March 27th, 2010
Late last Sunday night, despite bipartisan opposition, the House of Representatives passed the Senate’s health care overhaul by a vote of 219 to 212, sending the bill to President Obama’s desk for his signature. In the end,...
March 26th, 2010
This was sent in from the State Board of Education:After hours of public testimony and more than 100 amendments offered to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for social studies, the State Board of Education last week...
March 26th, 2010
Dr. Steven Hotze of Conservative Republicans of Texas has personally been promoting the TxSIP position on Sensible Immigration Policy.Resolutions for the state platform start at the precinct caucuses on the night of the...
March 26th, 2010
The following was sent to me by a friend of mine, Shirley Spellerberg:This is an actual film made of the surrender ceremony of the Japs to McArthur in Tokyo Bay in September 1945. Actual voice of the General. Never been...
March 25th, 2010
The House just Passed Senate changes to the Health Care Bill, 220-207. 32 Democrats and no Republicans voted for the final health care bill.
March 25th, 2010
Richard Falknor of Blue Ridge Forum gives his usual thoughtful and thorough shake-down of what we probably have all been thinking and what needs to be done. We have some wimpy, RINO leadership in the Senate and they need...
March 25th, 2010
I am a founding trustee of Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse:
March 24th, 2010
The following story was sent to me in an e-mail:"After America, There is No Place to Go"
March 24th, 2010
In a previous TexasGOPVote blog post, "Theres a Commuist Living in the White House," former SNL star Victoria Jackson claims that Obamas church of twenty years preached Black Liberation Theology. Heres a some background of...
March 24th, 2010
Congressman Bart Stupak shows that he’s not only “easy,” he’s cheap, too. After months of huffing and puffing and playing the “hero of the unborn children role” to the hilt, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) gave it up to the Queen...
March 26th, 2010
The following was sent in from Bryan Preston from The Republican Party of Texas:Last weekend, the Democratic Party passed a gargantuan, sweeping health care takeover bill over the clear objections of a majority of the...
March 26th, 2010
Republican John Dennis is running for Congress in San Francisco to RETIRE HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI. Pelosi’s 70th birthday is today. Moneybomb to John Dennis here.How about we send Madame Speaker a fax, a phone call or an...
March 26th, 2010
With five straight quarters of year-to-year losses, plummeting tax revenues have steered many U.S. states toward desperate measures to fill budgetary holes.
March 26th, 2010
I wish I could find the full discussion but at least as of yet, it isn’t on the web. I actually even looked at MSNBC website, but was utterly unsurprised that it could not be found. Not only that, but I’m confident that...
March 25th, 2010
Marxism as a serious political ideology is dead. Communism as a serious political ideology is dead. No one really truly practices or even believes in communism, even the Chinese have long abandoned Marxism as an economic...
March 25th, 2010
I forward to follow what Congressman Lee Terry (NE-2) lists as new govenment offices to come from the Obamacare healthcare bill. Savings.... what savings? Additional costs... wow! We need to begin the effort to replace these...
March 25th, 2010
If there is one week in my house that is unpleasant, it’s tax week. There is nothing worse than seeing my parents in sweatpants at the kitchen table, hunched over piles of receipts that stand much taller than they should....
March 24th, 2010
I spoke on the Senate floor today and introduced an amendment to the U.S. House of Representatives-passed House Health Care Reconciliation bill (H.R. 4872), to remove a 3.8 percent tax hike which would be imposed on the...
March 24th, 2010
Once again Congressman Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX23) settled for mediocrity, and continues to show how inadequately he represents us! I am of course referring to the healthcare vote that took place on March 21st, in which the...
March 24th, 2010
With victory on health care in hand, the Obama administration begins to move toward other targets including cap and trade, union card checking, as well immigration reform. But there is theme that is starting to coming up;...