By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 21st at 03:40 PM  | 

Right Change targets Barack Obama’s plan to raise taxes by trillions to pay for huge new spending plans and more bailouts:

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 21st at 01:56 PM  | 

I’m not undecided — as this homeowner is — but I’ve had enough of political solicitations, too. Nevertheless, as a resident of a ‘swing state,’ I can count on seeing millions more in commercial advertising before November 4. Look at the bright side: we may have to put up with weeks of advertising, but we also still have a few weeks to donate to worthy | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 20th at 10:05 PM  | 

Red State readers are by now well aware that John McCain was a cosponsor of legislation to impose new and tighter regulations on Fannie Mae, which passed the Senate Banking Committee in 2005 with unanimous Republican support. The legislation never made it to the full Senate for a vote because Senate Democrats refused to agree on terms for debate. This is a critical story to | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 20th at 09:57 PM  | 

You really don’t need any commentary for this one. But tell me: if you didn’t know this came from a ‘respectable member of the community,’ wouldn’t you guess it came from someone like Ted Kaczynski?

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 20th at 03:17 PM  | 

House Democrats have washed their hands of Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL) as quickly as their Republican predecessors disowned Mark Foley (R-FL). But where Denis Hastert, John Boehner and other Republican leaders were hounded by questions about what they knew of the Foley matter, the press is giving Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Chris Van Hollen and others a free ride.

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 20th at 02:04 PM  | 

Mary Katharine Ham posts a video of Jon Stewart doing a comedy routine in Boston last week. Like all good liberals, Stewart is pretty upset with Palin’s negative tone and divisive language, and he’s not about to turn the other cheek.

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 20th at 01:29 PM  | 

Barack Obama has been pretty clear in expressing his views on the Iraq war: The sacrifices of war are immeasurable. **It was not impossible to see back then that we might arrive at the place we’re at today. I said then that a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics would lead to a US occupation of undetermined | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 18th at 04:33 PM  | 

This afternoon I attended the McCain rally in Woodbridge, Virginia. The crowd was quite boisterous and enthusiastic — even when MCCain commented that the polls put him about 6 points down right now. There were plenty of signs in the crowd, and while many of them must have been prepared by the campaign (a common practice), there were clearly some home-made ones. I snapped a | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 18th at 08:42 AM  | 

Barack Obama’s meandering, misleading, and confused answer on drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants was one of the highlights of the Democratic primary debates. Forced to choose between ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ Obama stammered and filibustered before finally answering ‘yes but..’. That position is overwhelmingly unpopular among American voters. A CNN poll last year showed that more than three-quarters of all Americans oppose the idea. That being | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 17th at 09:23 PM  | 

Keith Fimian is running to succeed Congressman Tom Davis in Virginia’s 11th District. The most notable thing about his race so far has been the extraordinary attacks that Democrats have leveled against him for being a Roman Catholic. Today Fimian made news with a call to jail the members of the House and Senate banking committees: Republican congressional candidate Keith Fimian called for members of | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 17th at 02:45 PM  | 

An ordinary citizen speaks up about how federal policies affect his family and his pocketbook, and bloggers dive into his personal life. His finances, his address, his background and family connections are all splashed all over the internet as bloggers line up to debate whether the instant celebrity is all he appears to be. Many feel he’s concealing enough about his background to make his | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 17th at 02:18 PM  | 

When Tim Mahoney (D-FL) announced his bid for Congress in 2006, he had little reason to expect he would win. He was running against a popular incumbent in a safe seat. When Mark Foley self-destructed he wound up a surprise winner, and it was only a few months before the former businessman publicly complained about not liking his job, even though (we now know) he | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 16th at 03:04 PM  | 

Senator Chris Dodd (D-FNMA) is convening a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee today, on the genesis of the current economic crisis. The odd thing about the hearing, as the Wall Street Journal points out, is that Dodd is only allowing testimony from witnesses who agree with his narrative — which helpfully ignores his role in the crash:

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 16th at 02:38 PM  | 

This video appears to have been put together by a Belgian:

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 15th at 08:31 AM  | 

It’s a good thing Tim Mahoney is a member of a party that respects women and has an enlightened view on gender issues. A Republican caught in flagrante delicto might have handled this in a misogynystic or sexist way:

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 12th at 01:39 PM  | 

There’s no defending a comparatively few violent criminals who think molotov cocktails are an acceptable form of political expression. But what do you say about hundreds of liberal Democrats from one Maryland community who want to boycott a business whose owner dares to show his support for John McCain?

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 11th at 01:28 PM  | 

The lamestream media has been doing a pretty good job of shielding Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats from blame in the current credit crisis. It’s therefore no surprise that when Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) was called out for it by Steve Moore, her first instinct was to lie:

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 10th at 01:47 PM  | 

The Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary reports today on the sudden surge in support for California’s Proposition 8, which would restore the traditional definition of marriage: Opponents of California’s anti-gay marriage proposition have been playing hardball. Back in July, Attorney General Jerry Brown reworded the ballot measure to indicate an attempt to “eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry,” which supporters complained cast it | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 10th at 12:06 PM  | 

Veteran NBC political commetator Chuck Todd recently revealed a secret about how Senate Democrats view Al Franken: I have had multiple very high level Democrats on the Hill sit there with their fingers crossed. They are scared of Franken winning. More importantly they fear that if Franken wins then every liberal Hollywood type is going to say ‘hey I can run for office too…’ It’s | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 3rd at 08:18 PM  | 

The latest polling from Minnesota shows Al Franken falling far behind in his bid to upset Norm Coleman. It seems that his salacious writings, his record of lawbreaking and hypocrisy, and his negative tone is taking its toll. With that in mind, Franken has gotten his wife — whose struggle with alcohol make her a deeply sympathetic figure — to reintroduce him and testify to | Read More »