Is There a Deal to Avoid a Government Shutdown?

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Rory Cooper to discus a possible deal in the House to avoid a government shutdown. Then Pejman Yousefzadeh talks about what a shutdown could mean politically.
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Republicans Shouldn’t Take Tea Party for Granted

The Tea Party movement is loyal to the Constitution, not the Republican Party!

Boehner: Obama Should Explain Libya Mission

From Reuters:

House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Sunday called on President Barack Obama to explain the U.S. mission in Libya and how his administration intends to achieve its goals.
“The president is the commander-in-chief. But the administration has a responsibility to define for the American people, the Congress and our troops, what the mission in [...]

Speaker Boehner needs to show America What Real Leadership Is

Americans delivered the House a record 63 Republican seats to ensure that the peoples’ voices would be heard.  And, while the voters thought their message was clear and received, now, it seems, the real battle ensues.

While Congress continues to kick the budget and debt can down the road and passes continuing resolutions to thwart a government shutdown, the Democrat [...]

Are We Broke Yet?: Michael Moore, Rachel Maddow, NYT Say No. Reality Begs to Differ.

“The nation is not broke, my friends,” opines guerilla filmmaker and amateur accountant Michael Moore. “Wisconsin is not broke. Saying that the country is broke is repeating a Big Lie.”
Relax, America, it turns out that all that talk about local, state, and federal government being broke is just total B.S. or, as The New York Times puts [...]

It’s On: House GOP vs. the FCC

When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rammed through net neutrality regulations last December, Chairman Julius Genachowski may have been hoping Americans would be too busy with their Christmas shopping to notice and that the matter would die as other issues grabbed at Congress’ and the public’s attention in the new year.
Judging by the response of [...]

Pence: GOP Must ‘Keep Our Word’ on $100 Billion in Cuts

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), a former member of GOP leadership, said Republicans must uphold the promise in their Pledge to America and cut “at least $100 billion in the first year.” His comments came as conservatives continued to lobby leadership to cut a full $100 billion in non-security discretionary spending.

Pressure from the conservative Republican Study [...]

Boehner Set to Revive Successful DC Voucher Program that Democrats Eliminated

Yes, the Democrats killed it (can we still say that) and I’ve been calling out the party of good will, kindness, caring, and tolerance Democrats for more than a year about their shameful and deliberate actions.  And now, it’s game on:
The speaker, along with Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., on Wednesday plans to introduce legislation to [...]

Obama’s State of the Union: A Collectivist Lauds Individualism

The one good thing about sitting through the painful lies and propaganda of Obama’s State Of The Union address was seeing the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner, in Nancy Pelosi’s seat. Seriously, you know it was killing her. I am sure they had to pry the gavel from her stone cold hands.

As for [...]

Obama’s State of the Union: A Collectivist Lauds Individualism

The one good thing about sitting through the painful lies and propaganda of Obama’s State Of The Union address was seeing the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner, in Nancy Pelosi’s seat. Seriously, you know it was killing her. I am sure they had to pry the gavel from her stone cold hands.

As for [...]

Boehner’s Bold Challenge to Obama on School Choice

Barack Obama attended a private school as a youth. He even sends his daughters to one. But as president he wants to deny that same opportunity to low-income students in the District of Columbia.

After two years of limiting educational choices for the poorest kids in D.C., Obama is about to meet his match.
Speaker John Boehner [...]

House Votes to Repeal Obamacare

From Politico:

House Republicans passed a bill to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care plan Wednesday, taking their first major step toward rolling back the massive overhaul that has dominated the American political landscape for almost two years.
The vote was 245 to 189, and unanimous GOP support gave the vote the same partisan feel of the [...]

Three Reasons You Should Join ‘National School Choice Week’

America’s public education system is a lot like the Chicago Cubs: both have become so accustomed to failure that it has become an accepted way-of-life.
While there might be something loveable and comical about a continuously lousy baseball team, there is not a single redeeming thing to be said about perpetually bad public schools.
A nation that [...]

