The House Of Representatives GOP New Media Challenge!

In an attempt to get in on all that social networking has to offer, House Republicans are staging their first Congressional New Media Challenge, a competition modeled after NCAA March Madness in which representatives vie for the largest number of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube followers. Round one, on Twitter, begins today. Time to fire up the Congressional Blackberries!

The competition is in anticipation of the fall midterm elections, forcing representatives to become more active online and engage more directly with constituents. The brainchild of Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), vice chair of the group, the idea is to get representatives preemptively campaigning by making an effort to engage with new media, and while they’re at it get voters excited about their representatives through interacting online. Unfortunately, not all House Republicans are participating– noticeably absent is web-friendly Texas Congressman Ron Paul– but here’s the list of competitors on Twitter, and our top five picks to take the title (and an as-yet-determined prize):

Twitter New Media challenge

New Media Challenge

Unemployment causes Obama some trouble on Messaging

Unemployment challenges Obama's economic narrative

"But the unemployment rate - it may be the most recognizable economic indicator - has held steady at 9.7 percent for the past three months, and 15 million Americans remain out of work. By the White House's own estimates, as well as those of many independent economists, that rate isn't expected to fluctuate more than a few tenths of a percent through the end of 2010.....Unemployment Challenges Obama message

All the president’s Goldman Sachs men

All the president’s Goldman Sachs men

"While President Obama assails the culture of greed and recklessness practiced by the men of Goldman Sachs, his administration is infested with them. The White House can no more disown Government Sachs than Da Boss-in-chief can disown Chicago politics.

Obama is headed to Wall Street on Thursday to demand “financial regulatory reform” — just as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed civil suit against Goldman Sachs for mortgage-related fraud. Question the timing? Darn tootin’. There are no coincidences in the perpetually orchestrated Age of O. Everyone from disgraced former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to analysts at the Brookings Institution and Barclays Capital to the GOP leadership and Rush Limbaugh has noted the reeking political opportunism in the air....." Read More MichelleMalkin.com

Paul's Top Goal is to cut Federal Spending

Rand Paul's Top Goal is to Cut Federal Spending

"Rand Paul sounds nothing like any major candidate for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky ever has, let alone a front-runner for the Republican nomination.

He complains as much about actions of those in his own party as he does about Democrats. He has said he doesn't need the Republican power structure to win the party's May 18 primary or the November election to replace U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning. And he rarely mentions Kentucky in stump speeches.

Instead, he sticks to his big-picture message of slashing spending, constraining federal powers and imposing term limits on members of Congress. And he brought with him into the race his own constituency of frustrated voters...." Read More Paul's Top Goal is to cut federal spending

Rand Paul Has a Money Bomb coming up on Patriot's Day April 19

On April 19, Patriots' Day

Make your stand for Liberty.

""You can make your historic stand for liberty
today by pledging to support Rand Paul on April 19th, 2010

This April 19th, we will celebrate Patriots' day by pushing for a peaceful revolution of ideas - one that aims to restore liberty to America by electing true constitutionalists to office.

We are fortunate enough to have one such man in Kentucky, Dr. Rand Paul, who is fighting to become a United States Senator.

Unlike the Patriots of 1775, you are not asked to risk your life fighting the redcoats. Instead, you are simply asked to contribute whatever you can afford in order to ensure Dr. Paul wins the Kentucky primary on May 18th.

Please join other modern day Patriots this April 19th for Rand Paul's final online donation event before the May election."" RandPaul2010.com

Rand Paul has a chance in Kentucky

Rand Paul has a chance in Kentucky

"Palin isn’t the only prominent Republican to pick Paul over Grayson. The publisher, flat-tax maven, and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes is a Paul backer. So is former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, whose organization FreedomWorks lists Paul as one of the five most important candidates to support in 2010. Concerned Women for America has endorsed Paul, helping to allay concerns about his social conservatism. Gun Owners of America weighed in on Paul’s behalf as well, though there were never any questions about his opposition to gun control.

Paul is even starting to be mentioned alongside other conservative movement–approved candidates in the Republican primaries: Marco Rubio in Florida, Ovide Lamontagne in New Hampshire, and Chuck DeVore in California. Such company has helped him appeal to Republicans who wanted to read his father out of the party in 2008, such as Erick Erickson of the activist conservative blog RedState."

Read More The Daily Caller Rand Paul has a chance in Kentucky

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New Column: PARP: TARP On Steroids

New Column: PARP: TARP On Steroids

"There seems to be no limit to the Obamacrats' appetite for expanding federal power and for fabricating and exploiting crises, which must never be allowed "to go to waste."

They always have a rationale for plausibly denying their federal power grabs. But like Obama's other big agenda items, the financial overhaul bill currently in the Senate is exactly that..

Most Americans instinctively didn't like TARP -- the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program. Even those who believed it was a necessary evil to avert financial catastrophe regarded the use of government funds to bail out companies as distasteful. They considered the government's subsequent assumption of control over TARP companies as even more distasteful...." read more at DavidLimbaugh.com

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is catching hell from the Washington establishment

Memo to Washington No More Bailouts
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is catching hell from the Washington establishment.....

