Posts Tagged "congress"

Henry Waxman, Democrat from the left coast has new plans for an EPA bill floating through congress.  If you like government running your life, you’ll love all the central planning mandates in this one. Did I mention it’s to prevent global warming? New homes “with slanted roofs,” for instance, will be required to meet a “solar reflectance” standard if they use “fiberglass asphalt-shingle roofing.” We’re not sure what that means either, but we do know that everything in homes will also face new efficiency regulations — including furnaces, laundry machines, dishwashers, “showerheads, faucets, water closets, and urinals,” even (or especially?) jacuzzis. One of the more revealing sections focuses...

I’ve just started reading this “textbook” which explains conservatism in terms even liberals can understand. The modern liberal believes in the supremacy of the state… Levine describes the modern liberal as a “statist.”  Our founding fathers knew that the greatest threat to freedom and liberty is an all powerfull central government. Keep your eyes open and watch closely what is happening in Washington.  As Washington gains more control, there is a direct correlation with loss of individual freedom.  Obama is a statist and believes that an individual’s imperfection and personal pursuits impede his objective of achieving a utopian state which is  ever mindful of bringing down achievers and redistributing wealth on a...

My blog post dated 3/26 (Meet Michelle Bachman) apparently was somewhat prophetic.  I stated that you’ll be hearing a lot more about her and the following article showed up the next day.  More about Michele.

If you are reading this, you’re probably taking some type of prescription medication or have done so at some time in your life.  We Americans love the products the big bad pharmaceutical companies make, but feel less favorable towards the companies themselves because we feel we’re being ripped off by high prices. You think price controls and government regulation is the answer? The truth is, drug companies have been a real engine of innovation. If we destroy their profitability through price controls and government rationing, the costs would be very real. The recent slow-down in the introduction of new blockbuster drugs is in part the delayed result of underinvestment in the 1990s — the last time the political class (read Bill and Hillary) ...

Elected in 2006, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota. In only her first term, Congresswoman Bachmann developed a reputation as a “principled reformer” who stays true to her conservative beliefs while pushing for real reform of the broken ways of Washington.  I recently heard her interviewed about our current ecomonic problems and was very impressed with her thoughtfulness on the dangers of continuing our US debt due to overspending. I think we’ll be hearing a lot more from this lady in the future.  That is unless the media tries to “Palinize” her for her brains and good...