“While this president is in office, repealing this full law is not realistic and not the best use of our efforts.”- Rep. Mike Castle Representative Castle has indicated that he will not support efforts to repeal HCR, dubbing them “unrealistic.” Good, we need to focus on legislative goals that are realistic and attainable, like fixing some of the most [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Tilting at Windmills: We Can’t Turn Back the Clock on HCR
Posted in Congressman Castle, Medicaid/Health Care, National, President Obama, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate on March 30, 2010 | 21 Comments »
Wind Projects Must be Able to Stand On Their Own
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If the only thing that makes wind power economically viable are subsidies funded by the taxpayer, they are doomed to fail in the long run as some already have. This is especially true if there is money to be made in the building of the facilities due to grants and the like. Certainly the Bluewater [...]
Europeanization: Expanding entitlements/regulations equals lower growth
Posted in Economy, National, President Obama, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate on March 25, 2010 | 18 Comments »
If the universe has one thing, it’s a delicious sense of irony. The Obama administration and our Democratic controlled Congress seem bent on Europeanizing America in a number of ways. On a range of issues, they have sought to increase the role played by government in the economy, and have sought to increase and expand entitlements; in other words, the social safety [...]
Only When Pigs Fly!
Posted in Rep. Schwarzkopf on March 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Not sure who is behind this site, but they obviously don’t like Pete Schwartzkopf: www.onlywhenpigsfly.org
P&G, Warren Buffett are safer bets than the US Government…
Posted in Economy, Government Waste, National, Taxes, Tea Party on March 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
According to a Bloomberg news report (the whole article can be found here), The bond market is saying that it’s safer to lend to Warren Buffett than Barack Obama. What this means is that the slow slide of American debt rating has begun. Where does it end? How about higher financing costs for the huge US debt. [...]
Townsend goes green; so should the GOP
Posted in Delaware, New Castle County on March 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Townsend has become the first municipality in Delaware to be certified by the National Wildlife Foundation as a Community Wildlife Habitat. Councilwoman Karen Jennings, a Republican, led the effort to obtain certification. Townsend is going green; nationally, I think the GOP should do the same. By that I mean that we have much to gain [...]
Tricky reporting on ACORN
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2010 | 24 Comments »
According to a Washington Post story that ran in the News Journal on Sunday, ACORN may be close to bankruptcy. It also stated that some of the stronger ACORN chapters are breaking off and operating under different names as ACORN itself may do. This is understandable given the awful reputation that ACORN has earned. “The [...]
Enough mourning in America
Posted in GOP, Medicaid/Health Care, National, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate on March 22, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Like many of my center-right friends, I’m disappointed in the outcome of this morning’s vote on the healthcare bill. No matter what happens in the 2010 mid-term elections, it’s difficult to see how key aspects of this bill will ever be done away with. For example, even if we retake the Senate, it’s unlikely that we will [...]
Lets kill even more jobs.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Well Our Joe has done it; again. This time he’s on ABC telling the reporter that “we’re going to to control the insurance companies”. We’re as in the government. We now have Obama Motors and come Sunday may have Obama Insurance. I’m for coverage for pre-existing conditions. I am. However letting The Community Organizer and Joe, [...]
Conservatives Push For Immigration Reform: Four Pillars Provide a Path Forward
Posted in GOP, National, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate on March 19, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Earlier this week, I had the honor of traveling to Washington, D.C. with a group from Esperanza for America to lobby our elected officials in support of comprehensive immigration reform. Esperanza, comprised of over 12,000 Roman Catholic and Protestant Hispanic congregations and community non-profits, is the largest Hispanic faith-based organization in the USA. The group was composed, primarily, [...]
