The Hayride

In all likelihood, the Republicans will retake the House in November. There are those who will say they won’t get the 39 seats they’ll need to make John Boehner the Speaker of the House, but don’t believe them. The GOP is ahead by 10 points on the generic Congressional ballot at present, which is a [...]

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The Heritage Foundation’s Morning Bell has the story of what can only be described as an alarming admission of failure by the Obama administration – which, to no surprise, was disclosed late Friday afternoon when nobody was watching.

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In a statement which would indicate his opposition to the poisonously-unpopular Obamacare bill was less based on principle and more a sop to Louisiana’s voters, Rep. Charlie Melancon told POLITICO yesterday that he’s not in favor of repealing the legislation.   “Washington has spent over a year debating health care. We now need to turn [...]

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Last night House Minority Leader John Boehner, together with nine other party leaders, took a pledge to drop the practice of earmarks in Congressional appropriations… “For millions of Americans, the earmark process in Congress has become a symbol of a broken Washington. We believe the time has come for House Republicans to adopt an immediate, [...]

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President Obama recently met with the House Republican delegation in a much ballyhooed session in Baltimore to discuss various issues, including health care. The meeting gave him a temporary bump in public opinion polls. That bump didn’t come from any increased popularity regarding the health care legislation he supports (as other polls on health care [...]

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