Last week, when the establishment GOP betrayed the faith placed in it to keep its promise to defeat ObamaCare, may have been its last chance to do so. There are excuses. ”We all voted not to support ObamaCare!” This is not a new GOP mantra. Neither is it the same thing as doing everything you [...]
By nature, I am a passionate person. That passion has led, over 57 years, to strong attachments to hobbies, pastimes and leisure activities that I made time for in a schedule that always has more to put in it than time to hold it all and an equally limited pool of discretionary spending funds. For [...]
Darrell Issa, Twitter, Jim Cooper and the Dems’ “Walkout” on the Families of Benghazi Victims
Sep 25
It’s the little things that get you. For online communication, Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per message, is the tiny “go -to” inadvertent creator of huge events. Consider last Thursday’s duo of tweets by Darrell Issa, Chair of the House Oversight Committee (Tweet One and Tweet Two) on the matter of attendance by [...]
(UPDATED – Post was updated to report some actual votes cast and statements released after the vote) Over recent months, Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) have proposed the idea of fighting a piece of legislation with which they have concerns by not authorizing funds to pay for its implementation. President Obama’s signature [...]
There’s a new KickStart campaign out to help the President fund his war by raising $1.6T. This is no heartless 1% Republican war. This is the most Progressive war ever covering 99% of the planet with environmentally friendly bombs and hybrid tanks bringing lots of shock and lots of “Awwwww…” Why? That’s the BEST part [...]
Last week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-7-1 to send the idea of using force in Syria to the full Senate for a vote. This week the House and Senate return from the August recess. Both chambers will take up the issue. The president, for his part has been interviewed by all the major [...]
In the midst of national stories such as the trainwreck that is the Affordable Care Act and the President’s stated intention of staging a military drive-by shooting in Syria it is easy to lose track of and sight of the reality that there is still good work being done by legislators here in Tennessee. Just [...]
When TN State Representative Joe Carr announced he was leaving the TN-04 US House race to challenge Lamar Alexander for the US Senate, everyone understood there would be changes. WTN 99.7 host, Ralph Bristol, asked Carr how his staff had been impacted; how many of them were staying on? Carr noted his current campaign manager [...]
