Facing immense criticism for her role in the “Louisiana Purchase,” Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) last week defended her principled stance of changing her vote on Obamacare in exchange for $300M in special favors for Louisiana. Her “defense,” if it may be called that, was essentially that without that kickback, Louisiana would have to raise taxes or cut services in order to afford Obamacare: Obama’s plan | Read More »
Like a spoiled and petulant child who has tattled on a sibling to Daddy to no effect, angry liberals who are mad that Bush Administration lawyers suggested it was legal to put a terrorist in a box with a caterpillar have decided to try the other parent to see if they get a more satisfactory response. By way of reminder, the DoJ cleared Yoo and | Read More »
Great news for Republicans in what already looked like an uphill battle before the nutroots decided to force a hard charge to the left for the Democrat nominee: Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter (D) “is moving ahead with a primary challenge to Sen. Blanche Lincoln, he announced Monday,” POLITICO reports. “Washington is broken,” Halter said in a video on his campaign website. “Bailing out Wall Street | Read More »
We get a lot of hate mail here at RedState. Almost none of it is as entertaining as this. Take note, trolls: if you want your nonsensical rant to appear on the front page of RedState, from henceforth this is the bar it must clear: From: Rod Burket Date: February 28, 2010 10:11:10 PM EST To: RedState Subject: A complaint about your “moderator” Neil Stevens | Read More »
The Chicago Tribune ran a front-page story today on the continued financial troubles of Broadway Bank, and the picture is not good. At once-successful Broadway, headquartered in a former car dealership in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, the situation has turned awful at an inopportune time for the Illinois treasurer. Less than a week before Giannoulias’ Democratic primary election victory earlier this month, the scope | Read More »
In light of a bloody legislative year, in which the House passed a number of controversial measures that ultimately stalled in the Senate, Blue Dogs and other endangered Democrats have been putting substantial amounts of pressure on Pelosi and the rest of the House leadership to not act on more controversial bills without sure signals that the Senate was already lined up to pass them. | Read More »
Remember when Obama made that speech about all those marginalized people who distrusted all the good things government could do for them and therefore headed out to the remote wilderness away from civilization where they could bitterly cling to their guns and religion? Unbeknownst to Obama, he was describing the majority of Americans. Note especially how even independents break on this question: Washington (CNN) – | Read More »
Examining his record, you might have thought that Illinois Democrat Senate Candidate Alexi Giannoulis was too busy approving loans to known mobsters to be have time to donate money to rabid anti-Israeli causes. However, that kind of thinking just demonstrates the way people have been misunderestimating Alexi Giannoulias all his life. Turns out, Giannoulias is a man of impressive ability and multitasking skills: In an | Read More »
One might think that Barack Obama needs every vote he could possibly get if he hopes to cram a massively unpopular health care bill through the reconciliation process in a shaky and gunshy Senate. So when Blanche Lincoln – who faces a tough but not impossible re-election fight in Arkansas – piped up and requested a little more moderation from the President, you might have | Read More »
Quinnipiac University released a poll today showing, consistent with other recent polls, that Republican Rob Portman continues to hold a narrow single-digit lead against both Democrats vying for the nomination. In the race for the Democratic nomination, Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher appears to have opened up a small lead over Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, which may help explain (at least in part) Brunner’s hard charge | Read More »
First, Charlie Crist squandered a safe GOP Governor’s mansion in order to advance his vain and futile Presidential ambitions. Then, he squandered a lead of over 30 points in the polls to Marco Rubio, who was almost a total unknown, despite being flush with enough cash from out-of-state donors to completely flood the airwaves. Then, his personal firewall, state GOP chair Jim Greer, was taken | Read More »
Over the weekend, both Democrat Ohio Senate candidates (Lee Fisher and Jennifer Brunner) attended an event sponsored by ACORN’s favorite union (SEIU) to discuss the current fate of Obamacare. By way of reminder, Ohio voters disapprove of Obamacare by a 56-33 margin. Showing her tone deafness towards the attitudes and beliefs of Ohio voters, Brunner spoke at the event in favor of not only Obamacare, | Read More »
Around here, we are trying to keep people focused on 2010, and for good reason. However, over the weekend, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels made an announcement that deserves at least a brief mention. Over the last year, Daniels has repeatedly and unequivocally denied that he will run in 2012. Over the weekend at the NGA meeting, Daniels for the first time expressly indicated an interest | Read More »
In this incredible piece, the Chicago Sun-Times begins the long and arduous process of carrying water for the mob’s favorite banker, Democrat Illinois Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias. For those not familiar with Giannoulias’s sordid recent past, Giannoulias has admitted to approving a number of high-risk loans to convicted mobsters when he was acting as Vice President of his family’s bank (Broadway Bank); loans which contributed | Read More »
Due to his success at managing the government of Indiana into a budget surplus in the middle of a serious economic recession, Mitch Daniels is far and away the most popular Republican in Indiana. His endorsement in the upcoming Senate primary has been the most sought-after endorsement of any of the candidates running, and many assumed that Daniels would endorse Coats, who is emerging as | Read More »
Another year at CPAC has come and gone. Another chance to meet and greet, to hear pontifications, to be uplifted by rhetoric and share in good fellowship and bad, overpriced hotel food (and service!). Many things about CPAC were the same this year, and some were different. For instance, much less of the conference’s attendees were college students bussed in to stuff the straw poll ballot box. So | Read More »
So last night, in a race that wasn’t particularly close, Congressman Mark Kirk soundly routed all his GOP primary opponents (including Tea Party favorite Patrick Hughes) in the bid for Barack Obama’s old Senate seat. I know a lot of RedStaters were pulling for Hughes and/or have a lot of personal distate for Kirk. This post is to hopefully help everyone understand our gameplan for the | Read More »
UPDATE: According to one of our commenters, the event is real but Campbell declined to attend based on the fact that it was only sponsored by the county Dems. I encourage you to read the comment and his full explanation. I have no access to the 1994 news article referenced by our commenter, so cannot comment upon its accuracy either. So I’ve run across a | Read More »
Every once in a while a combination of stories comes along in politics that is so bizarre you can’t believe you’re actually writing about it. This is one of those times. Fresh after taking a run at Fenway Park fans in a public interview yesterday, Martha Coakley decided today that she’d insult another institution nobody in Massachusetts gives a crap about: Nuns. Here she is | Read More »
So Rudy Giuliani made it official today that he will not challenge Gillibrand for her NY-Sen seat. For those who have not been keeping track, polls have shown Giuliani consistently leading Gillibrand by a relatively comfortable margin. By way of contrast, Gillibrand and Pataki (who will almost certainly get the GOP nod with Rudy out of the race) are currently neck-and-neck in polling. So, the | Read More »
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