Heidi Heitkamp Supports Balanced Budget Amendment That Wouldn’t Really...
It’s a bit ironic to hear Democrat Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp say that she supports a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution. This is typically a Republican issue, though it’s been clear...
View ArticleHeidi Heitkamp’s Balanced Budget Proposal Is Mathematically Impossible
Yesterday Heidi Heitkamp announced that she was in favor of a balanced budget amendment. “Where in the past, I haven’t always been a big fan of amending the Constitution to take care of things that...
View Article“Senator Conrad’s tenure as budget chairman is an unmitigated disaster”
“America needs Conrad to stay on as Budget Committee chairma[n],” wrote Grand Forks Herald opinion editor Tom Dennis in 2010. Conrad was, at the time, considering a jump from his post as chairman of...
View ArticleHow Can Heitkamp Be Above The Political Fray If She Supports Harry Reid And...
Liberal Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp has a new ad out today. I features two teams of pee-wee football players, one with red uniforms and one with blue uniforms, chasing and pig-piling one another on...
View ArticleHeidi Heitkamp Is Either Bad At Math Or Thinks North Dakotans Are Really Stupid
You wouldn’t think a candidate for public office would want their op/ed about one of the biggest issues of the campaign season to be published in one of the state’s largest publications the Friday...
View ArticleHeidi Heitkamp Lacks The Courage Of Her Fiscal Convictions
Over the holiday weekend, in a column for the Great Plains Examiner, Democrat Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp made more of her phony “balanced budget” promises. Fiscal discipline won’t come by itself....
View ArticleKent Conrad Calls For Putting The Country First In MSNBC “Exit Interview”
MSNBC is doing a series of interviews with members of the US Senate who are retiring from office after this term. Last night was Senator Kent Conrad’s turn with Chuck Todd, and he used the time to...
View ArticleND Senate Debate Audio: Rick Berg Versus Heidi Heitkamp
Below is the full audio from the North Dakota Senate debate between Rick Berg and Heidi Heitkamp. It was an interesting debate for how often the two candidates disagreed. Heitkamp is campaigning way,...
View ArticleHeitkamp’s Phony Balanced Budget Schtick
Democrat Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp is on a “Balance the Budget Tour” of North Dakota right now, doing her absolute best to sound like a Republican on fiscal issues. No joke. “Her plan includes...
View ArticleKent Conrad’s Partisanship Lament
It’s become fashionable, over the last several election cycles, for self-styled “moderate” politicians who are retiring to lament partisan, polarized politics on their way out the door. Senator Kent...
View ArticleKent Conrad Ends His Career “Not In The Room”
Senator Kent Conrad gave his farewell address to the Senate today (I’ll post video when it’s available, for now here’s a Grand Forks Herald report), which means that the eulogizing of his career by the...
View ArticleHeidi Heitkamp: Don’t Tie Spending Cuts To Debt Ceilling
Senator Heidi Heitkamp is quick to name as her mentor the man she replaced in the Senate, Kent Conrad. That seems apt, as Conrad’s legacy of talking tough about the debt and deficits while...
View ArticleHeidi Heitkamp: Don’t Tie Spending Cuts To Debt Ceilling
Senator Heidi Heitkamp is quick to name as her mentor the man she replaced in the Senate, Kent Conrad. That seems apt, as Conrad’s legacy of talking tough about the debt and deficits while...
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