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I was inspired by the latest Watchers contest. What if we could have a new party in the US?  What would that party look like?  I am not yet ready to leave the GOP but this is a mental exercise. My inspiration was the short-lived but effective Free Soil Party of the last 1840s and [...]

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After Four Years Of Trillion Dollar Deficits Democrats Want The Government To Spend Even More   Spending Boom: $1.8 Trillion to $3.6 Trillion In 10 Years   SEN. MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “Think about it: the federal government spent $1.8 trillion in 2001 and $3.6 trillion last year. These are nominal dollars, I realize, but by any [...]

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Amid A Chorus Of Pleas For ‘Fiscal Realism’ The President’s Left-Wing Allies Mobilize ‘Another Campaign’ To Prevent It   WASH POST: ‘Entitlement Reform Must Be On The Table’   WASHINGTON POST: “Entitlement Reform Must Be On The Table … no serious [debt-reduction plan] can exclude entitlements. With Republicans in control of the House and holding 45 votes [...]

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This press release just in! It is a bit early for most to endorse for an election that does not take place until 2013, but US Senator Rand Paul has already made his choice.   PRESS RELEASE:  Senator Rand Paul Endorses Ken Cuccinelli for Governor FAIRFAX – This evening, during his speech at the Liberty Political [...]

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– Commonwealth Posts Third Straight Fiscal Year Surplus for a Total of Nearly $1.4 Billion – Governor Had Previously Announced $129 million Revenue Surplus; Today’s Announcement is Final, Cumulative Surplus Amount Including Agency Savings Governor Announces Additional $78.3 Million to Rainy Day Fund to Create Nearly $700 Million Balance; $77.2 Million to State Employee Performance [...]

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    U.S. Senator Roger Wicker Delivers Weekly Republican Address ‘The stakes are unmistakably high. Crippling defense cuts are just around the corner, and we have an obligation to make tough decisions on how to avoid sequestration and balance the budget long-term.’   WASHINGTON, DC – This week President Obama signed the Sequestration Transparency Act and by [...]

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I have been on the email list for State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, running against Richard Lugar in the Indiana Senate primary scheduled for May 8. I have a special affection for Indiana:  Butler Bulldogs, all the neat Christian colleges there like Taylor University, just a state filled with good solid folks.  Very conservative place.  If [...]

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This is a good article that you need to read: Virginia Congressman James Moran recently gave some advice to the budget deficit Supercommittee in the Falls Church News-Press (“Moran’s News Commentary: Eliminate Tax Subsidies for Oil & Gas Industry,” November 2, 2011) restating his already well-known position on oil industry taxes. It is a “no-brainer” [...]

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A fellow CPAC Blogger, Duane Lester of All American Blogger has an interesting poll that is a do-over of a 2008 poll. He asked anyone that was willing to post it so we can get a food number of responses. I personally HATE polls that pretend to want to know your opinion, but all they [...]

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Speaking in the Rose Garden this morning, President Obama unveiled his new fiscal plan, but like his latest stimulus bill, it’s been met with mostly skepticism and criticism so far. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell summed it up: “Veto threats, a massive tax hike, phantom savings, and punting on entitlement reform is not a recipe [...]

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Amanda Carey at the Daily Caller suggests that former MN Governor and now former presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty’s staffers are waiting for Chris Christie: Team Pawlenty is waiting on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to make a decision about entering the field as a presidential candidate, The Daily Caller learned Friday. But it may be [...]

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Governor McDonnell has really done a wonderful job turning around the miserable hand he was dealt by former Governor Tim Kaine. We now have the second surplus in a row. Virginians are happy to have a surplus, but if the State is simply going to spend it on other things, then the news is no [...]

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Without Tea Party Republicans, Congress wouldn’t be cutting any federal spending, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said.   “What I would say to our friends in the Tea Party movement — without them we wouldn’t be having this discussion. We wouldn’t be cutting anything,” McConnell said Monday to Neil Cavuto on Fox News. “But [...]

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Virginia Right blogger Sandy Sanders was specially invited to a Jamie Radtke fundraiser at the Powhatan County home of Pat and Wendy McSweeney tonight and he likes what he heard. Admittedly a skeptic on the Radtke campaign due to electability against the Democratic candidate, former Governor Kaine, he asked Radtke about her chances of beating [...]

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‘A Sharp Contrast’ While President Obama’s Budget ‘All But Ignored The Most Important Long-Term Fiscal Challenge,’ Chairman Ryan’s Plan ‘Includes Broad Changes To The Tax System And $6.2 Trillion In Federal Spending Cuts’   The House Republican Budget: The ‘Most Complete Attempt So Far By Republicans To Make Good On Their Promises … To Cut [...]

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The Path to Prosperity It is tempting to begin with an old cliche’ opening line like “It was the best of budgets, it was the worst of budgets,” but looking at the graphs to the left (click for a larger view), that would be an understatement. House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and [...]

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To some on the right, any spending cut at the Federal level is a good thing. And that premise is hard to disagree with. But not all spending cuts are created equal. There is a dark side to non-specific, across the board spending cuts. The budget amendment offered by Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is a case [...]

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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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I was inspired by this comment in a New York Post article about the absurd idea that the funding of opponents of the Ground Zero Mosque should be investigated: She [Pelosi] famously discounted the Tea Party as an “astroturf” movement, directed by the Republican Party. She couldn’t process the idea of a genuine grass-roots revolt [...]

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