Last week, I laid witness to the Shrek Christmas movie. In the film, Shrek becomes increasingly frustrated as his zany friends prevent him from reading the Christmas story to his children. Imagine my surprise when Shrek revealed that the Christmas story was not in fact Christ’s birth, but a recitation of “Twas the night before Christmas.” Yes, in Hollywood the “Christmas story” is the story | Read More »
As fellow Seinfeld fans will note, tomorrow is Festivus. The greatest day of the year. It is the one day a year where loved ones join together to tell people what has been bothering them for the past year. Today, on December 23, Festivus, I ask you to join me your political grievances of 2011. Riders. When will both parties in Congress stop attaching un-germane | Read More »
In last weeks Republican presidential primary debate, candidate Newt Gingrich spoke of allowing Congress the power to subpoena federal judges in order for them to explain radical opinions. I can’t stress this enough — this is the greatest idea I have heard throughout this election cycle. The Iowan conservative base no doubt loved it. Moderates and liberals were no doubt very disturbed by it. I | Read More »
Last week, House republicans passed the payroll tax cut for the middle class scheduled to go into effect on January 1. The purpose of the cut is to prevent a tax increase of about 2% from every middle class American’s paycheck beginning on January 1. Obviously republicans had to pass this the bill as a significant amount of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck. Republicans also performed | Read More »
Jon Huntsman should not have been invited to Iowa on Thursday night as Mickey Mouse is still outpolling him. But he was. Governor Huntsman has really grown on me during this election cycle. At the beginning I thought of him as a fraud. I have come to realize that he has a decently conservative record but simply refuses to talk about the issues conservatives are | Read More »
Last night was the last televised debate before the January 3 Iowa Caucuses. Fox News did a great job of covering a lot of information. The good news is that almost every candidate on stage did well articulating their vision for the country. The bad news is that it allows the front running losers of Gingrich and Romney to remain the frontrunners. If Bachmann and | Read More »
As we have been predicting, Gingrich is on his way down in Iowa. Once he gets past a certain point, he doesn’t have the charisma to come back. Gingrich is taking it from every side in Iowa ad buys. Everyone, Romney, Paul and Perry are hitting him from the right. Gingrich has replied with no negative ads and hardly any positive ones. How noble, but | Read More »
Voting for Newt in the Iowa Caucus or any primary would be akin to yelling at your wife. When you fight with your spouse, stray and undisciplined statements come into your head that you want to say to her, even though you know you shouldn’t. As the first word leaves your mouth you feel energized, righteous and even vindicated, but as the last word leaves | Read More »
Another debate has come and gone with corresponding poll numbers sure to follow. Let’s jump in. Mitt Romney is seeing his presidential nomination slip away to Newt Gingrich while conservatives are getting a last ditch effort by Perry and Bachmann to not kiss the next five years away to Barack Obama. At this rate, Newt could be right — the race could come down to | Read More »
Tomorrow night, ABC will host another GOP presidential primary debate. It should be good. Most of these people know it is do-or-die time for their campaigns and so we should see them hold nothing back. The audience that matters are the grassroots people in Iowa and New Hampshire and the two questions are obviously: Who can create enough momentum to take the lead in (1.) | Read More »
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