Press Releases and Party News

The Wall Street Journal‘s Daniel Henninger doesn’t point out congressional Republicans voted against the stimulus, not out of opposition to Big Government, but in spite of it.  They simply wanted their pork included. But Henninger does ask the question no one on Capitol Hill wants offered — if this $1.2 trillion Frankenstein’s monster of wealth […]

Hoping to win favor for adding trillions of dollars in additional bailouts for banks to his already-struggling government expansion plan, President Barack Obama announced yesterday the imposition of salary caps on executives whose banks receive TARP funds. In other words, if your bank is struggling and its failure could throw the economy deeper into turmoil, […]

More bad news for the Obama administration.  Support for his $1.2 trillion government expansion plan continues to plummet, with a plurality of voters now opposing it. Even worse for Obama, half of all voters now say his plan will do more to hurt the economy than help it and Americans are more worried the government […]

President Barack Obama may criticize performance bonuses for some as "shameful," but he has no shame about a quarter-billion dollar tax break for his most loyal supporters, who just announced record profits. The New York Post reports today on a recently-discovered provision in Obama’s $1.2 trillion government spending package — a $246 million tax break […]

Dear friend, 2009 may be a “down year” for Republicans and Democrats looking ahead to congressional and gubernatorial races in 2010, but Libertarians are on the move. Your Libertarian Party is hard at work fighting for open elections in West Virginia and Oklahoma, recruiting candidates for state races in New Jersey and Virginia and looking […]

Popular conservative talk radio personality and Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck is bringing more than his trademark wit to cable news.  He’s bringing an evolving philosophy. "’Every day that goes by, I’m more and more libertarian," Beck told The Miami Herald. "I’ve always been a conservative. But every day I find myself believing more […]

Syndicated columnist Paul Mulshine of the Newark Star-Ledger expresses his surprise today over reports the Republican Party has discovered fiscal conservatism again. As Mulshine points out, the Libertarian Party and its 2008 presidential nominee, former congressman Bob Barr, opposed taxpayer-funded bailouts and explosive government growth back when the GOP was espousing it as bedrock principle.

Washington Examiner editorial page editor Mark Tapscott, with the help of the Heritage Foundation, takes his pen to Obama’s $1.2 trillion government spending plan, citing some of the better reasons to oppose it. Tapscott also covers something that annoys me when anti-capitalists talk about their "green" jobs.  They’re not new jobs.  They’re just unstable replacements […]

Despite promises by the Obama administration his $1.2 trillion government spending plan will be free of earmarks and pet projects, The Politico reports today the bill is so laden with lard the Capitol may have to be rezoned as a rendering plant. According to The Politico, special interests like casinos and peach growers will likely […]