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Democrats Keep Kids Masked At The Behest Of Teachers’ Unions
As Some Democrats Begin To Lift Mask Mandates For Bars, Restaurants, And Other Venues, They're Refusing To Lift Them For Schoolchildren, Following The Dictates Of Powerful Teachers' Unions SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "While Democratic leaders are stampeding to finally follow the science and end burdensome mandates on adults, in many places, America's children are still being left behind. States like New York and California are rolling back restrictions on adults, but have y… Continue Reading
02.03.22
Desperate Dems Want To Sell Their Failed, Inflationary Stimulus As An Accomplishment
The Signature Achievement Of Democrats' Partisan $1.9 Trillion Spending Bill Was Unleashing The Worst Inflation Americans Have Seen In 40 Years While Sending Slush Funds To States That Far Exceeded Their Pandemic Needs SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Working Americans and their families are being hammered by the worst inflation in 40 years. And Washington Democrats own it. Sometimes it can be difficult to directly connect Washington policies to the downstream effects on fam… Continue Reading
01.18.22
Dems Smear More Lipstick On Their Partisan Election Takeover Pig
While Americans Keep Telling Pollsters They Have Much More Important Concerns, Democrats Are Trying To Force A Senate Showdown On 'This Latest Umpteenth Iteration' Of Their Partisan Proposals To Take Over Elections, Featuring 'The Same Rotten Core' Of Terrible Policies SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "As 2022 gets underway, working Americans and their families are facing a steady stream of significant challenges. The fastest-growing inflation in almost 40 years; violent crim… Continue Reading
01.12.22
Democrats’ Rule-Breaking Power Grab Efforts Predate Today’s Big Lie By Years
Long Before Democrats' Current Fake Outrage Over State Election Laws, Democrats First Unveiled Their Partisan Proposal To Take Over American Elections In 2018 And In 2019 Started Talking About Nuking The Filibuster SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Leading Democrats say they want to break the Senate because of a sinister anti-voting plot that is sweeping America. This is totally fake. It does not exist…. Confronted by the facts, the Democratic Leader says they're irreleva… Continue Reading
01.11.22
Schumer Misrepresents Robert Byrd In His Crusade To Break The Senate
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Keeps Pointing To An Old Quote From Former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd In An Attempt To Justify His Push To Break The Senate By Nuking The Filibuster, But He Has Taken Sen. Byrd Badly Out Of Context Sen. Byrd: 'Proponents Of The So-Called Nuclear Option Cite Several Instances In Which They Inaccurately Allege That I Blazed A Procedural Path Toward An Inappropriate Change In Senate Rules. They're Dead Wrong - Dead Wrong' THEN-SEN. ROBERT BYRD (D-W… Continue Reading
01.10.22
Nuclear Option Regrets, Democrats Have Had A Few
After Senate Democrats Eagerly Voted For The Nuclear Option To Eliminate The Filibuster On Executive Nominations, Many Said A Short Time Later They Regretted Their Votes, Wished 'It Hadn't Happened,' And Said In Hindsight, It Was 'The Biggest Mistake I Ever Made' Or 'The Worst Vote I Have Taken As A Senator' FLASHBACK: Leader McConnell Warned Democrats The Day They Went Nuclear On The Filibuster For Nominations: 'You Will Regret This, And You May Regret It A Lot Sooner Than You Think' SEN… Continue Reading
01.05.22
Schumer Shepherds Dems Towards Nuking Their Own Filibuster Pledges
In His Zeal To Destroy The Filibuster, And The Senate As An Institution, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Is Leading Senate Democrats In Obliterating Their Own Commitments 'To Never Voting To Change The Legislative Filibuster' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "This Big Lie - that democracy is dying because Democrats sometimes lose elections - is a completely astro-turfed sense of crisis. The emperor has no clothes. It's even more ironic that on this most sensitive subject, … Continue Reading
12.16.21
The ‘Lie Of The Year’: Biden’s Claims His Spending Spree Is Fully Paid For
Analyses From The Congressional Budget Office Have Shown That Democrats' Multitrillion Spending Bill Would Add A Tidal Wave Of Red Ink To The Deficit, Making Their Claims The Bill Is Fully Paid For The 'Lie Of The Year' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "[O]n Friday, a new report showed their socialist shopping spree could cost the country trillions more than Democrats admit. You see, as one of our Democratic colleagues explained last month, his party's bill is packed full of 'sh… Continue Reading
