Category: Elections & Polls

Ronald Reagan: Father of the Tea Party

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We are still living in Ronald Reagan’s era, despite the constant refrains from Democrats and the left that Reaganism is long dead. As we observe his 100th birthday, it is also beneficial to point out that in many ways Reagan is the father of the Tea Party Movement. It was his great success, his sunny […]

 

Lefties Trying Preemptive Assault on Texas True The Vote Event

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left-wing website Talking Points Memo (known as TPM) is worried that the Tea Party-backed True The Vote effort in Harris County, Texas — home of the City of Houston — is going to successfully enlist Texans to join an effort to “true the vote” by battling vote fraud. Because of this fear, TPM has […]

 

Jaw, Jaw and Bromides: Obama’s State of His Next Campaign for President Address

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I sat through President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union Address last night. During the event I live Tweeted the whole thing (You can read that all at http://twitter.com/#!/warnerthuston) and ended up with an empty feeling and a headache. Obama’s address was long on calls for spending, filled with bromides, and weighted with jaw, jaw […]

 

Rahm OFF the Ballot for Mayor? But May Have until Feb. 15 To File as Write In Candidate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As reported earlier, Rahm Emanuel has been thrown off the ballot by a decision by an Illinois Appellate Court stating that Emanuel did not satisfy the residency requirement since he did not live in Chicago over the last year. This presents several major problems for Emanuel’s candidacy. First of all, it seems pretty sure that […]

 

The Left’s New Civil-sorship

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Let’s be civil, OK? I mean, let’s tone it down out there. You people need to rise to a better, more civil discourse. I know this because the entire left wing in America today is telling us this (even as Democrat Steve Cohen is calling anyone that opposes him a Nazi). We need to get […]

 

Yank the Dipstick… Sheriff Dupnik Recall Effort Begins in Pima County

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I was wondering how long this would take, but apparently my wait is over. A recall petition to oust Clarence Dupnik, the partisan, leaky-mouthed Sherif of Pima County, Arizona, is finally underway. Dipstick… er, I mean Dupnik, is now infamous for instantly blaming Fox News, Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and all conservatives for the […]

 

Whew! Top 10 Leading GOP Contenders Are Mostly On The “Screw The Climate” Side

Posted on by William Teach

Our old pall Lisa Hymas is back to inform us about 10 GOP presidential contenders, 10 different ways to screw the climate. This is a break from her normal hyperbole, typically about being a GINK (green inclinations, no kids), how having kids (known as little carbon footprints) is bad, a focus on population being bad, […]

 

Snap! Obama Plans To Reboot On Economic Advice

Posted on by William Teach

After two years of mostly bad ideas on how to handle the recession, which turned into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, which happened while Democrats were in control of the federal government, Obama is looking to reboot! Which should lead to more great failed sloganeering, like “Recovery Summer”. Thankfully, Obama won’t have […]

 

Rahm’s Operative and Union Each Trying to Buy Chicago City Council

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A political operative tied directly to Rahm Emanuel has raised $1 million to back Emanuel friendly candidates for City Council, reports The New York Times. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is investing over $2 million also to buy candidates that favor their issues. Both are struggling to buy a City Council loyal to them […]

 

NH Republican Establishment Working Against Tea Party Candidate?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

And so it begins. Now that the 2010 midterms are done and the Tea Party has shown itself to be a real political force, the GOP establishment is making plans to undermine Tea Party power and reassert its own RINO, country club control of the party. It’s happening in New Hampshire, anyway, as it seems […]

 

Emanuel Pushing Anti-Teachers Union Line in Race for Chicago Mayor?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rahm Emanuel is not the union’s favorite man. He has had union detractors since his days pushing the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) during the Clinton administration. Since then there have been other clashes between Emanuel and unions even as he served President Obama as his Chief of Staff. Now, as he takes after […]

 

Republicans Plan ObamaCare Repeal Votes Before State Of The Union

Posted on by William Teach

Incoming House Speaker John Boehner pledges that the GOP “Pledge To America” will not become a worthless piece of paper, much as the “Contract with America” became. Things will change. He has already put out the new rules, and plans to take them seriously. We’ll see. And one thing we’ll see soon will be votes […]

 

Obama’s Mouthpiece? ABC’s Cokie Roberts Says Voters Will Make Republicans Compromise in 2011??

