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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been receiving praises lately in a sudden surge in popularity and appearing on the conservatives’ radar. First, Sarah Palin revealed on FOX News Sunday that she’s impressed with Ryan:
PALIN: …But listen, no, we have some strong, some young terps (ph) in this party. Paul Ryan, I’m very impressed with Paul [...]

A few days ago I had to go see a doctor and as I waited in the exam room, I saw on the wall a print titled First Prayer in Congress. This is nothing of a surprise as early members of Congress were devout Christians and traditionally a prayer is given during the opening of [...]

The odds are that Senate Democrats with their 60 seat majority will pass the bloated, deformed health care bill on Christmas Eve and give Americans an unwanted holiday gift. Then the House and Senate have to work on agreeing to and merging their two very different versions of the bill.
Democrats in Congress know very well [...]

Not much of a stunning revelation about the president, but Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Harry Reid (D-NV) are taking it too far:
While most Americans normally ignore parliamentary detail, with health care looming, voters are suddenly paying attention. The Senate is expected to vote on a health bill in the weeks to come, representing [...]

President Obama has proved be to somewhat anti-Wall Street, so what does Wall Street do? Spend money to change (or counter) that, of course! And with the Democrats in control of Congress, it’s only logical that lots of contributions go to them:
Of the $10.6 million the industry has given to sitting senators this year, more [...]

First, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) was definitely out of line when he yelled “You lie!” at one point during the speech. That’s just unacceptable. This was a presidential address to Congress, not a town hall meeting. He’s since issued an apology and spoke with Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, but I wouldn’t be surprised if [...]

The August recess has been absolutely brutal to members of Congress, especially the Democrats. More interestingly, the anger toward Congress seems to have boiled over and damaged President Obama’s popularity as well. His approval rating has been dropping consistently about a point a day. Now refreshed from an extended family vacation, President Obama and the [...]

By now you have probably seen dozens of videos of town hall meetings where the the senator or representative faced passionate and angry attendees criticizing his or her endorsement of the bloated health care bill. During the August recess, members of Congress are in their districts holding town hall meetings to face their constituents (okay, [...]

With no ObamaCare vote in sight before the August recess, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her Democrats in Congress are taking to the President’s strategy of finger pointing. Yes, blame everybody else from the media to the insurance companies:
Reid said reporters created a fictitious deadline of a successful vote by the August recess, and [...]

If government health care is so great as claimed by the Democrats, then why are members of Congress exempt from participating in it for themselves and their families? Or as any snarky kid would say, If you love it so much, then why don’t you marry it?
Call your representatives to support H.R. 615 from Rep. [...]

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) thinks it is laughable that legislators should pledge to read the full health care bill before casting their votes:
Hoyer was responding to a question from CNSNews.com on whether he supported a pledge that asks members of the Congress to read the entire bill before voting on it and also [...]

The Republicans lost badly in the 2004 and 2008 elections, handing the Democrats control of Congress and the White House. The likes of Harry Reid (D-NV) and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) dictate the legislative agenda, and a president with socialist ideology sits in the Oval Office. There was much soul searching post-elections, and even to this [...]

There has been a lot of interest in the constitutionality of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) and the TARP funds. I see a lot of Internet searches about this. George Will has a very good piece in the Washington Post about this topic:
By enacting it, Congress did not in any meaningful sense [...]

An NYT op-ed calls it Obama’s “Katrina moment.” Not a good sign at all.
As much as author Frank Rich gives readers a good run-down of the events leading to the current circus (with clowns Tim Geithner, Jay Leno, Edward Liddy, Chris Dodd, and President Obama himself), he ultimately shows his liberal side:
As the nation’s anger [...]

How many Republicans voted for the stimulus bill? None.
Now it’s widely known that the multi-billion dollar stimulus bill contains verbiage to allow executives to keep their bonuses, it’s time for the Democrats to be accountable.
The bill is 1,000 pages or so, and granted, some honest Democrats admitted they didn’t read over the whole thing. But [...]