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  1. The Horserace for October 6, 2011 https://redstate.com/erick/2011/10/06/the-horserace-for-october-6-2011-n40688
    Cain’s first problem is also his strength right now — 999. … Were Cain to get 999 enacted and then fail to get rid of the 16th Amendment, he and the GOP would have placed a brand new tax burden … on the American people for the first time since the early 1900’s.…
  2. AFL-CIO Backs #OccupyWallSt Protesters' Fighting 'Evictions' from 'Their Home' https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/10/14/afl-cio-bac…wallst-protesters-fighting-evictions-from-their-homes-n40776
    of logic, Trumka’s AFL-CIO launched an online petition urging people to sign its petition “in defense of the protesters and their First … Amendment rights.” … Would the union bosses try to have the protesters ‘evicted,’ or would they respect the protesters’ First Amendment rights and let them…
  3. Morning Briefing for October 13, 2011 https://redstate.com/erick/2011/10/13/morning-briefing-for-october-13-2011-n40759
    The Moment With Lasting Impact Joining the league of people who got to the first tier, Herman Cain is now under withering fire for … require a 2/3 vote to repeal his plan is unconstitutional unless he somehow is able to get it stuck in the constitution as an amendment … Herman Cain’s Unrealistic Economic Plan One of the first things you learn as a young infantry officer is that hope is not a method…
  4. Herman Cain's Unrealistic Economic Plan https://redstate.com/streiff/2011/10/12/herman-cains-unrealistic-economic-plan-n40756
    One of the first things you learn as a young infantry officer is that hope is not a method. … Absent a Constitutional amendment, which Mr. … Conservative support for a sales tax or a VAT has historically been predicated upon the concurrent repeal of the Income Tax Amendment…
  5. The Moment With Lasting Impact https://redstate.com/erick/2011/10/12/the-moment-with-lasting-impact-n40745
    Joining the league of people who got to the first tier, Herman Cain is now under withering fire for his 9-9-9 plan and what it’ll … require a 2/3 vote to repeal his plan is unconstitutional unless he somehow is able to get it stuck in the constitution as an amendment…
  6. Stop Harry Reid's Egregious Budget Power Grab https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/10/26/stop-harry-reids-egregious-budget-power-grab-n40916
    bills to the House, Republicans would be able to alter the bills that were not already passed by the House through the regular amendment … Reid has won significant support from Republicans for the first «minibus» by allowing about two dozen senators to offer amendments. … They must reject any bundled appropriations bills that thwart the amendment process and undermine House priorities. …
  7. A Conservative Look at Perry's Economic Plan https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/10/25/a-conservative-look-at-perrys-economic-plan-n40903
    Spending Governor Perry is supporting the plan of congressional conservatives to pass a balanced budget amendment that contains a … He would cut $100 billion in non-defense discretionary spending during his first year in office. …
  8. Morning Briefing for October 24, 2011 https://redstate.com/erick/2011/10/24/morning-briefing-for-october-24-2011-n40878
    Where’s the #OWS outrage Late Friday, the Senate voted for an amendment to give a subsidy to rich people. … Not the first time, and it won’t be the last time. … Senators Bob Menendez and Chuck Schumer, who represent rich Democrats in New Jersey and New York respectively, offered an amendment…
  9. Senate gives money to rich people. Where's the #OWS outrage? https://redstate.com/soren_dayton/2011/10/21/senate-gives-money-to-rich-people-wheres-the-ows-outrage-n40866
    Today the Senate voted for an amendment to give a subsidy to rich people. Not the first time, and it won’t be the last time. … Senators Bob Menendez and Chuck Schumer, who represent rich Democrats in New Jersey and New York respectively, offered an amendment … Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, offered the increase as an amendment to a spending bill today.…
  10. Republicans Must Oppose Reid's Minibus Bill https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/11/01/republicans-must-oppose-reids-minibus-bill-n40971
    The first minibus is comprised of the House-passed Agriculture appropriations bill (HR 2112), along with the Senate’s version of the … Unfortunately, Sessions’s amendment to the minibus bill was defeated with the help of six Republicans.…
  11. NYPD utilizing #OWS for indigent relief efforts? https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/10/31/nypd-utilizing-ows-for-indigent-relief-efforts-n40965
    those violations – and it’s even longer past the time that these people have it made clear to them that there’s a reason why the first … words of the First Amendment that the Occupiers pretend to worship is Congress shall make no law. … Arrest everybody who tries to stop the police from doing the first five items on this list.…
  12. Mitt Romney: The Magically Malleable Man of Mystery https://redstate.com/erick/2011/10/31/mitt-romney-the-magically-malleable-man-of-mystery-n40952
    conservatives are suspicious of Romney.”Romney Was Pro-Choice, Then Not Pro-Choice, Then Pro-Choice Again, Then Pro-Life,” blares the first … By 2005, Mitt Romney claimed Ronald Reagan was his political hero.On the second amendment, Mitt Romney supported the Brady Bill and…
