The Leader Board
Dems’ Reckless Tax-And-Spending Spree Will Turbocharge Rising Inflation
As Prices Go Up Across The Economy, Democrats Want To Spend Staggering New Sums Of Money To Expand Government, Which, As Sen. Manchin Says, 'Ignores The Everyday Reality That America's Families Continue Pay An Unavoidable Inflation Tax' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Wasting trillions and trillions of dollars on socialism would be a bad idea any day. But it is a uniquely bad idea at a time when American families are already being hammered by inflation and soaring costs. The g… Continue Reading
10.05.21
Democrats’ Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Spree Would Jeopardize Medicare
A Month After The Latest Medicare Trustees' Report Showed The Medicare Trust Fund Becoming Insolvent In 5 Years And Program Costs Growing Out Of Control, Democrats Are Proposing Adding 'Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars In New Expenses And Obligations' To Medicare, Something One Democratic Senator Called 'Fiscal Insanity' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Just look at what Democrats want to do to American families' health care and prescription medicines. Last month, a new report f… Continue Reading
10.04.21
Biden And Schumer Voted Against Debt Limit Increases During Unified GOP Government
In The Early 2000s, When Republicans Were In Power, Sens. Joe Biden And Chuck Schumer Had No Qualms About Voting Against Debt Limit Increases, With Biden Describing The Vote As 'A Protest Of The Policies That Have Brought Us To This Point' And Schumer Running Campaign Ads Against The Vote During The Bush Administration, With A Republican President And Republican Majorities In Congress, Joe Biden Voted Against Increasing The Debt Limit, Saying, 'It Is A Statement That I Refuse To Be Associated… Continue Reading
09.30.21
All 50 Senate Democrats Willing To Vote To Confirm An Eco-Terrorist
Despite It Now Being 'Widely Known That [Tracy] Stone-Manning Collaborated With A Group Of Eco-Terrorists' All 50 Senate Democrats Are Willing To Confirm Her To Be Director Of The Bureau Of Land Management, Ignoring Her 'History Of Criminal Behavior And Disregard For The Laws Of Our Country' All 50 Senate Democrats voted to clear the last procedural hurdle for Tracy Stone-Manning's nomination to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management. (PN443, Roll Call Vote #400: Agreed To 50-48; D 48… Continue Reading
09.29.21
Democrats’ Tax Plan Targets The Middle Class
Featuring Tax Hikes That Will Hit Americans Making Less Than $400,000 Per Year And A Bank Transaction Dragnet, Democrats' Tax Plans In Their Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Spree Put The Middle Class In The IRS' Crosshairs SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "The American people continue to hear about a steady stream of bad ideas that Washington Democrats are packing into their next reckless taxing and spending spree. There's one clear thread that ties them all together: Pain for Amer… Continue Reading
09.29.21
Democrats’ Tax-And-Spending Spree In Microcosm: An Electric Vehicle Subsidy Benefitting The Wealthy And Big Labor
Democrats Plan To Tax Middle-Class Americans For An Epic Electric Vehicle Spending Spree That Will Benefit Wealthy Car Buyers, Auto Companies, And Big Unions, Goosed By Green New Deal Government Mandates SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "When you add it all up, Democrats want to ram through one of the largest peacetime tax hikes on record, if not the single largest…. But this isn't to say that nobody gets a leg up. Somehow, mysteriously, many of Democrats' favorite groups… Continue Reading
09.27.21
Democrats Can And Will Raise The Debt Ceiling On Their Own
Democrats Had Plenty Of Time To Avoid A Scramble To Raise The Debt Limit, Yet Chose To Leave It Out Of The Budget Resolution They Passed On A Party Line Vote In August And Are Still Refusing To Take The Necessary Steps Because Their 'Leadership Has Said They Don't Want To Do That' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Our colleagues have plenty of time to get this done. It is laughable to hear some Democrats claiming they simply don't have enough time. Last month Democrats introduce… Continue Reading
09.23.21
Democrats Stuff Their Reckless Taxing And Spending Spree With Big Union Giveaways
Big Labor 'Has Helped Craft' Democrats' Gargantuan Spending Bill, Stuffed With Special Interest Giveaways To Unions, Including A New Tax Deduction For Union Dues In Lieu Of Extending A Tax Deduction For Charitable Giving SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "When you add it all up, Democrats want to ram through one of the largest peacetime tax hikes on record, if not the single largest. Let me say that again. Behind closed doors, Washington Democrats are drafting what may very well … Continue Reading
09.22.21
Dems’ Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Spree Will Double Down On Already-Accelerating Inflation
With Prices For Everything From Groceries To Gas, Housing, And Heating Going Up, Democrats' Gargantuan Spending Plans Are Primed To Fuel Inflation Even More, Which Will Further Erode Americans' Wages SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Over the past several months, American families have had to contend with an historic amount of painful inflation. This summer we saw the prices for core personal consumption soar at the fastest pace in nearly 30 years. Last month, the producer price… Continue Reading
09.21.21
Democrats Prepare To Stick Middle Class Americans With A Massive Tax Bill For Their Socialist Spending Spree
'Here Comes The Biden Tax Bill' As House Democrats Advance Over $2 Trillion In Partisan Tax Hikes With 'More Than 40 Separate Tax Increases,' Which Will Hit Americans Making Less Than $400,000 And Small Businesses Of All Kinds While Hammering American Employers With Higher Tax Rates Than Communist China, Yet All Of It Still Won't Pay For Their Full Course Of Socialist Spending Plans SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Details are already emerging about the seismic tax hikes that D… Continue Reading
09.15.21
Why Are Democrats Discarding The Bernie Standard?
