Category: Election 2010

Tax Problems For 5th District Candidate Ratowitz? (Illinois Primary, Fed 2)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

David Ratowitz is presenting himself to voters as the business oriented, conservative candidate for their 5th District Congressional seat. Ratowitz says he represents “hard-fought professional achievement” and “personal resilience,” and says his “genuine free market outlook” makes him the perfect candidate for conservatives. Also, many of Mr. Ratowitz’ press releases state that he’s for fiscal […]

 

Heritage: Unions Ate Your Raise

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

James Sherk has a very good post over at the Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry blog about how unions have hurt us all by fighting for tax increases. Unions almost never go on strike anymore. Instead, they fight to get more for their members by lobbying for tax increases. Unions spent tens of millions of dollars […]

 

Which Ill. Candidates Have Signed Taxpayer Protection Pledge?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With the Illinois primary coming up in only a few short days (Feb. 2, Groundhog’s Day) Americans for Tax Reform (atr.org) has a post up today reminding us all just which Illinois candidates have signed ATR’s no tax pledge. It’s called the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and you can see the pledge HERE. Happily, almost every […]

 

Chgo Trib: Who Will Smack Down the Unions?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Dennis Byrne, a columnist with the Chicago Tribune, has a great piece asking the seminal question: what politician will take on the public employees unions? This is, of course, the question we’ve been asking here for years! Who will stop these union thugs that have bought for themselves a bevy of compliant politicians at the […]

 

Is This The President’s Fake Letter to the Editor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper happened upon a curious letter to the editor in support of President Obama that seems to have suddenly popped up in nearly 40 newspapers across the country all at once. Every letter claims to be written by an “Ellie Light” and all claim to be from a resident local to […]

 

Massachusetts Aftermath: ‘We the People’ and the Brown Revolution

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

The Wall Street Journal reported today that Republican Scott Brown edged Martha Coakley among union rank-and-file in Tuesday’s Massachusetts Senate election. Why? I argue that it’s because liberals have ignored the pro-freedom message of the Tea Party movement: But it’s not just Massachusetts, it’s everywhere nowadays. People are tired of the “insider consensus.” They’re tired […]

 

SEIU Wastes $1 Million on Coakley, Blames GOP

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michelle Malkin has a post that reports about the hilarious episode of union whining that is being laid out by the President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Andy Stern. He wasted $1 million of his member’s dues money trying to shore up Massachusetts loser “Marcia” Coakley but is he blaming the Democrats for […]

 

GOP Chair Brady, Are We Eating Our Own, Now?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(Here, I think, is why Republicans in Illinois are always lagging behind) Wednesday morning the Illinois GOP held a conference call in order to buck up the troops after the momentous victory for Republican Scott Brown who won election to the Senate in the very blue state of Massachusetts. When I got the notice of […]

 

CATO on Brown: This is like Ted Kennedy being elected in Utah

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston There’s a lot of analysis out there on why Scott Brown defeated nearly 50 years of Democratic rule of the Massachusetts Senate seat, but the CATO Institute has some cogent, logical points that we should all carefully consider. But before I give you the CATO video, remember this…. it’s time to […]

 

NBC’s Viera Scolding Scott Brown on Today Show

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Meridith Viera seemed a bit annoyed that she was interviewing the newly elected Republican Scott Brown instead of Democrat Martha Coakley now that Massachusetts voters made their choice in the Tuesday special election for the open Senate seat there. Viera did her level best to phrase the results of the election in an agenda driven […]

 

Quasi-Live Blogging The Brown/Coakley Race: We Win, They Lose!

Posted on by John Hawkins

9:11: Fox has now called it for Brown. In other words, the Coakley campaign just drove into the drink at Chappaquiddick. 9:12: Howard Dean just blamed George Bush if Coakley loses. He also says it’s CERTAINLY not Barack Obama’s fault. 9:13: I have to admit, I was still a little nervous about this election going […]

 

Old GOP Doesn’t ‘Get’ Tea Parties

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Neil Cavuto of Fox News had a visit with former Vice President Dan Qualyle on Jan 13. Ostensibly the interview was about the earthquake in Haiti and the efforts that Quayle was saying needed to be made for the victims there, but Cavuto also asked the former veep about his feelings about the Tea Party […]

 

AP Sells Coakley as ‘Historic’ Candidate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The special election in Massachusetts for the open Senate seat once held by Teddy Kennedy is the hottest political story of the day. The race is so close that no one is sure who will win but signs are starting to point to Republican Scott Brown’s win. Cue the Associated Press with a puff piece […]

 

