Congress is appropriating money faster than government bureaucrats can spend it. Literally …
While Democrats and Republicans debate “discretionary” cuts at the fringes of a $3.7 trillion budget, hundreds of billions of dollars are currently [...]

Earmark Win For DeMint

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell has flip-flopped on the issue of earmarks – the controversial Congressional provisions that are routinely abused in an effort to secure federal funding for unnecessary pork barrel projects.
Previously a supporter (and prime beneficiary) of the earmark system – on Monday McConnell announced that he would support a ban on the [...]

Inside Sanford’s “Jesus Frat”

If there’s one thing we detest more than the creeping socialism that has infected our nation’s capital in recent years, it is the sanctimonious moralizing of a small band of hypocritical “conservatives” who claim to be fighting it.
We’re referring of course to “The Family,” an upper crust fraternity of (self-)glorified Christian Coalition types who occupy [...]

DC “Prayer” House Under Fire Again

By FITSNews || A Washington D.C. boarding house linked to a secretive religious group – as well as several of the Republican Party’s most notorious moral hypocrites (Mark Sanford, Jon Ensign and Chip Pickering) – is facing fresh criticism over its “provisions” to several current lawmakers.
According to Talking Points Memo, a group of Ohio pastors [...]

A Note To Our Democratic Commenters

By FITSNews || Over the last few months, we’ve noticed a dramatic uptick in Democratic commenters attempting to spout Bush v. Obama talking points on our website – as if there was any real difference (other than the price tag) between the failed interventionist approach taken by either of these failed presidents.
We don’t know what’s [...]

Government’s Mob Rule

Millions of dollars included in the pork-laden bureaucratic bailout heading to President Barack Obama’s desk could end up going to a “Mob Museum” in Las Vegas, a fitting tribute to the government mentality underlying this $787 billion atrocity.
Last week, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) successfully pushed for an amendment to the bill that would have prohibited [...]

Time To Choose, Indeed

REPUBLICANS’ GUT CHECK – ARE THEY REALLY FOR WHAT THEY SAY THEY ARE?

FITSNews – August 3, 2008 – To pork, or not to pork? That is the question facing Republican politicians these days … a choice which was neatly personified in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal by columnist John Fund.
In boiling down conflicting GOP dogmas [...]

Bloated Bus Stopped … For Now

COBURN WINS FIRST SKIRMISH AGAINST WASHINGTON’S BIG SPENDERS
FITSNews – July 28, 2008 – Perhaps today wasn’t the best day to try and shove a multi-billion dollar boondoggle down the throats of the American taxpayers. After all, it was just announced this morning that the federal deficit has magically jumped by $83 billion to nearly [...]

They’re Voting On That Boondoggle Today

COBURN STILL FIGHTING MASSIVE “OMNIBUS”
FITSNews – July 28, 2008 – We’ve had some fun with MARTA buses lately (here and here), but another out-of-control bus is screeching toward unsuspecting taxpayers in Washington, D.C.
It’s called the “Coburn Omnibus,” a collection of some forty pieces of unnecessary spending legislation that have been successfully held up by Oklahoma [...]

DeMint, Graham Oppose Wasteful Omnibus

BOTH SOUTH CAROLINA SENATORS SAY THEY’LL BACK COBURN, TAXPAYERS

FITSNews – July 22, 2008 – U.S. Senators Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham say they will support their colleague Tom Coburn‘s efforts to protect the taxpayers by blocking a multi-billion dollar federal spending bill that the Democratic leadership is seeking to force through the U.S. Senate this [...]