RESPONSE ACTION NETWORK 10/03/2015

Here is your weekly update on the politics and policies affecting our liberties. Mitch McConnell's turn to resign? House Speaker John Boehner's decision to resign in October has some conservatives wondering who will (or should) be the next to go. While we would offer the modest proposal of sending every current member of Congress home and start from scratch, the early . . . Read The Full Article ▶ Jeb continues to fade Polling from the Wall Street Journal confirms what a lot of people have been saying for the last several weeks: Jeb Bush is struggling, and things are only going to get worse . . . Mr. Bush lost support across the board: among men and women, voters under and . . . Read The Full Article ▶ Teamsters jilt Hillary Are cracks starting to form in Hillary Clinton's union support? The Teamsters union's general executive board voted unanimously Tuesday, 26-0, to hold off on endorsing Clinton at its meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. Fox News reports that the . . . Read The Full Article ▶ McConnell, Boehner seek to bust spending caps Conservatives have been saying it for months, and the rest of the world is now catching on: Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are out to break the spending caps currently in place on the federal budget so Uncle Sam can spend even more of your money... Even as con­ser­vat­ives in both cham­bers are clam­or­ing for . . . Read The Full Article ▶ Secret Service smears its political enemies As if its personnel blunders and security breaches weren't enough, the Homeland Security Department's inspector general issued a scathing report saying the Secret Serivce leaked . . . Read The Full Article ▶