Free Republic

That’s a nice auto industry you got there … would be a real shame if anything happened to it… That’s the literal threat from liberal Shannon Coulter, co-founder of the #GrabYourWallet movent that looks to boycott businesses that are considered pro-Trump:

The California Teachers Association has spent more than $200 million on campaign contributions and lobbying efforts in the last decade, leading what the Fair Political Practices Commission calls a "billion-dollar club" of moneyed political interests. The FPPC's report, entitled "Big Money Talks," delves into the 25 biggest - at least in financial terms - political players in the state, which have collectively spent $1.3 billion on political action in the last 10 years. "This tsunami of special interest spending drowns out the voices of average voters," FPPC chairman Ross Johnson said in a statement, "and intimidates political opponents and elected...

The new numbers on consumer confidence are out. They show American consumers very confident that the economy is going down the tubes. Over in Asia and Europe, stocks plunged on fears that Americans may no longer be able to find the second jobs and recklessly borrow the money needed to buy imported stuff. Economists now freely use the "recession" word following the report that American payrolls fell in August, the first monthly decline in four years. American consumers, in other words, are all dried up. And the discussion has begun on what kind of baloney economy kept them lubricated for...

No spending opportunity left behind WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY By Howard Fineman Newsweek Updated: 5:53 p.m. ET March 16, 2005 March 16 - Here’s a quick quiz on political labels for you junkies out there. Of the two major political parties, which one is spending money like water, creating new welfare entitlements, rapidly expanding the power of the federal government and launching idealistic wars of liberation around the globe? For 60 years—from the dawn of the New Deal in 1933 to the advent of Hillary Healthcare in 1993—the answer was the Democratic Party. But 1993 also was the year George W. Bush...

Explains Benefits of Bill to GOP Conservatives; Democrats Bracing for Fight Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) pitched in yesterday to allay conservative Republicans' concerns about the $400 billion bill to redesign Medicare, part of a mounting effort by the bill's backers to win over skeptics and secure passage within a week. As Gingrich extolled conservative features of the bill to House Republicans, key Senate supporters from both parties urged rural lawmakers to back it, calling the bill an unprecedented chance to get more Medicare money for rural doctors and hospitals.