FreedomTalks

When it comes to Congressional pork, there’s a clear leader amongst the top  presidential candidates:
 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure more than $340 million worth of home-state projects in last year’s spending bills, placing her among the top 10 Senate recipients of what are commonly known as earmarks, according to a new study by a [...]

The Washington Post’s Paul Kane looks at the hundreds of millions of dollars in pork-spending earmarks secured by Sens. Clinton and Obama. (Senator McCain, to his great credit, refuses to engage in the practice, which is fraught with corruption, abuse, and waste.) The Post notes that in 2006, Sen. Obama diverted tax dollars to [...]

The Wall Street Journal’s Damian Paletta is reporting on a lobbying effort by global investment bank Credit Suisse to pass a scheme that would stick taxpayers with hundreds of thousands of failing subprime mortgage loans:

The Credit Suisse plan would open the way for nearly 600,000 subprime borrowers, many of whom are delinquent on their mortgages, [...]

Jeff Flake’s still got a shot at a seat on the appropriations committee. Here’s Amanda Carpenter reporting for Townhall.
Although earmark hawk Rep. Jeff Flake (R.-Ariz.) may be a long-shot for the spot, he’s is still in the running to be appointed to the House Appropriations Committee.
…A coalition of conservative and taxpayer advocacy groups support [...]

Apologies for the light posting; I’m still recovering from a nasty flu bug I picked up at CPAC. In the meantime, here’s John Stossel taking a whack at the stimulus package:
The economy does seem to be slowing, and there was a net loss of jobs in January. The housing industry is sluggish and the [...]

The other rumor that’s going around here (and elsewhere) is that Mike Huckabee is in the running for the VP slot.
Needless to say, this strikes me — and all of us at FreedomWorks — as bad news.  Huckabee’s economic record is ghastly.  Armey has gone on record with his opposition to Huckabee’s candidacy.  Various others [...]

President Bush spoke at CPAC at 7:15am, an hour when normal people’s brains are still somewhere between gravy and melted ice cream. But it says something about his diminished status that the buzz around the conference today is still all about Romney and, to an even greater extent, John McCain. I don’t have [...]

I’ve got to run to a briefing, but the quick version is this:
Conservatives and free marketers have many disagreements with McCain, and they’re right to. McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman, the votes against the Bush tax cuts — these are not exactly small matters. But what he said today should get some attention from advocates of limited-government.
On [...]

We all knew what was coming, and we all gathered round next to the TV here at the end of Blogger’s Row to watch Romney bow out of the GOP race. I stood next to Julian Sanchez, who’s blogging the convention for The Economist, and in front of Flip Romney — the guy in [...]

Just got settled in here on blogger’s row at CPAC, and the place is already buzzing with the rumor that Romney plans to announce that he’s dropping out of the GOP presidential race in his speech.
Romney has become the conservative establishment candidate as  of late, but it’s worth remembering that the health-care plan he put [...]