On the radio podcast program Heartland Daily,  Rick Manning (Vice President for Public Policy and Communications with Americans for Limited Government and regular NetRight Daily contributor) discussed his recent commentary on the result of the government shutdown and how the Washington political establishment came out of the shutdown exposed and with […]

By Robert Romano House Republican leaders never had any intention of defunding or even delaying implementation of Obamacare. No other conclusion can be drawn from the complete capitulation by House Speaker John Boehner in agreeing to end the partial government shutdown, suspend the debt ceiling until Feb. 7, and allow […]

By Rick Manning “You don’t like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election.” That was President Barack Obama, commenting on the aftermath of the recent government shutdown and the fight over his signature health care […]

By Rick Manning The infamous Cornhusker Kickback which helped get Obamacare enacted into law and effectively ended Ben Nelson’s Senate career has now been joined by the Kentucky Kickback in the checkered legislative history of the health care law. Tucked into the “deal” to end the government […]

By Tom Toth Well, it’s finished. After “fighting the good fight” Congressional Republicans blinked in the waning hours before reaching the debt ceiling and agreed to reopen the government, allowing Obamacare to be implemented unchanged. Despite demands from Democrats for a clean Continuing Resolution, the […]

By Robert Romano With House and Senate leaders merely disagreeing around the edges of a continuing resolution funding the government for fiscal year 2014 and increasing the $16.699 trillion debt ceiling, it appears all but certain that Obamacare will be fully funded this year, next year, and […]

By Rick Manning Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. This familiar chant from little kids in response to being verbally abused or mischaracterized is typically taught by parents hoping to encourage children to ignore the hurtful taunts of others. But […]

By Tom Toth Last week, the Obama administration decided to barricade open-air national memorials from everyone–including veterans. This spurred a non-political march of veterans on Washington D.C. to demand the veterans’ memorials be opened. Last weekend, servicemen and women like the man pictured to the […]

By Rick Manning The K Street vultures are out in force. With both the continuing resolution and debt ceiling extension legislation pending, the tassel loafer lobbying crowd has descended on Capitol Hill with Obamacare fixes and other wish lists to be crammed into any final resolution. Big […]

By Marta H. Mossburg For the Obama administration, the shutdown is just one more political crisis it won’t let go to waste. Take the park rangers who last week locked under armed guard a group of senior citizens that included visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada […]