Liberty & Prosperity Blog

It didn't take long to figure out that Tom Hauser wouldn't be a neutral arbiter reporting the news when he interviewed Minnesota Congressman Pete Stauber . The opening question was confrontational, with Hauser asking Rep. Stauber "What proof do you have that the Democrats' motivation for shutting down government is to get free health care for illegals?" Rep. Stauber responded, saying "So the evidence is actually in the text of the Senate bill where they qant to reverse the Working Family Tax Cuts, where it says that we want to verify citizenship for taxpayer-funded health insurance." Republicans have given that reply for over a week. Democrats know that the proof is found on Page 57 in Section 2141 . The text reads " SEC. 2141. REPEAL OF HEALTH SUBTITLE CHANGES. Subtitle B of title VII of the Act titled "An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14" (Public Law 119–21) is repealed and any law or regulation ...

A short 4 years ago, few people gave Jack Ciattarelli a chance of defeating Democrat incumbent Phil Murphy. Predictably, the 'experts' were off. Ciattarelli lost but by only 3 point. This time, NJ Democrats aren't taking anything for granted. Democrat Congresswoman Mikkie Sherrill is running this time because Gov. Murphy is term-limited out. She'll still face Ciattarelli. This time, though, a few things have changed in NJ, mostly starting with the number of registered voters in NJ . The most recent data from NJ says that "More than 4.2 million, nearly two thirds of all voters, are registered with a party in New Jersey. Democrats continue to outnumber Republicans with more than 38% of all registered New Jersey voters, according to the latest numbers. About 25% of voters were registered as Republicans as of Oct. 1. About 35% of voters are unaffiliated, the new data says." It should worry Democrats that "the number of Republicans has surged since 2021, with ...

The New York Post is reporting that Chuck Grassley has released a memo that shows "The FBI secretly obtained the phone records of nine Republican members of Congress, including eight sitting senators, under the Biden administration as part of its 'Arctic Frost' investigation of 2020 election meddling, a bombshell document revealed." Whoever is involved with Operation Arctic Frost is likely in trouble. That's because Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, the chairs of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, respectively, issued a joint statement , which said "Given that these materials relate to an unprecedented collection of records and information on sitting [Members of Congress] and raise serious constitutional concerns, Congress’ need for these records clearly outweighs any interest in secrecy. Further, the unprecedented nature of the DOJ’s and FBI’s actions in collecting [Members of Congress’] communication recor...

The first major news to break since word broke alleging Jay Jones' texting scandal broke this afternoon. UPI, via Axios, is reporting that "The Democrat candidate for Virginia attorney general has canceled a Thursday fundraiser in the wake of his texting scandal, Axios reported." The article continues, saying "The fundraiser was scheduled for Thursday evening at the home of novelist David Baldacci, but the cancellation may indicate the Jones campaign is struggling. Top Democrats, including Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., have denounced the texts but haven't called on Jones to drop out of the race, causing Republicans to allege hypocrisy. Kaine called the texts 'indefensible,' but says he's 'still a supporter.' He said, 'Jay has apologized,' Axios reported." If Sen. Kaine honestly thinks that Jones has legitimately apologized, Sen. Kaine isn't qualified to serve in the Senate. Anyone that's listened to Jones's faux apology kno...

It's been assumed for a month that Abigail Spanberger would defeat Winsome Earle-Seares, then become Virginia's next single-term govoernor. Ben Domenech's op-ed questions that theory. Domenech's op-ed is particularly noteworthy because he's a Virginia resident with his wife Meghan McCain. But I digress. Back to the op-ed. Domenech wrote "The off-year governor’s election in purple Virginia is almost always a win for the party that doesn’t hold the White House, but this year the race is showing how much Democrats have refused to learn their lessons from their massive culture-war losses of 2024. The battle in the Old Dominion has all the hallmarks of Democrats’ White House defeat in November." Quite a few polls show Spanberger with a significant, though not prohibitive-sized lead. With Jay Jones' ethical difficulties, it isn't likely that Spanberger will open up an outside-the-margin-of-error lead. The Turning Point? Thanks in part to a massive spen...

A miraculous thing happened during Margaret Brennan's interview of Chuck Schumer. During Brennan's interview, she pushed Schumer . According to this transcript, Brennan opened by saying "I want to pick up on something the Speaker of the House was pointing to. He wants this fight to be about illegals, as he said. And I want to be specific here, because we know from our research that there is no federal money that goes towards health care tax credits for undocumented immigrants in this country. The federal government doesn't fund health insurance for the undocumented. But it is also true that states like yours, New York, does provide health care for people who are in this country illegally. And their argument seems to be the money here is fungible, and bottom line is, it comes out of the federal pocket. Do you want to respond to that?" Smart policy wonks would reflexively know to throw in the 'money is fungible' line. I suspect that put Sen. Schumer on the d...