http://www.redstate.com/bluey Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:53:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Americans are rightly concerned that a government-run health care plan will lead to changes with their own health insurance. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to draw the conclusion that employers will drop coverage once the government starts meddling with the financial incentives. This is a problem for the White House, ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/08/11/you-wont-be-able-to-keep-your-insurance/ Politicians are usually known for kissing babies. But not R. Creigh Deeds. The Democrat candidate for Virginia governor is attacking Republican Bob McDonnell's pro-life views in a desperate attempt to woo female voters and excite his liberal base. Tomorrow he will rally with NARAL to promote his pro-abortion position. Deeds previewed ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/08/09/deeds-stakes-campaign-on-killing-babies/ Call it Barack Obama backlash. Yesterday, as I knocked on doors for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, I encountered a variety of interesting folks. Many were willing to listen, some were desperately seeking alternatives to the Democrat Party, and, in a handful of cases, a few were eager to share ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/08/09/obama-anxiety-gives-bob-mcdonnell-momentum-in-virginia/ President Obama told the American people in January that the stimulus would work immediately in his sales pitch to Congress. Now that it's failed to produce jobs -- and the 9.5% unemployment rate is worse than the administration's projections -- Obama is changing his talking points. This is how you ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/07/17/obama-vs-obama-on-the-stimulus/ President Obama today hailed passage of a Democrat-sponsored bill in the Senate HELP Committee as a positive development in his quest to impose government-run health care on America. He even had the gall to suggest it was a bipartisan bill -- despite the fact not a single Republican voted for ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/07/15/this-isnt-bipartisanship-mr-president/ Is the White House's well-oiled communications machine coming undone less than six months after President Obama took office? Based on the past few days of mounting criticism regarding Obama's top achievement -- passage of the $787 billion stimulus -- it appears that cracks are beginning to form. The administration wants to ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/07/08/stimulus-puts-obama-in-tough-territory/ All it took was a video camera, 10,000 pennies and a little creativity. The result was a viral video that earned 28-year-old Matthias Shapiro of Utah the first-ever "Grassroots Logic Award" from the Republican National Committee. Shapiro's videos, which use pennies to put into context President Obama's spending, earned him a ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/07/07/meet-matthias-shapiro-penny-aficionado/ Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), ranking member on the House Budget Committee, has done the American people a great service as the debate commences on President Barack Obama's budget. We've all heard the argument from congressional Republicans: "It spends too much, borrows too much and taxes too much." Put those words ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/03/17/obamas-bloated-budget-in-pictures/ The U.S. Senate had the opportunity tonight to give 1,700 low-income children in the District of Columbia the chance for a better education. Instead, voting mostly along party lines, 58 senators sided with liberal special interests to defeat an amendment saving the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), who ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/03/10/58-senators-vote-against-poor-dc-kids/ Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was unable to secure the 60 votes needed for cloture on the $410 billion omnibus spending bill tonight, setting the stage for a showdown Monday on the future of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. Democrat leaders tried in vain to prevent amendments to the omnibus. ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/03/05/dc-school-choice-hangs-in-the-balance/ The audacity of congressional Democrats is absolutely astonishing. Less than two months into the 111th Congress, they have made one of their top targets ending a popular scholarship program for 1,700 low-income D.C. students. The $7,500 scholarships are the best thing that's happened for District of Columbia students in the past ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/02/26/liberals-wage-war-on-1700-poor-dc-kids/ The best thing President Barack Obama can do for the economy is keep quiet. A day after delivering an address that won widespread praise from the chattering class, Obama's big-government policies were rejected by traders on Wall Street. Wall Street's negative reaction to Obama is nothing new. Ever since Election Day, ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/02/25/when-obama-speaks-the-market-tanks/ The Senate is poised to pass its version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act today, setting the stage for a conference to reconcile its differences with the House. Throughout the debate over the economic stimulus bill, there has been plenty of talk about transparency but little done to achieve ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/02/10/transparency-we-can-believe-in/ President Barack Obama's nominee for deputy secretary of state said in written congressional testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that taxpayer funding of abortions is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment in the United States. The nominee, James B. Steinberg, was defending Obama's repeal of the Mexico City Policy in ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/01/27/obama-nominee-says-first-amendment-protects-taxpayer-funded-abortions/ Republicans hadn't even wrapped up their economic hearing this morning with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (read his testimony) and former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman when congressional Democrats released the first version of their so-called stimulus. And to no one's surprise, it's full of government spending that will do ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/01/15/draft-of-stimulus-is-chock-full-of-spending/ President-elect Barack Obama believes government spending is the best way to bailout America from its economic woes, and liberals in Congress are having no trouble finding ways to spend your hard-earned money. The price tag of the so-called stimulus plan has steadily increased from $775 billion last week to $850 billion ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/01/15/new-deal-was-a-raw-deal-for-america/ Meg Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay and a potential candidate for California governor, will join Mitt Romney at a hearing Republicans are holding this week on the economy. House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is bringing together a star-studded cast for Thursday’s testimony. The hearing comes a week after ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/01/13/whitman-to-testify-at-economic-hearing/ [Correction: Steele does not make exceptions on the issue of life. A report in the New York Times incorrectly stated his position.] A week ago I laid out the case against Michael Steele for chairman of the Republican National Committee. Tonight the candidate himself called me to talk about my criticism ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/01/12/michael-steele-the-inclusive-candidate/ The first major policy battle of President-elect Barack Obama's administration will set the tone for the next year for the Republican minority. With that in mind, House GOP Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is pulling out the big guns. Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will testify at 10 a.m. Thursday at ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/01/10/romney-to-headline-economic-hearing/ House Republican Whip Eric Cantor wants you to have a seat at the table as Congress debates the best way to promote economic growth. The Virginia Republican opened his website to public comments and encouraged citizens to send video submissions via YouTube. Cantor has made transparency an important factor in the ... http://www.redstate.com/bluey/2009/01/09/how-would-you-stimulate-the-economy/