Sen. McConnell, meet Erick Erickson

Erick Erickson addressed an overflow crowd at the Red State Gathering 2011 in Charleston, S.C. (Photo by Kay B. Day)Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said some things to talk show host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday, and he’d have done Republicans a favor if he’d just followed the old Southernism, If you can’t say something nice…

Alternatively, he could’ve done what President Ronald Reagan suggested and refrained from talking ill about fellow Republicans. As an example, I am exercising great restraint as I write this.

Asked about Erickson’s criticism of McConnell’s conservative creds, our minority leader said this [via The Daily Caller]:

“I don’t even know who Erick Erickson is, but he has no audience as far as I’m concerned.”

Ack.

Click to read more ...

Obama and Congress screw Main Street on mortgage tax called ‘fee’

Updated on Monday, February 6, 2012 at 6:49PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Remember the big battle over the temporary extension in the payroll tax cuts? The majority Republican House had issues with the bill.

Democrats threw a fit and select Republicans joined in.

Speaker of the House John Boehner (OH) apparently was right to delay, though he may not have realized why.

Tucked away in that bill, HR 3630,  was a new fee—the kind of fees ‘moderate’ politicians like Mitt Romney like so much. See the section that begins around the end of page 20. It conveniently followed a long boring section on flood insurance. Handy way to structure it.

Click to read more ...