Activism Alert: End the Corruption, Sign the Earmark Pledge
Thursday, November 8th, 2007The conservative, but non-partisan, Club For Growth recently released is RePork Card grading Congressman on their efforts to root out government waste from Washington. Groups like Club for Growth are making a serious and concerted effort to end the use of the federal buget as a campaign tool to reward supporters and attract future […]
Fletcher headed for defeat
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Incumbent Republican Governor of Kentucky, Ernie Fletcher, is headed for defeat tonight. A CR Nation mole reports that with 89% of the precints reported in, Fletcher is losing 59%-41%, despite the hard work of College Republicans from several states.
When asked why Fletcher lost so badly, the one-word response was corruption.
Also contributing to Fletcher’s impending […]
Harvard College Republicans screen Hillary Clinton documentary
Friday, October 26th, 2007The Havard College Republicans plan to screen a documentary titled, “Hillary Uncensored,” which is a scathing documentary whose 13-minute trailer has been No. 1 on Google Video since Oct. 10, with more than 1.1 million views to date.
Fox News is all over the story, stating that –
The film’s first full-length showing is scheduled for Friday […]
Update: Flower Power Pork: Butcher seeks to force vote to use earmark $ on children’s health care
Thursday, October 18th, 2007More egregious earmarks are coming to light in the Senate Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. The latest is an earmark from New York Sens. Schumer and Clinton, which would provide $1 million for a museum to commemorate the Woodstock festival. Robert Novak reports on the story today.
Addendum: From a Roll Call article:
Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) […]
Choices
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Many hard choices await the majority party when crafting a budget, the government can only tax and spend so much in an finite world. The Democrats, unfortunately, avoid many of those choices.
But they did manage to find one program that could be cut, that being the Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS). The […]
Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill laden with earmarks
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Democrats were supposed to clean up the earmarking process, but sadly it is just more of the same - unjustifiable earmarks inserted into spending bill for political purposes. It seems that Democrats are as likely as Republicans to use the federal budget as a campaign tool.
Take for example, a $500,000 earmark was inserted into […]
Democrats Ignore their own Earmark Rules to Pass SCHIP Legislation
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007Under House rule 21(2)(b) all earmarks must be disclosed and accompanied by a promise of the requesting lawmaker that he or she has no financial interest in the requested earmark.
It was pointed out by a Republican on the floor of the House of Represenatives that the bill contained an undisclosed earmarks that were […]
MoveOn.org’s shameless fundraising techniques
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007If MoveOn.org had any integrity before, then they certainly don’t have any now.
They are using their political hitpiece on Gen Petreaus to raise funds in the face of Congressional and grassroots outrage at the nature of the political discourse many leftists and anti-war groups are currently using, namely that these groups want to […]
Former Young Republican get 5 years for sexual battery
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Michael Flory, former Chairman of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans, was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison on a guilty plea to sexual battery stemming from allegations that he forced sex acts on a woman while both were at a convention last year.
Charges that were dropped as a result of the plea […]
Big Picture: How Corrupt are the Dems?: A Perspective
Thursday, September 6th, 2007From Suitably Flip:
While it (Abramoff) was largely hailed in the media as a Republican issue, it’s a seldom reported fact that more than 30% of the Abramoff-linked monies actually went to Democrats. By comparison, less than 1/10th of one percent of the circumspect Hsu fundraising went to Republicans.
The million-and-a-half-plus in cold, hard cash that […]
