By: gawken (Diary)  |  October 7th at 05:27 PM  | 

Dem politicians and the MSM are complaining endlessly that Romney’s tax plan won’t work, and are incessantly demanding that he provide them with details. Mitt has explained his plan in general details: eliminating some loopholes, capping or ending some popular deductions, and lowering the overall tax rates. He describes his plan as revenue neutral, and correctly states that the details are to be worked out | Read More »

By: gawken (Diary)  |  October 7th at 10:17 AM  | 

Let’s start with a few basic premises: 1. Hillary Clinton will run for the White House in 2016. ( If you don’t think that’s gospel, then you can stop reading this right now) 2. The 2016 race begins the day after Election Day. It’s now truly a perpetual election cycle. It will either be an open race, or Romney will be seeking a second term. | Read More »

By: gawken (Diary)  |  October 4th at 06:59 PM  | 

The first debate’s over. Obama had his hat handed to him by Mitt. James Taranto, in an excellent piece in the WSJ, suggests that Obama’s failure was inevitable, because he’s been coddled, pampered, by the MSM, and thus the first time he faced off with an articulate, prepared, challenger, Obama wasn’t ready. The problem with the normally estimable Mr. Taranto’s thesis is that it suggests | Read More »

By: gawken (Diary)  |  September 27th at 10:53 AM  | 

This morning, the news is breaking that contrary to what Susan Rice and other administration figures told the American people ad nauseum about the attack in Benghazi, the Administration knew within 24 hours that it was an organized attack by Al Queda. They even knew the identity of the person responsible for planning the raid. And furthermore, despite multiple bleated promises to seek the facts, | Read More »

By: gawken (Diary)  |  September 24th at 01:42 PM  | 

Well, well..it seems our president won’t be distracted by any “noise” as he ponders and pontificates how to resolve the growing crises in the Middle East. “Noise” must be eubonic-speak for “Bibi,” because the Israeli Prime Minister has of late publicly castigated Obama for continued failures to support Israel, and a strong anti-Iranian, position. Yom Kippur begins tomorrow, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day | Read More »

By: gawken (Diary)  |  September 19th at 11:18 AM  | 

As we continue to watch the Muslim world degenerate into chaos; the Arab spring heading towards an Arab (nuclear?) winter, with riots all across the would-be Caliphate, there is one question that has yet to be asked: Do the Arabs/Muslims/Islamofascists/terrorists actually WANT Obama to lose the election? Yes, they are fanatics, but they have always displayed a keen understanding of American politics. So now, in | Read More »

By: gawken (Diary)  |  September 10th at 09:22 AM  | 

The conventions are over. The post-convention “bounces” ( if indeed they ever existed) have vanished. Polls now show the race as basically a dead heat, well within the margin or error. Ah, the polls, these damned, infernal polls. They also show that Obama remains personally popular, his “likability” above 50%. Yet at the same time, a solid majority of Americans believe that the country is | Read More »

By: gawken (Diary)  |  September 5th at 01:03 PM  | 

Months ago, the NFL announced that it was moving its opening day extravaganza to Wednesday night, so as NOT to detract from Obama’s coronation…er, acceptance speech the same night. Well, the party that has scrubbed all references to God from its platform has now learned WHY people pray….because, well..plans have a funny way of NOT working out. Way back then, it was envisioned that Obama | Read More »

By: gawken (Diary)  |  August 23rd at 09:24 PM  | 

Way back, when he was just another junior Dem congressman from NY, the standing joke among those who covered the Hill was that the most dangerous place to be in DC was between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera. Well, that strategy has surely payed off for Schumer, helping elevate him to a key Senate leadership spot in the Democrat caucus, and a major player | Read More »

By: gawken (Diary)  |  August 20th at 01:52 PM  | 

Among the high lights ( or perhaps low lights is MORE apt) of this weekend’s talk shows, is the continuing refusal of the Obama campaign to denounce the vile Superpac ad in which Dem stooge Joe Soptic smears Mitt Romney by attempting to blame Romney for the death of Soptic’s wife. The multiple lies in this ad have been dissected many times in the conservative | Read More »