Category: Democrats

In Treatment

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Yes, Republicans are in treatment after their catastrophic loss last November. : We kept our majority in the House due to gerrymandering, and we lost two seats in the Senate. : Romney’s loss was bad, but our inability to gain seats in the Senate was ignominious. : Democrats were tasked with defending twenty-three senate seats, and twelve of […]

 

Welfare State Advocate Spews Inaccuracies on PBS NewsHour

Posted on by Matt Vespa

The PBS NewHour has yet to invite a hard core conservative on the program to talk about the fiscal cliff.:  Last week, they had NYT’s columnist, left-wing economist, and Obama cheerleader — Paul Krugman to detail his view. : Then, they had Sen. Bob Corker ( R-TN), but the December 6 broadcast was the most interesting. […]

 

AFP-PA presents taxpayer Xmas list, urges PA governor to reject exchange program

Posted on by Matt Vespa

It’s Christmas Winter solstice/holiday time — and Governor Corbett seems tepid to reject the federal-state health care exchange program, which will be instituted under Obamacare. : Mitt Romney implemented a similar program, at the state level, when he was Governor of Massachusetts — which explains why conservatives were unable to make the 2012 election a referendum […]

 

Paul Blart Could’ve Done Better in Benghazi

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Well, it seems that mall security could have done a better job protecting our compound in Benghazi. : According to Kerry Picket, who recently made her move to Breitbart News, “a: source with personal knowledge of the security situation in Benghazi … were shocked to learn State Department security personnel agents were not immediately armed.: Additionally, agents separated […]

 

The Communication Cliff

Posted on by Robert Cleveland

Republicans should be less worried about the Fiscal Cliff than about their own Communication Cliff. It seems that the GOP leadership has been gripped by a great communicative ineptitude, and until they escape from its grasp, they will continue to languish in political poverty, taking blame for fake crisis after fake crisis manufactured by the […]

 

Six Degrees of Grover Norquist

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Grover Norquist is evil. Grover Norquist is an impediment to good governance. We’ve all heard the pundits detail — ad nauseum — about how the founder of Americans for Tax Reform is a pernicious force within our political discourse. However, what’s depraved about this whole episode in Norquist bashing, which I’m sure he’s thoroughly enjoying, […]

 

CNN’s Piers Morgan Tweets Attack on Second Amendment

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

British citizen and low-rated TV host Piers Morgan of CNN sided with sportscaster Bob Costas in an attack on the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by coming to Costas’ support in a Tweet on Monday. “Quite incredible that Bob Costas makes an impassioned plea for less handguns,” Morgan Tweeted, “and Americans go crazy with […]

 

Reid Refuses To Allow Vote On Obama’s Fiscal Cliff “Plan”

Posted on by William Teach

One can always count on some funny stuff from Harry Reid (Weekly Standard) Senate majority leader Harry Reid is denying the Senate the chance to vote on President Barack Obama’s proposal. Reid calls Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s request to vote on the plan a “stunt.” “I reserve the right to object. I just a minute […]

 

Speaker Boehner — What Are You Doing Up There?

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Is it revenge of the squishy Republicans? : It sure isn’t the reaffirmation of conservatism within the Republican Party. : On December 4, Matthew Boyle at Breitbart: reported: that the House GOP had begun purging conservatives from various committees. : In a time when Republicans need strong, principled conservatives to thwart the aggressive expansion of the state under Obama, Speaker […]

 

Anna Wintour to be a U.S. Ambassador? ‘Ludicrous’!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

News broke today that President Obama is considering offering the position of the next U.S. Ambassadorship to Great Britain to Anna Wintour, the editor of fashion magazine Vogue. This caused at least one Brit to call the whole idea “ludicrous.” Indeed, the offer seems incomprehensible. To offer the ambassadorship to one of our most important […]

 

Spielberg’s Lincoln Isn’t Pro-Obama

Posted on by Matt Vespa

As most people, I went and saw Lincoln.:  I’m no fan of biopics, but this one was rather good. In fact, it was excellent.:  Daniel Day-Lewis will probably win another Academy Award for Best Actor, and it was not a pro-Obama film.:  Many conservatives feared that the movie would be allegorical about the 44th president.:  […]

 

AP’s False Claim That ‘Some’ Democrats Open to Entitlement Cuts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a November 28 article, the Associated Press tried to give cover to Democrats by insisting that they are somehow divided over cuts in entitlements to help solve the “fiscal cliff” problem. But the truth is, Democrats are united against these cuts, not divided. In its piece headlined, “It’s Not Just Taxes: Benefit Cuts Divide […]

 

Obama, GOP Throw Their Dogs In The Ring

Posted on by Matt Vespa

I’m sure a lot of you exuded similar reactions to the president’s laughable fiscal proposal to prevent the nation from going over the cliff. : He asked for $50 billion in additional stimulus and $1.6 trillion in tax hikes “as part of any ‘fiscal cliff’ deal,”: according to CNBC. : In all: The plan calls for $1.6 trillion […]

 

Obama, Dems Quietly Look To Nail Those Evil Producers With Even Higher Marginal Rates

Posted on by William Teach

Because success should be punished, comrades! (Politico) Tax rate increases aren’t the only way in which Democrats are aiming to collect more tax dollars from the rich – they’re also looking to resurrect a dormant pair of oddly named laws that targeted the wealthy for decades. Some call them gimmicks, some call them a step […]

 

