ET Phone … Congress?

Six former members of the U.S. Congress are hearing testimony this week on the existence of alien life forms as part of a documentary film being produced by Paradigm Research Group, an organization that lobbies for alien research.
Wait … what? Aliens have lobbyists?
Absolutely …
They’ve got money, too, as this group is shelling out $20,000 in cold [...]

Duncan Sends Back $200,000

U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) sent 15.2 percent of his congressional office budget – or around $200,000 – back to the U.S. Treasury during the most recent fiscal year. The second-term lawmaker says he wants the government to apply these funds to its $16.5 trillion debt.
(Good luck with that …)
“I’ve said it before and I’ll [...]

Look At This Dumb Ass

TOM RICE IS “LIVIN’ THE DREAM”
Why did we oppose the creation of a congressional district centered around the Pee Dee region of South Carolina?
Easy: We don’t think inbreds should be allowed to vote – let alone have their own Congressman. Sadly our exhortations were not heeded – and South Carolina wound up with the seventh congressional [...]

John Boehner’s Latest “Deal”

ANOTHER TAX HIKE OFFER MADE TO BARACK OBAMA
You can’t negotiate with terrorists, people … especially class warfare terrorists who are hellbent on redistributing wealth on a massive scale. Yet for reasons surpassing understanding, U.S. Speaker John Boehner (RINO-Ohio) is still attempting to negotiate with U.S. President Barack Obama on the “fiscal cliff.”
Boehner’s latest offer?  A [...]

Davis: Smarter State Policy Needed Now

SOUTH CAROLINA MUST ENHANCE ITS COMPETITIVENESS IN LIGHT OF DESTRUCTIVE FEDERAL POLICIES
By Tom Davis || For the past few months I have been speaking to citizen groups throughout the state about why it is vital, in the 2013 legislative session, to make South Carolina the freest state in the nation – in particular, for state [...]

The More Things Change

STATUS QUO INCUMBENTS WIN PRIMARIES IN NEW YORK AND UTAH
Voters in New York and Utah handed big victories to a pair of status quo incumbents this week, as disgraced U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel and U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch won their partisan primary races.
Hatch (RINO-Utah) beat back a challenge from a former Utah State Senator by [...]

“Like” Jeff Duncan

Along with fellow U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, Jeff Duncan has been an absolute rock star in Washington, D.C. when it comes to watching out for your bottom line. In fact numerous scorecards released over the last two years have shown Duncan and Mulvaney leading the entire U.S. Congress when it comes to casting votes that [...]

Tinkering Around The Edges (Again)

Last week, the “Republican-controlled” U.S. House of Representatives agreed to a $1 trillion appropriations bill that will fund government (well … certain parts of it) through next September.
The legislation only includes non-emergency discretionary spending … meaning it doesn’t include mandatory spending on Social Security, Medicaid and other entitlements. It also doesn’t include $115 billion in [...]

Obama Plan Will Include New Spending

U.S. President Barack Obama will recommend additional infrastructure spending as part of his latest “jobs plan,” which is scheduled to be unveiled in a nationally-televised address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Thursday night.
“We’ve got roads and bridges across this country that need rebuilding,” Obama said during a Labor Day speech in [...]

Obama: The Blame Shift Continues

On vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, U.S. President Barack Obama used a taped radio address to cast the blame for America’s chronically-high unemployment rate on the ever-unpopular U.S. Congress.
Specifically, Obama blasted Republicans in Congress for refusing to extend payroll tax relief and pass a new infrastructure bill – as if these modest measures (one of which [...]

Congressional Approval Plummets

Only fourteen percent of Americans approve of the job the U.S. Congress is doing, according to a new CNN poll released Thursday.
While that number is a record low, we’re curious … why isn’t it lower?
Seriously … fiscal conservatives are furious that House Republicans sold them down the river during the recent debt debate (sort of [...]

More Stopgap Nonsense

Two weeks … three weeks … $4 billion … $6 billion …
Once again the U.S. Congress is tinkering around the edges and delaying the inevitable, passing a stop-gap spending resolution that will keep government “running” through April 8. The measure includes $6 billion worth of spending cuts – which sounds impressive  until you consider that [...]