$2 TRILLION Massive Financial Rescue Package Agreement Reached- Vote Wednesday
White House, Senate leaders agree on coronavirus stimulus package “It’s good news for families all across America,” McConnell says By Jennifer Shutt, David Lerman, and Niels Lesniewski Posted March 25, 2020 at 1:16am White House and Senate negotiators announced an agreement early Wednesday morning on a massive financial rescue package designed to curb the economic damage of the […]
Coronavirus “Stimulus” Bill: Third Try
By George Miller Even though an unprecedented health crisis brought by the Wuhan Coronavirus has triggered an unprecedented financial crisis, it seems like politics as usual. The Democrats stopped a Republican effort for financial, operational and health care supports in the Senate twice, in just days. Nancy Pelosi then introduced a version which rapidly morphed […]
McConnell And Senate Republicans Vote To Kill Green New Deal
By CHRIS WHITE, Energy Reporter Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues torpedoed the activist-backed Green New Deal Tuesday as Democrats called the vote a dog-and-pony show. Republicans defeated the proposal 57 to 0 as Democratic lawmakers derided the vote as a political gesture meant to rile up conservatives ahead of an […]
The Libertarian Party: A Proposal | Cut the Court
by Thomas L. Knapp Well, here we go again. On June 27, US Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, effective July 31. Cue crisis, as defined by President John F. Kennedy’s inaccurate characterization of the Chinese analog: “Two characters, one representing danger and the other, opportunity.” Democrats and Republicans have, for 30 […]
White House Is Taking An Axe To Congress’ Massive Spending Spree
ROBERT DONACHIE, Capitol Hill and Health Care Reporter President Donald Trump’s administration is going to roll out a recision package Monday that will claw back $11 billion from what Congress has already agreed to spend, a GOP aide told The Daily Caller News Foundation. TheDCNF was the first to report on May 2 the president was looking […]
L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise: My Stream of Conscious Overflowth — Senator McConnell and Other Such Cockroaches
. By L. Neil Smith Why is it that, every time the wannabe commies in Congress feel stymied in their never-ending attempts to obliterate the Second Amendment, some “random” lunatic or religious fanatic obligingly goes out and murders a bunch of innocent human beings, often with the very weapon they’re currently trying to outlaw? Never […]
The Fourth 100 Days (Trump Briefs: Oct. 21-27/Day 275-281) Week 40
By Michael Hernandez Saturday, October 21 (Day 275): Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton optimistic about GOP future in California “All it takes is a little new thinking applied with old principles—the principles of Ronald Reagan,” Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton told the State GOP delegates at their fall convention in Anaheim speaking on his optimism about the […]
The Fourth 100 Days (Trump Briefs: Oct. 7-12/Day 261-266) Week 38
By Michael Hernandez Saturday, October 7 (Day 261): Million Poles turn out for “Rosary on the Borders” prayer campaign Millions of Polish citizens went to the nation’s borders to “pray for the salvation of their country” in the second-largest prayer event ever held in Europe (second only to the 2016 World Youth Day) according […]
Mitch McConnell laments Trump’s ‘excessive expectations’ for Republican-controlled Congress
President Trump’s “excessive expectations” for legislative victories in Republican-controlled Congress are frustrating Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Attendees at a Rotary Club meeting in Kentucky gathered on Monday to hear Mr. McConnell explain why Republican lawmakers have been unable to deliver major legislative accomplishments for the president. The senator pushed back against the perception that […]
Mitch McConnell tosses white towel on Obamacare, cedes to Dems
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell threw in the white flag on Obamacare repeal on Friday, admitting defeat and telling his Republicans in a voice that seemed close to cracking that it’s “time to move on” to other matters. And all the Democrats go: We won. “This is clearly a disappointing moment,” McConnell said, on the […]
