Aug 24, 2022 – “I’ve been up here for three years. … Do you know how many people have come to me and asked me, before they vote, what my opinion is on something and whether it’s good for … But the change comes as other Republican efforts are trying to funnel more money directly to candidates, because they are able to get…

Sep 4, 2022 – founders intended us to go. … The hatred that has been fanned up has moved some Republicans to become weak in their support and may stay home on election day. … Are enough patriots left to stand up and ensure this does not happen?  …

Jan 9, 2009 – “[W]e need to follow proper rules of procedure and hold a vote by secret ballot. … This measure is often referred to as the “card check” proposal, because it replaces the secret ballot with an open sign-up process … a vote in the House – but it’s sacred to organized labor and their allies in the Democratic Congress.…

Jan 7, 2009 – leadership basically said three things needed to happen before they would give the full Senate a floor vote on Burris's fate. … First, the Illinois Supreme Court needs to rule whether or not the Illinois Secretary of State needs to sign-off on the appointment … , Burris needs to publicly answer questions about his relationship with Blagojevich and the Senate Rules Committee needs to make a…

Jan 7, 2009 – the entire Senate is going to have to act on this," most likely in the form of a full floor vote. … After the news broke that Reid was warming up to the appointment, Obama told reporters Burris “is fine public servant. … of proper certification from the Illinois Secretary of State who has refused to sign-off on the appointment.…

Jan 13, 2009 – Put another way, Obama may yet quietly celebrate the failure to attain a filibuster-free 60-vote Senate, and indeed at some point he … He was freer to proceed with the highly successful surge in Iraq and to respond with greater flexibility to the financial crisis … or to paralyze.…

Jan 12, 2009 – Arnold Schwarzenegger started out as a political outsider who promised to parachute into Sacramento to clean up the mess -- only to … Her liabilities start with her failure to vote in the 2002, 2004 and 2006 primaries, as well as the 2003 recall election and 2005 special … The problem is, while Whitman, who became a Republican in September, was too busy to vote, she was not too busy to write checks to…

Feb 9, 2009 – There are seven Articles in all, but you'll have to look those up if you want to know what they are. … This is the agreed-upon language and goes to each chamber for an up-or-down vote. Conference reports are not amendable. … the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and trucked on up to the White House so the President can act on it.…

Feb 6, 2009 – It would be up to the Senate, and no doubt more than a few House Democrats who know this bill is the legislative equivalent of bleeding … That's why Senate Democrats are trying to rush through a cloture vote --the evidence is piling up that President Obama's first big … To vote for this bill is to sign on to crew a doomed ship, and the GOP has quite rightly defined the issue and taken a nearly unanimous…

Feb 4, 2009 – In the next week or so, I hope to read this headline: "Sen. Reid, we didn't lose. … It ought to be. Obama is a very lucky new president -- he has an emerging victory at hand. … He needs to start refining right now -- and assure the Iraqis they will not be abandoned.…

Feb 19, 2009 – Using the S-word in a negative context threatens to doom America to a "fractious and unedifying debate." … To be truly loyal, the opposition is expected to disappear. Another sign came on "The Early Show" on CBS. … Co-host Maggie Rodriguez was interrogating Republican House leader Eric Cantor about the failure to line up with the socialist Obama…

Feb 18, 2009 – through a secret ballot election, as was President Obama who has promised to sign the bill into law during the 2008 campaign. … The law is designed to protect workers from strong-arm tactics by either the unions or the company in question before a vote or retribution … Without the shield of privacy, workers would be open to harassment to either sign or not sign a union card.…

Feb 17, 2009 – Yesterday, I wrote about the question of Why Barack Obama waited three days to sign a bill he told the American people MUST get passed … And did President Obama sign it rather quickly? Not at all. He also chose not to sign it on Saturday. … And not to sign it on Sunday. And he chose not to sign it on Monday.…

Feb 16, 2009 – "Harassing" means holding up a sign, passing out literature or offering counseling. … The stated purpose of the Oakland ordinance, which may send Walter Hoye to jail, is to protect 'right of privacy." … "Right of privacy" of teenage girls not old enough to vote, but who can get a state paid for abortion without informing a parent.…

Feb 15, 2009 – Drink Tax, to a referendum vote. … bill requiring all people who gather petitions to be registered to vote. … A number of states have set up regulations, putting up higher and higher hurdles to the petitioning process.…

Mar 1, 2009 – I have to vote my conscience whether you agree with me or not. I will not tell you what you want to hear. I'm nobody's boy." … You need to sign up for the other guy." Collins died of a heart attack at age 52 on March 19, 1993. … He held himself to the same standards to which he held others.…

Feb 25, 2009 – He is trying to maneuver that 95 percent into supporting taxing the top two percent to pay for everything they'll get. … This gigantic voting bloc can be depended upon to march obediently to the polls and vote to place the full financial burden on the … Yet President Obama, who claims to be a dedicated foe of earmarks, says he'll sign that pork-laden bill because he wants the support…

Mar 2, 2009 – And there are more to come. … One day he's going to spend $787 billion to stimulate the economy, or at least political patronage, and the next he's going to balance … All these bad moves have their equivalents today: the labor unions' card-check program to deny American workers the right to vote on…

Mar 21, 2009 – Union leaders would like to see that go up. … only to vote for it but to co-sponsor it, as well. … It would set up tollgates to channel the money of consumers as well as taxpayers to the Democratic Party.…

Mar 18, 2009 – Vote, shmote. This ain't about democracy. It's about power. And how to seize it. Ah, yes, the right to vote. … Those who declined to sign up would have to take a lonely stand in public, risking harassment. … Once the right to vote has been lost, the union installed, and a contract is to be negotiated, both labor and management would lose…

Mar 18, 2009 – pledging to crack down on them, President Obama today will sign a $410-billion spending bill loaded with congressional pet projects … The president says he's only signing the bill to finish up last year's business. … They didn't have to vote for a pay raise. They have rigged it now so the raise is automatic. Freshman Rep.…

Mar 18, 2009 – Sixty votes were needed to force a substantive vote on Coleman’s amendment. It got 49. … Up until then, American broadcasting was governed by the Radio Act of 1912, which was designed to ensure good communications with ships … Click here to sign up and receive Townhall Magazine every month in your mailbox!…

Mar 17, 2009 – The rush was such that not only did Democrats and Obama break their pledge to allow for a 48 hour review period prior to the vote, … And unless tax-paying American citizens speak up it will continue to be effective, with some tweaks. … An unpopular, earmark-laden bill that the President himself was embarrassed to sign? A new national energy tax?…

Mar 31, 2009 – to be president. … In 2008, however, Hinchey-Rohrabacher never even made it to a House vote. Too toxic for a presidential election year. … Maybe anyone can grow up to be president -- whether he inhaled or not -- just as long as he campaigns on the promise to just say no…

Mar 28, 2009 – But roadblocks have started to appear. One has been set up by the Senate Budget Committee. … Arlen Specter when he announced this week that he would not vote, as he did in the last Congress, to advance the unions' card check … But then at this stage in Bill Clinton's first term, the healthcare lobbies were sidling up to the table, too -- or as close to it…