Mayor Anthony Foxx this afternoon vetoed the budget floated by six councilmembers that would have included a 2.44-cent tax increase to fund a $657 million capital plan without $119 million for Foxx’s coveted Streetcar to Nowhere. The council approved that budget with a 6-4 vote (James Mitchell, absent) and Foxx promptly whipped out the veto […]
There was a disturbingly fascinating juxtaposition of links over at Memeorandum late Sunday night that gives chilling insight not only to the Obama administration’s abject shortcomings in the realm of foreign policy, but also its stunning tone deafness to political perceptions and realities: The perspective from Congressman West: A year ago there were those of […]
That was Mayor Anthony Foxx before he became Mayor Anthony Foxx, back in 2009 when he was running around the campaign trail promising everything to everybody. Here’s the money quote in context, via a clip* from the uptown paper that was reposted at the time on the Black Political Buzz blog: Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony […]
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PerTwo being the new GOP-adopted nickname for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Walter Dalton, a slam on his ties to incumbent Beverly Perdue and the notion that he’d continue the administration’s failed policies (Perdue/PerTwo ~ get it? Those wacky Republicans). In any event, speaking of failed policies under the Perdue/Dalton administration, North Carolina ranks at the top […]
So says MSNBC, via “Hardball” guest host Michael Smernconish and Salon senior writer Steve Kornacki, who advance the preposterous and insulting notion that any one who challenges or questions the motives of Attorney General Eric Holder, and by direct extension the Obama administration, in refusing to release relevant information about the disastrous and deadly Fast […]
Money that is, to the tune of about $10 billion (yes, with a B) for a few hundred jobs. This from The Washington Beacon: The Obama administration spent $10 billion to create 355 renewable energy jobs per year, according to testimony offered Tuesday before Congress by a Congressional Research Services expert. Asked by Rep. Cory Gardner […]
In a repeat performance from last year, funding for Charlotte’s massively expensive expansion of light-rail lunacy is back on track after having been temporarily derailed by fiscal sanity in the N.C. Senate budget. Legislators are slated to vote today on a $20.17 billion budget that restores $25 million in state matching funds for the Lynx Blue […]
Even after a bipartisan effort from local politicians tweaked the rules to make booze readily available for Team BO’s big party, more Democrats are finding the DNC too toxic a pill to swallow and making plans to be anywhere but center stage in Bankster Town USA. This from The Daily: Vulnerable Democrats looking to distance […]
Oxford Dictionaries definition of ‘obfuscate’: make obscure, unclear, or unintelligible Which is exactly what the public is getting from the self-proclaimed Most Transparent Administration Ever and its efforts today to provide cover for Attorney General Eric Holder’s attempts to bury relevant detail concerning the disastrous gun-running operation that left two Federal officers and more than […]
