NetBoots - Websites for Conservative Campaigns Starting at $50/Month

Bipartisan

Porkulus III Passes Senate With Republican Help

Wed, 02/24/2010 - 4:05pm | posted by Kevin Boyd

The Senate passed Porkulus III by a vote of 70-28 with 13 Republicans demonstrating their party’s new found fiscal conservatism by crossing over to vote with every Democrat present for the bill. Like the first Porkulus signed by George W. Bush in 2008 and the Porkulus II passed last year, Porkulus III forks over billions of borrowed dollars to fund various special interest projects and tax gimmicks in the name of “creating jobs”.

The gimmicks funded in this lastest round of Porkulus include a tax holiday for the remainder of the year on Social Security payroll taxes, but only if the company hires someone out of work for more than 60 days. In addition, Porkulus commits to billions in in more mass transit spending and more highway projects (ie. more pork barrel spending).

The Senate’s version of Porkulus must be sent over to the House where it must be reconciled with the House’s much more expansive $154 billion Porkulus bill. However, the Senate plans to pass more items in the House’s bill one at a time so that Senate Majority Harry Reid and other Democrat leaders can find out how much the prices of the votes of “fiscally conservative” Republicans are.

Included are proposed Senate bills giving away corporate welfare to ethanol producers, which is expected to be supported by farm state Republicans. In addition, there is another planned Senate bill to keep Americans out of work longer by extending unemployment benefits and COBRA.

The RINOs who supported Porkulus III today are:

  • Read more
  • Add new comment

Jon Basil Utley Still Rocks the Foreign Policy Establishment

Sun, 04/05/2009 - 12:38pm | posted by Alina Stefanescu Coryell

Have a peep at yesterday’s piece for Foreign Policy In Focus, where he enjoins the Left and the Right to pare down the military industrial complex. An excerpt:

With its dispersed base of support and a built-in mechanism for distributing profits, the military-industrial complex is a tough nut to crack. Both sides of the aisle are reluctant to challenge such a behemoth. Democrats are afraid that curtailing military waste will leave them open to accusations of being “soft on terrorism.” Most Republicans, meanwhile, are willing to subsidize the defense industry even as they oppose saving the auto industry.

  • Read more
  • Add new comment

ACORN To Get ‘Stimulus’ Money?

Wed, 01/28/2009 - 12:36pm | posted by David Carlson

The stimulus bill that Obama and the Democrats are trying to push through Congress includes lots of spending, which means bigger government and a bigger burden on the taxpayer. When it is all said and done this bill is estimated to cost over a trillion dollars. With that being said, opposition to this bill should be a no-brainer for any fiscal Conservative.

What may be the most insulting part of this bill is that the group ACORN, which is an advocacy group that is under investigation for voter fraud (and who routinely back Democratic Candidates in elections), may be eligible for billions of dollars of the ‘stimulus package.’

  • Read more
  • 8 comments

North Carolina Governor to Press: Be Nice To Me

Wed, 01/07/2009 - 12:04pm | posted by Michael Orion Powell

In case you weren’t already worrying that our nation’s politicians were living on another planet, here’s another reason to believe they are:

“My job is to be nice to other people, and their job is to be nice to me. Just because they’re not doing theirs doesn’t mean I shouldn’t do mine,” [North Carolina Governor] Easley said in audio of the interview posted on The News & Record’s Web site on Christmas Day.

Since you’re reading a libertarian blog, dear reader, you probably already know that it is certainly not the job of the media to be nice to elected officials. The job is to ask questions and hold feet to the fire.

I’ll leave being nice to politicians to Keith Olbermann.

  • Add new comment

Lieberman, Secretary of State

Sat, 09/06/2008 - 6:18pm | posted by Shana Kluck

Senator McCain has already made it clear that he will have a bi-partisan cabinet and Joe Lieberman is sure to fill in one of those positions.  But he won’t stop with just the one-

 

“I can tell you, with all due respect to previous administrations. It is not going to be a single, ‘well we have a Democrat now.’”

I have mixed feelings about this.  On the one hand, I think reaching across the aisle can be a good thing.  Dr. Paul has done it numerous times and it has fostered good will towards him from Democratic congressmen.  A President willing to do this could, theoretically, accomplish a great deal more than a divisive, partisan leader.

  • Read more
  • 2 comments

I.O.U.S.Answers

Sat, 08/23/2008 - 10:02pm | posted by William 'BJ' Lawson

 

We had a standing-room crowd at the I.O.U.S.A. premiere in Raleigh, North Carolina Thursday evening. Two auditoriums were sold out — both the one sponsored by our campaign, as well as the regular showing. The movie provided an excellent overview of the “fiscal cancer” that David Walker, former head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), has been courageously discussing for the past several years. The discussion about addressing these issues, however, is just beginning — and will be much more controversial.

  • Read more
  • Add new comment

Twitter

United Liberty Podcast

The views and opinions expressed by individual authors are not necessarily those of other authors, advertisers, developers or editors at United Liberty.