From the diaries by Erick. To quote my friend ‘Ironman’, “If an uncontested re-election doesn’t give John Thune the political courage to say no to BP and the ethanol robber barons, then he has no business getting near the White House when the successor to Obama needs to stop trillions in red ink.” ————- The ethanol mandates are one of the most regressive socialist interventions | Read More »
Let’s face it. The Democrats get away with murder. They pick an industry; from health care to energy, financial services to mortgages, and set a time bomb to blow it up through taxation, regulation, and or litigation. It often takes years, maybe even decades to destroy that industry by raising costs of its delivery and by extension, its price tag for consumers. By the time | Read More »
Everyone is busy analyzing what the Democrats have learned from the midterm elections. The real question is what Republicans have learned from this election. Within 25 minutes, 8 Republicans voted to continue the practice of pork barrel spending, while 15 voted to give the FDA unlimited power to shut down food producers and cut jobs. Here is a list of the 8 Republicans who voted | Read More »
Recently, reports have been circulating in the Capitol Hill newspapers that conservatives are planning to challenge Dick Lugar and other RINOs in 2012. Last week, former Missouri Senator John Danforth gave the following assessment of a potential primary challenge to Lugar: “If Dick Lugar, having served five terms in the U.S. Senate and being the most respected person in the Senate and the leading authority | Read More »
In yet another example of overzealous land confiscation on the part of the DOI, the WSJ is reporting that Interior has “designated 187,000 square miles of offshore sea ice and other areas as critical habitat for polar bears“. This act will severely hamper drilling activity in that large, oil rich region. Although the designation doesn’t automatically close off the land to development, it calls on | Read More »
The drive-by media is attempting to gin up political hay for Democrats by accusing Andy Harris of hypocrisy. Last week, Andy Harris asked if he can pre-buy his health coverage from the FEHBP because he was told that he would not be insured until February. In response, the government run Democrat lobby, AFSCME, is calling upon Republicans to opt out of the “government-provided” health care | Read More »
When the Republican led 112th congress is sworn in next January, the magnitude of the turnover will be most evident on the Judiciary Committee. Instead of radical John Conyers heading the committee, we will have border champion Lamar Smith as chairman. Also, instead of Zoe Lofgren chairing the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, Steve King will lead that panel. Today, the Miami Herald is reporting | Read More »
The government’s ethanol mandates embody everything that is wrong with Democrats, RINOs, and Marxists. It is an unconstitutional regulation that has enriched a few special interests with $7.7 billion taxpayer dollars, regressively drove up the cost of food and fuel; and by extension all products and services that rely on fuel based delivery. The tax credits for energy producers who blend fuel with ethanol have | Read More »
We knew that it wouldn’t take too long for Joe Manchin to shed his conservative camouflage and leave it behind in the Mountain state. Well, it turns out that he has gone all in for the job killing, socialist agenda on his first day in the Senate. After voting to make anti gun, cap and trade supporting Harry Reid Majority Leader, Manchin voted with Reid | Read More »
If there is anything that is clear from the outcome of the elections, it is that we have barely changed the Senate. Yes, we have gained some seats and moved some Republican open seats to the right for the 112th congress. However, there are still many Republicans that remain in the Senate who have shown no signs of changing their big government tendencies. Today, 16 | Read More »
While there is much debate concerning how “big of a tent” the Republican Party should be concerning social issues, there is no excuse for any Republican to damage our national security and support unilateral disarmament. The START treaty is a unilateral demand proposed by Vladimir Putin and its sole intent is to weaken our missile capabilities and our deterrent against Russia. When the treaty was | Read More »
The pro open borders advocates in both parties often present the American people with the false choice of amnesty or physically rounding up every last illegal alien. They assert that deportations are so unpractical and distasteful that the only way to solve the illegal immigration problem is by legalizing them. Those with some sense of sanity have always realized that the source of the problem | Read More »
Presidential primary politics has already begun to percolate into the media following the midterm elections. There is now discussion of hosting the first GOP primary debate at the Reagan Library as early as this coming spring. While many conservatives are upset that we are already contemplating debates before the field of candidates is set, I have another bone to pick concerning this development. Politico announced | Read More »
There has been a pervasive misconception that has been promulgated by those within and outside of the Republican Party concerning the power of the GOP House majority . They assert that because the Democrats control the other branches of government, there is no way we can pass any meaningful conservative legislation until 2012. There seems to be an assumption that we can only scuttle the | Read More »
We are lectured ad nauseum by the open borders Republicans about the electoral devastation that is looming if we fail to enact an amnesty program. They assert that our strong support for borders and immigration enforcement will drive away all Hispanic voters. Well, the Miami Herald observes that not only didn’t we get swamped by Hispanics; we actually won their vote outright in Florida. Both | Read More »
Here we go again. The same vicious cycle seems to repeat itself ad nauseum. We become all excited about the prospects of picking up Senate seats during the election. Then, within a few days these RINOs return to their old ways. The Hill is reporting that Mark Kirk is considering whether to vote with the Democrats and support the unconstitutional Disclose Act. Even though he | Read More »
After the completion of an election with a record amount of competitive state and federal races, it is often hard to sift through the rubble and ascertain the true meaning of the results. Many of us are a bit disappointed with the results on the Senate side. I’ll be doing a comprehensive analysis of the House, Gubernatorial, state legislature, and other statewide races in a | Read More »
As we head into the final hours of the 2010 elections, there have been conflicting indications as to where we are headed on election night. Here are some things to consider: – Although tomorrow night will undoubtedly be a good night for us, the election is still very volatile and there is a wide disparity in terms of possible outcomes. The election results could be | Read More »
Several astute political observers have begun to notice the growing dichotomy between the state of the House races and the Senate races. While the conservative wave has continued to build in the House, it has stalled and even faltered in statewide races. More house polls continue to show incumbent liberals in deep blue territory to be vulnerable. However, on the Senate front (and in a | Read More »
For all you Maryland Red Staters out there, here is some inside baseball in Baltimore County. We have observed the widespread misinformation disseminated by so-called “Blue Dog Democrats” this election season concerning their political ideology. People like Frank Kratovil vote with the Democrats, are funded by Democrats and outside leftist organizations, and enable the election of their liberal leadership, yet, they manipulate their voting record | Read More »
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