February 8, 2012

Priceless: Pelosi Backs C-SPAN Call For Supreme Court to Televise Obamacare Arguments

Oh this is rich, Former House Speaker Nancy “We have to pass the health care bill so that you can find out what is in it” Pelosi, the woman who shut the American people out of the debate over health care reform is now calling for transparency? House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday [...]

Thoughts on the Debt Limit Debate — Updated

What we’ve seeing playing out in Washington during the debt limit debate is in many ways akin to an addict facing an intervention. Washington’s policy makers, both Democrats and Republicans, are hopelessly addicted to spending and they don’t want to admit it or to change their behavior. As a result they’re lashing out ordinary Americans [...]

Hey Big Spender: Pelosi Led Congress Has Added $5 Trillion to Debt Since 2007

From CNSNews.com: When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave her inaugural address as speaker of the House in 2007, she vowed there would be “no new deficit spending.” Since that day, the national debt has increased by $5 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. “After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to [...]

Big Spender: Obama Has Now Borrowed $3 Trillion

From CNSNews.com: It’s official: The Obama administration has now borrowed $3 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. It took from 1776, when the United States became an independent country, until 1990, the year after the Berlin Wall fell signaling victory in the Cold War, for the federal government to accumulate a total of $3 [...]

Video: Jack Cafferty Rips Obama on Failed Openness Pledge

Ouch: Don’t worry Jack, we will! Most open and ethical Congress in history… Heh!

Video: America Rising An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians

Bah Humbug: Senate Passes Health Care Reform Bill

The Senate this morning voted to pass Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Health Care Reform bill… A.K.A. the single biggest crap sandwich ever foisted on Americans. The vote was 60-39 entirely along party lines with all the Democrats voting for it and Republicans voting against it: In a vote resonating with history, Senate Democrats early Christmas [...]

House Passes Health Care Refore Bill

I meant to post this yesterday but it slipped through the cracks of what was another manic Monday. The House of Representatives passed Nancy Pelosi’s 1,990 page health care reform bill by a vote of 220 to 215 on Saturday night. The House of Representatives late Saturday night approved a historic bill to remake the [...]

Nancy Pelosi: Value-Added Tax is “On the Table”

I’ve mentioned before that the Democrats were laying the groundwork for a European style Value Added Tax or VAT… I wish I could tell you I was wrong but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed that a VAT tax is “on the table” during an appearance on the Charlie Rose show Monday night: A new value-added [...]

The Obligatory Jimmy Carter is a Tool Post

I wasn’t going to comment on Jimmy Carter’s asinine remarks on race because frankly they don’t deserve comment. But after America’s crazy aunt, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi mumbled something about political violence in her weekly press briefing I thought I should take a moment to point out that these are two people that no sane [...]