Continuing Resolution on Townhall

• New Tea Party and Boehner Alliance Triumphs in Government Shutdown Showdown Tue Apr 12
  Rachel Alexander
  Some conservatives and Tea Parties are criticizing the budget deal Republicans agreed to with Democrats and the Obama administration on Friday. Should they be? ... more
• Don't Betray Us, Mr. Boehner Fri Apr 8
  Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
  Mr. Boehner, keep up the fight. The American people do not fear an Obama veto, or the specter of a government shutdown, or the slanderous words of Progressives (and their allies in the lame-stream media) that are spending this country into bankruptcy. ... more
• More Duplicative, Wasteful Spending Thu Apr 7
  Kelly Cobb
  For the past decade, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has run the most unlikely of programs: handing out low-interest, taxpayer-backed loans to companies to build-out broadband Internet. ... more
• Shocker: Late Night Obama, Reid, Boehner Budget Meeting Changes Nothing Thu Apr 7
  Katie Pavlich
• Othodoxy Wed Apr 6
  Rich Galen
  Today, I am fully in the camp of the Tea Party when I say: "Shut 'er down." Shut down the government when the Continuing Resolution runs out on Friday. ... more
• A Solution to the GOP’s Defunding Problem Mon Mar 28
  Alex Cortes
  Significant disagreement lingers among House Republicans on whether fully defunding ObamaCare and Planned Parenthood, non-starters in the Democratic Senate, are worth the political risks associated with a potential government-wide shutdown. ... more
• Toward April 8 Mon Mar 21
  Mike Needham
  Two years after an historic election, Americans asked for a refund. ... more
• Gutting ObamaCare in Stop-Gap Spending Bills not Necessarily Prudent Sat Mar 19
  Rachel Alexander
  It sounds good, cutting $105.5 billion in funding for ObamaCare through 2019 by including a provision in the stop-gap spending measures that are temporarily funding government until a real budget is passed. ... more
• Sessions Wants to See Change Coming Out of White House Thu Mar 17
  Elisabeth Meinecke
  Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama told Townhall he wants to see change out of the White House as the next step in what the government funds and cuts financially this year and next. ... more
• Congress Must Stop $105.5 Billion in Automatic Obamacare Spending Wed Mar 16
  Terry Jeffrey
  The Congressional Research Service published a report on Feb. 10 detailing how the Obama administration is planning to spend $105.5 billion that was put on an appropriations autopilot in the health care legislation the Democrat-majority Congress enacted last year. ... more
• Continuing Resolution a Budget Joke Wed Mar 16
  Donald Lambro
  Getting a law passed in Congress is a very difficult thing to do, as our Founding Fathers designed it that way, fearing that bad legislation would rob the people of their rights and freedoms. ... more
• GOP Fear That History Will Repeat Helps Ensure It Will Tue Mar 15
  David Limbaugh
  Why is it that despite the Republicans' resounding electoral victory in 2010 based on their promises for real change, many of us have a queasy feeling they're not quite measuring up to the task, even in the climate of Democratic infighting and President Obama's weaknesses? ... more
• Bachmann Exposes $105 Billion Secret Tue Mar 15
  Phyllis Schlafly
  Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has again demonstrated her extraordinary leadership in the U.S. House. She discovered $105 billion of taxpayers' money that Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi had hidden in ObamaCare. ... more
• Be Bold, or Go Home Mon Mar 7
  Mike Needham
  Over thirty years ago, in 1978, the United States government ran an annual deficit of $59 billion. In that year, a fiscally conservative legislative strategy might have been to cut $2 billion a week for the last seven months of the year. ... more
• Cash Drains From Treasury as Republicans and Democrats Dither Wed Mar 2
  Terry Jeffrey
  Were it your personal bank account, you would get it -- and change your ways. But it is not your personal bank account, it is the Treasury of the United States. ... more
• Pence and Planned Parenthood: Where It Goes From Here Mon Feb 28
  Elisabeth Meinecke
  The third time was the charm for Indiana Rep. Mike Pence's legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, which passed the House this February and now goes to the Senate as part of a complicated continuing resolution discussion. ... more
• Fundamentally Unserious about Spending Mon Feb 28
  Mike Needham
  Great leaders rise to the occasion, and just five days ahead of a government shutdown, we know all we need to know about President Obama and Harry Reid’s Senate: They are fundamentally unserious about reining in spending. ... more
• Rep. Budget Cuts to Tame Monster Deficit Wed Feb 23
  Donald Lambro
  There's no chance the Senate is going to take up last week's House Republican budget cuts, yet they sent a loud, clear, muscular message to the other side of the Capitol that the Obama Democrats' spending binge days are over. ... more
• Shut Down the Government Fri Feb 18
  Matt Towery
  It sounds harsh and cruel, but U.S. House Speaker John Boehner's threat to shut down all but essential federal government services if the Democrats on Capitol Hill can't actually reign in spending is not only the fiscally responsible approach, it is also one that would be popular with the public. ... more
• Amendments Open Up Debate on House Floor Fri Feb 18
  Donald Lambro
  House Speaker John Boehner has reintroduced a welcome if sometimes messy change in what was once known as "the people's House": the right to amend pending legislation. ... more
• Obama Budget Offers Inertia, Not Hope and Change Thu Feb 17
  Michael Barone
  One way to judge the merits of the budget Barack Obama unveiled this week is by the comments of his political allies. ... more
• House GOP Elects to Punt Thu Feb 17
  Hugh Hewitt
  House Republicans lost the first round of the messaging battle over the budget last week with a lame attempt to cut less than $40 billion against the Pledge to America's goal of at least $100 billion. ... more
• A Budget Deadlock Will Defeat Obama, But a Compromise Might Save Him Wed Feb 16
  Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
  The central question in Obama's bid for a second term is: Will the issues that doomed his party in 2010 still be the key questions in 2012? ... more
• Conservatism On the Rise Sat Feb 12
  Mike Needham
  It’s been a long time since you could say this, but last week was a great week for conservatives in Washington. ... more
• GOP Defaults on Pledge to America Thu Feb 10
  Hugh Hewitt
  The number of Republican Members of Congress who appeared on my radio show between their “thumpin’” in 2006 and their return to power in 2010 who admitted with apparent remorse that “We lost our way” is easily in double digits. ... more
• Uniting Congress Sat Jan 15
  Linda Chavez
  The attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of six others in Tucson have transfixed the nation for the past week. ... more

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