Mitch Daniels Hikes Cigarette Tax

UPDATE: IF you read on in the article he then says this:

The governor also used the speech to call for passage of his “Major Moves” transportation program, which would privatize many aspects of Indiana’s transportation system, including leasing the Indiana Toll Road, possibly to a foreign firm. And he also endorsed deregulation of Indiana’s telecommunications industry.
While critics have said that will lead to higher phone prices, Daniels said it will lead to an improved infrastructure connecting every part of Indiana to a global economy.

I guess good ideas and bad can live right next to each other.

Taking care of business.

UPDATE

RYM is a very uncool, RINO organization. The purpose of this post was to poke fun at them and their awful website, and maybe to get some people together to crash their pubcrawl….

My dear junior senator, Hillary Clinton, is allegedly going to appear with Harry Belafonte at a charity event in New York. This is an incredible gift. What in the world were her people thinking?

I would like to ask the supporters of Rep.’s Blunt, Boehner, Cantor, etc.: You know that the Drug Bill is so terrible, if voting for it is forgivable, what isn’t? I’d like to ask that, but I know it would be a sham question because I can’t really come up with an answer to the converse: What bad votes are forgiveable? Since almost no politicians are perfect, and since I do vote, I must be forgiving a lot, though probably unconsciously. After witnessing the way the administration handled themselves in the PA Senate primary in 2004 I vowed not to vote for Bush again, yet there I was on election day pulling the lever for four more years. (Living in New York, I at least had the luxury of voting for him on the Conservative line, and supposedly sending a message that way. He hasn’t gotten it.)

I don’t really regret voting for Bush’s reelection, but I do feel used. What frustrates me is that not just how the establishment is ignoring the base, but the way they seem proud of themselves for doing so. That’s why I think it is important that we take this one opportunity, what I foresee as being our last opportunity for some time to come, to send a message. I don’t think we can afford to have in leadership anyone who did not have the integrity to stand up against the tide of Washington largesse, to stand up for the future generations that we have consigned to poverty so that we may live just as we desire.

I know that those who think this vote was forgivable are not defending the bill itself, but for me the Drug Bill is a symbol, the vote was a crucible, any conservative who voted for it did so not out of prudence but out of nothing short of institutional cowardice.

From PoliticalWire:

Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) “is positioning himself as a compromise, reform candidate in the battle over the House majority leader job,” the Arizona Republic reports.

Says Shadegg: “Some are saying if I am in, then they will support me.”

Read it here. What say you SaveTheGOP readers?