Another Doozy From Pelosi: Deficit Reduction Was Our Top Priority!

Pelosi on crack!
Outgoing Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, in a news conference on January 4thsaid about Democrat’s Congressional spending, “Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us.  It has been our mantra, pay as you go.” Is this woman on crack?  She may well be since she and Obama are spending money like a pair of crack whores with a stolen Credit Card!  With the blessing and support of Barack Obama, Democrats have been using the American Economy as their own perso...

Pelosi Sets Another Record: Least Amount of Party Votes For Speaker in Over 80 Years
(Washington Times)- When Rep. Nancy Pelosi lost 19 Democrats on Wednesday’s vote to be House Speaker, it marked the worst showing for a party’s nominee in more than 80 years. Mrs. Pelosi won the support of 173 Democrats, but 18 others voted for someone else and one voted “present.” Rep. John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, won the vote with the support of all 241 Republicans who voted. According to figures from the House historian’s office and the Congressional Researc...

Constitutional cites, NYT and fundamentalism
The New York Times editorial board wasted little time in attempting to attack the new Republican led House in the way smug elitists usually do … by invoking “Fundamentalism”.   In this case the fundamentalism is an apparent attempt by a party to refocus the Legislation it plans on debating and passing on the “fundamental” legal document of the land. That just won’t do: In any case, it is a presumptuous and self-righteous act, suggesting that they alone understan

No, really: Is it time to get rid of the filibuster?
Well, maybe not “get rid of,” but how about reform? Three Senate Democrats rolled out their Compromise proposal this morning and at least one writer at National Review (Dan Foster) says … it doesn’t sound half-bad. I’m inclined to agree. The specifics: -End the Filibuster on motions to proceed (since this amounts to unlimited debate on whether to allow debate at all). -Make all filibusters on substantive measures “talking” or “Jimmy Stewart”

With 241 votes and a big gavel, Ohio'sBoehner becomes 61st U.S. House Speaker
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) - The only surprise in Wednesday's vote for who will lead the U.S. House of Representatives during the 112th Congress was the 11 votes that Democratic Members sent to Rep. Heath Shuler (D., N.C.) instead of their Candidate for Minority Leader, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose liberal brand of politics Republicans across the board used as their main punching bag during the last election cycle. But for today's winner, John A. Boehner of West Chester in southwest Ohio, ...

Bipartisan Consensus: Democrats Looking for Social Security Changes
Many progressive advocates have said that Social Security is under a greater threat now than it was in 2005 with President Bush’s privatization scheme. Why? Because they have to now fend off attacks from both parties. It’s completely normal for the likes of Mitch Daniels to claim that Young People will live to be more than 100 because we will be able to “replace body parts like we do tires,” and so we must raise the Retirement Age. That kind of innumeracy and belief in ...

Send in Your Transpo Questions for the 112th Congress
The new Congress has been sworn in and John Boehner has been elected Speaker of the House, 241-173. Nancy Pelosi has handed him the (strangely over-sized) gavel and he just took the oath of office. In his Acceptance Speech, he stressed fiscal discipline and Spending Cuts. The first vote the new Congress will take will be on new rules governing the Congress, including the one we told you about Monday that would allow Congress to withhold transportation funds. By holding the money in the bank, law...

No, Obamacare Will Not Reduce the Deficit
Kevin D. Williamson writes in his must-read piece at NRO: "No, Ezra Klein, ObamaCare Will Not Reduce the Deficit": Ezra Klein, he of recent "the Constitution's old, and stuff" fame, is one of the great and most persuasive cheerleaders for the belief that Republicans cannot Repeal ObamaCare and remain fiscally responsible since -- as everybody knows! -- ObamaCare reduces the National Debt by $100 billion over the next ten years. He makes his case here. Taking a slightly different but in many ways...

No, Ezra Klein, Obamacare Will Not Reduce the Deficit
Ezra Klein, he of recent “the Constitution’s old, and stuff” fame, is one of the great and most persuasive cheerleaders for the belief that Republicans cannot Repeal ObamaCare and remain fiscally responsible since — as everybody knows! — ObamaCare reduces the National Debt by $100 billion over the next ten years. He makes his case here. Taking a slightly different but in many ways similar view in National Review Online, Avik Roy concedes that, purely as a matter of ...

Hume on Pelosi: It was as if the nations first woman speaker could not quite believe today was not about her
Jeff Poor covers the media for The Daily Caller. He covered business news at the Media Research Center prior to coming to The Daily Caller. Jeff is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama. He is also a political columnist for Mobile, Ala.-based Lagniappe. On the opening day of the new Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke longer than the newly minted Speaker of the House John Boehner. What should one make of that? On Wednesday’s “Special Repor...

Republican House rules: Hoyer calls them "Pay-Go Hijinks"
Democratic Whip Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Maryland) spoke on the U. S. House Floor today in opposition of the Republican Rules package: “I rise in opposition to this rules package, not for small reasons, but because it authorizes Trillions of dollars of new Debt, without paying for it. There are two ways to create debt: you can buy things and not pay for it, or you can simply cut revenues and make yourself unable to pay for things. He continued in his Speech, “If you don’t cut s...

Health spending rose in 2009, but at a low rate
WASHINGTON -- Total national health spending grew by 4 percent in 2009, the slowest rate of increase in 50 years, as people lost their jobs, lost Health Insurance and deferred medical care, the Federal Government reported Wednesday. Still, Health Care accounted for a larger share of a smaller economy -- a record 17.6 percent of the total economic output in 2009, the report said. The Economy contracted while health spending continued to grow. The nation spent $2.5 Trillion on Health Care in 200...

