Today, the Senate Conservatives Fund began airing this new television commercial promoting Don Stenberg in the race for U.S. Senate in Nebraska. Don Stenberg has the courage and integrity to defeat Bob Kerrey and fight for our values in Washington.
Perhaps the biggest policy victory of the 2010 elections was the ban on congressional earmarks. Americans sent a new group of conservative leaders to the U.S. Senate who forced Republicans to stop pork barrel spending. But the addiction to parochial politics is a hard one to break.
Reuters: In a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans, Rogers recommended reviving a proven legislative sweetener that became politically toxic a year ago. Bring back earmarks, Rogers, who was first elected to Congress in 2002, told his colleagues.
As you may have heard, earlier this week President Obama was caught on an open mike asking outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, and by extension, President-elect Vladimir Putin, for space on on all these issues, but particularly missile defense because after my election I have more flexibility. The scandal isnt really the embarrassing gaffe itself or the equally embarrassing subsequent endorsement of his reelection by Pravda but the true substance behind it.
In an op-ed column published today by the Washington Examiner, U.S. Senator DeMint writes that the central problem with ObamaCare "is not how the federal government is abusing its new power in this instance, but that the government indeed, a single person suddenly wields this power at all."