McCotter Rocks

Remarks in Response to President Obama’s ShamWoW Summit

MichaelTurk — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:23:51 +0000

The Educated Idiots Award

MichaelTurk — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:02:07 +0000

My late father had a phrase to describe the arrogant intellectuals unacquainted with real life who foist their insane ideas on the “unenlightened” rest of us: The phrase was “educated idiots.” For their cavalier demand that your shrinking family budget must get smaller, you must pay $7 per gallon for gas, and your job must become [...]

Remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

MichaelTurk — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:01:08 +0000

We The People. Champions of Freedom

MichaelTurk — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:15:13 +0000

Please complete the form below to order your copy of “We the People. Champions of Freedom.” After you have completed the form, please consider making a contribution to Rep. McCotter’s campaign to help us cover distribution of this important message. Your Name and Address Your Name(required) Your Email(valid email required) Your Address(required) Your City(required) Your State(required) Your Zip(required) Number of Copies:(required) [...]

Pro-Democracy Legislation

MichaelTurk — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter has been a consistent advocate for democracy and using the power of the federal government to promote democracy worldwide. Listed below – by country – are bills and resolutions Rep. McCotter has championed to help spread freedom across the globe. Armenia Baltics Belarus Burma Cambodia China [...]

Saturday Night Live’s State of the Union

MichaelTurk — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:45:07 +0000

If you missed Saturday Night Live's take on Obama's State of the Union, it's worth checking out. "Obama's" take on Martha Coakley, in particular, is hysterical.

Google In The Coal Mine

Thaddeus McCotter — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:44:51 +0000

By John J. Tkacik Jr. and Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter China’s cyber-attacks on Google these past several weeks were, sadly, mere replays of state-sponsored Chinese attacks on literally thousands of other American and foreign companies, human rights groups, individuals and, yes, even the U.S. government, including Congress. A University of Toronto study last year identified more than [...]

Jobs, Health Care, Banks, and Taxes

Randall Thompson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:42:49 +0000

As the Obama Administration struggles to come to terms with Tuesday's election of Republican Scott Brown to the US Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy, Americans are seeing another rise in jobless claims. The Department of Labor's weekly jobless number rose by 36,000 in the report released this morning.

Initial claims for jobless benefits rose by 36,000 to 482,000 in the week ended Jan. 16, according to the Labor Department's weekly report Thursday. The previous week's level was revised upward to 446,000 from 444,000. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires expected a decrease of 4,000 initial claims. The four-week moving average, which aims to smooth volatility in the data, also increased as well last week. The Labor Department said the four-week moving average increased by 7,000 to 448,250 from the previous week's revised average of 441,250.

Democrats’ Election Prospects, New Populism, and The War on Terror

Randall Thompson — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:51:27 +0000

Looking at the retirement of Kansas Congressman Dennis Moore, Michael Barone suggests Democrats may be facing a tough year.

2010 undoubtedly looks like an uphill race for Dennis Moore. By announcing his retirement, he is free to vote for House Democratic leaders’ unpopular legislation without political repercussion and is spared the trouble of extensive campaigning. That’s fine for him. But if other Democratic incumbents in marginal districts—and, remember, the 3rd district voted for Obama—choose to follow Moore’s course, that could make it much harder to Democrats to maintain a big majority in the House and could make it easier for Republicans to gain most or all of the 41 seats they need to win a majority there.

The War on Banks

Randall Thompson — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:12:33 +0000

(The following are excerpts from an Investor's Business Daily article titled "The War on Banks". You can view the full article at: Read the complete article at http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=518187 You can also view Rep. McCotter's remarks to Fox News about the bank tax plan.)

Financial Crisis: The White House wants to impose a stiff new tax on banks to punish them for their role in the financial meltdown. That'll really get them lending again ... won't it? We have to admit we're a little perplexed. The White House and Congress have complained over and over again about the banks' "failure to lend" to get the economy moving.