Judge Napolitano on FoxNews From FoxNews: The House voted Thursday to shoot down President Obama’s plan to bypass Congress and waive work requirements for welfare. The changes would allow people in certain states to collect welfare checks for things like bed rest, massage, motivational reading, and helping friends and family with household tasks. A report from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office reveals that members of the administration don’t even have the authority to change the work requirements, yet the Obama administration plans ... Read More

Did you miss the 60 Minutes program last night? If you did, please watch. Makes you wonder why Occupy Wallstreet isn't Occupy Congress. This was an enlightening episode exposing all the millions made by Congress with Insider Trading LEGALLY. From the sounds of it, both sides of the political aisle are reaping financial rewards with insider information and are unwilling to make this cash cow illegal. Nancy Pelosi, when confronted with 60 Minutes ,sure looked nervous and used all the red-herring arguments ... Read More

I think I found a way to solve the debt crisis in this country. Recently a list was posted, the 50 Wealthiest in Congress. It got me to thinking. # 50 's worth was over $5 million dollars. How connected are these law and budget makers with the average American people? They can't possibly feel the same as you and I do when we fill our gas tanks, or go food shopping. They can't possibly understand what it's like to make ... Read More

We all know how insane the economy is, we also know that the spending in Washington is only driving us deeper in debt and ruining it into a state like Greece has now. With that in mind, Jim sent me an analogy, assuming all the figures are correct, should make us stop and think. What if we ran our households like Congress runs this country? The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people ... Read More

The government is nearing its borrowing limit of $14.3 trillion and risks going into a crippling default. Seizing on public frustration about spending, House Republicans say they won’t lift the debt cap without more cuts. Obama told the AP without doubt: “We will raise the debt limit. We always have. We will do it again.” He warned that anything less would undermine the solvency of the government, roil financial markets and potentially “plunge the world ... Read More

Even though Pelosi said she would run the most ethical congress ever, and she didn't, even though she and her democrats were going to FIX the "skyrocketing" gas prices that we had under Bush and didn't, even though unemployment is higher than ever with no solution in sight during her reign, don't think this has been a bad time for her... From The Hill: Pelosi's wealth grows by 62 percent House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) saw her net worth rise ... Read More

Well I know what you're thinking, me too, CONGRESS is in contempt of Congress. *Sigh* Just the same, it's possible that the Obama Administration is in Contempt of Congress. "Attorney General Eric Holder has refused to supply the House Oversight Committee with requested documents surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, the lethal and botched operation in which thousands of semi-automatic weapons were illegally sent over the border and into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. The operation resulted in the ... Read More

Even though NATO is one step from sending troops on land in Libya,  Obama's "few days kinetic military action" has definitely been longer than the promised few days, and MORE than a kinetic military action, I think. (A show of hands on how many believed that one anyway?) And both sides of the aisle in congress want answers. Crossing party lines to deliver a stunning rebuke to the commander in chief, the vast majority of the House voted Friday for resolutions telling ... Read More

This might be the most disturbing news in a long time: The House just passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), including a provision to authorize worldwide war, which has no expiration date and will allow this president — and any future president — to go to war anywhere in the world, at any time, without further congressional authorization. The new authorization wouldn’t even require the president ... Read More

An opinion from RedState I thought worth sharing. In the past, American soldiers were classified as essential personnel. Therefore, should the government shut down our soldiers would keep getting paid. But Barack Obama has decided to hold our American soldiers hostage to a government shutdown. The Commander-in-Chief has, via the Secretary of the Department of Defense, proposed classifying our men and women in harm’s way as “non-essential.” That means, should the government shut ... Read More

Somehow, I think that if our political leaders had to answer to the same laws WE do, things might be a little different in Washington. Members of Congress have immunity from many routine parking tickets in the District of Columbia, but that doesn’t mean they can’t try to rack up fines. According to a Roll Call survey of vehicles parked on Capitol Hill and at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, as of mid-March, lawmakers were carrying at least ... Read More

