By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 17th at 01:50 PM  | 

Deer. Headlights. “I think I made myself clear.” Do you think so? Contribute to Bob McDonnell here.

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 17th at 12:15 PM  | 

No commentary necessary: Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Lech Walesa, has spoken out about media reports that the US has scrapped plans to install a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. “Americans have always cared only about their interests, and all other [countries] have been used for their purposes. This is another example,” Mr Walesa told TVN24. “[Poles] need to | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 15th at 11:56 AM  | 

Millions of Americans are marching, blogging, calling Congress, E-mailing friends, and writing to newspapers to say that President Obama and Congress are expanding government too far, too fast. We need to do more, because it’s clear that they’re not getting the message. The latest example: the House of Representatives is preparing to put the Department of Education into the business of creating educational curriculum for | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 14th at 11:54 AM  | 

Jobs, health care, energy, deficits, Afghanistan, the general war on terror – all these are things that Congress should be working on. Indeed, Democrats are endlessly telling us that whatever priority they have cooked up, must be passed right now! But when the Senate is actually scheduled to be in session – purportedly addressing your concerns – they are delaying official business to let Arlen | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 11th at 05:17 PM  | 

Kerry Picket has done a great job of piecing together a story that looks an awful lot like administration officials using taxpayer money to buy support for its agenda. (Full disclosure: Kerry and I both work for the Washington Times.) Check out the timeline: November 10, 2008: Former NEA chief named to Obama transition team. Bill Ivey, NEA head under Bill Clinton, will handle arts | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 11th at 12:08 PM  | 

I’ve never blogged my 9/11 experience before, but I decided to do it this year because I’m worried that as 9/11 moves further into our collective rear view mirror, too many people have forgotten what happened that day. I want to write this down and share it because I remember – and because we all must. I worked for a Member of Congress from California, | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 11th at 10:04 AM  | 

I received this press release yesterday afternoon. I assume it’s a joke. Let me rephrase that; it’s obviously a joke. But I fervently hope that this isn’t really the way Ron Kirk and Shaun Donovan intend to ‘remember’ 9/11: US TRADE REPRESENTATIVE AND HUD SECRETARY TO MARK 9/11 ANNIVERSARY BY PARTICPATING IN A SERVICE EVENT IN NEW YORK CITY New York City, NY – On | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 10th at 05:28 PM  | 

Today the White House patted itself on the back for an economic ‘stimulus’ which they claim is proving incredibly effective at restoring economic growth: Estimates of the impact of the ARRA made by comparing actual economic performance to the predictions of a plausible, statistical baseline suggest that the Recovery Act added roughly 2.3 percentage points to real GDP growth in the second quarter and is | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 9th at 06:01 PM  | 

As the debate on health care continues, liberals in Washington continue to try to convince Americans that we need government-run health care. Rather than tell the truth about long waits, denied treatments, lack of trained professionals, and bureaucratic mistakes, they try to convince listeners that the problems of the current system can only be solved by more government. With that in mind, I will present | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 8th at 04:41 PM  | 

As the debate on health care continues, liberals in Washington continue to try to convince Americans that we need government-run health care. Rather than tell the truth about long waits, denied treatments, lack of trained professionals, and bureaucratic mistakes, they try to convince listeners that the problems of the current system can only be solved by more government. With that in mind, I will present | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 4th at 11:20 AM  | 

I’ve mentioned before that Democrats in Washington would face a major problem once it became clear that they were headed for significant losses in 2010. Specifically, once everyone agrees that the window is closing on major statist change, there’s an incentive for interest groups to fight for their pet cause over others. Environmentalists, high-taxers, health-care-rationers, opponents of traditional values, and other liberal wingnuts might play | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 3rd at 10:33 PM  | 

Larry Sabato is among the most respected election analysts working today. His election predictions are consistently among the most accurate around. In fact, I’ll let Sabato summarize his credentials: In 2006, for example, a forecasting model that I developed predicted more than two months before Election Day that Democrats would gain 29 seats in the House of Representatives–a much larger pickup than most pundits and | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  September 3rd at 04:02 PM  | 

There are ample reasons to oppose the health care agenda put forth by Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats: it will force people to give up private insurance in favor of government-run care. It will lead to rationed care. It will fund abortion. And despite the president’s promises, it will add to the deficit – a deficit that’s already expected to exceed $9 trillion over | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  August 31st at 11:14 PM  | 

If you think the headline is too negative, consider that it’s more than I can say for Eric Massa. Unlike Massa, Boucher seems to regret having voted for cap-and-tax: U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher voted for cap-and-trade legislation but said he doesn’t endorse the House-passed version of the bill… “I voted for it because I had to do that to be part of the process and | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  August 28th at 05:03 PM  | 

When Arlen Specter switched parties back in April, he realized that some of his former supporters might regret having donated money to someone who was no longer a Republican. He made a concession: “Upon request, I will return campaign contributions contributed during this cycle.” That could wind up being a costly promise. Specter has raised $11 million this cycle, and only has $7.5 million on | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  August 28th at 03:38 PM  | 

I was reading Melissa’s and Michelle’s excellent pieces on the campaign by the Left to turn 9/11 into a Day of Service. Their posts got me to wondering why it is that liberals can’t leave 9/11 alone, and why their campaign rankles so. It was then that I realized: the Democrats want to ‘rehab’ 9/11 because for most Americans, 9/11 is all about good and | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  August 28th at 10:46 AM  | 

Is health care not going all that well for you, Mr. President? Maybe you ought to push the energy agenda – after all, there’s ‘broad support’ for that: Most Americans approve of the way President Obama is handling energy issues and support efforts by him and Democrats in Congress to overhaul energy policy — including the controversial cap-and-trade approach to limiting greenhouse gas emissions, according | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  August 26th at 10:30 AM  | 

It’s no surprise when a Southern Democrat in a GOP-leaning seat – someone like Parker Griffith – runs like a scalded dog from Nancy Pelosi. Indeed, if Democrats hold a narrow edge in the House after the 2010 elections – a genuine possibility – they will nervously count the Blue Dogs to see how many will withhold votes from Pelosi. But it should be surprising | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  August 24th at 12:19 PM  | 

John Murtha is a backer of universal, single-payer, government-run health care. He serves as one of Nancy Pelosi’s chief lieutenants in the House of Representatives, and she endorsed his bid to serve as House Majority Leader – effectively her right hand man. Yet despite Murtha’s power in Congress, and the importance of the debate over health care, he is ignoring calls in his district to | Read More »

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  August 21st at 03:41 PM  | 

Yesterday Dan linked to the unusual update that Charlie Cook recently issued on 2010 races. As Ace notes, Cook seems to have decided to trust his gut more than his models, and says a loss of more than 20 seats is not at all unlikely. “Many veteran Congressional election watchers, including Democratic ones, report an eerie sense of déjà vu, with a consensus forming that | Read More »