While Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was filibustering for 13 hours in defense of the American people and the U.S. Constitution, what was the “Republican” congressional leadership doing? You’ve probably heard a statement like this before: It’s 2am in the morning. Do you know where your kids are?” Apparently, they were out last night participating in an extremely spendy dinner with President Obama that required a 20-vehicle motorcade to engineer. But, you know, we don’t have any money for White House tours.

With the Obama Administration trying to force the states to expand Medicaid (and some “Republicans” more than happy to accommodate), and with the GOP majority in the South Dakota House of Representatives having recently voted to expand unconstitutional taxpayer-funded medical care for illegal aliens who shouldn’t be in our country in the first place, this video from Americans for Prosperity (prosperity-a nasty word in the minds of liberals, I know) about the Medicaid funding scam is very timely.

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed several legislative bills on Thursday, March 7, including: prosecutorial appeals, execution procedures, railroad crossings, credit card banks and bank taxes, the Real Estate Commission, and more.

When Republicans won the House of Representatives in 2010, largely thanks to the inspired efforts of grassroots conservatives and tea party activists, they made a so-called “Pledge to America” that this time would be different. Well, perhaps everything the American people needed to know about the current Republican majority was embodied in a March 6 continuing resolution vote that funds the government through Sept. 30.

Gary Harvey of “warehoused scenario central”, New York, is living in an inexcusable isolation! What visits this man is allowed are limited, restricted and supervised. Permission must be obtained to even touch him. A kiss on the cheek must also be approved by the authority now deemed in control of his very existence. An authority that seems to enjoy toying with the lives and emotions of those they can control and the friends and loved ones that have dared to challenge or question their decisions, behaviors and directives.

Several South Dakota legislators expressed strong dissent to the passage of SB 235, a bill designed to tax some businesses and reward others in the name of “economic development” and “jobs.” The legislators objected to the way it was crafted and passed, and stated that it violated the state constitution.

The President Obama dinner invite to Republicans might give hope to them that the president is at least listening and considering a compromise that doesn’t involve it all being his way or else, but I wouldn’t get too hopeful, if I were them. Truthfully, it is simply a good thing I’m not a politician.

The President of the United States is elected as America’s leader and represents the nation to other countries abroad. The specific roles and responsibilities of the President are clearly laid out in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. The office of President has a great deal of legitimate power and associated respect. Respect is a deference to a right, privilege, privileged position, or someone or something considered to have certain rights or privileges; proper acceptance or courtesy. The incumbent can be judged separately and critically based on their individual performance against the expectations of the office.

It’s hard to keep up with all the criminal and otherwise reprehensible behavior of this current administration in Washington, so things like judicial nominees can be overlooked under the flood of mammoth malfeasance coming from the Obama regime. But this judicial nominee needs to be noticed, because she would be yet another leftist subversive radical who is a pure danger to our constitutional republic. Barack Obama (or whatever his name is) has nominated the 46-year-old leftist radical New York lawyer, Caitlin Halligan, five times now, and so far she has failed five times.