The Party of No
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 3rd at 01:17 PM |
Democrats spend a lot of time trying to pin the “Party of No” label on Republicans. But under Chairman Tom Price of Georgia, the Republican Study Committee (the caucus of social and economic conservatives in the U.S. House of Representatives) has started a new series of emails to show—in very real terms—how the Democrats in the House really are the “Party of No.” Traditionally, including | Read More »
Senate Republicans to Tea Party Activists: Go To H – E – Double Hockeysticks
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 18th at 12:31 AM |
I told you a while back about a small group of Republican Senators sitting down for drinks at the Capitol Hill Club. They’d been to a tea party rally that day and were openly mocking the tea partiers. One of them, a guy tea partiers adore, seemed to hold them in open contempt at this table. Well, between the tea partiers and Jim DeMint, these | Read More »
King Samir Shabazz Should Be 2010′s Willie Horton
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 13th at 11:58 AM |
Moe suggested this yesterday and I am here to say I agree. In 2010, Republicans across the nation should make King Samir Shabazz their 21st century Willie Horton. I know Democrats scream at the top of their lungs that the Willie Horton ads, originally raised by Al Gore by the way, were racist. They and their friends in the media have developed the common narrative | Read More »
Schadenfreude: Robert Gibbs Edition
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 12th at 12:05 PM |
This is making the rounds today: There is no doubt there are enough seats at play that could cause Republicans to gain control, there is no doubt about that,” Gibbs told NBC’s “Meet the Press” talk show when asked whether the Democrats would maintain their majority in the House. Less than a year and two months ago, Time Magazine declared Republicans an endangered species. My, | Read More »
Why Democrats Must Go
By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary) | July 8th at 12:02 PM |
You’d think the Democrats would be doing the snoopy dance during this election cycle. They have accomplished so many of the things Obama promised he’d do during the campaign (and his two Chamber Maids, Reid and Pelosi, guaranteed they’d support) so long as Americans elected Democrats to office. We did, and they have accomplished much. Yet, I don’t see a great deal of talk about | Read More »
A chart of unemployment since 1995
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 8th at 11:00 AM |
Source for the unemployment figures: a spreadsheet taken yesterday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website. Republican period: January 1995-December 2006. Democrat period: January 2007-June 2010. Click for a PDF:
Utopian Statists vs. Optimistic Realists
By: Ned Ryun (Diary) | July 7th at 10:28 AM |
I’ve been studying the Progressives the last few months, and I think this post will be the beginning of a series, or at least a conversation starter for another post or two. It’s struck me in my studies that the Progressives and America’s Founding Fathers are on the polar extremes of two very important issues: the nature of man and the role of government. | Read More »
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Attention Members of Congress
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 1st at 10:13 PM |
The effort to repeal Obamacare continues to gain steam. The King discharge petition, backed by Heritage Action, now has 94 Members on board. But it is still a wonder why it is taking so long for the other Members–both Republican and the Democrats who claim to oppose Obamacare–to sign? Every time these Members vote, they have an opportunity to go and sign on the dotted | Read More »
Republican Senators Declare Themselves Gutless Wonders
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | June 16th at 10:00 AM |
The Politico has a story about Republican Senators running away from Sharron Angle. It includes this gem of gutless wonderdom: Several Senate Republicans told POLITICO that they don’t favor privatizing Social Security, as Angle has supported. Small government conservatives said it doesn’t make sense to eliminate the Energy and Education departments – as she’s called for in the past. And some recoiled at the thought | Read More »
House Republicans pile on against FCC Deem and Pass
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 28th at 07:01 PM |
I’ve hated to have to talk about out 72 House Democrats (and now John Dingell) are on the record against the FCC and its “Title II reclassification” power grab to deem that the Telecommunications Act 1996 no longer exists and so the FCC can do whatever it wants to ISPs, include control prices and regulate content. Well now I don’t have to so much anymore. | Read More »
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Even Democrats are against FCC Deem and Pass [Updated]
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 24th at 11:19 PM |
When the FCC announced plans to declare that ISPs are no longer information services, but are instead phone companies, the FCC claimed the authority to regulate content and prices on Internet service nationwide. And no matter how many times the neo-Marxists at Free Press (and their front group Save the Internet) claim that Net Neutrality is all about “preserving an open Internet,” the FCC’s actions | Read More »
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A Lesson for Potential Turncoats
By: The Directors (Diary) | May 19th at 05:00 AM |
Let me draw up a scenario for you. You’re a long-term incumbent Republican in a purple state that may or may not be trending blue. You’ve always been a moderate and coasted to easy elections in the general. However, a bunch of rabble-rousing conservatives and tea partiers, the kind of people you never liked anyway, have propped up some firebrand conservative candidate, and the polling | Read More »
Conservative. But Also Republican.
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 13th at 05:00 AM |
“Across the country we are pushing the GOP right where the GOP can go right. But at the end of the day, we are on the Republican team.… If you …want to agitate for a third party … go elsewhere.” I admit it. I am guilty of it. Knee deep in primary season battling to get conservatives elected against a bunch of squishy picks, it | Read More »
The Great Disentangling Has Begun: What Bob Bennett’s Defeat Means and Does Not
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 10th at 05:00 AM |
I’d like to think I might have some idea of what Bob Bennett’s defeat means and does not mean. After all, as with Marco Rubio, Doug Hoffman, and Marlin Stutzman, before others noticed, I was beating the drum — all the way back to September of last year on Bob Bennett. Pay attention now you media types who look for great meaning in all things | Read More »
California Republican Assembly endorses Chuck DeVore
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 7th at 10:53 PM |
The California Republican Assembly, a 75 year old conservative group in this state, endorsed Chuck DeVore for Senate today with over 75% support on the first ballot. “CRA must keep working and producing solid conservative candidates for office at all levels of government, and I hope that my fellow Californians will join the CRA team and get involved with a local chapter.” Ronald Reagan said | Read More »
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