Category Archives: Congress

Odds & Ends

grampslcf February 2, 2023 Comments Off

Representative Ilhan Omar appears headed to ouster from the Foreign Affairs Committee over her anti-Semitic and anti-American remarks. After GOP leaders were able to secure enough support for the resolution that also condemns Omar for past antisemitic remarks late Tuesday, the House Rules Committee quickly approved a rule setting up a final vote. The rule passed Wednesday along party lines.

Subsequently the Democrats formally approved which lawmakers will serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee. This includes Omar. Republicans are expected to oust Omar via a floor vote Thursday.

Odds & Ends

grampslcf January 28, 2023 Comments Off

According to several Big Media sources, former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, asked several Catholic priests to exorcise her home of evil spirits. In a ritual that lasted over 14 hours, the priests cast out hundreds of demons and other dark entities.

The result:

Questions For The FAA

grampslcf January 27, 2023 Comments Off

Our long nightmare with COVID and all its ancillary operations needs to be exposed to a lot of sunlight. For way too long, our media and some elected politicians have kept the lid on the truth. They have not permitted the public to see what the real facts were. We need a national conversation led by investigators unbridled by anything but the truth. We need a robust debate about the future of this country without corrupt politicians screaming that “democracy is ending.”

Interesting Times

grampslcf January 26, 2023 Comments Off

We live in interesting times. The pushback from Kevin McCarthy to a reporter’s question demonstrates a beginning willingness to step away from politics as usual in Washington. Perhaps we will owe a bigger debt of gratitude to the 20 rebels who held up his getting the speakership.

Russell Brand Speaks

grampslcf January 16, 2023 Comments Off

Unorthodox but remarkably accurate.

General Flynn Speaks

grampslcf January 14, 2023 Comments Off

General Mike Flynn has resurfaced in the public eye. Now that one can express one’s self freely on Twitter, we are seeing more and more patriotic Americans venturing there. On Monday, Gen. Flynn fired off a five-tweet barrage attacking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system (FISC).

The Beginning of the End

grampslcf January 13, 2023 Comments Off

Kamala Harris is probably beginning to measure the windows at the White House residence for new curtains and drapes. What is swirling around Joe Biden is the beginning of the end of his Presidency. Biden stole government documents and gave some of them to the Penn Biden Center. The Penn documents were probably part of the cache of documents that Biden stored near his Corvette. How many more stolen documents are going to be found lying around?

The Rich Don’t Pay Their Fair Share

grampslcf January 11, 2023 Comments Off

This is a mantra that we often hear from Democratic politicians. Often, they’ll try to justify a new tax by assuring the voters that it’s being enacted to “get the rich to pay their fair share.” Or they will condemn a tax cutting scheme as being one aimed to relieve the rich of their “fair share” burden of taxation.

Highlights & Lowlights

grampslcf January 10, 2023 Comments Off

The House of Representatives on Monday evening voted 221-210 to repeal funding for 87,000 IRS agents.

The so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ gave $79.6 billion to the IRS over the next 10 years.
These agents were expected to target middle class and low-income Americans. Without the 87,000 agents, the IRS had audited the poor at 5 times the rate of everyone else according to a new analysis of IRS data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.

There is no telling just how much tighter the squeeze would have been without this House action.

Promises made, promises kept.

House Rules Changes Passed

grampslcf January 10, 2023 1 Comment

With little drama the House of Representatives passed the rules package which will govern their deliberations on Monday night 220-213. It was the first order of business for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s new majority on the first day of the 118th legislative session. The 55-page package includes most of the concessions McCarthy made to the conservative caucus.