The Washington Times has something interesting to say about this latest news from Obama and the Libya matter. EDITORIAL: Obama’s illegal war Congress, not the U.N., should authorize force against Libya With Thursday’s passage of United Natons Security Council resolution 1973, the United States is set to go to war against Libya. Removing Moammar Gadhafi from power would probably advance the cause of freedom, but the United Nations has no legal authority to take a step of this magnitude. By bowing to the ... Read More

How can you spend $223 billion in the shortest month of the year? Even if the delusional remarks about the U.S. not being broke were true, how long could that last? From the Washington Times: The federal government posted its largest monthly deficit in history in February at $223 billion, according to preliminary numbers the Congressional Budget Office released Monday morning. That figure tops last February’s record of $220.9 billion, and marks the 29th straight month the government has run ... Read More

"After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending. Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt." ~Nancy Pelosi, lying through her teeth to the American people. If you knew a person who spent recklessly and kept on spending, and then borrowing,  and had no idea where the funds would come from to repay the debt, you would ... Read More

Why people keep electing these big spenders I don't know. Well, some are leaving, but is it enough? Will the newly elected representatives spend less? For now, the lame duck congress wants to spend to oblivion, and beyond. In United States politics, an earmark is a legislative (especially congressional) provision that directs approved funds to be spent on specific projects, or that directs specific exemptions from taxes or mandated fees. Typically, a legislator seeks to insert earmarks that direct ... Read More

You know this magic number that Obama and democrats in Congress are using to set as a standard for paying higher taxes? If you earn more than $200,000, you're almost regarded as a villain. It's kind of ironic that those who are first to play the class card against the rich while positioning themselves s one of "the people" are in fact only $26,000 a year away from becoming "villains" themselves. Truly, they are America's Aristocracy. They are in the top 5 ... Read More

We often hear about the "Separation of church and State" from the onset of our Founding Fathers ideals, yet, this tour proves otherwise. Did you know that the first Bible printed in English in America today, was first printed by Congress for use in our schools? Did you know Thomas Jefferson sent missionaries to evangelize the Indians using federal funds to do so? Did you know that out of the 56 signers of the Declaration, 29 had seminary or Bible School degrees? ... Read More

They're spending like drunken sailors. From AOL News: Congress requires a lot of stuff to keep itself running. Like coffee. And plane tickets. And student loan payments. Together, the Sunlight Foundation's three databases of this internal congressional spending -- prepared in coordination with the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call -- show what the House spent on itself in the last six months of 2009 and first three months of 2010. The files provide an unprecedented window on what legislators ... Read More

As people learn more about the health care bill, there is a surge of people who wish to repeal the bill. The number of Americans who want Congress to repeal President Obama's 10-year, $938 billion health care law is on the rise, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released today. According to the poll, 58% of Americans support repealing the law. That's up 4 percentage points from last week. But here is an interesting twist, it's not just the ... Read More

I am only one of many, a majority of people, who recognize that the health care system in the USA needs help, but are totally against the one Obama has ready for us. For those who still favor the idea, perhaps they should ask themselves, is it a good bill? If so, then why did it take so many sweetheart deals to get it pushed through this far, and that STILL might not be enough? Why can't this bill stand on ... Read More

From Washington Times Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops. Among the 778 such projects, known as earmarks, packed into the bill: $25 million for a new World War II museum at the University of New Orleans and $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat. While earmarks are hardly new ... Read More

Now here's a headline to get excited about: 57% Would Like to Replace Entire Congress If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure how they would vote. Overall, these numbers are little changed since last October. When Congress was passing the ... Read More

It's hard to believe that we as a country, a world in fact, has fallen on hard times. The very same people who sign trillions of stimulus claiming the economic sky is falling, can't stop taxing and spending, this our nation's Congress. According to the Wall Street  Journal: The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at ... Read More

