http://www.cftr.org/The latest headlines and articles from CFTR.comCitizens for the Republic5Both the national Democratic and Republican party committees spend about two-thirds of the money they take in on the care and comfort of committee staffs and on efforts to raise more funds, with lavish spending on limousines, expensive hotels, meals and tips, an analysis of the latest financial disclosure data shows. http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=25Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTList of President Obama's Czars:http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=24Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTCitizens for the Republic Chairman Craig Shirley – responding to the introduction of bipartisan legislation in both houses of the Congress seeking to block funding for civilian trials for the terrorists who planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks against innocent American civilians – today praised Senator Lindsey Graham and Congressman Frank Wolf for their leadership on the issue, and urged others to join them as co-sponsors on the legislation. http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=23Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTCitizens for the Republic Chairman Craig Shirley – responding to news reports indicating that Senator Lindsey Graham will tomorrow introduce legislation to block funding for a federal criminal trial in lower Manhattan of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other alleged 9/11 conspirators – today lauded Graham’s effort to prevent a civilian trial, and called on Graham instead to support more comprehensive legislation mandating that ALL persons designated as “enemy combatants” be prosecuted through military tribunals. http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=22Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTAs always, when conservative insurgencies fall short, as happened with Doug Hoffman’s monthlong quest to win in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, the establishments of both national parties fail to comprehend the meaning of it all. http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=21Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTFormer U.S Attorney Chris Christie (R-N.J.) ousted New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D) tonight, delivering Republicans a sweep of the two gubernatorial contests on the ballot today.http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=20Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTThe new economic statistics put growth at a healthy 3.5% for the third quarter. We should be dancing in the streets. No one is, because no one has any faith in these numbers. Waves of money are sloshing through the system, creating a false rising tide that lifts all boats for the moment. The tide will recede. The boats aren't rising, they're bobbing, and will settle. No one believes the bad time is over. http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=18Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTA top U.S. Senate Republican invoked the memory of the scandal-marred Nixon administration on Wednesday to urge U.S. President Barack Obama: "Don't start an enemies list." http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=17Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTIn the annals of Washington scandals, “debategate” in 1983 may have set some sort of record for flare followed by fizzle. It looked to some reporters, for a brief moment, like it could topple a CIA director, a White House chief of staff and maybe even a president. In the end, though, investigators never determined who pilfered and turned over to the Ronald Reagan campaign the briefing books President Jimmy Carter was using to prep for his 1980 debate with candidate Reagan. No one fell, and debategate got filed away decades ago in the musty museum of political trivia, under the heading of unsolved mysteries. http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=16Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTRemember when health-care reform was supposed to make life better for the middle class? That dream began to unravel this past summer when Congress proposed a bill that failed to include any competition-based reforms that would actually bend the curve of health-care costs. It fell apart completely when Democrats began papering over the gaping holes their plan would rip in the federal budget. http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=15Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTRE: Amending the Rules of Congress to require that legislation is available on the Internet for 72 hours before consideration by the House: The House and Senate Democratic Leadership apparently do not want colleagues and the public to see legislation before they vote on it. http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=14Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTJust 41% of voters nationwide now favor the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s down two points from a week ago and the lowest level of support yet measured. http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=13Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMTThere he goes again. Jimmy Carter, former Jim Crow man, has accused millions of his fellow Americans of engaging in the type of racial politics that marked his political career for years, even up to the eve of the 1980 presidential election and for which he has never apologized or acknowledged. http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=12Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMTCitizens for the Republic Endorses “Ten for ’10” Proposalhttp://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=11Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMTThe White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet. http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=9Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMTThe Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent. http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=10Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMTA couple of weeks ago, political handicapper Charlie Cook alerted his subscribers that "the situation for President Obama and congressional Democrats has slipped completely out of control." Politico asserted the Cook Political Report special "should send shivers down Democratic spines." <br><br> This makes the coming special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District an important national bellwether as voters select a successor to Republican representative John McHugh, who is Obama's nominee to be secretary of the Army. <br><br> Geographically, the North Country district is one of the largest in the East, ranging from Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain over the Adirondacks to Watertown and Oswego on Lake Ontario. Population centers are scattered in five major media markets. The district twice gave narrow margins to Bush, but last year went for Obama. If Democrats face an implosion in 2010, this sort of Middle America district is precisely where that shift will manifest itself, and both national political congressional committees are mobilizing for what appears to be a major political struggle.http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=4Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMTThis Administration would do well to study George Santayana or at the very least his caution to the historically ignorant. Three times Jimmy Carter tried to pitch higher taxes and less energy to the American people and three times he failed miserably, notwithstanding also having large majorities in Congress. Reduce... http://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=5Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=6Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=7Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.cftr.org/news/read.aspx?id=8Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT