The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Federal Law? What Federal Law?

Ace gave this the Flaming Skull™ and pinned it to the top of his blog: There is a federal law that requires employers to give advance notice of layoffs. Because of Obama’s massive deficits, defense contractors will have to lay off tens of thousands of employees. Obama convinced Lockheed Martin to delay the layoff notification until […]

VIDEO: Jon Kyl Defends Defense

In case you’ve forgotten the debt-ceiling deal, if Congress can’t do something to reduce our escalating deficits — and Harry Reid’s Senate Democrats haven’t even produced a budget in three years, so we’re probably doomed — then “automatic sequestration” is supposed to happen, a potential catastrophe for the Pentagon: Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has been among the Senate’s strongest […]

Stephanopoulos: ‘Van Hollen, How Will The Dems Reply To Ryan?’
Van Hollen: ‘George, We’ll Take Class Warfare For 45% On The Rich’

by Smitty UPDATE: regret autoplay faux pas. I blame Hugo Chavez. Click URLs to view clips. You’ve really got to enjoy the panache with which Chris van Hollen tries to serve a polished Democ**t budget turd: http://widget.newsinc.com/single.html AEI explains the atrociousness of the Democ**t budget in detail. My question is, could this be a tell […]

Obama’s ‘Preposterous’ Budget

“The American people have spoken loudly for the past three years, demanding fiscal responsibility from our leaders and President Obama is either deaf or simply won’t listen. Today’s proposal of nearly $4 trillion in spending over the next year is preposterous, not only in overall funding but in priorities. If we do not get our […]

Heritage And Those Pesky Facts

by Smitty via Granite Grok

Must-Read Post Of The Day

by Smitty Tom Blumer over at Pajamas Media has a crucial outing on the federal budget: Here are two important but little-known and underappreciated points about the Super Dupers’ failure which cannot be emphasized enough: None of the alleged “savings” under discussion (really reductions in projected spending increases) would have kicked in until the beginning […]

Is Congress, Unexpectedly, Robbing Us Deaf, As Well As Blind?

by Smitty Dell Hill points to Director Blue’s post about the dirty truth of the nearly 1,000 Days of Budget Silence: Doug Ross’s asserts: What Democrats and big-government Republicans aren’t telling you is this: the Obama-Pelosi-Reid “one-time Stimulus package” was built into the baseline, which means each year that the Obamacrats can avoid writing a […]

Stupor Committee A Study In Farce.
Yet Mitt’s Ad ‘A Deceitful And Dishonest Attack’? Maybe Santorum Can Help

by Smitty Hensarling: Ultimately, the committee did not succeed because we could not bridge the gap between two dramatically competing visions of the role government should play in a free society, the proper purpose and design of the social safety net, and the fundamentals of job creation and economic growth. Well, that is about as […]

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