How much do you make an hour? How about, how much can you SPEND an hour? Congress can spend $1 billion an hour. From Politico: Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has come up with a vivid new way to express his contention that the nation is spending way too much money it doesn’t have. McConnell includes the tweaks in his opening remarks on the Senate floor on the 51st day that President Obama has been in office. “In just 50 days, Congress has voted to ... Read More

"A government policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw If you are not angry enough about the generational robbery in the name of stimulus, throwing billions upon billions into programs and institutions that keep their hand out, how do you feel about the so called stimulus jobs going to illegal immigrants? In USA TODAY: Tens of thousands of jobs created by the economic stimulus law could end up filled by illegal immigrants, ... Read More

President Barack Obama got the $825 (or $1.2 trillion over a decade) stimulus package through the House of Representatives with a  244 to 188 vote. Not a single Republican voted for the bill. Now you can buy into the notion that this is politics as usual, or you can read the bill and know it's a VERY BAD BILL. When our children live in a collapsed economy, please remember these gloating faces. Now Nanny Pelosi didn't get her birth control "stimulus" but ... Read More

In spite of jobs lost, companies closing, economy falling apart around them, Congress will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries. “As lawmakers make a big show of forcing auto executives to accept just $1 a year in salary, they are quietly raiding the vault for their own personal gain,” said Daniel O’Connell, chairman of The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a non-partisan group. “This money would be much better spent helping the millions of ... Read More

I should not have been surprised when seeing people interviewed, Obama supporters, that they had little or no knowledge of newsworthy items, high-ranking officials, or even which party was in control of Congress at this moment. Many interviewed seemed rather confused, an example being they took Saturday Night Live skits like Tina Fey's as something factual, and when confronted with facts, didn't know even remotely what candidate they came from. Something you can blame the mainstream media for, and this ... Read More

Seem harsh? People were polled and most felt we could have a better congress. Congress was front and center in the national news last week and the American people were far from impressed. If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, 59% of voters would like to throw them all out and start over again. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 17% would vote to keep the current legislators in office. Last week, the House ... Read More

"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." ~ Ronald Reagan Congress continues to live up to its 10% approval rating and passed the Senate version of the bailout bill last night. The bill that started out as only 3 pages long (It's now the length of a novel) has some interesting items attached to it: New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill. - Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502) - Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503) - 6 page ... Read More

The legislation is coming together in a remarkably secretive process in which decisions are concentrated in the hands of just a few lawmakers such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis. The unusual process means thousands of lawmakers' pet projects of the very sort blasted by GOP presidential nominee John McCain on the campaign trail would escape scrutiny, including up to $5 billion worth of such "earmarks" in the defense ... Read More

Gas rises above $4, our democrat controlled congress took an early vacation. Financial crisis on Wall Street with banks folding left and right, our democrap controlled congress wants to adjourn! The Democratic-controlled Congress, acknowledging that it isn't equipped to lead the way to a solution for the financial crisis and can't agree on a path to follow, is likely to just get out of the way. Well, let them. I am sure if they stayed they would only make matters worse. So far they seem ... Read More

When Pelosi took office, she was going to have the hardest working, most honest, and even promised to have this gas price situation fixed  congress ever. Instead we've been treated to the most bizarre congress ever. Their approval ratings are the lowest ever too, having sunk down to single digits.  In two decades of record keeping, no sitting Congress has passed fewer public laws at this point in the session -- 294 so far -- than this one. Now, that doesn't mean they ... Read More

A few days ago, I blogged how in spite of the crisis facing our nation, congress decided to take an early holiday. Since Democrat Nancy Pelosi controls the cameras, we can't see on C-Span how some House Republicans stayed behind to carry on with this issue, debating how best to handle it. "In an urgent memo sent to GOP Members and staff Saturday (“A Call to Action on American Energy”), Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) hailed Friday’s ... Read More

You remember Nancy Pelosi? The one who PROMISED to fix the struggles of Americans at the gas pump? In a press release dated April 24, 2006, Pelosi said, “Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.” Not only has she not kept this promise, The ... Read More