The Congress is currently confronted with a difficult debate and vote regarding student loans and higher education funding. Unless Congress acts, interest rates on outstanding loans will double in July of this year. Democrats are already spinning this debate as a win-win situation. If the measure is voted down, it creates ammunition in the general election to be used against the GOP with young voters, | Read More »
The alleged GOP “war on women” narrative being woven by Democrats including Obama can better be described as a Democratic manipulation and demeaning of women. Personally, I have always felt it was insulting to women in general to define “women’s rights” around abortion or, more generally, “reproductive rights.” Despite the alleged liberation of women, it is like saying that childbirth- or the decision to have | Read More »
There is a movement in the country to surreptitiously elect the President by popular vote under the guise of saving the Electoral College. Specifically, I am referring to the interstate compact for the popular vote of the President. According to the dynamics, once the requisite number of states sign onto the agreement by statute and their electoral votes equal 270 (the amount needed to win | Read More »
In a recent article in The Atlantic, First Amendment lawyer Marvin Ammori wrote an argument that Obama should run against the Supreme Court and make it an issue in the 2012 campaign. Starting with reasons not to do so, he quickly comes to the conclusion that Obama should discard those reasons and attack. The first reason is strategic. Obama’s approval rating stands near 47% while | Read More »
Happy Easter to all RedState readers. On this day, while there is a lull in politics- unless you are watching the Sunday morning talk shows- it would be good to look at where the race for the Presidency and the Senate stands at this point in time. Most of this is based upon the most recent polling data from a variety of sources specific to | Read More »
Barack Obama has decided to take on the Supreme Court with his rhetoric regarding the health care oral arguments. Stating confidence that the Court will not overturn a law enacted by a duly elected legislature, self-proclaimed University of Chicago Law Professor, Obama, apparently failed to teach his students a mainstay of constitutional law. Since 1803, in the case of Marbury v. Madison, the concept of | Read More »
From the many comments and editorials here and elsewhere, the probable nominee, Mitt Romney, has failed the conservative litmus test…whatever that is. He has been lumped into the great depository of the RINOs and no amount of convincing by him or others is going to change anyone’s mind. For many, his rhetoric on the campaign on the campaign trail in 2011-2012 does not match his | Read More »
In one night, while everyone’s eyes were focused on the outcome of the primary in Michigan, the GOP was delivered a potential one-two punch in their efforts to win the Senate. The first blow was the announced retirement of Olympia Snowe from her seat in Maine after her current term. Her announcement that she would not seek reelection came as a surprise and out of | Read More »
This diary is largely in response to another entry and the ensuing 75+ comments and growing, some of them caustic and demeaning. The gist of the conversation was whether the GOP should abandon the caucus system and go strictly to primaries. A lot of this discussion is in response to what seems like an endless process to determine who squares off against Obama in 2012. | Read More »
A lot has been written in the conservative blogosphere about redistricting in Florida, most of it conspiratorial regarding the 22nd District represented by Alan West. To summarize, many believe that the House redistricting chair Will Weatherford is deliberately screwing West because he is a Romney supporter. In actuality, Weatherford originally endorsed Pawlenty and switched to Romney when Pawlenty dropped out. Additionally, Florida picks up two | Read More »
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