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CPAC 2011 -- The Only Winners Were Mitch Daniels and Ron Paul
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyThe three-day Conservative Political Action Conference ended Saturday afternoon with a meaningless presidential straw poll (if you must know, libertarian gadfly Ron Paul won for the second year in a row). But what CPAC really illustrated (and the bizarro straw poll results underscored) is that the late-starting 2012 GOP race remains so wide open that Bob Dole at age 87 might have a plausible chance for a comeback. Even though both Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee were too busy with their Fox News slots and paid speaking engagements to appear at this premier celebration of all things ...
Rand Paul: Like Father, Like Son?
By David Corn - Politics DailyWe all learn much from our parents -- whether we admit it or not. Rand Paul's problem appears to be that he absorbed an important -- but perhaps counterproductive -- lesson from his father: You can succeed in politics by saying what you really think. Ron Paul, the libertarian Republican congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008, has done well for himself speaking his mind -- no matter how unorthodox his brain waves may be. An anti-government advocate, he's known in Washington as Dr. No for consistently voting against federal programs of all sorts. He's been a never-ending critic ...
No Pay Raise for U.S. House as Members Reject Automatic Increase
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWith the November midterm election approaching, U.S. House members voted 402-15 Tuesday not to accept a cost-of-living pay increase in the 2011 session of Congress. Absent the vote, lawmakers would have received an automatic raise of $1,600 on top of their annual base salary of $174,000. The move, marking the third consecutive year lawmakers have turned aside the pay increase, will save taxpayers $850,000 next year, The Hill newspaper reported. The vote was hailed by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who led the Senate in refusing to take its pay raise in a unanimous vote last week. Feingold ...
Tea Party Serves Up Trouble for GOP
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIt's impossible to say which face of the Tea Party movement should be more worrisome for establishment Republicans. Is it Anthony Flythe, a small-business owner from Bethesda, Md., who warns that the country is headed toward "totalitarian socialism" and points to "tyrants like Hitler and Mao Tse Tung" as examples of rulers he equates to President Obama? Or is it Charlotte Manuel, a Florida senior who drove to Washington with her husband and four friends for her first Tea Party "because we've lost control of our government . . . we heard about the Tax Revolt and the Tea Party Revolt and we ...
Ron Paul Stands by Michael Steele: 'He's the First Chairman to at Least Talk to Me'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), the tiny libertarian with a huge political following, gave a vote of confidence to embattled RNC Chairman Michael Steele on Monday morning , saying that of all the party chairmen he's known, Steele is the first one open-minded enough to give him and his legions of small-government devotees the time of day. "He's the first Republican chairman who's at least reached out to me, who would at least talk to me," Paul said in an interview with John Roberts and Kieran Chetry on CNN's "American Morning." "Generally the Republican leadership don't want to have anything to do ...
Ron Paul to Census Bureau: 'None of Your Business!'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyLibertarian hero and small government crusader Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has a message for the Census Bureau: "None of your business." In his weekly column for constituents, Paul writes that the only question the Census Bureau has the constitutional right to ask Americans is, "How many people live here?" Anything more than that, the congressman says, is an invasive expansion of government power. "It is not hard to imagine that information compiled by the census could be used against people in the future, despite claims to the contrary and the best intentions of those currently in charge of the ...
Mike Huckabee Says CPAC is Too Libertarian, Not Relevant
By David Sessions - Politics DailyFormer Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said on Fox News that he didn't attend this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) because it had become dominated by libertarians and was far less relevant since the Tea Party movement began, Politico reports. Confirming at least one part of Huckabee's analysis, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), known for his outspoken libertarian views, carried the CPAC straw poll with 31 percent. Mitt Romney came in second with 22 percent, while Huckabee made only a single-digit showing. But Huckabee, who has often ...
Glenn Beck Blasts Democrats, Republicans
By not in system - AOL News(Feb. 20) -- Glenn Beck, the Fox News personality and chalkboard scrawling libertarian hero, gave the marquee speech Saturday night at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. Swapping out a teleprompter for his famous chalkboard, Glenn Beck wowed the faithful with an hour-long presentation that defended conservatism, praised the Founding Fathers and lampooned Washington, D.C. as an addict in need of immediate treatment. He looked to history to predict that without an immediate course correction and reduction of the federal budget deficit, America is headed for "an economic ...
Is Dennis Kucinich Joining the Tea Party Movement?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyMy time-space continuum warped when I heard that Dennis Kucinich had talked to tea partiers and found common ground. After the Democratic defeat in Massachusetts last month, Kucinich said, "There's nothing liberal about the bailouts. There's nothing liberal about standing by and watching banks use public money to get their executive bonuses. There's nothing liberal about giving insurance companies carte blanche to charge anything they want for health care...Since when did that become liberal?" A lot of citizens who once stumped for Obama – for change and hope, they thought – feel ...
House Finance Committee Votes To Audit Federal Reserve
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA House panel has voted to approve legislation introduced by Texas Rep. Ron Paul that would allow Congress to audit the Federal Reserve. The provision that passed the House Financial Services Committee Thursday would direct the Government Accountability Office to examine the Fed's monetary policy, specifically how much it lends to financial institutions, Marketwatch reported. The proposed audit would not include a review of the central bank's policy deliberations. It's the first time in its 95-year history that the Fed would be subjected to government scrutiny. The central bank's secrecy ...
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