Conservative members of Congress will have to decide whether there is enough in the omnibus to get them to a yes vote, but somehow we doubt for many there is. The political costs of funding the last year of Obama’s agenda may be far too high headed into a volatile election year where primary challenges are the last thing an incumbent member wants to hear about.

If conservative members don’t provide leadership with a set of policy de-funds that, if included, will win their vote, and if leadership isn’t actively engaging them, then the last significant opportunity to use the power of the purse to stop President Obama’s extreme agenda will be lost.

South Dakota RINO Governor Dennis Daugaard gave his annual State of the State address today, calling for more “free stuff” that other people will have to pay for.

Unless you’re careful, a lot of debt with little to show for it. Since 1978, college has gone up over 1000%, where the inflation rate has been 265. This fattens up the college establishment (the administrators and professors), but doesn’t give you a better education. Many of the degree programs don’t prepare you for a job. They teach you about things there is little demand for in the real world. Cross country ballroom dancing, how to give a king a really hard time. Government-especially in today’s irresponsible age-doesn’t care if you dig yourself tens of thousands of dollars (or more) into debt right out of high school. Interest from student loans keeps the cash rolling in to the insatiable government maw, so that’s fine with them.  Politicians from both parties don’t care if you accrue more debt-after all, they have you over $18 trillion in the hole on the national […]

The federal government has far overstepped the limitations set for it in the Constitution.  As always, Washington claims that if it has more power, it will fix our problems.  But if Washington has not fixed, but only grown these problems when they claim more unconstitutional power, how would the cycle change if we gave Congress, or the President more power?

“We fully expect we’re going to exercise that power.” That was House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday promising to use Congress’ constitutional power of the purse to include policy riders that will defund aspects of the Obama agenda in an upcoming omnibus spending bill in December.

The Declaration of Independence personifies American character and in that document Americans declared acts of King George to be null and void. These acts were referred to by our founders as “pretended legislation”. In other words, the acts of King George were not law because they were not lawful. That is to say, there was no foundation on which they could stand since they violated the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.

Last week around midnight, a new “spending bill” passed the House, increasing the national debt by billions. This was John Boehner’s final act as Speaker of the House. The bill was reportedly enacted to prevent a government shutdown. Instead of allowing more spending, unnecessary and unconstitutional areas of the government should be cut

Outgoing Speaker John Boehner gave a parting gift to his partner President Obama steaming on the floor of the House with the comment that he wanted to “Clean the barn.” What he did instead was add to the barn litter he is leaving behind.

The fact is this debt ceiling pact will hamper Ryan’s ability to limit the size and scope of government over the last 14 months of the Obama administration. It even led one member to accuse Boehner of being in league with the Democrats. So, what is Ryan going to do about it?