Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Carrie Severino, to discuss Elena Kagan’s involvement in Obamacare while serving as Solicitor General, what inside knowledge she may have, and why she should recuse herself from hearing this case as a sitting Supreme Court Justice. We’re brought to you as always by | Read More »
President Obama’s decision today to abandon the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is both outrageous—as a matter of Justice Department policy and constitutional law—and a miscalculation that will decreases the chances of ObamaCare being implemented, while potentially increasing calls for Supreme Court Justice Kagan to recuse herself from certain gay rights cases. The President’s refusal to defend DOMA, a federal statute enacted by overwhelming margins | Read More »
The more I think about it, the more I really wonder if Obama could lose in 2012. Consider what was supposed to be making people support him and his party in 2008: [ ] Lower the seas [ ] Stop the “bailouts” [ ] Free the GTMO prisoners [ ] End the fighting in Iraq [ ] End the fighting Afghanistan [ ] Don’t fly | Read More »
In an op-ed in the Daily Caller, I conclude that [B]elievers in the rule of law have several things to cheer in the Kagan confirmation battle. Republican senators mounted their strongest opposition in more than a century, sending strong signals to the White House about future Supreme Court picks, while teeing up important issues for this fall’s Senate races. The confirmation fight also saw the | Read More »
Transparency is a tough promise for President Obama to keep. Politico reports today: Four times in the last week, President Barack Obama has quietly slipped into private, exclusive Democratic Party fundraisers around town, glad-handing well-heeled donors away from the eyes of the press – and contradicting his pledge to run the most transparent administration in history. The Senate will debate the nomination of anti gun activist Elena Kagan to | Read More »
Thank you Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) for issuing the report, Summertime Blues. I have been laughing for one whole day after reading some of the project that President Obama considers “stimulus.” One needs to ask the ever smug Paul Krugman over at the New York Times to explain how $144,541 of your tax dollars spent to study how “monkeys react under the influence | Read More »
Anti gun activist Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court hits the Senate floor today. Ironically, this is the same day that the Washington Post reports that a federal judge in Virginia refused to dismiss a challenge to ObamaCare’s mandates. This case is going to the U.S. Supreme Court, yet many Senators are not willing to put up a real fight before this left wing extremist is | Read More »
Many liberals are fleeing President Obama. Gallup has the President at 45% approval and 47% disapproval for a -2% gap today. In a story titled “Democrats Scatter Monday as Obama Comes to Town,” on the NBC affiliate for Atlanta, GA, further evidence is provided of this emerging phenomena: If you think this will be a time for Democrats running for office to rally around the chief executive- -you probably | Read More »
No roll call votes in Senate today. Cloture on TARP, Jr, H.R. 5297, was not invoked yesterday on a 58-42 vote. The Senate will have a cloture vote next week on the motion to concur with an amendment to H.R. 1586, the FAA Reauthorization bill. Reid is using the FAA bill as a shell to move this amendment to add $10 billion for education funds and a Medicaid funding provision. The nomination of anti-Second Amendment nominee Elena | Read More »
Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) is the Republican key for the Obama Administration to pass New START Treaty this year. 67 Senators are needed to pass any treaty, therefore the support of Republicans is necessary to pass START. Republicans may want to stall passage of the treaty into the next Congress, because the New START Treaty may harm national security. The Obama Administration may have signed a side agreement | Read More »
Last week, WH Press Flack Robert Gibbs declared the House is lost and this week it was up to Vice President Joe Biden to bring a happy message to Democrats. Biden declared his opinion yesterday on This Week. “I don’t think the losses are going to be bad at all. I think we are going to shock the heck out of everybody.” AP reports: Vice President Joe | Read More »
I’ve got the top story at Human Events today and call on Republians to filibuster. Americans have now learned about the extreme views of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court. Kagan’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee contained much clear evidence of her expansive view of federal power and her lack of respect for the 2nd Amendment. Kagan’s views on | Read More »
Hurricane Ken Salazar just hit the Gulf of Mexico. The Interior Secretary reimposed a 6 month moratorium on drilling in the Gulf — a moratorium that will cause economic devastation to workers in the Gulf region. According to the Washington Times, “saying oil companies still are at risk of another catastrophic spill, the Obama administration announced a new moratorium Monday on drilling in the outer | Read More »
Congress is preparing a massive push to get legislation passed this month before the long August recess. People prepare in different ways. President Obama prepared for the legislative push with a round of golf while the President’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs blamed Republicans for all of the Obama Administration’s problems. This should be an interesting month of political posturing before Congress disappears for a month of | Read More »
. Devastating. There’s nothing to add. OPEN THREAD
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