William F. Buckley, Jr., the patrician founder of the National Review rag, declared in its mission statement that “A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” Buckley, as so often was … Read more
The House continues its breakneck pace of passing substantive legislation while the dysfunctional Senate is still bogged down with confirmation hearings for President Biden’s cabinet and department nominees. It will take reforming or killing the Senate filibuster to clear the backlog of legislation the House has sent over to the Senate. The Hill reports, House … Read more
The Hill reports, House removes deadline for ratifying ERA: The House on Wednesday adopted H.J.Res 17, a resolution to remove the deadline for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to formally ban discrimination on the basis of sex as one of Democrats’ top legislative priorities. Lawmakers passed the resolution largely along party lines, 222-204, to … Read more
The Hill reports, House approves $1.9T COVID relief in partisan vote: The House on Wednesday approved President Biden’s sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package in a starkly partisan 220-211 vote, sending the legislation to the White House and clinching Democrats’ first big legislative victory in the Biden era. No Republican lawmakers backed the legislation [so … Read more
The “lamestream media” coverage of passage of the COVID-19 Relief bill tended to focus on the fact that it was not “bipartisan,” i.e., that not one Republican in Congress voted for the most popular bill since raising the minimum wage in 2007, supported by 76% of Americans and even 60% of Republicans. That is almost … Read more