Issues

With Rick Perry’s move into the GOP Presidential contest in a big way, the next significant race in 2012 is for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Senate seat.

While we watch the battle over raising taxes on the “rich” and the Obama administration’s lament they aren’t high enough, you may have missed tax increases already coming.

It is important to recognize the misinformation coming from the Obama White House. First, he threatened Social Security payments if the GOP doesn’t cave into his agenda by raising taxes in an ongoing job recession.

President Obama got elected in part to get America working again and given the dismal state of employment, he has failed.

It used to be that the Port Commission of Houston was an example of government working, now it’s an example of arrogant, out of touch government involved in questionable activities and wasteful spending.

Is Washington ever going to get serious about cutting spending? The recent loss of the recent repeal vote in the Senate tells us many Democrats and some Republicans need to wake up or be replaced.

Jack Kemp’s longtime Republican Congressional seat fell to the Democrats last Tuesday.

One prominent reader of TCR, (Paul Burka of Texas Monthly), cited our last issue and asked a good question.

The battle in Austin regarding balancing the next biennium budget continues.

As many readers know and TCR knows is that incremental progress is still progress. The spending fight in DC has just begun and the GOP is winning the debate.