Category: Congress

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords released a video statement today saying that she will resign next week. Here’s the text and video: “Arizona is my home, always will be. A lot …

For a Friday video post: In 2008, President-elect Barack Obama announced that change had come to America. After three years, the results of that change make many Americans ready …

Then again, considering what the 111th Congress "accomplished" (including Obamacare, but not including a budget for either session), such a seminal lack of accomplishment begins to look better all …

There has been a lot of lament by the far left in America that the Tea Party has somehow driven the Republican Party to conservative extremes. This, however, is …

I have a confession to make. I didn’t make a mistake in a posting. But I would have.   Let me explain. When the “SuperCommittee” was announced, I was …

Jobs. Remember those? Remember the good old days when, under the George W. Bush administration, the average annual rate of unemployment between 2001 and 2008 was 5.26%?  (Though, according …

I sat and watched this President last night once again play the blame Bush game.  I watched him predict bad things if he and his fellow Democrats didn’t get …

… including Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Diane Feinstein, Harry Reid, Joe Manchin, Tim Johnson, Kent Conrad, Claire McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, and Tom Harkin.     Well, at …

Positively Orwellian. All pigs are equal under the law, but the law does not apply to congress pigs?

Dennis Sevakis (via email) sends us to this post by a dude named Greenspun who cuts to the chase: The FY 2011 federal budget is approximately $3.82 trillion (3.82×10^12). …