To hear the pundits talk, there is an impending royal battle developing over raising the debt ceiling sometime in February. Having given in on raising taxes in the “fiscal cliff” battle, Republicans won a sort-of victory by taking off the table giving the President control over the debt limit ceiling, something he demanded through his surrogate, Tim Geitner, in negotiations. That proposal resulted in some | Read More »
On Election Day, as I was following the returns from around the country on Politico (I was following all the races, not just President), somewhere on the lower part of their list of articles was one entitled, “The Real Winner: More Gridlock.” This was published before any votes had been tallied and was the consensus of political “experts.” This was based on an assumption that | Read More »
With most of the primary elections for down-ticket races all but over, it is time to take stock of the Senate races and possible control of the upper chamber. First, let’s dispense with some of the obvious races although they may change by the time November rolls around albeit the chances of that happening are quite low. For the Democratic Party, they will likely win | Read More »
Erick Erickson’s article regarding the study conducted by the Club for Growth and the Tea Party needs a little more explanation than can be handled in a response in the “comments” section of that article. In a way, it is a little misleading to a certain degree. But first, we have to go back to 2010 and look at the strength of the Tea Party | Read More »
My favorite Democratic moonbat- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)- was recently on Fox News talking about the Ryan budget plan. Incidentally, liberals are now using the proposal by portraying it as a Republican “war on the poor.” Ed Schultz recently dedicated half his show to the idea and found an accepting voice in E.J. Dionne which is illustrative of MSNBC’s fair and balanced approach. It is | Read More »
On any given day- whether here at RedState, Townhall or any other conservative website as well as any liberal website- the majority of discourse is on either general topics like pending legislation/proposals OR Presidential politics. While we here at RS play pundit regarding the GOP nomination and put our two cents worth forward in support of our particular favorite nominee, there is an equally important | Read More »
As many may be aware, New Jersey recently lost out on a potential $400 million grant under the Race to the Top program. Ten states qualified with Ohio being the tenth and New Jersey missing by three points under their scoring system. The reason New Jersey lost is that they included State education figures for the years 2010 and 2011 instead of 2008 and | Read More »
Most of this is based upon recent polling data in an effort to estimate Republican gains in the Senate in 2010. Of the 37 seats up for grabs, 19 are currently held by Democrats. An analysis show the following: Safe Democratic likely victories: Oregon (Wyden), Hawaii (Inouye), Wisconsin (Feingold), West Virgina, Maryland (Mikulski), New York (Schumer and Gillibrand), Connecticut (Blumenthal replacing Dodd) and Vermont | Read More »
Let’s start with how Congress can deliberately mangle the language by coming up with cute acronyms for the bills they write. Case in point: the DISCLOSE Act, or Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending In Elections Act. Technically, wouldn’t it be the DISBYCLOSIE Act? But, I digress. This goofy piece of legislation was thankfully filibustered in the Senate by Republicans. The story of | Read More »
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