12.13.21
CBO Once Again Exposes Democrats’ Budgeting Scam
A New Analysis Of From The Congressional Budget Office Cuts Through Democrats' Accounting Fictions By Showing That Their Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Spree Would Cost A Staggering $4.9 Trillion Over A Decade, If Programs Democrats Have Said They Have No Intention Of Letting Expire Are Made Permanent SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "As a Democratic Senator explained last month, the reckless taxing and spending spree is full of 'shell games' and 'budget gimmicks' meant to mask… Continue Reading
12.06.21
Democrats’ Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Spree Is Stuffed With Billions Of Dollars In Special Interest Giveaways, Earmarks, And Waste
Democrats Have Stuffed Their Multitrillion Dollar Taxing-And-Spending Spree With Special Favors For A Couple Key Democrat Lawmakers, Tax Breaks For Millionaires And Special Interest Groups Such As Big Unions, Trial Lawyers, And Journalists, And Larded It Up With Billions Of Dollars For Green New Deal Boondoggles Like A Civilian Climate Corps And 'Activities To Increase Tree Equity' The House-Passed Spending Bill Includes Billions In Taxpayer-Financed Earmarks For Key Democrats Included In… Continue Reading
11.19.21
Democrats’ Deception Exposed: Their Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Spree Adds To The Deficit, Fuels Inflation, And Hikes Taxes On The Middle Class
President Biden And Democrats Have Claimed Repeatedly That Their Multitrillion Dollar Socialist Taxing-And-Spending Spree Won't Increase The Deficit, Won't Add To Already-Accelerating Inflation, And Won't Increase Taxes On Americans Making Less Than $400,000 A Year, But Independent Analyses Have Shown All Those Assertions To Be False The Congressional Budget Office Confirms That Democrats' Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Bill Is NOT Paid For, And Will Add $800 Billion To The Deficit Over The … Continue Reading
11.04.21
Dems Still Pushing For Amnesty As Border Crisis Continues
As Record Numbers Of Encounters On The U.S. Southern Border Show No Signs Of Abating, Democrats In Congress And The Biden Administration Keep Floating Policies That Would Only Encourage More People To Come To The Country Illegally SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "The American people are hurting. Inflation just hit another 30-year record high. Families are paying skyrocketing prices for everyday needs. The murder rate across our country just recorded its biggest jump ever. But h… Continue Reading
10.28.21
Dem Leaders Stuff Spending Bill With Big Money Giveaways For Their States
Democrats' Reckless Taxing-And-Spending Spree Is Jammed Full Of Earmarks For The Home Cities Of Democrat Leaders And Tax Giveaways For Coastal Elites, While Ordinary American Taxpayers Are Left With The Bill SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "On the whole, the reckless taxing and spending spree that Democrats want to ram through will hurt families and help China. But when you take a close look, there are some special groups of people here at home who would make out like bandits. … Continue Reading
10.20.21
Democrats’ Third Attempt At A Partisan Election Power Grab Is More Of The Same
LEADER McCONNELL: 'Senator Schumer Wants To Stage Another Political Stunt Around The Umpteenth Iteration Of The Same Partisan Power Grab That The Senate Has Already Considered And Rejected Repeatedly. It Is The Same Rotten Core As Speaker Pelosi's H.R. 1 With Slightly Amended Window Dressing' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Another week, another effort by Washington Democrats to create fake drama over a proposed election takeover that will go nowhere. Senator Schumer wants to … Continue Reading
10.08.21
Democrats Are Out Of Excuses On The Debt Limit
LEADER McCONNELL: 'For Two And A Half Months, The Democratic Leaders Did Nothing And Then Complained They Were Short On Time…. Now There Will Be No Question: They'll Have Plenty Of Time' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "All year, the Democratic government has made unprecedented and repeated use of reconciliation to pass radical policies on party-line votes. So, back in July, Republicans informed our colleagues they would need to pursue any long-term increase in the debt … 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
09.27.21
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
09.15.21
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
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
