By: briangoettl (Diary)  |  July 8th at 06:01 PM  | 

Charles Grassley, the ranking republican on the Senate Finance Committee, called for hearings on the appointment of Dr. Berwick to head the federal medicare system two weeks ago.  Democratic Senator Max Baucus who heads the committee refused Grassley’s request.  (As usual Barack Obama and Robert Gibbs lied to the American public by claiming that the GOP blocked the confirmation process). Now, Baucus is condemning the | Read More »

By: briangoettl (Diary)  |  July 7th at 10:25 PM  | 

The title to Ann Coulter’s latest article on Townhall.com is entitled “Bill Kristol should Resign”.  In the article, Ms. Coulter advances the same arguments about Michael Steele and the problems in Afghanistan that I put forth here on Red State on July 2nd.  For instance, Ms. Coulter agrees that Michael Steele was right.  She also asserts that we won in Afghanistan under Bush and turned | Read More »

By: briangoettl (Diary)  |  July 6th at 10:51 PM  | 

The Conservative Edge began writing about the causes of what we now know as the Great Recession two years ago.  At the time, the argument fell of deaf ears because conservatives and Republicans were fooling themselves that there was no recession.  They continued deluding themselves until the great financial meltdown in September of 2008.  Then, they went into shell shock and could only respond to | Read More »

By: briangoettl (Diary)  |  July 6th at 09:22 PM  | 

The Obama Administration launched a legal attack against the citizens of Arizona over its recently enacted immigration law that makes illegal immigration illegal.  According to the Obama Admininstration, the law would conceivably create a patchwork of local immigration policy that would be detrimental to the federal framework.  Here is a key portion of a story about the lawsuit from The Hill: The government’s court complaint | Read More »

By: briangoettl (Diary)  |  July 2nd at 10:37 PM  | 

For the past eighteen months, I have been arguing that we are fighting a second war in Afghanistan to vindicate Barack Obama’s campaign rhetoric.  In case my fellow conservatives have short memories, let me refresh them. We won the first war in Afghanistan.  We deposed the Taliban and established a democratically elected government.  Then, we left the peace keeping to NATO.  But, Barack Obama and | Read More »

By: briangoettl (Diary)  |  June 29th at 10:34 PM  | 

The Conservative Edge (www.conservativeedge.com) has put together reports from Bloomberg News and Rolling Stone magazine, and discovered that the Obama Administration received reports directly from BP about serious issues with the Deep Water Horizon in February and March of 2010.  An incident which occurred on March 10th, 2010 was called a “show stopper” by an Interior Department drilling expert who told Bloomberg News that BP | Read More »