One of the public option's strongest Congressional supporters insisted on Monday that while the Senate is poised to pass health care legislation that does not offer consumers a government-run insurance plan, he will bring the idea up again -- most likely after that bill is passed.
Sen. [...]
Thaddeus McCotter, retaking the soul of America, 140 characters at a time.
In less than a year, the American people will express their opposition to a Dem Congress that has become too costly, too crazy, too quickly.
I wonder if he and Nolan Finley get their talking points on a [...]
The wily Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia), in an appearance on CNN Monday night, told host John Roberts that President Barack Obama needs to stop calling bankers “fat cats.”
“I think that first the president should stop calling them fat cats, because people like cats,” McCotter said. “I don’t know you’d want [...]
The bipartisan Michigan congressional delegation in Washington D.C. has successfully pushed the Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies to divert an additional $13 million to help fight the Asian carp. Sen. Carl Levin has been circulating a letter in the Senate while Rep. Bart Stupak and other Michigan [...]
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good" [...]
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Museum for Mules, Lobster for Dogs — Michigan's congressional delegation votes in favor of absurd pork spending.
School District Consolidation Talk in Lansing — Mackinac Center studies and articles explain what will and will [...]
By Ben Armbruster
In the wake of two devastating losses in the 2006 and 2008 elections, and the intra-party dispute surrounding the special election last month in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, many Republican Party leaders have argued for a “big tent” GOP in order [...]
Congressman John Conyers (D-Detroit) says President Barack Obama called him and wanted to know why the senior statesman was “demeaning” the President.
In an interview Tuesday with The Hill, Conyers said:
“[Obama] called me and told me that he heard that I was demeaning him and I had to [...]
By John Byrne
Want to become a congressman in a conservative district? Then perhaps you shouldn't run as a Republican. A national poll which gave respondents three choices -- to support a generic Democrat, Republican or Tea Party candidate -- put the' [...]
By proposing an amendment that would require members of Congress to register for public health care [...]
By Igor VolskyThis morning, Fox News ran a chyron alleging that the new Congressional Budget Office report on premiums concluded that the Senate health care bill won’t lower health care premiums:
The report actually concluded the opposite — that, on average, premiums would [...]
Last night on Fox News’ Red Eye, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) explained to host Greg Gutfeld why he does not believe that human activity is causing global warming. McCotter, who is the chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee, a GOP group charged with helping Republican lawmakers [...]
Debate on the Healthcare Bill begins in the congress of liars today. The Senate is up first: they will start anew lying not only to us, but to themselves. Their hat trick of lies will consist of mathemagician tricks that divert our attention while twisting facts to prove that:
We [...]
