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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
It is quite a unique political phenomenon when 11 candidates are running for the Republican nomination for Senate in the deep blue state of Maryland. It is even more special when one of those candidates is a passionate and articulate conservative, who has the gravitas and the energy to mount a serious challenge to arch-socialist, Senator Barbara Mikulski. Jim Rutledge is the candidate running for | Read More »
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