Tag: congress

Dear Dr. Dan, “put up or shut up”

The federal government has for years been trying to insert its will upon states, and the people therein. Over the last several years, the most abusive theocracy bureaucracy, the Environmental Protection Agency has grown itself through rule making that threatens…

Michigan Conservative Scorecard

From the heritage site: With each vote cast in Congress, freedom either advances or recedes. Heritage Action’s new legislative scorecard allows Americans to see whether their Members of Congress are fighting for freedom, opportunity, prosperity, and civil society. The scorecard…

Seriously Condescending Upton Man

A Seriously Condescending Upton Man blows off a constituent with a smarmy poke back.  From the “don’t want to make this stuff up” category.  When might you expect to get a smart ass response like the following?: From: “Sackley, Ed”…

And On That Debt Limit

A friend and local activist Penny Misner has taken it upon herself to remind folks that our representatives need to be contacted.  Her letter to Michigan US congressman Bill Huizenga is to the point, and makes it very clear that…

The Great Health Care Bluff

Folks watching the slow motion train wreck known as the health care bill have been wondering if along the way to becoming law, had that congress lost its institutional mind?  In three thousand pages of legislation, the physician flogging, pharmaceutical…

Judge’s Ruling Right – though not easy.

The federal judge who ruled that the only the mandate of insurance was unconstitutional has created a possibly uncomfortable scenario if his ruling is upheld in the Supreme court. According to a couple of Yale-ites writing for the Philly enquirer:…

Iconography

~ Reposted From RightMichigan.com ~ When challenged at a press conference in 2009, Michigan Congressman JohnConyers’ exclaiming that he does not read the bills was of course troubling.  His thoughts? “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand…

Don’t Be Fooled.

To my Tea Partying friends.  If ever there was a time to break out the thinking cap it is now. Obviously we want limited government, we want the restoration of power to the people and not politicians.  We are concerned…