House to Resume Push to Repeal Obamacare

From Reuters:

The House of Representatives will resume debate next week on legislation to repeal President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare overhaul, a House Republican spokesman said on Thursday.
The House had been expected to act this week on the repeal bill, but the vote was postponed after a shooting spree in Arizona killed six people and critically [...]

Washington Goes Supply-Side

“Stop the bad stuff” is what John Boehner told a bunch of us at breakfast a few weeks before the election. That’s how he defined the GOP mission. Now he’s Speaker.

And now there’s an opportunity for both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to move in the direction of a supply-side economic growth model to reduce chronic [...]

It Is Time to Fold up Congress’ Spending Circus

We all know it is difficult to teach an old dog new tricks, but apparently it is even more difficult to teach an old politician new ideas. They are still rearranging furniture in their office in preparation for this session, and the new batch of beltway babblers are acting more like Bozo the Clown [...]

John Boehner Leads Way for National School Choice Week

Newly-elected House Speaker John Boehner is a leader in delivering educational options for American kids.  National School Choice Week will be an opportunity to highlight the critical need for school choice and giving parents options out of our failin…

Pelosi Olive Branch Is Already Dead

This morning, at a special swearing-in ceremony for the Congressional Black Caucus, outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi offered the GOP an olive branch and the promise of cooperation:
“We extend the hand of friendship to create jobs, grow the middle class and reduce the deficit. We look for common ground to solve the problems [...]

Countdown to Disappointment: Don’t expect the new Congress to cut spending

Is it too soon to declare the new Congress a failure?
Ever since their midterm triumph, the Republicans have talked tough about cutting spending. Here’s hoping they make good on those promises, but they spouted the same tough talk after their 1994 election triumph and look what happened.
Back then the GOP revolutionaries [...]

Will Obama Triangulate by Hiring Daley?

There have been reports – here, here, and here– that Barack Obama has approached William M. Daley about becoming the White House Chief of Staff.  If true, these reports are very interesting, indeed.
You see: Bill Daley has a history. On Christmas Eve, 2009 – a few hours after the Democrats in the US Senate [...]

Good Grief… Leading RNC Candidate’s Law Firm Supports Obamacare – Says It’s Constitutional

This ought to go over well with the conservative base…
If you thought the fact that RNC Chair candidate, Maria Cino, was an Obamacare lobbyist was outrageous wait until you hear the latest…
The leading candidate in the race – Reince Priebus’s law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional!
Yes, you read that correctly.
Reince Priebus’s law firm [...]

Senate to Vote on Tax Hikes Today

Today, the Senate will vote to increase taxes on American job creators.  Ironically, the November unemployment numbers came out yesterday and unemployment has risen to 9.8%.  Only in Washington would politicians think that this is the time to punish job creators by raising taxes.

This is not the time to raise taxes on job creators, yet [...]

Senate Republicans to Tea Party Movement: Go Screw Yourselves

Senate Republicans think you are stupid.  Leaders in the Senate Republican Caucus are opposing a measure by Tea Party Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina to ban earmarks for two years.  The elites are angry.

Senate Republican Leaders have led an effort to beat back DeMint’s proposal in an effort to save earmarking.  An Earmark is [...]

Welcome to Congress

You’ve endured a long hard campaign season, weathered vicious attacks from your opponent, on Election Night, you triumphed, and now you will take your seat in the 112th Congress.  Now the real work begins.

While much of your time from now through your swearing in will be filled with thanking supporters, hiring staff, and retiring campaign [...]

Will the GOP Break Its Word on Term Limits for Committee Chairmen?

When it comes to defining the meaning of the Republican victory last Tuesday, Marco Rubio got it exactly right: “This is our second chance.” Just four years ago, Republicans were turned out of the majority because they had forgotten the spirit of 1994 that brought them there — succumbing to corruption scandals and accepting runaway [...]

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