Ed Schultz Incites People to Commit Voter Fraud in MA Election

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Democracy? We don’t need no stinkin’ Democracy! So says Ed Schultz of MSNBC as he calls for people to cheat in the election in order to “keep these bastards out”. Radio Equalizer has the transcript from Ed Schultz’s radio show yesterday where he proposed “voting 10 times” in Massachusetts. The key quote follows below: SCHULTZ […]

 

Chgo Trib Wants ‘Reform,’ Yet Endorses Machine Candidates

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Dec. 27th, the Chicago Tribune sternly scolded our Illinois political class saying that we need “reform” in Illinois. The Trib announced that with all the past corruption they’d had “enough.” And they promised to launch a “pre-primary push to elect better” politicians. Well, who could disagree with that? Illinois has one of the most […]

 

Why This Conservative Wants Harry Reid to Stay Right Now

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Of course it would serve Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats right if they found Reid hounded from the Democrat leadership or even from office over his racist comments made about President Obama back during the presidential campaign. After all the faux charges of racism that the left has used to hound […]

 

The Left: Bending Over Backwards to Excuse Racism

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new book about the 2008 presidential election has made quite a stir with its revelation that Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) chose some, shall we say, unfortunate wording when referring to then candidate Barack Obama in some “private” discussions with reporters during the late presidential campaign. In the book Game Change penned […]

 

Time: Conflating Big Spending With ‘Moderate’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(My first piece for Breitbart’s new BigJournalism.com site is up. And here it is…) One of the tricks that the Old Media consistently uses to paint conservatives as walking on the dark side is to call Republicans who lean left “moderates,” while those who lean to the right are “right wing” or “hardcore” Republicans. This […]

 

The Sensitive, Nuanced Verbal Stylings of Senator Harry Reid

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate apologized on Saturday for comments he made about Barack Obama’s race during the 2008 presidential bid.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described then-Sen. Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect.” Obama is the nation’s first African-American president.

 

Sen. Ben Nelson: Say, Maybe We Shudda Waited on Healthcare ‘Reform’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every week we are seeing another Democrat deciding not to run for re-election or one that is switching parties to the GOP all due to the wild, left-wing overreach indulged in by the Obama Administration and its cohorts in Congress. Connecticut’s Senator Chris Dodd is only the latest heavy hitter Democrat that is looking for […]

 

In Worst Economy In Decades Oregon Considers Massive Tax Hike

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If you Tea Party goers in the western U.S. want a specific battle to fight there is none better than ballot measures 66 and 67 in the State of Oregon. The venerable Beaver State is preparing to chase out even more jobs and intends to tax its industry and small businesses to death with these […]

 

Tea Party Debate Continued: My Reply to Steve McQueen of BigGovernment.com

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In what I suppose is round three, I’d like to take a moment to reply to the criticism of my Tea Party article which was titled “Tea Parties: The Biggest Mistake We Could Make in 2010.” That criticism is penned by my fellow BG contributor, Steve McQueen whose piece titled “For Tea Parties, Bigger Is […]

 

Very Skeptical About Scott Brown’s Chances

Posted on by John Hawkins

All across the right side of the blogosphere people are hopping on the Scott Brown bandwagon. Who’s Scott Brown? He’s the Republican candidate running in a special election to replace Ted Kennedy later this month. Brown seems like a solid candidate who’s running a good campaign and he’s probably the best candidate we could get […]

 

Tea Parties: The Biggest Mistake We’ll Make in 2010

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s the end of 2009, the “aughts” are over, and we are about to embark on a new year — and what else are they but the “aughts”? Well, besides mostly a horrible and thankfully passed decade. In any case, we are at the end of the year and that means two things: lists about […]

 

The Fire ‘Em All Approach to Voting is Just Silly

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Many good, honest conservatives want to fire all of Congress. One of the latest efforts is a website called goooh.com (as in GetOutOfOurHouse.com). Believe me, I understand the feeling. Congress has miserably failed to satisfy the voters. They’ve been arrogant, they’ve spent more time accumulating personal wealth than legislating, they’ve casually ignored the entirety of […]

 

Govt Healthcare Will Give us ALL Pay Cuts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Big Labor has, for the most part, fallen all over itself to help its patron President get his Obamacare policies passed in Congress spending millions to do so. If Obamacare should pass many millions will lose their healthcare and will be forced into government healthcare. According to the CBO at least 10 million will lose […]

 

Feckless Ill. GOP Questions Use of Party Funds

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For those wondering why the Illinois Republican Party can’t seem to bet Democrats, even criminal Democrats, here is one reason… I meant to mention this story yesterday and didn’t get to it. I guess the reason why I wasn’t so all fired up to highlight it is that it all seemed as no surprise, it […]