On Thursday, it appears as though the House version of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s debt bill has surfaced. HR 2693 ”The Budget Control Act of 2011″. This bill isn’t compromise, it’s pure can-kicking. Summary The Reid bill looks like mainly fluff – no real cuts and nothing of substance. It basically defers everything to another [...]
…“I stand before you today as a disciplined, conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you in the desire to restore our nation and revive the American dream,” Holy Cow Rick! No kiddin’? A disciplined, conservativeTexan! I think not. Be still my hyperventilating cardiac event!!! Rick Perry???!!!…,…the same Rick Perry who endorsed [...]
The Republicans in the House have a real opportunity to channel one of the greatest Conservative leaders of all time. But they won’t. While privately wishing for a GOP presidential candidate to materialize out of thin air that would be another Reagan, the established, moderate, old-guard GOP is failing to grab hold of the opportunity [...]
Bureau of Economic Analysis// Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 1.3 percent in the second quarter of 2011, (that is, from the first quarter to the second quarter), according to the “advance” estimate [...]
NEW YORK, July 27, 2011 — Senior energy executive Karl W. Miller is a major supporter in establishing a comprehensive energy plan for the U.S. However, Mr. Miller has advised numerous times, government handouts do not work, never have and never will. The capital markets must make investment decisions based upon supply, demand, price points [...]
Tea Party faithfuls are reminding Speaker Boehner that his seat as speaker is dependent upon him living up to their expectations. Expectations that the runaway spending in Washington will end under his leadership. Wearing t-shirts adorned with “Hold the Line” a large contingent of small-government activists held court at capitol hill on Wednesday. Their show [...]
NEW YORK, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Mortgage rates turned course this week with the benchmark conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate rising to 4.74 percent, according to Bankrate.com’s weekly national survey. The average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.35 discount and origination points. The average 15-year fixed mortgage moved up to 3.83 percent, as did [...]
A Bureau of Labor statistics report announced that first-time applications for unemployment benefits fell to below 400,000 for the first time in three months. At 398,000, the drop has gone under the mark that many analysts feel signals recovery in the job market. No extenuating circumstances were noted in the labor report as to why [...]
If there was ever a time for a Super hero in American Politics, it is now. It’s prime time for Governor Rick Perry of Texas to announce his candidacy. Gov. Perry, a real transformer of sorts, is the only potential candidate who has the heavy metal needed to take on the socialist agenda of President [...]
