Just wanted to assure you that your Senior Senator is still up and around and perfectly capable of executing the duties you elected him to perform. Behold! I have video proof: And now a message for the rest of America: remember when the Democrat speechwriter talking point was that we should abandon Iraq so we could focus our efforts on Al Qaeda in Afghanistan? I | Read More »
Having failed to prevent Rush Limbaugh from becoming a successful and wealthy entertainer, the mainstream media has apparently decided that they will attempt the next best thing; attempt to keep Rush Limbaugh from spending his money in the way he desires. In this case, Rush apparently desires to spend his money on a portion of the controlling stock in the St. Louis Rams of the | Read More »
Via Jim Geraghty comes this reminder that Jon Corzine, who is trailing Republican Chris Christie in the hotly-contested NJ-Gov race, is no stranger to “Macaca moments.” Most recently, Corzine decided that it would class up the debate in the governor’s race by cracking on Christie’s weight. Get it? Vote for me, the other guy’s fat! As Geraghty notes, this kind of “humor” is nothing new to Corzine, who | Read More »
Several news outlets have been making hay out of an apparent joint endorsement of Obamacare (sans public option) by Bob Dole and Tom Daschle: Bob Dole, the one-time Republican leader in the Senate, and Tom Daschle, the one-time Democratic leader, issued a joint statement today in which they said they supported the Democrats’ attempt to overhaul the health-care system. “The American people have waited decades, | Read More »
Political watchers have long been awaiting a decision from Mike Castle about whether he will run in 2010 for Joe Biden’s Senate seat in Delaware (currently being occupied by placeholder Ted Kaufman). Castle has been waffling lately, and sending some indications through his staff that if State AG Beau Biden runs, he would not run, despite polling showing him with a clear early lead over | Read More »
Last week, staffers for Barbara Boxer released information indicating that expected CA GOP candidate for governor and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman had heartily endorsed Boxer in 2003: “Whitman contributed $4,000 to Boxer in the 2004 reelection campaign — and endorsed Boxer as a part of Technology Leaders for Boxer,” confirmed Boxer aide Rose Kapolczynski today. And, she signed an “open letter” appealing for support | Read More »
UPDATE: Welcome, Hot Air commenters! Please feel free to go here for further exposition of this post. UPDATE 2: Welcome, Ace of Spades readers! I have included a further update here. I will keep this simple. Here is the text of the suit, which is brought under the MD Wiretap Act. The suit alleges that Andrew Breitbart, working in concert with O’Keefe and Giles, intercepted | Read More »
I am not here to defend the subject of this AP piece, who by all accounts appears to be a sexually perverted serial adulterer. I am here to note, however, that his party affiliation is in the title of the article, and is also the second word of the piece. Additionally, a few paragraphs down, we are informed that Duvall, a father of two, received | Read More »
I have to take mild issue with some of the posts at this site that have criticized Senator Edward Kennedy on the day of his death. Some conservatives I have talked to about this troubling phenomenon have suggested that there’s simply nothing positive for them to say about Kennedy, but that’s just not true. I consulted with some fellow conservatives and we came up with | Read More »
I have now observed two of the country’s largest media organizations turn to the wisdom of Peter Singer in order to illuminate for readers or viewers the true lineaments of “rationing” in health care. This strikes me as bordering on bizarre. Perhaps it is simply brazen. More likely it is simply stupid. These are the same sorts of institutions — those comprising the captaincy of | Read More »
Let me be clear** at the outset of this post that there is no objectively valid reason whatsoever to object to the use of Presidential Signing Statements, whether it is done by Republicans or Democrats. It is axiomatic that in the course of executing the laws that Congress has passed, the Executive Branch, as a co-equal branch, must necessarily interpret the law before deciding what | Read More »
Obama is in Elkhart, Indiana today touting his stimulus. I am told by a native that this harried place was once a center of RV manufacture. Big old honking gas-guzzlers made to be driven on long trips down dusty highways and thundering interstates. But that industry has been declining for some time, and this Great Recession has routed it further. So Obama comes to this | Read More »
Earlier this year Arlen Specter, who believes in nothing except the importance of his own continued presence in the Senate, decided that it might help his election chances to abandon the party that has stood by him and funded him for years even as he spit in their face on important issues time and time again. Today, Arlen Specter officially reaps the fruit of his | Read More »
[UPDATED BELOW THE FOLD - Apparently, the NRCC did not write the press release in question. LHW] As conservatives are energizing themselves for a run at taking back the House, we would like to be able to place our faith in organizations like the NRCC to recognize the issues conservatives believe in and work to advance those issues. This kind of crap, written by NRCC | Read More »
Last week we discussed that one of the main reasons the Democrats are trying to rush the Obamacare fight is that public support for the plan is falling like a rock, and Obamacare supporters are hoping to keep fence-sitting blue dogs from discovering just how unpopular the plan is with their districts back home. That plan isn’t working too well as Democrat after Democrat is | Read More »
UPDATE: Although the Times article seems to imply (but not directly state) that only companies receiving bailout money will be affected by the legislation, the actual text of the bill is clear that it can apply to any depository institution with at least $1B in assets. The arrogance of this legislation is breathtaking. The House Democrats must be really feeling their socialist oats, because they | Read More »
The wannabe-socialists who pull the levers of the Democratic Party in America today have developed a narrative on the healthcare plan Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are currently trying to push through Congress. That narrative goes that virtually everyone is unhappy with their healthcare plan, is in favor of massive change to the healthcare system, favors Obama’s healthcare plan, and especially favors the so-called “public | Read More »
It turns out, rather unsurprisingly, that Chris Dodd has been lying all this time about whether he knew he was getting preferential treatment from Countrywide: WASHINGTON — Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from one of the nation’s largest lenders, the official who handled their loans has told | Read More »
Republicans have a very real chance in the 2010 elections to take the Senate seats formerly held by both Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The candidates we have in those races (Mark Kirk and Mike Castle) are far from perfect from a conservative perspective, but both would certainly constitute an upgrade from the previous occupants of the seat. So Mike Castle, the guy with the shot | Read More »
The Wall Street Journal notes today that the Unions’ anti-Democratic and pro-thugocratic attempts to eliminate the secret ballot from union elections are all but dead. Politicians don’t typically broadcast their defeat, and when they do it pays to watch for the blindside hit. That’s surely the case with last week’s reports that six liberal Senators are abandoning part of labor’s top priority, “card check” legislation. The | Read More »
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