April 4, 2008, 9:55am
To hear House Minority Leader John Boehner tell it, raising taxes is what Democrats do best.
The Freedom Project, the Ohio Republican’s political action committee, has released a video that takes Democrats to task for the tax hikes they approved in the federal budget plan last month.
Categories: AirCongress
February 16, 2008, 7:58pm
It has been almost two weeks since I posted here at AirCongress, and the few regular readers I have may be wondering where I’ve been. It’s time for a long-overdue explanation.
A few weeks before Christmas last year, I learned that my job as the editor of National Journal’s Technology Daily was ending due to a layoff. I spent the next several works looking for work and was fortunate enough to land a sweet job as the executive producer of Eyeblast.tv, a video-sharing site and online social network for young conservatives.
I stayed at Tech Daily until we ceased publication Jan. 31 and began my new gig at Eyeblast, a product of the Media Research Center, on Feb. 4 — the last day I posted content to AirCongress. Eyeblast is a work in progress, and my role is to help the MRC finish editorially what it started technologically several months ago.
We did a soft launch at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington last weekend. I spoke as part of a new media panel there and spread the word to fellow conservatives who visited our booth. In short, I’ve been rather busy since Feb. 4.
That doesn’t mean I haven’t been blogging, but I’ve been dedicating my off-hours writing to another blog I launched in January, Taxation With Representation. For the next year, I’m tracking every penny our family pays in taxes in an effort to help Americans better understand the tax burdens on them.
I’ll get back to work here at AirCongress eventually. In the mean time, I hope you’ll visit Eyeblast and my anti-tax blog. As much as I’ve loved working in the mainstream media, it is very liberating to be out of the conservative closet and speaking and writing exactly what I think, without the objectivity restraints of the modern journalistic world.
AirCongress, however, will stay true to its original mission. This site will not be pushing a conservative agenda, and the best online audio and video will be posted here regardless of the political views espoused within it. If you think I’m failing in that effort, by all means register your complaints via the contact form at the top of the page.
I’ve also updated the “About” page for this site and my bio page to reflect the nature of my new job. The readers of AirCongress deserve to know my political leanings, especially while I am serving full time in a role where my goal is to further the cause of conservatism.
Also consider this entry a disclosure that I will embed video from Eyeblast time to time on this site. My goal is to solicit compelling content from users for that site and to eventually produce some of my own, and I fully intend to showcase it here. When I do, I will include disclosures within each entry to that effect. I will be embedding my first video from Eyeblast momentarily.
Categories: AirCongress, Producer's Picks, Technology, Media, Eyeblast
December 20, 2007, 8:22pm
“Volunteer voters” disillusioned by the current state of the GOP may stay home and cost Republicans more losses in the 2008 election, Rep. Steven Pearce said in a wide-ranging interview with Heading Right Radio.
“We are fighting for who the party is,” Pearce, a Minnesota Republican, told Minnesota-based blogger and BlogTalkRadio political director Ed Morrissey.
Other subjects covered in the interview included spending earmarks by Congress and energy policy. Pearce predicted that the energy bill that Congress cleared this week, including the mandatory increase in fuel-efficiency standards, will hurt the country.
“I did not have to vote against my constituents, so we voted ‘no’ on the energy bill,” he said.
Categories: Minnesota, Politics, Energy, Republicans, BlogTalkRadio, Steven Pearce
December 19, 2007, 7:02pm
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich beat yesterday’s deadline for the voter-generated video debate at 10Questions.com. He answered nine of the 10 questions, skipping the one on the size of government (as did fellow Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee.)
The No. 1 question as chosen by 10Questions users focuses on “network neutrality,” a term used to describe the push for a government mandate on communications network owners to treat high-speed Internet content equally.
“We must make sure that the Internet is protected from domination by any particular interest group,” Kucinich said, “and the financial interest groups who would want to create a two-tiered system on the Internet … that kind of a condition will not be tolerated under a Kucinich administration.
Here’s a link-heavy guide to the other nine questions and Kucinich’s responses:
Categories: Dennis Kucinich, 10Questions
December 19, 2007, 6:08pm
Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel has been answering questions in the voter-generated video debate at 10Questions.com.
The No. 1 question as chosen by 10Questions users focuses on “network neutrality,” a term used to describe the push for a government mandate on communications network owners to treat high-speed Internet content equally.
“I not only would support net neutrality,” Gravel said, “I would appoint people to the FCC who would begin to break up the entire media monopoly in this country. … This is not healthy in a democracy.”
Here’s a link-heavy guide to the other nine questions and Gravel’s responses:
Categories: Presidency 2008, 10Questions, Mike Gravel
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