As the Do-Nothing Congress vacations, oil prices are falling, gold prices are falling, and the dollar is becoming stronger. What?!? The oil companies weren’t to blame? OH THE HUMANITY!
From the Associated Press via Yahoo Finance:
Light, sweet crude dropped $1.24 to settle at $113.77 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, and earlier traded as [...]

I keep hearing of our economy being in recession. What a bunch of bull. A recession is defined by 2 or more consecutive quarters of negative growth. To this point, we haven’t had 1 quarter of negative growth let alone 2 consecutive quarters. So no recession exists.
I do admit, there is a slowing in our [...]

Who was the worst of the worst pork spenders
Pork barrel spending is the reason that economic Conservatives allowed the Democrats to take over Congress. Republicans began to spend like Democrats and economic Conservatives stayed home in mass in November of 2006. Spending Mrs. Pelosi was the lesson of the 06 Midterms not the war.
Since [...]

The United States Senate voted down a proposal introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and supported by Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) that would have placed serious restrictions on which earmarks (pork) that can be introduced in the Senate. The proposal was a companion to the Earmark Reform resolution that has been [...]

I am so jealous. House Minority Leader, John Boehner (R OH-8), was invited by Justin from Right on the Right to be a guest blogger and he accepted. His first post is up and running at Justin’s as I write.
His post has to do with something near and dear to Economic Conservatives - Earmark Reform.
What, [...]

via email:
Boehner: More Taxes and More Wasteful Spending;
Majority’s Budget Is More of the Same
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement on the Democratic Majority’s FY 2009 federal budget proposal:
“Middle-class families and small businesses are struggling with skyrocketing prices for gasoline, health care, and other costs of living, [...]

House Minority Leader John Boehner announces that his website will “Live Blog” the budget debate scheduled for tomorrow.
From John Boehner via email:
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today announced that tomorrow’s House Budget Committee debate on the FY 2009 federal budget will be “live-blogged” on the Republican Leader’s website. The Committee will begin consideration [...]

DNC Chairman, Chairman Dean, speaking at ICC Auditorium on Black History… Black History? Is it me or is there something wrong with a white man discussing Black History? Especially him. Headline, ‘Guilty White Guy Speaks on White Atrocities’. But I digress.
He actually said,
“For eight years we’ve had a president who doesn’t understand the law, and [...]

… on gasoline. Higher motor fuel prices raises prices across the board. With the predictions of $4 per gallon gasoline being discussed, isn’t it about time that the government give the American people a break that we’ll see not only at the pump, but at the supermarket checkout?
The federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 [...]

At least one Republican “leader” on the Hill has some stones, House Minority Leader John Boehner is defying an order by the Chief Administrative Officer Dan Beard to move the Earmark Reform websites to a new domain name. In my humble opinion, this is showing little seen leadership skills out of the GOP House members.
From [...]

****** BREAKING NEWS ******
This just coming in from House Minority Leader John Boehner’s Office…
VIA Email -
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today blasted the Majority’s decision to shut down the House Republicans’ earmark reform website, http://www.earmarkreform.house.gov. Boehner last summer requested to secure the web address and gained approval from the office [...]

Many on the right will do ANYTHING to prevent Hillary’s win in November. With the way the Democrat race is panning out, that may not be the worst possibility. Barack Obama becomes less and less attractive as the race plays out.
I was watching videos on the Jonestown massacre this evening and one thing occurred to [...]

Without a true Conservative in this race on the Republican side, we in a sense have a liberal RINO (aka moderate) vs. 2 ultra-left Democrats. The result of which will doom the American people to long waits in the unemployment line which is exactly where these 3 candidates want you.

Cartoonist - Gary Varvel
As a Conservative, [...]

House Minority Leader John Boehner announced Thursday that the Republican Steering Committee voted to appoint Rep. Jo Bonner (R AL) to the House Appropriations Committee
Via email from John Boehner:
“After Tom Cole’s gracious decision to withdraw, there were still several candidates who were capable of winning approval by the Steering Committee. Of those candidates, Jo [...]

House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R OH-8) has called on Democrats in Congress to join Republicans in a moratorium on earmarks. Speaker Pelosi refuses. So Boehner and company have launched a website to gain your support.

From the Earmark Reform website:
The spending habits of Congress – and pork-barrel earmarks, in particular – have become the [...]

In all of the squabble over the MSNoBodyCares David Shuster “pimped out” comment, Democrat Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton acknowledged to Politico Reporter John Harris on Washington’s ABC News affiliate WJLA that Fox News’ coverage of her campaign has been the most fair. Shocker! A liberal Democrat acknowledging that Fox News Channel is the most fair. [...]

I was walking down my street the other day and was for some reason paying attention to the surface of the roadway. I noticed all the places where the utility companies had cut into the road to make their repairs. I also noticed markings on the road’s surface in spray paint marking out where the [...]

Mike “The Huckster” Huckabee’s obstinate obsession with staying in a race for a nomination that he cannot win could hand the nomination to someone that would damage our party beyond repair. Every vote for The Huckster is a vote for MexiCain. The media is discounting The Huckster just as they have discounted Ron Paul and [...]

House Minority Leader John Boehner (D OH-8) informs Republicans that in order for the GOP to regain the majority, it will take some sacrifices on their part. The first of which is a 1 year moratorium on earmarks for all Republicans. He also is advocating the creation of a panel to review the process according [...]

It seems that the Democrat leadership in the House hasn’t learned from its failures from last year. They failed to learn that they cannot govern. They failed to learn that they cannot over-ride a Presidential VETO.
In a purely symbolic gesture aimed at pacifying the ultra liberal base of the Democrat Party, the majority is scheduling [...]