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

ABC News talking head Cokie Roberts was shilling for the Obama administration once again on Good Morning America during an interview with former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos. She wasn’t just shilling for Obama but tying to mold the news and public opinion to her left-wing druthers instead of giving an honest review of today’s political […]

 

Readers Choice of My Top Fifteen Posts (on The Lid) For 2010

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Since it the end of the year many of my favorite bloggers are making their choice of their favorite posts of the year. For example John Hawkins posted The 15 Most Popular Political Posts On Linkiest For 2010 and The 20 Most Popular Non-Political Links On Linkiest For 2010 this morning. As I will be […]

 

Hey, Liberals: Obama Lied to You on ‘Tax Cuts For the Rich’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Byron York assembled a collection of some of the many times that candidate Barack Obama told us he’d “roll back” those Bush tax cuts “for the rich.” Of course, we all know there was never any “tax cuts for the rich,” but from the left’s perspective, Obama has lied to them big time. Will they […]

 

Joe Miller is Dead, Will Someone Tell Him To Lie Down?

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Will somebody tell Joe Miller to lie down already, is election effort is dead as a doornail? At this point in time, his continuing efforts to get a judge to side with him is as sad as Willie Mays’ feeble effort with the New York Mets in 1973, every time you see it you just […]

 

DREAM Act Passes House: The Eight Republicans that Voted for it

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Want to dispense some bile? Well here are the names of the eight Republicans that just voted “yes” on the DREAM Act (HR 6497). Even worse are the eleven that didn’t vote at all. Ahn “Joseph” Cao, Louisiana Mike Castle, Delaware Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Florida Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Charles Djou, Hawaii Vern Ehlers, […]

 

How the GOP Will Get and Keep the Youth Vote in 2012

Posted on by Heather Bachman

There are many current reasons why the youth vote in 2012 will be overwhelming against the current president and in turn his liberal party. Through a majority of his actions he has consistently attacked this demographic. From Obamacare to the student loan takeover, it seems like the people who helped him arrive where he is […]

 

Who Funded “Nannygate” Against the Meg Whitman Campaign?

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit Who funded “Nannygate” against the Meg Whitman for California governor campaign?:  San Francisco Chronicle’s Carla Marinucci: “One of the most tantalizing mysteries in California’s 2010 gubernatorial election involved the connection between one of the state’s poorest women and one of its wealthiest.:  How did an undocumented, Mexican-born housekeeper, Nicandra Diaz Santillan, […]

 

Unions Fighting Over 2012 Democrat Convention

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Cleveland, Ohio chapter of the AFL-CIO is mad. After Cleveland was chosen as the host city for the 2012 Democrat Party convention some carped that Cleveland was not sufficiently unionized to qualify as the right place for the Democrats to hold their event. Cleveland’s AFL-CIO, however, begs to differ. The AFL-CIO was so incensed […]

 

Video: CEI’s Vincent Vernuccio on Where Union Dues Go

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Vincent Vernuccio of the Competitive Enterprise Institute appeared on Fox Business Channel’s “Follow the Money” show and talked a little bit about where the dues that union members pay goes. Fox Business only gave a snippet of the video that CEI made so here is the full video.

 

Building a Conservative Majority Starts at Home

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If conservatives intend to translate Tea Party enthusiasm into actual power they are certainly going to have begin to put like-minded folks into office and not just at the federal level. Every office from dogcatcher, to city offices, to county and state offices needs to be filled with Tea Party advocates. Conservatives cannot expect an […]

 

What We Need to Say, And Say, And Say

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If leftists are good at one thing it is staying on message. Since 2006 when Nancy Pelosi was raised to the dizzying heights of Speaker of the House of Representatives the left has been chanting over and over that the voters wanted the country to take a hard left turn. This month’s election, however, proved […]

 

SEIU’s Shady Political Cash

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Marc Theissen recently asked some very important questions about where the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is getting the mountains of cash that it spends on Democrat political campaigns. He finds that it is coming from foreign sources, but the SEIU is refusing to yield to requests for transparency. If the SEIU is getting the […]

 

Former ACORN Worker Takes Plea Deal for Vote Fraud

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Just prior to the election we discovered that in the state of Nevada the former chief of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now’s (ACORN) affiliated Project Vote organization was under indictment for voter fraud. This week we learn that Amy Busefink has coped a plea deal on charges of illegally paying “bonus” payments […]

 

Politico Says Florida’s Allen West Will Become the Alan Grayson of the Right?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Lt. Col. Allen West is one of the most stand up guys you’ll ever meet. He first came to the public eye when his interrogation of an Iraqi yielded lifesaving results even as it was a bit unorthodox. His professional handling of that incident put him on a track to run for Florida’s 22nd District […]