Category: Republicans

No, Republicans Wouldn’t Repeal Health Care Reform

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

One of the most maddening arguments from overly-optimistic friends of mine goes like this: Even if the Democrats pass health care reform, Republicans can run against it and say they’d repeal it and then look like heroes when they do it. The only problem with this flawed logic? The veto pen of Barack Obama for […]

 

Tuesday Debate: Are National Worker ID Cards A Good Idea?

Posted on by William Teach

Would you be surprised to learn that Linsdey Graham is working with Chuck Schumer to push this idea? Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Under the […]

 

John Cornyn: Guess The Base Was Right About Charlie Crist After All

Posted on by John Hawkins

Time and time again, the conservative base has asked the Republican establishment to stay out of competitive primaries. They don’t listen to us. Know why? Because they’re Beltway dumb. No matter how many Arlen Specters, Harriet Miers picks for the SCOTUS, or illegal immigration disasters they maneuver themselves into over the protests of the base, […]

 

Move Over Gore, Make Way for Lindsey Graham

Posted on by Dave Blount

The Guardian, official mouthpiece of Britain’s pointy-headed establishment Left, can’t help but admit that the Nobel Prize-bedecked Al Gore is a figure of fun. Referring to the Goracle’s recent desperate rant in the friendly New York Times, Guardian contributor Dan Kennedy (a Boston journalism professor) laments that Prince Albert has not only spent his political […]

 

Why Rick Perry Won: Thoughts From A Texan

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Over at the New Ledger, Ben Domenech interviews Rick Perry and muses over Perry’s success. He says: It’s a funny thing how political predictions work. When Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison declared her candidacy for the governorship of Texas, few would’ve bet against her – popular, moderate, and established, the ex-cheerleader who loves the cameras seemed […]

 

Bush Says He Won’t Criticize Obama, As It’s Just Too Easy

Posted on by William Teach

Alright, OK, he didn’t say that last part, but, for good or bad, President Bush 43 shows exactly why folks on the Right supported him even in light of his Democrat-lite domestic agenda: he’s a classy guy who doesn’t play the blame game FORT WORTH, Texas | Former President George W. Bush turned to his […]

 

Charlie Crist On Health Care: You Trust This Guy? Do You Trust The GOP?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Too often during the Bush years, Republicans became enamored with the idea of compromising for compromise’s sake. Good idea, bad idea, it really didn’t matter because it wasn’t about doing what was right for the country, looking out for their constituents, or even helping the Republican Party. No, no, to the contrary, as long as […]

 

Multiplicity II, Starring Janeane Garofalo As Andie MacDowell

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

During the Bush #43 administration, the left really went to town with their practice of stealing pages from the conservative playbook that they had preceding years. But much like the cloning machine in Michael Keaton’s “Multiplicity”, the copy of a copy of a copy tended to lose more than a little crispness once it had been cloned. Here’s a brief, and very likely incomplete recap

 

Cap And Tax May Be Gone, Replaced With “Just Tax, Baby!”

Posted on by William Teach

It’s a good thing the Washington Post is there to tell us these kinds of things on a Saturday when most people are not watching: Senators to propose abandoning cape-and-trade Three key senators are engaged in a radical behind-the-scenes overhaul of climate legislation, preparing to jettison the broad “cap-and-trade” approach that has defined the legislative […]

 

Crist Is Toast: ‘Goodbye, Charlie’

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

The American Spectator‘s Florida-based correspondent Larry Thornberry: TAMPA — “Moderate” Florida governor Charlie Crist’s Senate campaign is circling the drain. And it’s mostly his own fault. Crist, a formerly conservative politician who “grew in office” after becoming governor in 2007, went through a 50-point lead over conservative former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio faster than […]

 

Fiscal Responsibility Lasted Two Weeks In Senate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Two weeks ago the U.S. Senate passed new rules that would require new spending to be offset somewhere else in the budget, the so-called paygo rule. They did this because Democrats and Obama got tired of being called big spending socialists and wanted the veneer of fiscal responsibility with which to cloak themselves. It lasted […]

 

McCain And I Agree? On New Regulations, No Less? The Government Should Regulate Supplements.

Posted on by John Hawkins

One of the great ironies of heavily over-regulated, overlawyered, and over-nannied society is that the makers of dietary supplements are allowed to make wild, completely unsupportable claims about their products while the government sits around with their thumbs up their behinds. I’m not going to sit here and tell you that people selling Yohimbe and […]

 

McCain Outflanks Moonbat Messiah on the Left

Posted on by Dave Blount

As the global warming farce collapses in ruins, with even a main perpetrator confessing that there has been no warming over the last 15 years, and even the shameless Al Gore laying low, there are few dupes clueless enough to continue buying into the most expensive hoax in pseudoscientific history. John “Lettuce” McCain — whose […]

 

Health Care Summit Sum Up So Far–UPDATED

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Obama: Whatever you can do, we’ve done better. Pelosi: People are sad. Reid: People are sad and Republicans suck. Alexander: Here are the CBO facts. Obama to Alexander: You lie. Coburn, MD: We should cut costs. Baucus: Mumble, mumble. Incoherent gibberish. UPDATED: Obama: I won. UPDATED AGAIN: It is my sense that the Democrats want […]

 

When Did Dems Hate Reconciliation? When Bush was Prez, of Course

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senate Democratic Majority leader Harry Reid is spitting more of his venom at the Republicans saying that they should “stop crying” about the Democrats desire to use the “nuclear option” — a process called reconciliation — to pass Obamacare despite that most Americans are against the bill. Reid says that reconciliation is common and that […]

