One thing the payroll tax cut fight has given us is a big fracture in the GOP. Here’s a couple of quotes that caught my eye: Rep. Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican whom Boehner picked to be on the conference committee, summed up the beating his caucus had taken when he said, “I am willing […]
One of the reasons John Boehner has said that his people opposed the 2 month extension of the tax cut is that the payroll processors would have problems with it. That makes we wonder about this: Just under two years ago, House Republicans, including some of the party’s more conservative members, were arguing that a […]
The state that lies a few miles from my house has just seen the outcome of a political scandal that I’m sure some on the right will try to blame on ACORN somehow: A Marion County judge has ruled that Secretary of State Charlie White was ineligible to be a candidate and the office should […]
Following the news that the House GOP was starting to splinter from Boehner, including Tea Partier Sean Duffy, news organizations are now reporting that there will be a vote on the payroll tax cut possibly as early as this evening. I’ll keep you updated as more news breaks.
Gallup is out with a new poll that shows U.S. satisfaction is really low right now. Given the economic state and how broken Congress is, that should come as no shock. Some on the right are pushing this as the “Obama is Carter” meme: The second term of Jimmy Carter is going about as well […]
This week’s drama surrounding the payroll tax cut has reminded American’s of one big thing – Washington is broke! Actually there was one really interesting irony though that happened this week. It used to be people viewed the Senate as being dysfunctional more so than the House. Well we had a bill put out by […]
Of course that wasn’t the headline in 1983, but if it were 2012 and Nancy Reagan was replaced with Michelle Obama, I’m sure Darrell Issa would be starting the hearings to lead to impeachment while Sarah Palin cries for all the Christmas angels that lost their wings.
I guess poor Sarah hasn’t got much media attention lately, so now she has decided to drum sum up and what a better way to do that than to attack the White House Christmas card! Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told Fox News & Commentary that she found the card to be a bit unusual. […]
A little bit ago Steny Hoyer tried to get the House to vote for the payroll tax cut. In doing so he showed how the House Republicans are truly cowards on this issue. Here’s what Hoyer said: “Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask for unanimous consent that we bring up the bill to extend […]
Republicans are getting nervous, and I mean really nervous. They have painted themselves into a corner by opposing the payroll tax cut and are now even fracturing. The nervousness can be seen by what today’s Wall Street Journal editorial board is saying: The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for […]