by Jane Richey | Feb 18, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
What a short memory Reid has! i.e. Democrats blocking Bush nominees; filibuster threats; Gang of Fourteen, etc., etc., “If something doesn’t break here I am going to recommend to the president that he recess-appoint all of these nominees,” said Reid....
by Jane Richey | Feb 17, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The CBO writes that America’s unemployment rate has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making this the longest stretch of high unemployment since the Great Depression. To make matters worse, unemployment will remain above 8 percent until 2014. And the level of...
by Jane Richey | Feb 16, 2012 | Politics
Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) Primary: April 24 Conservative groups are rallying around Evan Feinberg, a former congressional aide who’s looking to unseat Murphy, a Pittsburgh-area congressman who has displayed a penchant for working with Democrats. The anti-tax Club for...
by Jane Richey | Feb 16, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told skeptical Republican senators Tuesday that it is simply not possible to correct the nation’s fiscal problems without raising taxes. Geithner defended President Obama’s 2013 budget proposal before the Senate Finance Committee...
by Jane Richey | Feb 16, 2012 | Politics
Candidates and campaign operatives crowded the Pa. State Department’s temporary office space to deliver stacks upon stacks of nomination petitions Tuesday. Petitions were due by 5pm for President, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Attorney General, Auditor General,...
