Virginia Right!

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore at the end of last week, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell reiterated that in order to get an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff, there needs to be some leadership from President Obama. “The missing person, the guy who was AWOL in 2011, is still the president. I think a good starting [...]

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The New York Times reports today, “A rising number of manufacturers are canceling new investments and putting off new hires because they fear paralysis in Washington will force hundreds of billions in tax increases and budget cuts in January, undermining economic growth in the coming months. Executives at companies making everything from electrical components and power systems to [...]

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Full transcript of Senator Brown’s Address: “Hello, I’m United States Senator Scott Brown. When the citizens of Massachusetts sent me to the United States Senate last year, they expected me to work with anyone in any party for the good of our country. And that’s what I do each and every day. “With millions of [...]

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On Tuesday, President Barack Obama tried to keep the pressure on Congress to consider his nearly $450 billion jobs bill, saying it had been two weeks since he sent the bill to Capitol Hill “and now I want it back.” “I want it back, passed, so I can sign this bill and start putting people [...]

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Politico reports today, “Liberals on Monday cheered President Barack Obama’s plan to hike taxes on the wealthy to cut the deficit. But the response from Democrats on the front lines of 2012 election battles? Silence. Or, at best, tepid enthusiasm. Centrist Democrats, a dwindling breed on Capitol Hill, were quickly faced with another rough choice [...]

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  The Wall Street Journal reports today: “The prospects for President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan grew dimmer Monday as he unveiled the fine print of how it would be paid for—primarily through tax increases that Republicans said would destroy jobs, not create them. . . . Republicans in Congress . . . disputed [...]

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Politico reports today, “Seeing ‘no clear path’ toward reauthorizing the “No Child Left Behind” education law, the Obama administration will unilaterally issue waivers to states, exempting them from some of the law’s regulations. . . . The announcement comes months after President Barack Obama called on Congress to deliver legislation to his desk by September [...]

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Senate News Briefing: Over the course of this week, Democrats in have made it quite clear that they still have not heard the message Americans sent Washington in November to reduce spending, debt, and the size of government. In contrast to Republicans, who have been working to find ways to reduce spending, lower the deficit, [...]

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The New York Times writes today, “Congress on Thursday adopted a stopgap spending measure to finance the government through Dec. 3 as lawmakers dashed for an earlier-than-expected exodus from Washington and headed home to focus on the midterm elections. . . . The last day of the brief September session was as notable for what [...]

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Went a wandering tonight, uncontent with the topics that have already been covered by the usual outlets, most notably by the premiere political philosophy and gossip site in the Universe, Disrupt The Narrative . That may be an overstatement.  Or simply prophetic.  LOL. I thought it might be fun to drop in on the Democratic Socialists of America’s video channel, since World Net Daily is suggesting that we have over 70 members of Congress  that are members.  I’m a little leery of World Net Daily, but after watching a little of this video they may be on to something.  What the DSA is saying doesn’t veer very far from the script coming from the White House or Capitol Hill, so the similarities are not coincidental.  I couldn’t isolate a particular video clip like you can on many video sites, but this is the first video you’ll hit. David Schweikart, is a professor at Loyola University and is/was a member of Progressives for Obama , and whose daughter works for one of the big hedge funds in…wait for it….Chicago.  He rails about his…

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Considering the news on the massive, unpopular health care law this week, it’s pretty amazing how out of touch Democrats and the Obama administration are when they talk about the fallout from and reactions to their health care overhaul. Today, the trustees of Medicare are set to release a report on that program’s future solvency. [...]

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This morning, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell spoke on the floor about the Democrats’ job-killing agenda. He said, “For more than a year and a half, the President and his Democrat allies on Capitol Hill have pushed an anti-business, anti-jobs agenda on the American people in the form of one massive government intrusion after another. [...]

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General McChrystal has outmaneuvered and outsmarted Barack Obama. According to the UK Telegraph:

A senior Capitol Hill source tells me that General Stanley McChrystal had tendered his resignation to President Barack Obama and that the White House is actively discussing a replacement who could be quickly confirmed by the Senate.

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HOTLINE ON CALL: “‘I can tell you with the campaign that will continue with the American people, I think the slogan will be “Repeal and Replace,”’ McConnell told reporters after a weekly lunch with fellow members of the GOP Conference.”

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From the Washington Post:

A spokesman for Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) said this afternoon that Virginia will file suit against the federal government if the Democratic health care reform bill is approved by the U.S. Congress.

Cuccinelli has long said he was examining the legal issues and suggested he would likely file suit. Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for the office, said this afternoon that a lawsuit is now a definite. Gottstein would provide no details of the legal rationale for such a suit, indicating the process is “still being worked out.”

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