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  • Free Speech Under Direct Attack in Texas: House Passes RINO Dade Phelan’s Orwellian Bill to CRIMINALIZE Political Memes Without a Government-Approved Disclaimer

    04/30/2025 6:50:10 AM PDT · by DFG · 79 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 04/30/2025 | Jim Hoft
    The Republican-led Texas House has officially caved to the radical Left’s war on free speech—and shockingly, it’s being spearheaded by none other than the state’s own scandal-plagued former House Speaker Dade Phelan. On Tuesday, House Bill 366 passed with bipartisan support, making it a potential crime in the state of Texas to share or distribute AI-generated and “altered media”—including political memes—without a government-approved disclaimer on political ads. According to the bill: “A person may not, with the intent to influence an election, knowingly cause to be published, distributed, or broadcast political advertising that includes an image, audio recording, or video...
  • GOP Sen. Rand Paul Wants to Strip Tariffs Authority From Trump, Give It to Congress

    04/24/2025 12:32:27 PM PDT · by RandFan · 153 replies
    NewsMax ^ | April 24 | Newsmax
    Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is continuing his push against President Donald Trump's tariffs, with legislation he is co-sponsoring against them to come before the Senate next week. Paul says lawmakers should be in control of tariffs, rather than Trump, through the use of a national-emergency law. The discussion will come less than a month after Paul was one of the only two chamber Republicans to vote against his party's budget, which is seen as a key part of the president's tax cuts, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. "I don't have any bad feelings towards the president, but this is...
  • SENATE REPUBLICAN WANTS TO HOLD HEARINGS ON 9/11

    04/22/2025 11:57:47 AM PDT · by RandFan · 51 replies
    Politico ^ | 22 April | By Ben Jacobs
    Sen. Ron Johnson is actively investigating 9/11. A day after the Wisconsin Republican went on a far-right podcast promoting conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a spokesperson for Johnson said the lawmaker is currently seeking information and documentation in order to hold hearings on the event nearly 25 years later. He would do so in his capacity as chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, one of Congress’s most storied and powerful panels with far-reaching jurisdiction that gives its chair wide latitude to probe a diverse array of matters. It has...
  • Sen. Thune: Everybody Wants to See Trump 'Succeed'

    04/14/2025 10:48:27 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 11 replies
    newsmax ^ | 04/14/2025 | newsmax
    The Senate, once again, was working into the early morning hours Friday with its new majority leader, Republican John Thune, setting the pace. It wasn’t until just after 2 a.m. that the last of the senators had straggled into the chamber to cast their vote on the confirmation of retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The vote capped a grinding start to the year for the Senate that included several all-night floor sessions and — importantly for Thune — the quickest top-level Cabinet confirmation process in the past 20 years....
  • Republicans fear Trump’s trade war could lead to political wipeout

    04/14/2025 1:43:57 AM PDT · by RandFan · 83 replies
    The Hill ^ | Apr 14 | by Alexander Bolton
    Republican lawmakers say there’s a good chance that President Trump’s trade war will boomerang on Republicans politically in 2026, as rising prices and shrinking growth could offset other accomplishments by the GOP. Republican senators are pointing to the 1932 and 1982 elections as historical examples of when trade wars and resulting price inflation hurt their party at the ballot box, and they are worried that history could repeat itself. Many Republican lawmakers view tariffs as a tax hike on American consumers, and some note that the last two times Congress enacted tax hikes on the scale of Trump’s recent tariffs,...
  • GOP senator on Trump tariffs: ‘What’s the endgame here?’

    04/13/2025 2:31:45 PM PDT · by RandFan · 72 replies
    thehill ^ | 04/13/25 3:04 PM ET | by Sarah Fortinsky
    Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said on Sunday said he’s questioning President Trump’s “endgame” in his approach to tariffs, saying the ongoing “volatility” isn’t good for businesses. “One thing I learned in the private sector is unpredictability can work pretty well in the negotiation, but the private sector — businesses want certainty. They want stability. They don’t like to see volatility,” Johnson said in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.” “And, so, I’ve just been questioning exactly what’s the endgame here? What’s the strategy?” he continued. Johnson called himself an “unabashed free trader” and touted what he sees as the...
  • Blame the GOP for America’s First Marxist President

