An Open Letter To Florida U.S. House Members
Rep. Tom McClintock has written a letter to U.S. House leadership expressing support for a fully open appropriations process which would require the twelve appropriations bills be brought to the floor individually.
We, the undersigned Florida grassroots leaders, stand 100% behind this plan…
By Tom Tillison
RNC Co-Chairman Sharon Day posted a comment on FaceBook stating that she announced at the RPOF Quarterly Meeting in Tampa today that Mitt Romney is now the Republican presumptive nominee and that some members of his campaign team are now working with RNC staff.
Romney’s status as the Republican presidential nominee has been all but guaranteed since…
Florida Political Press
The following message was posted Friday on Sarah Palin’s FaceBook wall. There are very few national races where the tea party can have much of an influence. This is race is one of them.
Mourdock For Indiana…
By Mark Thompson
Washington and the various data collection agencies have for years now been telling the American public that the economy has been improving. It’s a lie. They know it and thinking Americans know it.
Here are six graphs that bring home the state of the economy today as seen by the average American…
Florida Political Press
Now that it has been determined that Mitt Romney will be the GOP presidential nominee, it’s time for conservatives to start focusing on the critically important task of defeating Barack Obama and the Progressive Left that have laid siege on the spirit of America.
In this regard, former Gov. Mitt Romney released the following comments today via email…
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Florida Political Press
Sen. Marco Rubio delivered a major foreign policy address today with a bipartisan tone at Brookings Institution in Washington.
Rubio’s highly-touted address did experience a minor hitch, when he reached the last page of his speech — only to find that it wasn’t there…
By Tom Tillison
Some members of the Florida Alliance, a loose coalition of tea party and 9/12 Project groups, as well as other conservative organizations, have come together to question Sen. Bill Nelson on his support of The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
The ‘Dodd-Frank Act’ is a failed attempt at financial regulatory reform sponsored by the Democratic controlled 111th Congress…
By Mark Thompson
Dodd-Frank helped the too big to fail top four banks who now enjoy a 42.06% market share in the top ten states. The eight firm concentration ratio is now in the moderately concentrated area of over 50% of the market share.
Instead of decentralizing the banking system in 2008 now there will be a continuous march towards centralization and oligopoly market structures…
Florida Political Press
The IRS assault on tea party groups has made it to the U.S. House floor. Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA) addresses the issue in the following video, asking for an investigation.
“A defining aspect of the American tradition is that groups of citizens band together for a wide variety of civic purposes. They recruit volunteers, raise funds and spend those funds to promote…
Florida Political Press
Heritage reported last week that there are some in Congress mulling a return to earmarking – the wasteful spending that leads to your taxpayer dollars spent on indoor rainforests and bridges to nowhere.
Conservatives sprang into action, calling Representatives and asking who still supports the earmarks ban. Some are succumbing to the Washington Establishment, some are not…
By Kim Carroll
Women have the power. They take their right to vote seriously and show up at the polls in greater numbers than men according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
In 2008, 60.4 percent of eligible female voters cast their vote versus 55.7% of eligible males. According to the same study, more women are registered to vote than men, 66.6 million versus 63.5 million. Maybe that’s why the “War on Women” has taken a front seat in this election…
By: George Noga
This post kicks off a three-part series about the crisis of spending, debt and deficits.
The next part deals with the interval between now and the inevitable arrival of the Minsky Moment, i.e. the unknown and unknowable time when an unsustainable economic phenomenon suddenly collapses.
The third post will address Gotterdammerung, or what happens after the Minsky Moment.
By Tom Tillison
It’s a fair guess that Connie Mack has seen some recent polling that has gotten his attention.
As the week closed out, the rhetoric coming from the Mack campaign took on a rather fervent pitch. In a press release sent out Thursday, it made the claim that opponent George LeMieux has “endorsed raising Florida’s sales tax to a nation-leading 16 percent.”
By L. Persona
Florida Democrats believe they can win a few Republican seats in Congress and are preparing a major offensive against several Republicans facing tough challenges this year. They believe that redistricting gives them a chance to offset the seats they are sure to give up.
However, the Democrats still fail to realize the albatross that ObamaCare places on their party’s efforts…
By Lloyd Marcus
A big well dressed black guy attended the Dallas, TX tea party rally with his white buddy. Both men missed my singing performance on stage minutes earlier.
I asked the black gentleman who had an impressive physique how often he worked out. He replied, “Everyday.” His white buddy said with a chuckle, “He thinks the Tea Party is racist.”
