Romney Barely Wins Straw Poll

Romney – Paul in Dead Heat
Most of the headlines are proclaiming Romney the winner and buried somewhere in the story we discover that Romney beat Ron Paul by only 1 vote in this early beauty contest for the 2012 Republican nomination.
Here's how they voted:
Mitt Romney: 439 votes
Ron Paul: 438 votes
Sarah Palin: 330 votes
Newt Gingrich: 321 [...]

Senate Votes to Fund Viagra for Child Molesters

S. Amdt 3556 would have, among other things,  prohibited Federal funding for Viagra for child molesters and rapists.  All but two Democrats voted to table the Amendment, thereby killing it.  So, who voted how?
The full text of the amendment reads as follows:
Question On the Motion to Table (Motion to Table Coburn Amdt. No. 3556) Amendment purpose To [...]

President, Cabinet and Congress Still Want No Part of Their Bill

During the Reconciliation Process the following amendment was offered which would have made the President, his Cabinet, White House Senior Staff, Congress and their staffs subject to the same health insurance scrutiny that they are subjecting the rest of us to. Here's the amendment.
Question On the Motion (Motion to Waive Sec. 313 of the CBA Grassley [...]

Rules for Conservative Radicals #1

Rule One: Whoever controls the language controls the debate.
Liberals have been much more effective at controlling the language of debates than conservatives have and it allows them to win even though they always have the losing argument. Let's look at the abortion debate as an example. I'm not personally taking sides in this debate, I'm [...]

Earthquake in Mass.?

Democrats Shaking As Lead Narrows
A Rasmussen poll, just out, shows the race to fill the vacant Massachusetts Senate seat narrowing. Democrat Martha Coakley still leads in the polls by a margin of 50% to 41% ahead of Republican challenger Scott Brown.  However, two months ago Coakley led by a comfortable 25 point margin. Among the [...]

What’s Wrong With the Banking System?

What are They Doing With Our Money?
Most people don't understand the world's monetary system or banking.  According to Henry Ford that's probably a good thing, since he believed that if they were made to understand it there would be a revolution the following morning.  He was probably right, but let's lift the veil and see [...]

Why Can’t I Find Reid’s Health Care Bill?

 
Senate Tricks Make it Hard to Find the Senate Health Care Bill
 
The Constitution requires that all revenue bills originate in the House of Representatives. This would make Harry Reid's health care bill unconstitutional from the very start, but as you may have already guessed, the Constitution is nothing more than an annoyance to Democrats. That's [...]

Senate Votes On Health Care Bill

Senate Cloture Vote Moves Health Scare Bill Forward
It may not be time kiss grandma and grandpa goodbye just yet, but it's getting closer. In a strictly party-line vote all Democrats and both Independents voted for cloture on the Obamacare bill. All Republicans voted no, except for George Voinovich (R-OH) who is either too cowardly or [...]

S. Amdt. 2774 Tabled

Passing S. Amdt. 2774 would have eliminated the possibility that funds made available through H.R. 3082 (Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2010) could be used to build or modify a facility within the United States or its territories to temporarily or permanently hold those individuals held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as of October [...]

Update on David Hamilton Vote

Update: David F. Hamilton Confirmed to Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Before posting the results for the Hamilton confirmation, let's attempt to understand how this judge was confirmed by the senate with only a simple majority. Only yesterday we discovered that once the cloture motion successfully passed with full majority support, only a simple majority was [...]

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