Ratings of our Congressional Delegation

The National Taxpayers Union has just released its ratings. Each “rating, based on hundreds of roll call votes, is considered the most comprehensive scorecard available on federal tax, spending, and regulatory issues.” Here they are for New Mexico:
Steve Pearce 55% (C+)
Heather Wilson 46% (C-)
Tom Udall 12% (F)
Jeff Bingaman 17% (F)
Pete Domenici 66% (B)

An Ironic OOPS!

Patsy Madrid advocates big government “solutions” to every problem imaginable as she runs for congress, hoping to represent Albuquerque and environs. Yet her campaign organization could not even arrange to have her national radio broadcast heard in Albuquerque:
…no one with Madrid’s campaign, nor the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, confirmed that KKOB would actually broadcast the [...]

Water Torture

Drip, drip, drip.

Bigger Government Means Bigger Scandals

Former FEC chair Brad Smith has some good advice for Republicans, although I doubt they will take it:
…use this [Abramoff] scandal to cut the size of government. Go forward and make the case: “This, dear people, is what big government is. It is favors for special interests, unrestrained pork barrell spending, and a government so [...]

Liberty, Opportunity, Prosperity — Why Don’t We Get It?

The Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal have just released their 2006 index of economic freedom.
It isn’t government-sponsored spaceports and the like that lead to prosperity. I wonder why New Mexico (and numerous others) don’t get this?

Market Liberal News Blog

Here is a great blog that contains breaking news. Thanks to John Onesti for the link.

Update on the Lost Liberty Hotel

Here is an update on the Lost Liberty Hotel project of Logan Darrow Clements. Recall that the project seeks
to build a hotel on the land currently owned by Judge Souter. The town has declined Clements’ request for the land, but he and some residents of Weare, New Hampshire, are working to bring the issue [...]

Will We Ever Be Able to Limit Government?

Chuck Muth comments today on how Colorado voters are like New Mexican voters. They have been fooled:
It was only a little over a month ago that voters in Colorado, spooked by “the sky is falling” rhetoric of the left and a few misguided souls on the right, decided to suspend the spending restraints imposed by [...]

The Politics of Immigration

Here is a good article on the politics of immigration. Despite the recent hardline rhetoric, there is hope for a bipartisan consensus that immigration is good for the country. Putting up our own iron curtain is not an effective and efficient way to combat terrorism.

The Nanny State FCC

Two great posts today on the latest big governement proposals by the chairman of the FCC: One post is local and the other national.

Capitol Report New Mexico
New Mexico Watchdog


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