    11/16/2008 2:09:31 PM PST · by pissant · 133 replies · 3,283+ views
    Falcon Party ^ | 11/16/08 | staff
    Barack Hussein Obama has prevailed in the 2008 presidential election. Obama not only carried all the ‘blue’ states that John Kerry won in 2004, he also flipped several ‘red’ states, such as Colorado, Nevada, Florida and Virginia, delivering a crushing electoral defeat to John McCain. And the blame falls squarely on the GOP for allowing this Marxist to become president of the United States. It has been interesting and amusing to read the numerous ‘post mortems’ from conservative and liberal pundits alike. Yet not one of the post mortems has identified the real reason McCain got clobbered. It was not...
  • If Only Republicans Cared As Much About Cutting Federal Spending As They Do Trump’s Tariffs

    04/08/2025 9:06:59 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 6 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 04/08/2025 | Shawn Fleetwood
    If Republicans like Tillis actually care about lowering Americans’ cost of living, they should slash the federal budget they’ve spent years ballooning.It’s been less than a week since President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff blitz against foreign nations, and Republicans on Capitol Hill are already in full-on freakout mode. Throughout the past several days, GOP members of Congress have run to their favorite legacy media talking heads to express their supposed concerns that the president’s tariff policies could result in higher costs of living for everyday Americans. The latest example of this came on Tuesday, when Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., while...
  • Trump tariffs based on massive error, conservative think tank says

    04/06/2025 8:42:24 PM PDT · by USA-FRANCE · 224 replies
    The formula used by the Trump administration to levy reciprocal tariffs contains a serious math error that over-inflates the impact by about a factor of four, economists at the American Enterprise Institute said. Why it matters: The conservative think tank says the error led to tariff rates massively higher than they should have been to achieve the goals the administration sought.
  • Is Bipartisan Nationalism Possible?

    04/05/2025 4:34:18 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 9 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 5 Apr, 2025 | William R. Hawkins
    Classical theory may not care where the steel mills, chip foundries, shipyards, research labs, aircraft plants, oil fields, and supply chains are, but the real world of power politics does. I spent most of my time during 20 years in Washington, D.C. working in a bipartisan manner on trade policy with the aim of keeping here, then bringing back, strategic industries. There was then a coalition of national security Republicans (on my side of the aisle) and labor union Democrats. Democrats did not want to lose the middle-class blue-collar jobs when factories closed. Republicans did not want to lose the...
  • Schumer: Republicans Seem Willing to ‘Buck Donald Trump’ on Tariff Power

    04/04/2025 6:05:40 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 35 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/04/2025 | Pam Key
    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed Friday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that Republicans seemed willing to “buck” President Donald Trump by passing the Trade Review Act of 2025. It would require a joint resolution of approval for the new tariffs and allow Congress to end tariffs with a resolution of disapproval. Host Dana Bash said, “The veteran Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell, they have introduced a bill, a bipartisan bill to require congressional approval for any new tariffs. And I’m sure you saw that Grassley said it’s necessary to reassert Congress’s constitutional role and ensure...
  • Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski Voted Against Nomination of Harmeet Dhillon

    04/04/2025 10:49:10 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 37 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/04/2025 | Hannah Knudsen
    A single Republican senator — Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) — voted against the nomination of Harmeet Dhillon to serve as assistant attorney general, veering away from the rest of her GOP colleagues who voted in favor. After her nomination in December, lawmakers finally held a formal vote Thursday and Dhillon was approved in a 52-45 vote. However, Murkowski opposed the nomination and sided with Democrats. President Donald Trump announced in December the nomination of Dhillon to work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. “Throughout her career, Harmeet has stood up consistently to protect our...
  • UNIPARTY STRIKES BACK: GOP Senator Chuck Grassley and Leftist Democrat Introduce Legislation to Upend President Trump’s Tariff Authority

    04/03/2025 9:32:06 AM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 58 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 3, 2025 | Cullen Linebargar
    Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced a bill with far-left Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), which would almost certainly put Trump’s new tariffs entirely on ice. The legislation’s stated purpose is to ‘reassert’ the legislative branch’s power over tariff policy. “The Trade Review Act of 2025” requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of imposing new tariffs. The president must also present a detailed rationale and analysis of the potential consequences for American businesses and consumers. Moreover, the legislation will require ALL tariffs to be approved by Congress within 60 days, or they will automatically expire.
  • [Senate] Republicans want Musk to shut up about Social Security

