Knee Capping Mitch McConnell: Lisa Murkowski Concedes to Joe Miller

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 31st at 10:24 PM  | 

Lisa Murkowski is conceding the senate primary in Alaska to RedState and Sarah Palin endorsed Joe Miller. This news is bigger than Lisa Murkowski. While Establishment Republicans will bristle at it, this is a near total kneecapping of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, not to mention another rejection of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Consider this inside baseball fact: McConnell has chosen as his loyal | Read More »

Now This Is Just Dumb

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 31st at 09:46 PM  | 

If you ever want to see how liberal pundits try to gin up division within conservative ranks, look no further than this bit of beclowning. Sean Hannity did not talk about Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally on Sean Hannity’s show. Really. Apparently, because other Fox hosts did, Sean Hannity is supposed to do it too. I didn’t realize that Glenn and Sean had editorial control | Read More »

Barack Obama Monotones

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 31st at 09:20 PM  | 

Barack Obama again waited for Rush Limbaugh to go on vacation before addressing the public from the Oval Office. Like the last speech, this speech was, for three-quarters of it, dry and monotone — President Spock addressing the nation without emotion. Finally, at the end, Spockobama gave into emotion and showed some talking about the troops. Throughout though, the speech was a rather pathetic speech. | Read More »

Barack Obama Speaks

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 31st at 07:58 PM  | 

Not since February of 2009 has Barack Obama spoken in depth about Iraq. Naturally, he waits for Rush Limbaugh to go on vacation to it — notice he always waits for Rush to go on vacation before addressing the nation from the Oval Office Beige Room. Here’s our traditional Cover-It-Live box. Have at it. Barack Obama Speaks From the Oval Beige Room

A tale of two polls: Colorado edition

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  August 31st at 04:00 PM  | 

It seems like most of the third party and independent spoilers this year are harming Democrats, but the Constitution Party’s Tom Tancredo is clearly hurting Republican Dan Maes in the Colorado Governor’s race, currently throwing the lead to Democrat John Hickenlooper. But two new polls on that race, from Magellan Strategies via Real Clear Politics and Rasmussen Reports are so different that I think we | Read More »

We Have An Answer

By: streiff (Diary)  |  August 31st at 03:08 PM  | 

From Public Policy Polling, the official pollster of DailyKos: “We’ll start rolling out our Ohio poll results tomorrow but there’s one finding on the poll that pretty much sums it up: by a 50-42 margin voters there say they’d rather have George W. Bush in the White House right now than Barack Obama.”

Photoshop Contest: Oval Office Makeover

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  August 31st at 02:00 PM  | 

Judging by twitter, the Oval Office makeover is the MOST IMPORTANT STORY EVAH! Therefore, we’re having a photoshop contest. Because Bush. Here is the link to the original photo. Da Rules: Don’t be profane, don’t be disgusting, don’t be crazy. This is for fun. Da Reward: Winner will be chosen by me whenever I feel like it. If you are selected as the winner, you’ll | Read More »

The Extreme Oval Office Makeover Open Thread.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 31st at 12:39 PM  | 

You know, when I read that they redid the Oval Office, I shrugged. Bad timing? Sure! Inappropriate in a recession? No doubt. Historical precedent… no doubt, and I’m sure that the Left will do their best to find some, if they haven’t already.  So roll your eyes and move, as they say, on… right? Then I saw a picture. What the heck is this, a | Read More »

John Callahan (D CAND, PA-15) Question video surfaces.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 31st at 10:28 AM  | 

People may remember that back in July a report came out asking what role Democratic candidate John Callahan (mayor of Bethlehem, PA) had in the investigation of a 2007 Superbowl weekend car accident involving Callahan’s brother-in-law Dino Cantelmi. The accident involved Cantelmi going down the wrong way on a one-way street and smacking into a police cruiser, sending the patrolman in it to the hospital; | Read More »

The Joe Miller Moneybomb

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 31st at 10:12 AM  | 

Friends, there is a moneybomb underway for Joe Miller in Alaska. He needs all the support he can get right now. The odds of victory are in his favor, but he’s going to take a huge financial hit to keep the NRSC and Murkowski from stealing his victory. Support Joe with what you can. I know money is tight. But we need this guy in | Read More »

The Blaze

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 31st at 09:46 AM  | 

The Blaze is off and to the races. I really like the look of this site. It’s kind of a Huffington Post-y sort of Big Government/Daily Caller-y sort of news and blog site. It is the first of its kind in a while, since maybe the Daily Beast, that has a site design I instantly like — good white space, good layout, easy navigation, etc. | Read More »

Sebelius counsels… ‘Reeducation’ for Obamacare.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 31st at 09:00 AM  | 

“Reeducation.” Reeducation. Yeah, sure, using that term will save at-risk Democrats in swing seats and states. Now, it’s important to note here that HHS Secretary Sebelius was being inarticulate and stupidly insensitive here, not threatening.  She didn’t mean to evoke the Cold War era specter of Communist concentration camps where enemies of the State were systematically tortured into reflexively supporting whatever Dear Leader was in | Read More »

Morning Briefing for August 31, 2010

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 31st at 04:45 AM  | 

RedState Morning Briefing For August 31, 2010 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Counting The Deaths On Commander-in-Chief Obama’s Impotent Hands 2. A Free Society And The Muslim Conundrum 3. Gallup: Generic ballot shows record Republican lead 4. Got cancer – and millions of dollars? Nancy Pelosi can help! 5. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D, TX-30) diverted scholarship money | Read More »

Tech at Night: FBI, Facebook, FTC, Free Speech, Apple

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  August 31st at 02:45 AM  | 

Good evening (it’s still Monday night for those of us in the west at least). Let’s start off tonight by remembering when Barack Obama and the democrats complained about so-called domestic spying under the Bush administration? Well, a team of organizations went after the FBI for watching possibly terrorist Islamic organizations. The FBI responded by saying they don’t need to already believe an organization is | Read More »

Anti-Semitic Jerk Resurfaces

By: lexington_concord (Diary)  |  August 30th at 09:54 PM  | 

Yesterday over at NewsRealBlog, Jenn Q. Public and our own Lori Ziganto posted this humorous piece, lampooning the inevitable trainwreck that is Meghan McCain’s forthcoming book.  It’s definitely worth the few minutes it will take you to read it, especially if you like a good laugh.  In response, some jackass writing at a site called politicalbyline.com felt that an appropriate response would be to call | Read More »