Lame Demagogue Session

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  December 2nd at 09:00 AM  | 

Republicans’ votes against Obamacare were actually votes in favor of retaining employer-based health care coverage…Rather, it is the Democrats who are tainted with the hypocrisy with which they accuse their opponents. Democrats have not reacted well to the “shellacking” voters administered to the party at the polls earlier this month. Far from doing any soul searching or introspection of any kind, Democrats embarked on a | Read More »

Obama’s Iraq Speech: One Page Left Unturned

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  September 1st at 01:00 PM  | 

The Iraq War did not just fade away. It ended with a qualitative result: a spectacular victory for America in the face of long odds and complete vindication for the leaders who decided to stick it out instead of tuck tail and run when Democrats wanted to. Americans have largely forgotten about Iraq and have long since tired of hearing about it.  That is in large part | Read More »

White House Memo Makes Offer-gate into a Scandal

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  June 3rd at 10:30 AM  | 

“There is a cancer on the presidency. It has been growing daily for the past three months. It’s compounding, it grows geometrically now because it compounds itself. And there is no assurance that it won’t bust.” Former White House Counsel John Dean spoke those words to President Richard Nixon almost 40 years ago as the Nixon White House was desperately trying to cover its role | Read More »

DSCC Head Menendez is Not Helping

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  May 11th at 08:30 AM  | 

New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, has come out against Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. Menendez called on Major League Baseball to move the 2011 All-Star Game out of Phoenix. WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Menendez is urging the Major League Baseball Players’ Association to boycott next year’s All-Star Game in Phoenix over the recently passed Arizona law to crack down | Read More »

Pelosi Knew – UPDATED

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  March 11th at 01:00 PM  | 

UPDATE: The Daily Caller reports that the House GOP will introduce a privileged resolution calling on the Ethics Committee to investigate Pelosi’s and Hoyer’s handling of the Massa allegations. Specifically, the resolution calls on the committee to find out what the Democratic leadserhip knew about Massa, when they knew it, and what they did – or didn’t do – about it. Good for the House | Read More »

Obama to Reward Favorgate Figure with Top Campaign Post

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  February 24th at 07:00 PM  | 

Politico has a piece today on preparations President Obama and his inner circle are making for his reelection campaign, which the article states is set to launch early next year.  Mike Allen reports that the campaign is likely to be run out of Chicago and staffed by a cadre of veterans from Obama’s 2008 campaign. Of particular interest given the news of the week is | Read More »

Favorgate

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 09:00 AM  | 

We take a break from the hyperventilating over the latest moves in the slow-motion kabuki dance that is the Obama Administration’s efforts to ram its federal takeover of the health care system down the throats of the overwhelming majority of Americans who oppose the various bills to take a look at what should be a much, much bigger story. Last week, Democratic Senate Candidate Joe | Read More »

That Christie Speech

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  February 15th at 09:00 AM  | 

Moe was ahead of the curve and discussed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s budget speech to the state legislature here.  But all who have not yet seen the entire speech should run – not walk – to see it in its entirety. Video can be found here.  Text will be posted after the jump. It is difficult to describe the extent to which New Jersey | Read More »

On Principles, Pledges, and “Purity”

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  November 25th at 03:00 PM  | 

A group of conservative Republicans is set to offer a resolution be considered at next month’s Republican National Committee meeting in Hawai’i, calling on party candidates to embrace a majority of a group of ten positions based on core conservative principles to gain and retain RNC endorsements and funding.  I think it’s a brilliant idea that is right for the times.  I acknowledge that there | Read More »