Liberty & Prosperity Blog

It's now official. The House Democrats' so-called solution to the UNAffordable Care Act subsidies is to extend it . According to the Hill, "House Democratic leaders on Tuesday will propose a three-year extension of the soon-to-expire Obamacare subsidies at the center of the shutdown fight." Hakeem Jeffries, the embattled House Minority Leader, is pushing for the extension as an amendment during the House Rules Committee meeting. Prior to the hearing, Jeffries said "House Republicans: Welcome back from your taxpayer-funded, seven-week vacation. You now have an opportunity to actually take some action in an area of this health care crisis by working with Democrats, before the Rules Committee this evening, to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits." It shouldn't be lost on voters that Jeffries is acting like the Speaker, not the Minority Leader. Soon, he won't be either, though who would replace him as Minority Leader is still a question. This is pr...

Last night, I had the good fortune of attending the Center for the American Experiment's 2025 Patriot Party . As expected, I ran into some good friends: It was fantastic seeing my original blogging teacher, too: As enjoyable as those conversations were, and they were enjoyable, the biggest bit of information of the night came from Keynote Speaker Walter Hudson. Any well-informed Minnesotan has heard about the Medicaid fraud here in audience that he'd been briefed by Joseph Thompson, the Acting US Attorney for Minnesota, that Thompson expected the total amount of Medicaid fraud in Minnesota to exceed $8,000,000,000. That's a staggering amount! That's almost half the size of the projected surplus for FY2023. That year's projected surplus was over $17,500,000,000. I'd hate to call that a highlight but it was in the sense that it's important information that we didn't have before. It isn't good news but it's certainly important news. Gov. Walz has d...

Year-after-year, Amy Klobuchar proclaims herself as a moderate and bipartisan senator. Tina Smith doesn't pretend to be a bipartisan legislator, though she's willing to accept the title of moderate. Last night, Klobuchar and Smith voted against reopening the federal government . With that vote, they both voted against funding the SNAP program, aka the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Further, they voted to not fund law enforcement (think ICE and Border Patrol), the military and agencies like the DEA and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Isn't it nice to know that Sen. Klobuchar and Sen. Smith care so much about starving children and our military? The article reports "U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, both Democrats, voted against a bipartisan measure to reopen the federal government. Advanced by the U.S. Senate in a 60-40 vote last night, the proposal is expected to end the longest government shutdown in history." The artic...

Saturday afternoon,former St. Cloud City Councilman Jeff Johnson sat down with Mitch Berg on Mitch's radio program on the NARN, aka the Northern Alliance Radio Alliance radio network. Mitch is fond of saying that NARN is "the wind beneath the right wing, a shiny spot of red in a sea of dismal blue." While it technically was an interview, it felt more like a conversation between neighbors in their back yards. While they had a substantive conversation on a variety of topics, the thing that stood out to me was the feel of the conversation. The podcast of the interview is found here . Click on the link titled "Jeff Johnson lays out his plan for Minnesota if elected governor." As Jeff's campaign manager, I was pleased to hear Jeff talk about Jeff's solutions to Minnesota's pile of probnlems. While Tim Walz has settled on a plan of telling Minnesotans whoppers about how good they have it, the truth is quite the opposite. If life is so good here in Minnesot...

If anyone needed proof that they were married to the UNAffordable Care Act, this vote should prove that Democrats don't care about American government workers. The article opens by saying "Senate Democrats again blocked a plan by Republicans to ensure that federal workers and the military would receive a paycheck as the shutdown back and forth revs into high gear. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., again tried to advance a modified version of his 'Shutdown Fairness Act' bill that would see federal workers and the military paid now and during subsequent government shutdowns. However, the bill failed 53-43 with 3 Democrats defecting to support the bill. Georgia Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico voted for the bill." The Democrats made a counterproprosal that includes a 1-year extension of the UNAffordable Care Act subsidies. It's been highlighted that the vast majority of the subsidies go to insurance companies, not people. Real peopl...

Is Tim Walz incompetent? Is Tim Walz corrupt? Is Tim Walz a little of both? I'm voting C -- a little of both. As Jeff Johnson's campaign manager, I'll admit that I'm a little biased. That said, Tim Walz called himself a knucklehead during the Vice Presidential debate. Further, it's difficult to say that a DFL governor who's had more than $1,000,000,000 paid out in fraudulent Medicaid claims isn't corrupt. It's important to remember that he hired Pam Wheelock as his Commissioner of Minnesota's Department of Human Services only a couple months into his administration. Walz did that shortly after Tony Lourey resigned as commissioner of Human Services . It's difficult to prove that someone who let fraud happen for 5+ years isn't corrupt and/or incompetent. Tim Walz's administration is famous for virtually no fraud prevention controls. That's how more than $1,000,000,000 in fraudulent Medicaid payments were paid. I wrote here about a repo...