Looking On The Bright Side
Posted on April 2, 2009 at 12:46 pmMy suspicion is that if Republicans pursue this “we’re not quite as bad as Obama” strategy, they will continue to lose. The country will lose too. The President’s budget proposes crippling levels of debt. Eight years of this kind of spending will wreck the economy. If we’re lucky, it might also wreck the stranglehold that the political class has on our country.
Former Rep. Vaughn Sues Ethics Commision
Posted on March 19, 2009 at 12:09 amYou don’t see that everyday:
The lawsuit refers to a complaint Vaughn filed with the Tennessee Ethics Commission, accusing House Republican Caucus Chairman Glen Casada of Franklin and House Majority Leader Jason Mumpower of Bristol of improper conduct during the election by misleading voters through Web sites under Vaughn’s name.
The commission dismissed the complaint in January. In the lawsuit, Vaughn accuses the commission of not having the proper number of members to make a decision on the complaint, and calls for another review.
“I’m not really against the commission; all I’m asking them for is an investigation of the issues that I brought before them,” Vaughn said.
If It Slides, It Slides
Posted on December 4, 2008 at 6:31 pmEd Kilgore suggests that some Republican may not mind an economic downturn:
While I am quite sure that Republicans are not about to hoist banners reading “Deflation Now!” a look back at the conflicts over the first “bailout” package and some of the GOP rhetoric surrounding the presidential campaign should make it clear that there is in fact a strong undercurrent of conservative hostility to any sort of relief measures that don’t simply involve tax cuts or deregulation. Those who convinced themselves that the mortgage crisis was caused by ACORN and poor and minority borrowers certainly are in no hurry to succor such Obama-supporting miscreants. More generally, there’s always been a large faction of conservatives who favored the occasional “healthy” recession to wring “excess demand” out of the economy. One of the innovations associated with the GOP’s embrace of supply-side economics was a partial abandonment of that point of view as “root canal” or “Hooverism.” But in the face of an actual recession, like the one St. Ronald Reagan presided over in 1981-83, there was no notable conservative support for any economic stimulus that didn’t focus on high-end or corporate tax cuts.
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Mike Faulk Makes Clear What His Campaign Is Really About
Posted on October 9, 2008 at 10:06 amThe battle for control of the Senate is about holding the redistricting pen:
Today, we are in another important battle and its outcome may also be a turning point in the direction taken by the State of Tennessee. Tennessee’s Senate is divided with 16 Republicans, 16 Democrats and 1 Independent.
The outcome of the election for Senate District 4 will likely determine for years to come the direction taken by our party and our state. In fact, the winner of this State Senate election may very well determine whose hand holds the pen used to draw the lines for redistricting every State House and State Senate seat and the lines for each of Tennessee’s Congressional Districts.
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TNGOP Engages In “Class Warfare” Over Budget
Posted on May 7, 2008 at 2:39 pmGOP Communications Czar Bill Hobbs throws a little dust on the Governor for announcing employee layoffs for workaday bureaucrats while leaving his top dog political appointees’ pay raises intact:
“Upper management making out like bandits and getting lavish party facilities while the rank-and-file stand to lose everything.Gov. Bredesen promised voters he’d run Tennessee like a business. We didn’t know he meant Enron,” said Hobbs.
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