Jared Polis May Have Violated House Rules Following High Park Fire Visit

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  June 19th at 02:00 PM  | 

Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) may have violated House ethics rules last week when he used his official .gov website to broadcast the details of his visit to the High Park Fire Command Post, which is located outside of the congressional district Polis’ currently represents. Both the House ethics and administration committees have issued clear guidance prohibiting the use of official resources for out-of-district events. The | Read More »

*UPDATE* Weiner Weekend Open Thread: DWS Calls for Weiner [D-NY] to Pull Out

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  June 11th at 02:15 PM  | 

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, has released the following statement [via CNN] calling for Rep. Anthony Weiner [D-NY] to resign in light of his recent moral and ethical challenges. “It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner’s continued service in Congress is untenable. This sordid affair has become | Read More »

Is Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin (D) Violating Campaign Finance Laws?

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  April 25th at 02:57 PM  | 

Promoted from diaries. – ML A year ago Vt. State Senator, now Vt. Governor, Peter Shumlin (D) was advocating tougher Campaign Finance Reform on the heels of the, now legendary, Citizen United decision.  In fact, here is then Sen. Shumlin being quoted on the importance of new legislation to curb “outside expenditures” by corporations. It’s very tough to get politicians to change campaign finance laws when it affects | Read More »

Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D) Embraces the Race Card

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  September 24th at 01:32 PM  | 

That was like a double whammy race card. “Vote for me because I am Hispanic and I support immigration. P.S. My opponent is from Vietnam and he’s coming to take our jobs.” Her opponent? Van Tran. As luck would have it, Tran is trying to reach a fundraising goal of $8k by Sept 30th. [hint hint] For more information on this race check out Neil’s | Read More »

Megyn Kelly Spanks Kirsten Powers

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  July 13th at 06:00 PM  | 

Earlier today, Megyn Kelly of Fox News had Kirsten Powers on to talk about the Justice Department’s handling of the Voter Intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party(NBPP). Specifically, Brad Sherman’s [Democrat representing CA-27], reaction to a constituent question on the subject. For a bit a background, members of the NBPP committed voter intimidation, one of which is Samir Shabazz. This is not in | Read More »

Conservative Resurgence Affecting Democrats in 2010

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  June 14th at 01:42 PM  | 

So, let me set the stage: Jennifer Bendery and John McArdle write an article on Roll Call [subscription required] on the the political dynamics of President Clinton being a campaign proxy for President Obama throughout the 2010 cycle. The article does well in explaining were the public and Obama disagree on policy and how Clinton manages to somewhat close that gap. For example… Clinton is | Read More »

Teachers’ Union Prays for Gov. Christie’s Death

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  April 9th at 11:00 AM  | 

It’s funny the way fear can manifest itself sometimes. Take HCR for example: when the Democrats in Congress were in fear of losing the debate, that fear manifested itself as a violent attack on an unarmed black man perpetrated by purple clad union thugs. More recently, we saw this fear manifest itself as a concocted tale of bigotry and an over active salivary gland on | Read More »

2 ½ Years to Live

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  April 30th at 12:10 PM  | 

 Cross -Posted at The Minority Report In 2½ years I am going to die.  I know, it shocked me too.  I had a cancer earlier in my life and with the work of some really fine doctors it went into remission during the 80′s.  The cancer is a very rare form of cancer, one of the first cases was in France in 1715 and the Doctor who treated it | Read More »