CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 04/26/2013

Sen. Cruz Statement on Internet Sales Tax Cloture Vote  The Democratic leadership should not be doing the bidding of major corporate lobbyists, at the expense of mom-and-pop retailers across America. Forcing small Internet retailers to comply with the taxing authority of over 9,600 jurisdictions nationwide would kill jobs and stifle economic growth. There’s no reason for the Senate to pass this flawed bill–skipping the committee process and rushing the bill forward to stifle debate. Read More

Holder Calls Amnesty a ‘Civil Right’  During a April 24th speech to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Attorney General Eric Holder said that creating a “pathway to earned citizenship” was a “civil right.” Read More

Avoid Election-Day Registration  Carting uninformed, transient voters to the polls to vote for the political boss-man is a time-dishonored practice of demagogues everywhere. It has been proposed for Colorado, but it has no place here. Read More

Congress working to strip presidential land grab power  If you think national monuments are statues of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, welcome to the crazy catalog of federal land grabbing tools. These “monuments” are actually large areas that are supposed to be small, and can be created out of thin air by the president with the stroke of a pen. Read More

Taxpayers again bilked by Obama green agenda: Watchdog  In yet another of the Obama administration’s disastrous “environmentalist” investments, an Obama-favored electric car company is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy after securing nearly $200 million from the U.S. government to develop hybrid automobiles, according to a report on Wednesday by an Inside-the-Beltway watchdog group that investigates and exposes government corruption. Read More

The Revolution Passed in the Night  Many things are holding the headlines hostage, the terrorist attacks, the crippling effects of Obamacare, the prospect of expanding war in Syria, and as always Iran. There is one over-riding constant that defines as it divides the present era: the fact that America has a President who advances values and policies diametrically opposed to the traditional beliefs of a vast number of Americans. From bowing to foreign leaders to not knowing how many states there are, from vowing to fundamentally transform America to actually doing it, President Obama is to many the Manchurian Candidate. Read More