 

Can Tea Party Help Candidates Raise Money?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Republican Joe Walsh won his party’s nomination for the Illinois 8th District Congressional seat this February. He’ll face Democrat incumbent Melissa Bean in November. But as of right this minute he’s broke. Mr. Walsh is fond of calling himself the “tea party candidate,” but with his empty campaign coffers this is an excellent time to […]

 

John Boehner’s Press Guy Humiliates The White House On Health Care

Posted on by John Hawkins

Folks, very rarely do I post press releases/emails from political operatives, but this one that I received today from Michael Steel, John Boehner’s press secretary, was so full of awesome that it just had to go up. Enjoy! Folks — Yesterday, after Press Secretary Robert Gibbs offered to post the Republican health care plan on […]

 

Glenn Beck Vs. Limbaugh and Bennett On The Republican Party. I’m With Beck On This One.

Posted on by John Hawkins

I caught Glenn Beck’s speech at CPAC live and enjoyed it immensely. However, amongst other bloggers, the reviews were decidedly mixed. No big deal — to each his own. But, there’s one particular criticism that has been aimed at Beck’s speech that I think is off the mark. First off, here’s what Beck said about […]

 

Scott Brown Votes Yes On Jobs Bill: The Sexy Allure Of Bipartisanship

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Are Scott Brown voters betrayed with his vote for the Jobs Bill that he helped to get out of cloture yesterday? Dan Riehl says: When Scott Brown starts crafting national health care legislation, or sounding like the liberal lion of the Senate, get back to me. Until then, it’s Massachusetts. We’re still a long way […]

 

Newt Might Try To Co-Opt The Tea Party Movement But It Won’t Work

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Donald Douglas has an excellent take-down of the LA Time’s perspective on the Contract FROM America verses Newt Gingrich’s Contract For America back in 1994. Go read the whole thing. It is clear to me that Newt very badly wants to harness the energy of the Tea Party movement but be let off the hook […]

 

The Mount Vernon Statement, A Poor Man’s Manifesto… VERY Poor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A group made up of some of the biggest names in contemporary conservatism got together a few days ago and crafted what they are calling the “Mount Vernon Statement,” a manifesto of sorts meant to give direction to today’s conservative movement. Put succinctly, it fails to fill the bill. Taken as a whole this statement […]

 

IRS Plane Attacker Part of ‘Right Wing,’ Christmas Bomber Just a ‘Lone Wolf’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

No clearer difference can be seen in how the Old Media and its left-wing compatriots treat mass killers, terrorists and nutjobs than the way Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab and Joe Stack have been portrayed by the Old Media and the left. Abdulmutallab, the jihadi Christmas Bomber, was treated as an aberration unconnected with any larger group […]

 

CST: Senate Will Attempt To Pass Cap And Tax This Coming Week

Posted on by William Teach

Collapsing Science Today: Yes, you did read that headline correctly. And, yes, it was less than a month ago when Obama stood up in front of Congress and the American People and state uncatagorically that the economy and jobs were the top priorities for the government to focus on. A pledge that less time than […]

 

Happy Anniversary, Stimulus Package! Boondoggle: Great NRSC Ad

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

This is an excellent ad by the Senate Republicans, released to coincide with the one year anniversary of the boondoggle known as the stimulus package. You know, the one that has served to create or save nothing but debt and further unemployment. This ad needs to run everywhere, and often.:  In fact, it needs to […]

 

Liz Cheney: Biden Has Famously Tenuous Relationship With Reality

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

I had the great privilege of meeting Liz Cheney and hearing her speak at the Red State convention in Atlanta this past August. She’s surprisingly tiny, but, in that small package, is an incredible mind and a hell of a backbone. I adore her and am so glad to see she is becoming an increasingly […]

 

Young Republicans 2010 book me?

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

Conservative New Media booked (me) “Sharise Parviz” – to speak at the 2010 Young Republican Annual Convention; February 19-21st – Santa Clara, California. – seems they want me to make a Conservative impression on the upcoming next generation of the Republican Party! Come join me for a grand ol’ round up! Speakers include: Brad Goehring, […]

 

“Conformo-Radicalism:” Strike A Pose, There’s Nothing To It

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

The politics of rebellion for its own sake in America has morphed considerably over the years. In his latest column, Mark Steyn describes the current utilitarian pose for the masses as “conformo-radical”, but to understand how it got there, let’s set the Wayback Machine for almost a century ago, when the first round of American “progressives” walked the earth.

 

Bada Bing, NJ Governor Christie: Fiscally Responsible AND a Backbone!

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

I was born and raised in New Jersey; moved down to South Carolina 5 years ago. Prior to that, I lived in New Jersey my entire life. I left because it became impossible to make ends meet there, primarily due to an insanely high cost of living. That can be blamed, in part, on the […]

 

Decadent Democrats And Republican Bums

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

This photo [Link here] is sure to cause controversy, but nicely encapsulates the perception of the Left these days. Did the American people really forget how vile this bunch can be when in power? I’ve considered this quite a bit. Maybe. Really, I think they remembered, hated the Republicans more for their betrayal of principles […]

 

Most People Angry And Upset With Washington? Who Knew?

Posted on by William Teach

Hard to believe, eh? What could possibly make the American people so upset and angry in the era of Hopey Changey? Two-thirds of Americans are “dissatisfied” or downright “angry” about the way the federal government is working, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. On average, the public estimates that 53 cents of every […]