Hat tip:24thStatePM L. K. “Chip” Wood (R) is a realtor in the St. Louis area who is running for county assessor in St. Louis county. He brings almost forty years of real-estate experience to the table. In this video he talks about the high rate of appeals over property assessments (four times the rate in […]

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More bad news for Claire from the Democrat polling firm Public Policy Polling: One thing’s for sure: Missouri is one of the states where Obama’s personal standing has seen the greatest decline since 2008. After basically fighting to a draw there his approval is now just 43% with 52% of voters disapproving of him. His […]

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  The Hill writes today, “Senate Democrats suffered a wave of defections Wednesday as their proposal to cut just over $6 billion [actually $4.7 billion, according to CBO] from federal spending this year went down to defeat. The Democratic bill attracted two fewer votes than the rival GOP measure that would cut spending by another $57 […]

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This afternoon, the Senate will be voting on competing budget plans for the rest of the current fiscal year, the House Republicans’ bill, which cuts $61 billion in spending, and the Senate Democrats’ plan, which cuts only $4.7 billion. Yet there are a few Democrat senators who seem to understand just how inadequate the proposal […]

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Will Missouri voters be reclaiming Claire’s Senate seat in 2012? A Democrat polling firm confirmed yesterday what everybody in Missouri already knows: Claire is extremely vulnerable next year, and in unpolitically correct language, she is literally a dead woman walking when it comes to her senate career! What is particularly surprising is that Claire is […]

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Our sources at the capitol are buzzing today that 25th district state senator Rob Mayer will be throwing his hat in the ring for Attorney General in 2012. Just last month, Mayer signed on to a letter – along with with Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder and House Speaker Steve Tilley – urging the attorney general […]

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Last week, Democrats unveiled their budget plan for the rest of this year, boasting that it met House Republicans “halfway” from the spending cuts in their bill. Since then, news organizations have repeatedly corrected Democrats that their bill cuts nowhere near that much. Indeed, the Washington Post’s Fact Checker blog awarded Democrats “two Pinocchios” for […]

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Hat tip: RepEricBurlison [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/OP2TCoNK3v4″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Related: Rasmussen Reports: Wisconsin Voters Prefer Spending Cuts to Reduce State Budget Deficit

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“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” –Saul Alinsky In Camp Carnahan’s haste to follow one of comrade Alinky’s “Rules for Radicals” (never let a budget crisis go to waste) they forgot to put a working link on their most recent fundraising email: Excerpt: Have you been following the budget debates? The Republicans are […]

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The New York Times reported Friday, “As they opened negotiations with Republicans over budget cuts, the White House and Congressional Democrats on Thursday offered to trim an additional $6.5 billion from current spending, a figure far short of the Republican goal of cutting agency budgets by $61 billion.” Indeed, the press widely acknowledged how far […]

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