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Senate Democrats are pushing for a budget plan that will significantly raise taxes and create a socialized health care system in Wisconsin. If all of their budget proposals pass, Wisconsin could easily move from the eighth most taxed state to the first!! We need to rally our fiscal conservatives in the Senate to stop […]

Charles Krauthammer has a good article in today’s Washington Post that shows the main flaw behind much of the Democrat’s economic policy. The problem is not that they are trying to do “something” about global warming, or dependence on foreign oil, but that they are trying to make it look like a free lunch. Instead […]

Hat tip to Rob Bluey for posting the video of Armey’s speech on Jim Nussle.

Yesterday, the House overwhelmingly voted in favor of the Pence-Hensarling-Flake Amendment to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill.
This amendment will rescind the right of the FCC to enforce the Fairness Doctrine, the inherently unfair, archaic legislation, whose reinstitution is being discussed by the left.
In a brief, sparkling moment in a life of dim-wittedness, […]

In the debate on how to fix health care, Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute, says their is only one candidate who is offering anything besides higher taxes and further regulation of the market.She says Rudy Giuliani has differentiated himself by offering more choices through market based reforms. His plans offers two key reforms.
First, […]

Dr. David Gratzer is a practicing physician in Canada who debunks many of the views in Sickothat present Canada, Great Britain and elsewhere as far superior health care systems. First, he discredits the claim that waiting rooms in Canada and elsewhere are free of the logjam seen in the United States:
A Canadian government study recently […]

Robert Novak has written an interesting article on the proposal to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) from a 5 year budget of $25 billion to $75 billion. While this is a very popular program, he argues that this will help set up the health care debate after 2008 in favor of universal […]

“I have this old-fashioned attitude that when Americans hear both sides of the story, they’re in a better position to make a decision.” Who said this?
No, it is not Hugo Chavez, it is Democrat Senator Dick Durbin. What do these two guys have in common? Both want the government to exert considerable control over broadcast […]

FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe wrote a great op-ed today on Townhall in response to Michael Moore’s ‘Sicko’ and all the renewed calls for socialized health care in the United States. To view the article click here

Today’s Congress Daily reported that Senate Republicans

blocked the union-backed “card-check” bill that would have made it easier for workers to organize, derailing labor’s top priority for the year. Democrats fell nine votes short of the 60 needed to overcome Republican opposition, as the cloture motion failed on a 51-48 vote.
All Democrats who were voting […]