The old Establishment GOP, mostly silent in recent weeks since the new upstart conservative rookies have been making good on their promises to cut big spending, suddenly found their voices and as usual, sided with the liberal big-spending Democrats.
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America’s Desperate Need for a Leader
To get a handle on our debt and to chart the right course for the future, America needs a strong leader, a person who has the guts to challenge the political establishment and come to office owing them nothing.
Lugar Senate primary opponent dubs him ‘Obama’s favorite Republican’
Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock will officially announce his primary challenge to Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) on Tuesday, rolling out the backing of a majority of party officials from across the state.
The great red hope?
Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan talks with reporters about the role of the RSC and the need to cut spending and get the budget on a path to balance.
Bipartisn vote against Patriot Act extension
Ron Paul was one of 26 Republicans who joined Democrats in upholding liberty over security. Ben Franklin said “Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”.
Florida Governor Wants to Cut $5 Billion in Spending and Slash Taxes
Florida is not alone in contemplating large spending cuts to offset revenues only slowly recovering from recession and the winding down of $150 billion of federal assistance to states from 2009?s economic stimulus program.
‘String Him Up’ Racist and eliminationist rhetoric at a Common Cause rally
[M]ore evidence that Common Cause is a violent, racist movement than all the media put together have done vis-à-vis the Tea Party. – WSJ
Rand Paul’s first senate speech warns against compromise on spending
Rand Paul the Teaparty senator from Kentucky says the compromise should be on ‘where we cut’ not if we cut. He said Obama’s ‘freeze’ at 2010 levels does nothing to avoid a crisis.
Americans Believe GOP Should Consider Tea Party Ideas
About 7 in 10 national adults, including 88% of Republicans, say it is important that Republican leaders in Congress take the Tea Party movement’s positions and objectives into account as they address the nation’s problems. Among Republicans, 53% rate this “very important.”
Even Obama doesn’t believe what he says
Dana Perino on Obama’s head fake to the center. Perino calls President Obama’s State of the Union address too long, dry, flat and unfocused. ‘I don’t think the American people will fall for it’. Time will tell if deeds follow the rhetoric.