Volatility

YESTERDAY John McCain, or one of his aides, informed the world via Twitter of his intention to make a Speech calling for cutting the federal Deficit by eliminating Earmarks. The mathematically literate reader will note that $8.3 billion is less th…

When President Bush and a Republican Congress cut income taxes for everyone who paid them, most Democrats were opposed. Once the Legislation passed, though, they quickly realized that as a matter of politics they had to support the bulk of the Tax…

Utah Republican Party chair Dave Hansen will be leaving the position he has held over the last 18 months to help Utah Senator Orrin Hatch’s 2012 re-election bid. Hansen managed Hatch’s 2004 bid, and with the Volatility within within th…

A disagreement between key House tax-policy writers went public today, foreshadowing partisan Rhetoric we're going to hear next session about Texas' Budget Crisis: The Republicans will say the state spends too much, and has a hard time hitting t…

Eager to post an impressive fund-raising total for September, Senator John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, issued an e-mail plea on Tuesday for last-minute contributions to help our Republican Candidate…