Follow-up On The Housing Bill
In reference to my post on Saturday regarding HR 3221, the “Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008″, I discovered a site where there is a copy of the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate for HR 3221. Over the next ten years, according to the estimate, this...Pay Attention
Watch this video a moment: [wp_youtube]Ahg6qcgoay4&hl[/wp_youtube] Now, the video is about watching out for bicyclists while you are driving, but there’s a good correlary. This video demonstrates how easy it is to let someone distract you. It’s the...Swamp Stomper Alert: Housing Bill Heads to White House
Well, it took almost 3 months, but Congress finally passed the bill today, on older version of which was passed by the House in May, after some considerable back and forth between the Senate and the House. The bill is HR 3221 (pdf), titled: “Housing and...Online Rules Of Discourse: Could We?
About four months ago (I know, I’m a little behind catching up with some general topics), DavidL at BitsBlog shared an item from Edward Wasserman at the Miami Herald. Wasserman’s thought was that there is a need for rules to constrain course, offensive,...Earmarks: The Public Cares
Encouraging news in an opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal by Pat Toomey(former member of the US House and President of the Club for Growth) today. A recent survey concludes that most voters would favor a congressional candidate that cuts spending over one...Fireproof
This morning I got a chance to see some clips from a new movie that will be in theaters on September 26, 2008. It’s called “Fireproof”. Here’s a synopsis from the web site: At work, inside burning buildings, Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the old...Working From The Grassroots
Tonight I attended my first Polk County (Iowa) Republican Central Committee meeting. I have never been at this level of politics (okay, 2008 continues to be a year of firsts for me in local politics), and it was more interesting than I expected. I won’t get into...
T. Boone Pickens Has A Plan
I caught the commercial on TV and went to the web site. Here’s an ad badge for it… I think Pickens definitely has one thing right… we need to reduce our dependency on foreign oil. That’s the basis of his “plan”. Pickens is pushing...Reforming The Process In Iowa – For Republicans
When I attended the Iowa State Republican Convention, one thing that I found odd was the district level meetings that were held on Friday night to select district delegates and alternates to the National Convention, electors to go to Washington if our candidate for...Stay in Touch