    03/20/2025 7:26:15 AM PDT · by RandFan · 17 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/20/25 6:00 AM ET | by Alexander Bolton
    Senate Republicans want Elon Musk to stop talking about Social Security, and the Department of Government Efficiency to leave it alone. Musk’s statement that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme,” and his plans to cut up to 12 percent of the Social Security Administration’s workforce, are giving GOP lawmakers heartburn. They warn that Social Security reform is known as the “third rail” of politics for a reason: Any party that touches it is likely to get zapped come Election Day. And Republicans fear that reductions in staff and field offices will boomerang on them, predicting constituents will grow frustrated if...
  • Vance: ‘Importing Cheap Labor’ Has Made the West ‘Lazy.’

    03/20/2025 12:29:05 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 20 replies
    The National Pulse ^ | March 19, 2025 | William Upton
    U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance argues that importing cheap foreign labor through mass immigration has led to declining productivity and economic stagnation in the West. Speaking at a summit of venture capitalists hosted by Andreesen Horowitz on Tuesday, the Vice President stated the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom are “addicted to cheap labor,” which has fueled over 40 years of economic policy failures.“I’d say that if you look in nearly every country, from Canada to the UK, that imported large amounts of cheap labor, you’ve seen productivity stagnate,” Vance told technology industry investors attending the summit. He continued:...
  • The ‘Realists’ Try and Fail—for Now—to Steal MAGA’s Skinsuit

    03/17/2025 9:15:08 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 3 replies
    Tablet ^ | 14 Mar, 2025 | Lee Smith
    A controversial Koch-backed appointment is retracted, ostensibly over Middle East issues. But the battle is really about China. On Wednesday, a Donald Trump administration official waiting for his background check to be completed was removed from a top post in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence before he officially began. Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, a foreign policy expert at the Charles Koch-backed Defense Priorities, was set to become the agency’s No. 3 official, deputy director for mission integration (DDMI). Among other duties, the DDMI is responsible for preparing the presidential daily briefing (PDB), the U.S....
  • Thomas Massie has a point on the CR

    03/14/2025 6:48:09 AM PDT · by RandFan · 60 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | March 14 | Christian Papillon
    “They plan to pass it with all Republicans here in the House, but after we leave town, the Democrats are going to vote for it in the Senate,” he said in a video post shortly before the House vote. Massie attacked the bill for continuing the spending levels of the Biden administration and for not implementing any cuts to waste found by the Department of Government Efficiency. “This is not Trump’s agenda. This is Biden’s spending agenda,” he said. “The Biden spending levels that he enjoyed for the last 15 months of his presidency will now be locked in until...
  • Karl Rove: Trump claims of DOGE ‘fraud’ discoveries will backfire

    03/10/2025 1:09:29 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 122 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/10/2025 | Ailia Zehra
    Republican strategist Karl Rove said President Trump’s claims that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has discovered “hundreds of billions” in government “fraud” will backfire when Democrats spotlight a lack of prosecutions of those involved. During an appearance on Fox News’s “Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy,” Rove echoed Democratic strategist James Carville’s sentiment that Democrats should “allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight.” In his joint address to Congress last week, Trump criticized the “appalling waste” in government spending, while praising DOGE head and tech billionaire Elon Musk for discovering “hundreds of billions of dollars of...
  • Christie: Trump ‘looks and sounds like an ally of Putin’

    03/03/2025 10:46:01 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 66 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/03/2025 | Tara Suter
    Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said Sunday that President Trump “looks and sounds like an ally” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The comments from Christie came during a panel discussion on ABC News’s “This Week,” in which the group talked about the heated Oval Office meeting with Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Vice President Vance. “I think one of the strangest things of watching the meeting, Chris, is seeing how personal this was for President Trump. He clearly is upset with [Zelensky],” host George Stephanopoulos said. “It probably goes back to what started his first impeachment. And...
  • Quigley: Trump Should Be ‘Thanking Zelensky,’ He Has Been Fighting for Democracy

    02/28/2025 2:13:01 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 67 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/28/2025 | Pam Key
    Representative Mike Quigley (R-IL) said Friday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Donald Trump should be thanking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky because he had been fighting for democracy. When asked about his reaction to the Oval Office meeting between Trump and Zelensky, Quigley said, “I just think people should appreciate the fact that we are fundamentally a different nation than we were just weeks ago. We are alone in the world, and we are less safe.”