In 2017, Now-Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders Said The Function Of The Senate's Reconciliation Process Is 'Not To Enact Major Changes In Social Policy' SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), 2017: "The function of reconciliation is to adjust federal spending and revenue, not to enact major changes in social policy." (U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member, Press Release, 7/27/2017) Yet The Reckless Multitrillion Tax-And-Spending Spree Democrats Are Now Rushing Through Congress I… Continue Reading
09.13.21
Democrats’ Reckless Tax-And-Spending Spree Would Be ‘Cradle-To-Grave’ Socialism
As Democrats Rush Their Reckless Multitrillion Dollar Tax-And-Spending Spree Through Congress, It's Becoming Clear That '[T]he Proposed Legislation Would Be So Transformative' That It Represents 'A Cradle-To-Grave Reweaving Of' Americans' Fundamental Relationship To The Federal Government SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "The size and scope of Chairman Sanders' socialist shopping list will make every disagreement we've had in landing the infrastructure compromise look like a rou… Continue Reading
09.10.21
Another Record Inflation Rise Exposes The Biden Administration’s Continued Delusion
As A Plurality Of Americans Point To 'Rising Prices And The Cost Of Living' As Their Top Economic Problem In A New CNN Poll And Producer Inflation Rose At A Record Rate, Biden Administration Officials Are Still Insisting 'There Still Isn't Anything To Suggest There's Widespread Inflation' Another Monthly Inflation Indicator Hit Its 'Biggest Annual Increase' In Over A Decade "Prices that producers get for final demand goods and services surged in August at their highest annual rate since a… Continue Reading
09.03.21
Even Some Democrats Are Warning Against A New Backdoor Death Tax On Family Farms And Small Businesses
The Former Democrat Chairman Of The Senate Finance Committee Says Democrats Pushing Elimination Of Stepped-Up Basis 'Would Hit Family Businesses With Taxes They Can't Pay' While Other Democrats Are Similarly Sounding Alarm Bells About This Potentially Crushing Tax Hike Former Senate Democrats From Rural States Warn 'Eliminating The Step-Up Would Devastate Family-Owned Businesses, Ranches And Farms' Because 'All Of A Sudden, For The First Time, We Are Going To Be Taxing Unrealized Capital G… Continue Reading
08.23.21
Will Radical House Democrats Vote For A Budget With These Republican Amendments?
During This Month's Vote-A-Rama, A Number Of Commonsense Republican Amendments Were Adopted By The Senate On A Bipartisan Basis, But When Speaker Pelosi Forces A Vote On Democrats' Partisan Budget Resolution, Will Far-Left House Democrats Vote To Repudiate Their Own Ideological Stances? The Senate Voted To Reiterate Long-Standing Bipartisan Hyde Amendment Protections So Taxpayers Are Not Forced To Fund Elective Abortions The Senate voted on a bipartisan basis for Sen. James Lankford's (R-OK)… Continue Reading
08.18.21
Who Lost Afghanistan? President Biden, Our Commander-In-Chief
In His Determination To Hastily Abandon Afghanistan, President Biden Rejected The Counsel Of Top Generals And Ignored Warnings From Intelligence Experts And Even Fellow Democrats Of A Rapidly Deteriorating Security Situation, Leaving America's Allies Upset And Alarmed As America's Adversaries Take Advantage SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "It was pretty obvious to me what was going to happen. I predicted it, and I'm not in the intelligence business, that the Taliban would be i… Continue Reading
08.16.21
McConnell Consistently Warned The Calamity Of A Precipitous Afghanistan Withdrawal ‘Was Not Only Foreseeable; It Was Foreseen’
Under Presidents Of Both Parties Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell Consistently Warned Against A Precipitous Withdrawal Of U.S. Forces From Afghanistan Based On Arbitrary Political Timelines And Not Conditions On The Ground TODAY: 'An Utter Disaster -- We Witnessed It On The Screen … What Does That Say To Friends Of America Around The World? You Can't Depend On Us' "Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is calling the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan an 'unmitigated disaster.' &he… Continue Reading
08.11.21
Senate Republicans Notch Victory In Fight Against Radical Critical Race Theory
The Senate Adopted A Republican Amendment To Prohibit Federal Funding From Going Towards Promoting Radical Critical Race Theory Ideologies In Schools The Senate adopted Sen. Tom Cotton's (R-AR) amendment to prohibit federal funds from being used to promote Critical Race Theory or to compel students or teachers to affirm Critical Race Theory in prekindergarten, elementary, and secondary schools. (S.Amdt.3680, S.Con.Res.14, Roll Call Vote #342: Amendment Agreed to 50-49: D 1-47; R 49-0; I 0-2; 8/… Continue Reading
08.10.21
Republicans Win An Upset On Hyde Protections. Can Democrats Leave Hyde Where It Belongs?
Republicans Secured A Return To Longstanding Protections Against Taxpayer Dollars Going To Fund Elective Abortions, But Prominent Democrats Are Still Threatening To End Them And 49 Senate Democrats Voted Against Them The Senate adopted Sen. James Lankford's (R-OK) amendment to restore Hyde Amendment protections to prevent taxpayer funding of abortions by a vote of 50-49. (S.Amdt.3792, S.Con.Res.14, Roll Call Vote #336: Amendment Agreed to 50-49: D 1-47; R 49-0; I 0-2; 8/10/2021) However, 49 … Continue Reading
08.10.21
Democrats Are Still The Party Of Defunding The Police
No One Can Deny That The Most Prominent Elected Officials Calling To Defund The Police Are Democrat Members Of Congress, And They Are Setting The Agenda SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Last summer, across America, peaceful protests were overtaken by lawless rioters. For nights on end, violence and looting left cities in flames. And in too many state capitals and city halls, local officials froze under pressure from the Left and failed to protect their citizens, their homes, a… Continue Reading