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is catching hell from the Washington establishment for having the temerity to tell the truth about the fine print in the Obama-Dodd Wall Street reform bill. McConnell is raising alarms about the proposal's provision to make Washington bailouts a permanent feature: "It's almost as if the people who wrote this bill took the pulse of the American people and then put together a bill that endorses the very things they found most repugnant about the first bailout."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: Memo to Washington No More Bailouts

Sarah Palin speaks to Louisville crowd of 16,000 at Freedom Hall

from the Courier Journal & Conservatives for Palin

Sarah Palin told a Freedom Hall crowd of about 16,000 Friday night that she was there to inspire women in their faith, not to talk politics.

But the 2008 Republican candidate for vice president acknowledged she couldn’t help but do the latter, saying politics “courses through my veins.”

She denounced this week’s Wisconsin federal court ruling that government observance of a National Day of Prayer was unconstitutional — which the crowd joined in booing. She asserted that America needs to get back to its Christian roots and rejected any notion that “God should be separated from the state.”

“Hearing any leader declare that America isn’t a Christian nation and poking at allies like Israel in the eye — it is mind-boggling to see some of our nation’s actions recently, but politics truly is a topic for another day,” Palin said.
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Sarah Palin Speaks to crown of 16,000 at Freedom Hall

Sarah Palin in Louisville KY Saturday Night

Sarah Palin will speak at the Women of Joy Conference in Louisville KY on Saturday Night

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Rand Paul wants Tea Party Movement to push for broader reform

Rand Paul wants Tea Party to push for broader reform platform

""Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul said he wants the Tea Party movement that has fueled his primary campaign to morph into a broader government reform effort that would have appeal beyond conservative circles.

"I'd like to see in the fall of this year a Tea Party message. In order to have that you have to write it down and define it," he told reporters after addressing the Louisville Tea Party on Thursday.

He then listed potential tenets of that platform: congressional term limits; balancing the budget, stating in bills what part of the U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to take such actions, requiring lawmakers to sign a document that they've read the bills they're voting on, and instituting a waiting period for Congress to vote on a bill. Paul suggested a delay of one day for every 20 pages...."

Read more: Herald-Leader Lexington KY Rand Paul

Become one of a thousand Patriots for Allen West

Become one of thousand patriots for Lt. Col Allen West


Lt Col Allen West for Congress

Your Taxes: Their Spending GOP

At the Moment, No Budget Is Most Likely Outcome in Kentucky

from Kentucky Club for Growth:

"Recent reports have both houses agreeing to issue a budget for only a single year instead of the usual two. Passing a two-year road budget and a one-year budget is not a reasonable plan, nor is adding hundreds of millions of dollars in debt when you are deliberately avoiding planning ahead.

The source of the problem is Speaker Greg Stumbo:

Stumbo has said in recent days that House Democrats do not want to leave Frankfort without a jobs program.

Since we have hear no discussion of job-creating policy changes, only debt-supported spending, Stumbo is issuing an ultimatum that can't be met. Someone needs to tell him that Frankfort doesn't create jobs, entrepreneurs do" Kentucky Club for Growth

Kentucky Senate president downplays chances of passing budget before session ends

Kentucky Senate president downplays chances of passing budget before session ends

Senate President David Williams said Wednesday morning that it appeared "pretty much inevitable" that the General Assembly's final gavel will sound without a new budget. That would set the stage for a special legislative session before the next fiscal year begins July 1.

"For the first time, I am fairly convinced that we will leave tomorrow without a budget," William

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Tea Party rally draws thousands in Clinton Twp

Tea Party rally draws thousands in Clinton Twp

"Shaw is part of the growing Tea Party movement that is inspiring people who have never been especially interested in politics to join a platform for conservative populist discontent.

The message: Big government is bankrupting everyday Americans with high taxes.

Foes and allies of the Tea Party agreed that the movement is a threat to President Barack Obama's agenda of change and could shift the advantage to Republicans in the November elections.

Surrounded by anti-abortion activists, libertarians and fiscally conservative Republicans, Shaw cheered speakers and musicians who encouraged the crowd to protest expensive government handouts...." Tea Party Detroit

Tea Partiers Cheer Stupak's Retirement

"Tea Party activists celebrated Rep. Bart Stupak’s decision to retire on Friday, but they acknowledged a challenging road ahead in their efforts to reshape the 2010 political landscape.

Stupak, a Michigan pro-life Democrat and target of the anti-establishment Tea Party movement, announced Friday that he will not seek re-election amid growing attacks from conservatives over his vote for President Obama’s health care legislation..." Stupak's Retirement

Palin Brings conservatives to SRLC

Palin Brings Conservatives to Their Feet at SRLC
Republicans need to hit the road in 2010, and show America what an all-of-the-above energy policy looks like," she said.

Alaska is a leading producer of crude oil, and Palin has been an outspoken opponent of Obama's cap-and-trade proposals, which have been a stalled agenda item for his administration. But Republicans have the opportunity to steal that issue away from him, said Palin entire article

Rand Paul Campaign ad in Kentucky

Rand Paul Kentucky Campaign Ad

Tony Perkins urges donors to stop giving to the RNC

Religious leader urges donors to stop giving to the RNC

Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council and an influential leader among religious conservatives, is urging donors to stop giving money to the Republican National Committee and give "directly to candidates who you know reflect your values." Tony Perkins urges donors to stop giving to the RNC