WaPo temporarily upset at GOP deficit chicken-hawks
On Sunday, the WaPo editorial pages finally woke up and realized that the GOP isn't serious about cutting the Deficit.. On Monday, Jason Linkins at HuffPo took notice of the belated realization: WaPo Editors Finally Realize The GOP Isn't Serious About The Debt First Posted: 01- 3-11 12:37 PM | Updated: 01- 3-11 08:45 PM For the better part of the past year, the editors of the Washington Post have been generically a-screech with worry over the deficits, and their insistence that the Obama ad...

Democrat Blames Reagan, Bushes For Deficits
(CNSNews.com) - In his last day as House Majority Leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) put much of the blame for America’s growing Debt on past Republican administrations, including former President Ronald Reagan. “Ronald Reagan came in and adopted an economic program that created $1.4 Trillion in Deficits over the next eight years,” Hoyer said in a Capitol Hill Press Conference on Tuesday, where he appeared with other members of the Democratic House Leadership. “George...

House passes new rules package
The House wrapped up the first day of the 112th Congress on Wednesday by approving a new rules package that will enact some significant changes to matters ranging from the Debt ceiling to members' Voting Rights. The new rules passed on a party-line vote, with 240 Republicans voting in favor and 191 Democrats opposed. Democrats tried earlier Wednesday to block the package. Earlier Wednesday, the House rejected a resolution by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) that would have directed a committ...

The New Congresss Task
Republicans in Congress are entitled to a bit of gloating as they settle into their new positions of power and get down to work. They said the voters were unhappy with the way President Obama and his congressional allies were governing, and the voters backed them up. Perhaps it’s true, as Republicans say, that the Democrats overestimated the mandate they were given in 2008. The Democrats’ earlier victory showed the depth of Disenchantment with the Bush Administration. It wasn’t necessari

Good news? Recession slowed health care spending (AP)
WASHINGTON – It sounds like good news: The Recession slowed the growth of the nation's Health Care bill to the Lowest Levels ever measured. But a government report Wednesday said medical costs still gobbled up a record share of the overall economy, meaning the slowdown did not change the nation's underlying problem with out-of-control Health Care spending. Americans spent $2.5 Trillion on Health Care in 2009, or $8,086 per person, said the new estimates by number crunchers at Medicare's ...

Good news? Recession slowed health care spending
WASHINGTON (AP) — It sounds like good news: The Recession slowed the growth of the nation’s Health Care bill to the Lowest Levels ever measured. But a government report Wednesday said medical costs still gobbled up a record share of the overall economy, meaning the slowdown did not change the nation’s underlying problem with out-of-control Health Care spending. Americans spent $2.5 Trillion on Health Care in 2009, or $8,086 per person, said the new estimates by number crunchers...

Republicans retake US House, target expenses
A day after retaking the House of Representatives, US Republicans moved Thursday to make good on a campaign vow to slash spending with a mostly symbolic vote to cut lawmakers' office budgets. President Barack Obama's Democrats were expected to join Republicans to pass a bill to slice five percent from House expenses, a 35-million-dollar drop in the roughly 3.6-trillion-dollar bucket of annual US government outlays. Republicans also planned to read aloud from the US Constitution -- but omit secti...

Republicans retake US House, target expenses
A day after retaking the House of Representatives, US Republicans moved Thursday to make good on a campaign vow to slash spending with a mostly symbolic vote to cut lawmakers' office budgets. President Barack Obama's Democrats were expected to join Republicans to pass a bill to slice five percent from House expenses, a 35-million-dollar drop in the roughly 3.6-trillion-dollar bucket of annual US government outlays. Republicans also planned to read aloud from the US Constitution -- but omit sec...

Bill OReillys First Concern For Speaker Boehner: The Crying Thing
Today rang in a new era in Washington as the Republican majority settled into their places in the House of Representatives and their leader, House Speaker John Boehner , took the gavel away from outgoing Nancy Pelosi . With questions flying about what this takeover (and Boehner’s leadership) would mean for Congress, tonight Bill O’Reilly opened his first discussion with a different concern about Speaker Boehner: the “crying thing,” and what it would mean for his leadershi...

Iran arresting Christian leaders
Iranian state television said Wednesday that leaders of the country's Christian minority have been arrested and accused of spreading a hard-line version of their faith. The report did not give the number of people arrested. The group was promoting hard-line Christian views at cultural gatherings with the support of Britain, the TV reported, quoting Tehran Governor Morteza Tamadon. It did not elaborate. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive gover...

Pelosi Sets Another Record
When Rep. Nancy Pelosi lost 19 Democrats on Wednesday's vote to be House Speaker, it marked the worst showing for a party's nominee in more than 80 years. Mrs. Pelosi won the support of 173 Democrats, but 18 others voted for someone else and one voted "present." Rep. John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, won the vote with the support of all 241 Republicans who voted. According to figures from the House historian's office and the Congressional Research Service, the last time a party's nominee for spe...

New Michigan AG renews challenge to Obamacare
Newly sworn-in Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today announced that he will renew Michigan's Constitutional Challenge to the federal healthcare law commonly known as “ObamaCare,” initiated by outgoing Attorney General Mike Cox. Most recently, Cox praised a Virginia Federal Court ruling that found the Individual Mandate compelling U.S. citizens to buy Health Insurance was Unconstitutional. Schuette succeeds Cox representing the People of the State Michigan in the Lawsuit pendi...

Republicans take over House, dilute cuts
By Thomas Ferraro and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON | Wed Jan 5, 2011 12:45pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans scaled back plans for deep cuts in Government Spending as they took power in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, diluting a key promise that helped them to victory in November's election. A senior Republican also signaled the party could work with the administration of President Barack Obama, a Democrat, to avert a Debt crisis in the coming months. "Our spending has caught up...