Year: 2014

Enough is enough. An important bloc of voters made their voices heard on Tuesday. Their message: Quit rewarding people who violate our immigration laws. They chose a sovereign nation over an illegal alien sanctuary nation, and they told politicians in both parties loud and clear: Put Americans first. Will D.C. listen? These voters are tired […]

          “To everyone who voted,” President Obama said in his press conference on Wednesday, “I hear you. To the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate yesterday, I hear you, too.” Let me begin with a bit of a rant. In a sense, this is the last piece of the […]

The sharp rebuke to the Obama administration delivered by the mid-term elections should not be construed as an endorsement of the GOP, which remains as unpopular as ever. Rather, as has been the case in the last few election cycles, voter revolts have hinged on continued dissatisfaction with the strength of the economy and the […]

  President Obama’s remarks at his postelection news conference were instructive on his attitude about the election results and his approach going forward. He always pays lip service to hearing the voters’ message when his side loses but then reveals he hears only what he chooses to hear. He said that what stood out to […]

Little noticed by the Washington press corps is the extent of the Republican State legislative gains in Election 2014. A quick trip to the enormously informative Ballotpedia.org website provides the numbers that the DC reporters overlooked. And those numbers reflect a GOP victory with stunning depth and breadth. It was far more than a favorable […]

A prayer has been answered — not for a massive Republican victory at the polls, though that, too. No, I’m thinking of the perennial prayer of losers: “Oh Lord, let my enemies go too far.” The results of the 2014 midterms will be chewed over for weeks and months. One datum that hasn’t received much […]

In “The Secret Life of Barack Obama,” our story begins, as such stories often do, with our hero in a dream. He’s photographed on a Hawaiian beach, posed by his handlers like some Hollywood starlet, droplets of sea foam dripping from his Chicago litheness, the voters primed, yearning the way the girls once yearned for […]