Everyone is using the hostage metaphor these days regarding the debt ceiling. Barack Obama started it back in December when he called the GOP hostage takers before the GOP gave him everything he wanted. Well, I hope the GOP noticed Barack Obama yesterday upped the ante and declared his willingness to shoot his hostages, i.e. senior citizens. Yes, if the GOP dares to hold the | Read More »
RedState Morning Briefing For July 13, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. The President Declares He Will Shoot His Hostages 2. Mitch McConnell Just Proposed the “Pontius Pilate Pass the Buck Act of 2011? 3. Mr. President, What Are Your Priorities? 4. Random Acts of Vandalism Cause Teamsters To Postpone Funeral Directors’ Strike
Tonight, I’ll explore the extent of Mitch McConnell‘s capitulation on the debt ceiling. You can listen to it all at http://wsbradio.com and call in to vent about it at 1-800-WSB-TALK. Consider this an open thread.
It’s so sad to see someone you admire lose all credibility serving as mouthpiece for the people who got us into this mess on our side. This was Fred Barnes on August 15, 2003, writing in the Wall Street Journal: IS PRESIDENT BUSH really a conservative? When that question came up this summer, the White House went into crisis mode. Bush aides summoned several of | Read More »
Editor’s note: I decided to make the title less incendiary. Consider the Associated Press’s headline right now: “GOP Leader McConnell proposes giving Obama new power for automatic debt limit increase” ————————————Mitch McConnell is right now talking about making a historic capitulation. So fearful of being blamed for a default, McConnell is proposing a compromise that lets Barack Obama raise the debt ceiling without making any | Read More »
Many of us thought John Boehner would not turn back from the negotiating table. But he did. The media is a real tizzy trying to explain it. As is typical, they’re dumbing it down. Boehner backing away from the negotiating table (1) had nothing to do with tea party opposition, (2) nothing to do with fears of helping Barack Obama’s re-election, and (3) nothing to | Read More »
RedState Morning Briefing For July 12, 2011Go to www.RedStateMB.com to get the Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Boehner Embraces Cutting, Capping, and Balancing 2. New York Times Brushes Off Ethical Concerns 3. Gov. Brown’s Office to Conservative Californians: Leave the State! 4. Now That Possibly Drunk Rutgers Economist Susan Feinberg Is Sobered Up, She Has No Comment 5. | Read More »
This is the Susan Feinberg who probably was drunk — you hope she was drunk otherwise the words we’d have to use aren’t fit for a family site — when she decided to cause a scene at Bistro Bis in Washington, D.C. Feinberg, who we can also presume gets nuts when drinking or just can’t handle alcohol, stormed over to Paul Ryan and attacked him | Read More »
RedState Morning Briefing For July 11, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. Attention RedState Morning Briefing Readers Speaker Boehner has pulled out of talks with the White House because of concerns that President Obama demands massive tax hikes on the American people. The media says it is a Republican betrayal, but that is nonsense. Barack Obama claims he | Read More »
The Republicans have largely ignored Craig Huey’s special election effort in California 36. This a Democrat leaning Congressional seat, but Huey made it into a special election with Democrat Janice Hahn. Hahn has become an embarrassment. It turns out that when Hahn was on the Los Angeles City Council, she supported hiring drug dealers, drug addicts, and rapists as “gang interventionists.” Now Hahn is in | Read More »
Tonight is a free for all Friday night. You guys can call in about anything you want. I’m going to keep on about education and look at jobs as well. The call in number is 1-800-WSB-TALK and you can listen live at http://wsbradio.com. Consider this an open thread.
What happens when a whiney drunk liberal economist runs to a whiney lefty former journalist hard up for a story of something on something to salvage her reputation? You get salacious nonsense like this from Talking Points Memo. Horror of horrors, a possibly drunk and possibly crazy left-wing economist Rutgers named Susan Feinberg, and her husband who she probably calls her partner, saw Representative Paul | Read More »
Tim Pawlenty has a new ad up in Iowa. I have started hesitating writing posts like this because inevitably the other campaigns decide I’m with the guy I’m writing about. Right now, I’m being inundating with angry emails from Herman Cain supporters accusing me of being against him. Others are attacking me for being too pro-Bachmann. So I guess it is time to go full | Read More »
RedState Morning Briefing For July 8, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Caveat Emptor: Boehner Says There’s A Deal 2. OK President Obama, Let’s Raise Revenue 3. The George Bush-Ted Kennedy Chickens Come Home to Roost in Atlanta 4. DSCC chair Patty Murray tries to get her some Koch campaign cash. 5. Amazon, Tennessee, Bill Haslam, and | Read More »
I’m not just saying this because his emails started going into File 13 for some reason. I think my computer doesn’t like him because it found out about that one time we went out to a bar together and Crowder ordered . . . milk. In any event, spam filter is rectified and just in time. I genuinely have to say this is Steven’s best | Read More »
John Boehner says there is a 50-50 chance of a debt ceiling deal. Don’t expect him to advocate cutting the budget, capping spending, and passing a Balanced Budget Amendment. Boehner thinks a BBA is a “gimmick”, despite his prior support for one in the nineties. The tendency of many conservatives these days, myself included, is to dismiss out of hand whatever leadership comes up with. | Read More »
IA Caucus: Feb. 6, 2012 NH Primary: Feb. 14, 2012 (expected) SC Primary: TBD NV Caucus: Feb. 18, 2012 Michele Bachmann has caused a mystery and a feeding frenzy in the press. What’s her number? Not her phone number. Her bank balance. It is the big question in Washington and in political circles across the nation — how much money has Michele Bachmann raised? Sources | Read More »
One of the worst trends in modern public education in the United States is using a child’s performance on a standardized test to assess whether a teacher is doing his or her job and whether a school is performing or not performing. The trend was growing before George Bush and Ted Kennedy sat down and drafted No Child Left Behind in the early part of | Read More »
Does the party of freedom have less courage than the party of socialism? Jim DeMint thinks if the GOP fails to be bold in the debt ceiling fight that’ll be why. As the sun rises this morning, be prepared to be completely and totally disappointed in the total lack of leadership by House Republicans when it comes to taking a bold stand in the debt | Read More »
RedState Morning Briefing For July 7, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Republicans Must Show They Will Shoot the Hostage 2. David Brooks Gets Played 3. This Needs To Be Edited Into A TV Ad 4. Casey Anthony and the Law And Order Effect 5. The Palestinian Accountability Act 6. Fast and Furious update: Ken Melson’s secret | Read More »
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