Honestly, one has to wonder when the money from Washington is going to run out. Since 2008, we have seen bill after bill pass through the halls of Congress, most of them spending money we simply do not have. I am not talking about the normal spending bills they deal with every year, but...
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Dr. Tom Coburn is certainly a conservative voice in politics. Not only has he crossed swords with the Democrats, but he has also been at odds with his own party. If you don’t believe that, just ask Newt Gingrich to tell you a story or two of Coburn’s tenure in the House of Representatives....
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Frankly, I am tired of hearing and writing about the debate over health care reform. I can’t even begin to count the articles Mike and I have written about the subject and the debate isn’t over yet. All this week, President Obama has been traveling around the country, touting the need for reform and...
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Over the past several months, there has been countless articles written about the debate over health care reform. Since the House and the Senate passed their respective versions of reform, the debate has grown over how they will reconcile those versions into a bill that President Obama can sign into law. Mike and I...
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As I was doing some of my daily reading and browsing through different blogs and news stories, I was suddenly struck with a thought. Correct me if I am wrong, but when President Obama was voted into office, he had something that a lot of sitting President’s have only been able to dream of....
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With all of the talk on Political Realities and around the nation about the budget deficit, I thought it fitting to mention the budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The White House is set to release some of the details later Monday, but it has been learned that the budget will total $3.8 trillion...
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Over the last several days, I have written a couple of articles that spoke of possible Republican gains in Congress in the mid-term elections in November. As conservatives and Republicans, there are a lot of us who hope that happens. Part of that hope rises from our desire to see Congress operate a bit...
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Well now, isn’t this a bit of a surprise? When Senator Ted Kennedy passed away last year, it was a given fact that a Democrat would appointed to fill his US Senate seat until a special election could be called. I felt that was as it should be, since Kennedy was a Democrat and...
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Let’s see now, what is that old saying? Something about honesty being good for the soul. If that’s the case, then my soul should be in pretty good shape after this post. That is unless the mixed feelings get in the way because my feelings about new taxes are very mixed. First of all,...
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It has been several days, Christmas Eve to be exact, since I wrote about the passage of the health care reform bill in the Senate. That was the day it passed 60-39, on it’s way to a conference committee, to be reconciled with the version that was passed earlier by the House. In that...
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