The Democrats and the media are always claiming that Republicans want dirtier air, more polluted water, and fewer people with health insurance. Here’s Obama in Real Clear Politics a year before the last the presidential election on 10/17/11: The Republicans plan, Obama says, boils down to this: ‘Dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health [...]
Yesterday I wrote about 16 GOP Senators voting to begin debate on gun rights in the Senate. I noted that, in doing so, they had done nothing to violate the 2nd Amendment or any earlier statements of 2A support they had made. The vote was procedural and merely allowed debate. Some people understood the distinction. [...]
Yesterday 16 Republican Senators, including both Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker from Tennessee, joined Democrats in voting to begin debate on legislation expanding background checks on gun purchases. With 68 votes to begin debate, a threatened GOP filibuster was stopped before it started. Grassroots reaction was both swift and pointed. Grassfire.com wrote, “Sen. Harry Reid’s gun-control legislation [...]
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal had just cause to tell the Republican Party to stop being the stupid party. Currently, the GOP is faced with a case of stupidity coming from some Republican members of the North Carolina legislature. Here is an excerpt from a story published by the Charlotte Observer: Two Rowan County [NC] lawmakers [...]
This year at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), I was fortunate enough to get some time to interview one of the most redoubtable conservative activists in the nation, Phyllis Schlafly. In this eighteen minute video you will encounter a woman that is extremely vital and at 89-years-of-age still sharp as a tack. As is [...]
Apologizing for not winning the last election, a chastened and humbled Mitt Romney came before the crowd at CPAC here today vowing to be a “coworker” with conservatives to get the country back on the right track. His speech was very good. One wag noted that he may be the most inspiring loser ever. Romney [...]
American Sugar producers have the federal government in their pockets. Not only is there a huge tariff on imported sugar, but now the Department of Agriculture is proposing to purchase 400,000 tons (with a “t”) of sugar from domestic producers so that those producers who borrowed money from the USDA are not at risk of [...]
Rand Paul excited conservatives, libertarians, and even some liberals with his filibuster performance on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday. It was some 13 hours of a discussion on Obama’s desire to use drones to kill Americans here at home. Unfortunately, there were seven Republicans Senators that decided it was a better idea to [...]
Here is an excerpt from a story published by CNN: An atheist organization known for being provocative plans to take that reputation to the next level this week by putting up seven billboards that call out prominent politicians and religious leaders. American Atheists plans to target three Republican politicians: former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, [...]
Senator Orrin Hatch (R, Utah) delivered the GOP weekly address and it was a damn good one. He pulled no punches and laid it out straight that Obama lied when he ran for re-election and perpetrated a “classic bait and switch” maneuver. What ever you think of Mr. Hatch or the GOP, he spoke truth [...]
McKay Coppins of Buzzfeed was one of the reporters in the Romney press pool during his late campaign for president. He is also a Mormon. In a long piece posted on November 14, Coppins reveals the stark anti-Mormon bigotry that his fellow members of the media openly displayed as they followed team Romney around the [...]
Fact: Millions of Republican voters did not come out to unseat Barack Obama. Explanation: The Republican brand has been damaged beyond repair. Solution: Is Herman Cain Right? Do we need to replace the GOP with a new party? The Republican brand has been destroyed beyond repair. This is all something we really can blame on [...]
Due to the re-election of Barack Hussein Obama, the United States is officially a failed experiment. In fact, his election in the first place in 2008 signaled the end. Because so few of you people out there know anything about history any more, I’ll have to explain that opening line above. You see, the founders [...]
Unfortunately, hate is the main selling point on the National Public Radio distributed Smiley & West radio show and last week we got a big dollop of bile spewed against Republicans in general and GOP nominee Mitt Romney in particular. The October 26 episode featured host Cornel West, a long-time radical lefty from Princeton, and [...]
In keeping with the “Mittmentum” that we are seeing in many states and swing states across the country, New Hampshire is for the first time looking more like a lovely purple color tinged heavily in red with polls showing Mitt Romney topping President Obama there for the first time. With less than two weeks to [...]
One-time theater critic turned left-wing screedist, Frank Rich, is down in the dumps over that darned ol’ tea party. Far from being down and out, Rich says, the tea party is alive and well and living within the Republican Party itself. Far from being a political fringe, the tea party is still strong and in [...]
As he unveiled his epic new movie based on Abraham Lincoln’s civil war era presidency, Steven Spielberg said he doesn’t want his film to become a “political football” in today’s presidential election. But as he talked about it further, it seemed as if he went on to say that today’s Republican party is somehow just [...]
Here on the 11th Anniversary of the attacks that took some 3,000 American lives on September 11th, 2001, a pair of Maryland State Democrats are throwing fundraisers. If that isn’t bad enough, one of them even said it is “patriotic” to hold a fundraiser on the anniversary of the day we were so brutally attacked. [...]
Shikha Dalmia| at Hit & Run destroy’s the naritive Obama supporters are trying to create about one point in Rep. Paul Ryan’s exceptional acceptance speech last night. Paul Ryan must have hit a home run last night – otherwise liberals wouldn’t be going bonkers right now. No sooner did he move his tingle-inducing chassis off [...]
Here’s your RNC 2012 Day Two open thread, with a bonus live feed of all the speakers. If you can’t catch the unedited feed on TV from C-SPAN, use the YouTube feed below. Tonight’s featured speaker is Rep. Paul Ryan, with other prime time speeches from Condoleezza Rice and Gov. Susana Martinez. A full lineup [...]
There’s a bunch of cross-talk at the beginning of the ABC News Live Feed from the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Monday, but here’s the one line that is fairly easy to pick out. They’re not concerned at all. They are happy to have a party with black people drowning. [Laughter] Last we checked [...]
Here’s your RNC 2012 opening day open thread, with a bonus live feed of all the speakers. If you can’t catch the unedited feed on TV from C-SPAN, use the YouTube feed below. Tomorrow’s open thread will start earlier. Update: Robert Stacy McCain has the full text of Ann Romney’s speech and Drudge has the [...]
CNN has a habit of getting to the real meat of a story, finding all the most important angles, and its coverage of the GOP convention is no exception. CNN has a reputation to burnish by finding only the most important convention stories and with its latest story about how an important sector of Tampa [...]
Obama is running probably the most cynical campaign in recent memory. At Obama’s hands, Romney is suffering the worst treatment a presidential candidate has gotten from an opponent since Gov. Al Smith was ripped to pieces by anti-Catholic operatives in 1928 giving Herbert Hoover an easy White House win. Obama and his surrogates are simply [...]
Why is the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart worried about this ad from the Republican National Committee? He’s worried because, in his opinion, it’s the most effective anti-Obama ad yet. No, what bothers me is that last line spoken by the narrator as we see a black-and-white still image of a downward looking Obama. He tried. [...]
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