Egregious Ads and Polls from Mark Zuckerberg’s Front Group

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  May 7th at 05:02 PM  | 

Imagine the biggest conservative donors in America banding together to form a group, “Progressives for Retirement Security,” for the purpose of promoting private retirement accounts.  Imagine that group running ads starring Chuck Schumer promoting private Social Security accounts as examples of bold progressive reform. Don’t worry, hell will freeze over from global warming before that happens. If you’ve been watching Fox News or listening to | Read More »

That’s Mark Zuckerberg’s Money They’re Wasting at Americans for a Conservative Direction

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 24th at 10:34 AM  | 

So this group with the really crappy commercials I just told you about is being funded by Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. Alexander Burns at the Politico reports that this group is his. How on earth does a billionaire liberal spend a pile of money to support immigration reform — and that’s what the group is for, conservatism be damned — and get a website and | Read More »

HAHAHAHA. Meet Americans for a Conservative Direction, the Latest GOP Scam in Washington

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 23rd at 11:50 PM  | 

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. breathe. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. No wait . . . hang on . . . HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. I’m sorry. I’d like to introduce you to “Americans for a Conservative Direction.” It’s got Haley Barbour as the head of it, whose nephew was on the | Read More »

Tech at Night: Darrell Issa gets clever against SOPA, Internet Sales Tax looms

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  January 10th at 01:30 AM  | 

Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is using his committee to further his bill, SOPA. SOPA is very bad. It threatens due process and prior restraint of speech as it censors the Internet, and risks putting Internet-based business out of business. Darrell Issa is leading House efforts to oppose SOPA. He’s on the Judiciary Committee, but he’s not in charge. However he does | Read More »

Tech at Night: Kill SOPA, and even a Constitutional Internet Sales Tax is the wrong idea

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  January 7th at 03:00 AM  | 

Internet access is not a human right. It’s not me saying that, either. It’s Vint Cerf, Google’s Internet Evangelist. ESA May be backing SOPA, but we’re seeing developers themselves such as Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios come out against it. But support for the OPEN Act is growing, as it protects American rights without trying to censor the Internet or impose destructive burdens on Americans online. | Read More »

Haley Barbour: ‘Let’s Get This Done’

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  November 8th at 03:30 PM  | 

A year before the 2012 election, the good folks at American Crossroads released a terrific new video featuring Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to remind us of the importance of this presidential election. In the video, Governor Barbour, talks about what a second Obama term would mean for America: “[Obama’s] policies aren’t fixing our problems, they’re making them worse. And a second Obama term means making | Read More »

Matt Lewis Talks About Haley Barbour, Ron Paul and the 2012 GOP Field

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  April 26th at 10:41 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Matt Lewis to discuss Haley Barbour’s decision not to run for President, Ron Paul’s entrance into the field and who might be leading contenders for VP. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you | Read More »

Haley Barbour Not Running For President in 2012

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  April 25th at 03:51 PM  | 

If there is one thing we should have learned from the 2008 primary and general elections, to say nothing of 1996, it’s that being a good presidential candidate on paper is useless; you have to want it – want it badly enough to hire a serious staff, badly enough to trim a few positions and hard edges to fit the various demands of the primary | Read More »

Of a certain Mississippi poll on marriage, and of those who make hay of it

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  April 8th at 09:00 AM  | 

Normally when I come across a poll to analyze, I’ll put on my impartial poll analysis hat and run it both at RedState and UnlikelyVoter. However seeing this new push poll by Public Policy Polling and the shamefully credulous response by Doug Mataconis at Outside the Beltway, I don’t want to hold back. I want to tell it like it is, and why unless some | Read More »

Barbour on Energy (and Salazar’s Puzzling Reponse)

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  March 3rd at 02:30 PM  | 

On Wednesday, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour spoke to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on energy policy: Barbour says Obama cheers for higher gas price “This administration’s policies have been designed to drive up the cost of energy in the name of reducing pollution, in the name of making very expensive alternative fuels more economically competitive,” Barbour said… Barbour cited a statement by Nobel laureate Steven | Read More »

Haley Barbour and the Regressive Economics of Farm Subsidies

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  February 22nd at 09:32 PM  | 

Farm subsidies are the most popular form of corporate cronyism among many Republicans.  Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, this regressive form of ‘progressive’ market intervention garners enthusiastic support from Republican presidential contenders, especially preceding the Iowa Caucuses.  Haley Barbour is the latest potential presidential candidate to prostrate on the altar of the farm lobby and support the $20 billion fleecing of the taxpayer.  Even with the | Read More »

The RNC Race and the Truce on Truces

By: Marjorie Dannenfelser (Diary)  |  January 13th at 03:16 PM  | 

Erick wrote a post earlier this week about the race for RNC chair titled, “Are RNC Committeemen Even Listening?” As the head of the Susan B. Anthony List, a 285,000 member non-partisan pro-life group, I’ve asked myself a similar question – Is the Republican Party listening to the grassroots on Life? This question was prompted in my mind (and in many others) by those within | Read More »

Texas’ Rick Perry to lead RGA

By: James Richardson (Diary)  |  November 12th at 04:13 PM  | 

Texas Governor Rick Perry will be named chairman of the Republican Governors Association when the group gathers in California next week. Perry’s appointment to the RGA won’t be the governor’s first rodeo: He led the same committee in 2008 and had worked in varying capacities for the group in years prior. The Washington-bound move — not the move for which some Republican donors had hoped | Read More »

Haley Barbour Concurs And Phones Are Ringing In RNC Land

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 9th at 10:18 AM  | 

While the RNC is pushing back against people like me for pointing out they did not mount a good GOTV effort because they sabotaged their 72 hour program, they’ll have a hard time pushing back against Haley Barbour. Barbour has, a bit surprisingly, gone on the record to say that the RNC’s get out the vote (GOTV) efforts were sub-par. Given just how effective the | Read More »

Today in Washington – July 20, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 20th at 10:30 AM  | 

President Obama’s popularity is going down fast.  According to Gallup, the President is especially unpopular in Wyoming (29%), Utah (34%), West Virginia (34%), Idaho (34%), Oklahoma (37%), Alaska (38%), Montana (38%), Arkansas (40%), Kentucky (40%), Tennessee (41%), New Hampshire (41%), Alabama (41%), and Missouri (41%).  If you are running for House or Senate in any of these states, it may be time to start running | Read More »