“House Budget Committee” on The Daily Caller

Democratic strategists acknowledged they are abandoning a dozen House seats the party now holds, as they try to salvage their majority in the chamber by shoring up candidates with better chances. (more)

South Carolina Rep. John Spratt, a 28-year Democratic incumbent fighting for his political life, squared off against his challenger, Republican state Sen. Mick Mulvaney, Tuesday night, and health care — not the economy or immigration — was the issue that divided the candidates most deeply. (more)

GREENVILLE, S.C. — South Carolina Democratic Rep. John Spratt distanced himself Friday from a campaign spokesman who suggested that voters in Spratt’s district would vote for Osama bin Laden if he ran as a Republican. (more)

One of the leaders of the Tea Party movement warned Sunday that Republicans could face as big of an electoral backlash as Democrats if they don’t “get some courage.” (more)

One thing we do know about economics and the effects on the federal budget: (more)

We have had many, many people ask us over the past year what it would take to balance these budgets and get this ‘long national nightmare’ over and done with. (more)

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said on Monday that he would support John Boehner (Ohio) as House Speaker if Republicans were to win back the majority in this fall's elections. (more)

If Karl Marx was writing today, we think he might amend his famous comment about religion and replace it with the statement above. (more)

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) claimed this week that some Democrats are supportive of his sweeping blueprint to balance the budget — just not publicly. (more)

“But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years?” - Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789 (more)

Tim Geithner thinks the business community should be thanking him — Why is the GOP ignoring Paul Ryan’s great ideas? –
JournoListers hate Keith Olbermann almost as much as we do — Rangel to finally have ethics hearing, doesn’t really give a hoot — Netroots nerds to activate Optimus Prime — California homeowners silence their inner children  (more)

Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan is feeling a bit lonely. (more)

Here’s what happened the last time there was a Social Security ‘crisis’ in 1983 when incoming payroll tax receipts were just about to go below the amount of expected benefit payments going out: (more)

In February, the Obama administration announced its fiscal year budget, which proposed to eliminate the NASA human space flight program, called Constellation, and instead rely on the commercial space industry and other countries to ferry future astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). (more)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday Congress needs to develop a plan to manage the nation’s burgeoning debt, because the federal budget “appears to be on an unsustainable path.” (more)

One of the most mind-jarring images of the current disaster in the Gulf, besides the thousands of dead wildlife in the water so far, has been the sight of lawyers and environmental activists getting out of their monster Escalades or Yukon SUVs in Louisiana to “investigate the damage caused by that awful oil company, BP America.” (more)

What do you think is wrong with the current tax system in America? (more)

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You might as well go ahead and click on this great song by The Tams, “I’ve Been Hurt” to listen to as background while you read the rest of this article, and especially shout out the words, ‘Baby you cheated, mistreated, you cheated, cheated on me. And you told me, you told me… You told me a whole lot of lies’…. (more)

E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post wrote a pretty interesting, (albeit wrong, in my humble opinion) opinion piece recently where he asked this important rhetorical question: (more)