Media Ignores Obama Admin’s Effort to Define ‘Poverty’ Upward

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mickey Kaus has alerted readers to a change in the way the federal government figures the poverty line and that new way so alters the formula that we will never be able to show any improvement in rates of poverty going foward. Worse, the new formula stops measuring strict want and instead measures a more […]

 

The Lies The SEIU Tells Its Members

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This week the SEIU sent out an email to its members hoping to drum up some hate against the fast food chain Wendy’s. The email not only had one outright lie, it was also a sad example of how stupid unions think their members really are. The email starts out as if it is from […]

 

Sen. Orrin Hatch: Obama Fiscal Proposal ‘Classic Bait and Switch’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

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 […]

 

Republicans Will Have to Swallow Tax Hikes

Posted on by Matt Vespa

As I’ve said previously, I hate tax increases, but I’ll settle if a 10:1 deal is reached. : Ten dollars of spending cuts, including welfare state cuts, for every one dollar raised in revenue. : It’s a rational deal. : If we can retake the Senate, and maintain our majority in the House; then perhaps we can discuss […]

 

Is It A Woman’s World?

Posted on by Matt Vespa

I won’t lie. I found Suzanne Venker’s piece about the ‘war on men‘ interesting, thought-provoking, and controversial. In the process, she has reaped a whirlwind of left-wing hate. It’s no surprise that today’s economy is better suited for women. Manufacturing, the lynchpin of male labor, has collapsed — and now scores of men are left […]

 

Assoc. Press Paints Murders in Benghazi as Merely a ‘PR Disaster’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In an outrageous attempt to defuse for President Obama the murderous disaster that is his security failures in Benghazi on September 11, the Associated Press deemed the whole debacle merely a “PR disaster” and speculated it could all just be forgotten if Susan Rice were to be successfully nominated as our next Secretary of State. […]

 

Slate: If You Like The White Turkey Meat, You Are A Racist

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You can’t even eat turkey on Thanksgiving without being called a racist by our friends on the extreme left side of the aisle in America today, especially if you prefer the white meat over the dark. Just before Thanksgiving last week, the liberal site Slate dredged up a 2010 piece claiming that the reason Americans […]

 

NY Times: Hey, We’re Missing The Big Issues While Focusing On Benghazi Talking Points

Posted on by William Teach

Scott Shane, writing for the Fish Wrap, makes a darned good point, part of one that I’ve been making in blog posts and on Twitter for well over a month. Much of the article is focused on providing cover for Susan Rice, Barack Obama, and others involved in giving us the stupid “it was a […]

 

Some Texas Schools Teaching Boston Tea Party Was Terrorism

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It has been revealed that some Texas schools were teaching that the Boston Tea Party, an event widely understood as having helped spark the American Revolution, was actually a “terrorist” attack on British authorities. At least up until January of 2012, Texas schools utilizing the history curriculum from CSCOPE, a non-profit and supposedly non-partisan education […]

 

College Professors Lose Hours Because of Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of my favorite stories this week is the college professors at Pennsylvania’s Community College of Allegheny who’ve had their hours cut because of the costly requirements of Obamacare. One of Obamacare’s changes to general business practices is to make people who work 30 hours or more a “full time worker.” For generations that magic […]

 

How Falling Off The Fiscal Cliff Impacts You

Posted on by Matt Vespa

I’ll say it again, Democrats want to go off the fiscal cliff. : They’ll get their tax increases — $600 billion dollars worth— their revenue increases, and cuts to defense, which has been a goal of theirs for the past ten years. : Goodbye Bush tax cuts, Hello Obama tax hikes. : With the fledgling coalition of ‘cliff […]

 

Flashback: Do You Remember Those Racist Condi Rice Cartoons?

Posted on by Matt Vespa

As liberals continue to counter the criticism directed towards Ambassador Susan Rice with the race card, Eliana Johnson at National Review aptly noted how similar criticism was lobbied at Condoleezza Rice when she was nominated for Secretary of State. : I made a note of this before in my previous post, Deciphering Susan Rice without Being […]

 

University Prof: Hey, That Thanksgiving is a Nazi Holiday

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s become a tradition on every holiday that somewhere in the country a taxpayer supported university professor will come forth to trash one of our American traditions and this holiday season we were treated to a claim that Thanksgiving is really just a celebration of “genocide” created by “Nazis.” A long-time, extreme left-winger named Robert […]

 

In Final Week Romney Coverage Increasingly Negative, MSNBC Had Zero Favorable Romney Stories

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

According to the latest study of the last week of the media’s coverage of the 2012 presidential election, Romney’s coverage turned increasingly negative. The worst example was that of MSNBC which didn’t have any positive stories about Romney’s campaign, not a single one. The study conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in […]

 

Washington Post Inadvertently Makes A Good Point On Susan Rice Talking Points

Posted on by William Teach

Instead of running a “we’re thankful for…” editorial Thursday, something positive, the Washington Post editorial board attempted some tushy covering for Team Obama and Susan Rice The GOP’s bizarre attack on Susan Rice SINCE THE Senate is solely responsible for the confirmation of Cabinet officers, it’s not often that members of the House of Representatives […]

 

NYTimes Rips Israel for Bombing Gaza Media Offices, Ignores 4 Terror Leaders Inside

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The New York Times is full of outrage at the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) for its surgical bomb strikes launched against a few buildings in Gaza that held offices and studios of several international media outlets. But in its report the “paper of record” forgot to add one little fact: four highly placed terrorist leaders […]