By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 07:00 AM  | 

During the year long ObamaCare debate, there was a spirited debate of the proposition that ObamaCare would cause rationing by the federal government of services and drugs.  Government rationed health care services and drugs have evolved from rhetoric to reality.  On July 28th, Senator David Vitter (R-Louisiana) raised drug rationing concerns, because of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pending decision to take the cancer drug Avastin off the list of approved drugs for breast cancer.   This example | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  July 17th at 09:00 AM  | 

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has done it again.  Earlier this week we learned that Lisa Murkowski opposes the repeal of ObamaCare.  RS Insider has been informed that there is a strong push by Senate Appropriations Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) to pass S. 1011, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, also known as the “Akaka Bill,” this year with the active support of Senator Murkowski.  The | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  July 6th at 09:00 PM  | 

In the event that this story is true, it would appear that President Obama’s classless low blow at the Supreme Court in this year’s State of the Union address may end up being significant for more than Alito’s silently mouthed rebuttal, after all: Justice Kennedy, who turns 74 this month, has told relatives and friends he plans to stay on the high court for at | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  June 18th at 12:15 PM  | 

Robert VerBruggen of National Review Online reports that Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee to be on the U.S. Supreme Court may have compared the NRA to the KKK.  If true this is a shocking development in what has been a low key nominations battle.  From NROnline: National Reviewhas learned that in 1996, Kagan apparently tied the NRA to the KKK — yes, the KKK — while | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  June 15th at 02:15 PM  | 

The National Rifle Association just sold out your First Amendment right to participate in the democratic process.  Sources on the Hill tell RedState that House Republican members are “furious” at the National Rifle Association (NRA) for negotiating a special provision exempting the NRA from a new campaign finance reform measure racing through Congress.  Roll Call describes the campaign finance reform measure as follows: The bill, officially the DISCLOSE Act, comes in response to the high court’s | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  June 14th at 09:00 PM  | 

On February 4, 2010, President Obama nominated Judge Robert N. Chatigny to be elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.  From the President’s press release on the subject:  Judge Robert Neil Chatigny has served as a U.S. District Judge for the District of Connecticut since 1994.  He was Chief Judge of the Court from 2003 to 2009.  Judge Chatigny is being nominated | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  June 12th at 08:00 AM  | 

Remember when President Obama said on April 18, 2009 “in the coming weeks, I will be announcing the elimination of dozens of government programs shown to be wasteful or ineffective. In this effort, there will be no sacred cows, and no pet projects. All across America, families are making hard choices, and it’s time their government did the same.” We are still waiting for this | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  May 27th at 03:45 PM  | 

With all the attention on President Obama’s bungling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the news of Congressional calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate of an alleged job offer by the Obama Administration to get Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA) out of the Pennsylvania Senate race has been pushed down the news pages. This is a serious matter and something that | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  May 12th at 02:30 PM  | 

Not too shabby. In his seven weeks as one of CNN’s newest contributors, Erick Erickson has made scarcely more than a dozen appearances on the network. But his every utterance – every Twitter message, blog post and radio rant – has been parsed with the rigor usually reserved for a Supreme Court nominee. Nice. As if you don’t already, follow Erick on Twitter here. Parse | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  May 4th at 10:22 PM  | 

You know what’s cool?  When organizations and people engaged in political and public policy debates shamelessly exploit tragedies in order to promote their political agendas. The Left is very good at this.  But so, it turns out, is the ethanol industry. Essentially a government creation, these guys are currently seeking a whole bunch of policy changes that would further prop up their industry, using both | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  April 30th at 01:45 PM  | 

… And many Wall Street “fat cats“ want this bill passed ASAP. The Senate is in the process of debating and considering amendments to S.3217, Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010.  As the debate proceeds, it is important to note that the populist rage exhibited toward “fat cats” on Wall Street is merely theater.  Goldman Sachs, a Wall Street firm accused of fraud and the subject of a | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  October 25th at 09:34 PM  | 

Generally round about Labor Day if not before, the NRCC comes knocking on all our doors saying “you haven’t paid your dues.” Our “dues” are funds Members pay into the NRCC’s coffers that they then turn around and use to elect more Republican congressmen. This is October 25, 2009, more than a year before Election Day. But the NRCC is beating on all our doors | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  September 28th at 05:01 AM  | 

I’m writing you from the floor of the Califorina Republican Party’s (CRP) convention in Indian Wells, CA. For you non-Californians, the CRP holds two conventions every year — usually in February and September. The September convention before an election year is the de facto kickoff for the various campaigns. That’s why we’ve got here the various contenders for the CA GOP nomination out in force | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  September 14th at 07:00 AM  | 

Back in mid-August, Carly Fiorina announced the formation of her exploratory committee, Carly for California, as a prelude to announcing her formal candidacy for United States Senate. FEC rules require that if a candidate receives or spends $5000.00, the candidate must begin formal filings with the FEC as a candidate. Given Fiorina‘s hire of big-money consultants like Hollywood-based Fred Davis, you’d think Carly for California | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  August 26th at 11:45 AM  | 

Well, we all pretty much knew that this was coming: Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said that both the Kennedy family and the Senate have “lost our patriarch” and vowed Congress would renew the push for the cause of Kennedy’s life, health care reform. Out of respect for my RedState colleagues, I have delayed the posting of this post for several hours, but it is | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  May 1st at 04:30 AM  | 

Congressman Alan Grayson has some explaining to do. He is a Democrat Congressman in a district Charlie Cook lists as leaning slightly Republican. The district went strongly for Bush twice and barely for Obama in 2008. Grayson has some serious judgment issues. Congressman Alan Grayson has hired a blogger named Matt Stoller to be his “Senior Policy Advisor” Stoller is a crazy blogger — he | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  March 10th at 05:26 PM  | 

What do Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Joe Lieberman and Mark Pryor have in common? They remain the last bastions of so-called moderate Democrats in the United States Senate.   As Harry Reid, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer and Patrick Leahy become more and more ascendant, it is obvious that the Age of Moderates within the Democratic Party are coming to an end. And, the | Read More »

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  January 28th at 05:52 PM  | 

Jane Lubchenco, Obama’s NOAA Administrator, nominee has given $5500 to the Ocean Champions PAC. She had to submit her itemized political contributions to any individual, campaign organization, political party, etc to the Senate. Donations: $500 (2008), $2000 (2007), $2000 (2005), $1000 (2004) Here’s Ocean Champions’ top action item: NO to Offshore Drilling This come on the heels of Ken Salazar wanting to reverse course. Didn’t | Read More »