  13. Union Bosses Express Outrage Over #OccupyEvictions: "We are the 99%*." https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/11/15/union-bosses-express-outrage-over-occupyevictions-we-are-the-99-n41182
    The protesters “have not demonstrated that they have a First Amendment right to remain in Zuccotti Park, along with their tents, structures…
  14. Now is Not the Time to Shirk From Obamacare Fight https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/11/11/now-is-not-the-time-to-shirk-from-obamacare-fight-n41103
    The first would block certain transfers of money from HHS to the IRS related to implementation of Obamacare.  … First, Senate Republicans must oppose Harry Reid’s amendment to turn the Energy-Water bill into a three-legged minibus bill. …
  15. The Michigan Republican Who Will Raise Your Taxes https://redstate.com/erick/2011/11/09/the-michigan-republican-who-will-raise-your-taxes-n41080
    First of all, conservatives can hold these seats when they are principled and willing to explain themselves to their constituents. … That first Republican Majority, led by then-Budget Chairman John Kasich, wrote some serious balanced budgets from the get-go that included … An amendment is offered by a Democrat Congressman, Louis Stokes of OH, to strip out all of these riders.…
  16. The Anatomy of a Compromise From Hell https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/11/21/the-anatomy-of-a-compromise-from-hell-n41230
    All good things are worth waiting for, and after three and a half months, we got our vote on a balanced budget amendment!  … At first, Boehner promised to make passage of a BBA a pre-condition to one of the tranches.  … required vote on a BBA The only saving grace is Phil Gramm’s jujitsu plan to preempt sequestration with an alternative privileged amendment…
  17. Was the Tea Party Kicked Out of the Capitol By Former Bennett Staffers Mad at Mike Lee? https://redstate.com/aglanon/2011/11/18/was-the-tea-party-ki…he-capitol-by-former-bennett-staffers-mad-at-mike-lee-n41219
    Lee: “Does the first amendment have no application here?…
  18. Morning Briefing for November 17, 2011 https://redstate.com/erick/2011/11/17/morning-briefing-for-november-17-2011-n41200
    Cornyn on Balanced Budget Amendment, Obama’s Failure to Lead, Fast and Furious   5. … First, he is showing us just how irresponsible the House Republicans are. … Cornyn on Balanced Budget Amendment, Obama’s Failure to Lead, Fast and Furious Sen.…
  19. Cloture vote today on gun-grabbing, pro-lifer-hating Caitlin Halligan. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/12/06/cloture-vote-today-on-gun-grabbing-pro-lifer-hating-caitlin-halligan-n41389
    judicial appointment to the US Circuit Court of Appeals for DC, and she’s… well, read [for some reason, the link didn’t work the first … Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which the National Rifle Association described as providing “essential protection…for the Second Amendment…
  20. 'It's Time To Close The NLRB For Renovations' https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/11/27/its-time-to-close-the-nlrb-for-renovations-n41292
    Constitution’s First Amendment and calling, in an open letter, for a government official to resign is what you consider “improper influence…
  21. Jerry Nadler picks Occupy Wall Street over NY-08's constituents. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/12/07/jerry-nadler-picks-occupy-wall-street-over-ny-08s-constituents-n41402
    incessant drum circles, rampant drug use, rape coverups, and of course defecating on police cars should all fall under the category of “First … Amendment rights” – and that the cops should take seriously the complaints of a bunch of illegal squatters with Mommy/Daddy issues…
  22. Tech at Night: Free Press finally answers Blackburn, SOPA vs OPEN, FCC Reform https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2011/12/22/tech-at-night-f…ess-finally-answers-blackburn-sopa-vs-open-fcc-reform-n41585
    What First Amendment? And the worst part is she calls this FCC Ethics reform.…
  23. RedState Interview with Jon Huntsman https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2011/12/19/redstate-interview-with-jon-huntsman-n41557
    That, I think, is a logical first step. … I think that’s a first step. And ultimately from that, I think you could go to a true flat tax. … Uh, I’m gonna stand true to who I am and putting my country first and foremost.…
  24. The Truth about the New Detainee Policy https://redstate.com/justinamash/2011/12/17/the-truth-about-the-new-detainee-policy-n41541
    NDAA proponents sometimes point to an amendment to sec. 1021, added by Sen. … Feinstein offered another amendment to sec. 1021 that stated the section “does not include the authority to detain a citizen of the … That amendment was rejected 45-55.  Sen. Feinstein’s other amendment, which does nothing to protect U.S. citizens, passed 99-1.…
  25. Another Awkward Rick Santorum Vote https://redstate.com/erick/2012/01/05/another-awkward-rick-santorum-vote-n41726
    First, states already had that right. Second, this is facially not true. … Amendment 2879, sponsored by Senators Harry Reid, Russ Feingold, and Arlen Specter — the very amendment Santorum voted for — established … , said on the floor of the Senate, “Basically what this amendment does is ensure that ex-felons, people who have fully served their…