(During this last weekend, during a meeting of top staff with Gov. Romney) “Seriously?Let me see if I got all this. I spent most of the last 12 years running for President. I lost the election by a total of about 400,000 spread across a handful of states. 2 million voters that voted for McCain didn’t vote for me. The vehicle for getting those voters | Read More »
We conservatives tend to internalize our failures. We didn’t do enough. We didn’t get our message out. We didn’t make our case. It’s time we stopped kidding ourselves. It doesn’t matter what our message is. It doesn’t matter how well we make case. The media will say about us and our candidates what they want to. They will make us seem as they wish, without | Read More »
By now we all know what Obama will say tomorrow night. 300 billion… or more. Saves teacher jobs… saving teacher union dues… save campaign cash for Democrats. That’s about it. We tried this crap in 2009, it didn’t work then… it won’t work now. What would work? This: There is at least 1 trillion dollars held by US corporations overseas… profit from their overseas (non-US) | Read More »
Contrary to the wet dreams many have on the subject of Obama’s re-election in 2012, not only is it not assured, but there are several major obstacles to that re-election. In this post, I’m going and try to detail these, and do so with the minimum of partisan basis. Before I begin I wish to be clear: I am not predicting Obama’s defeat here. Obama, | Read More »
Democrats are truly in a no win situation. It looks like it’s game on for the Nuclear Option or reconciliation process to pass Obamacare. Obama is going to lay down his smack, Bring it on, I say. Should we decry this action… this breach of both etiquette and of the rules of the Senate? Of course… Should we fear this… this vile act or the | Read More »
So, I’m minding my own business on a cool Wednesday evening, the kids now on their way back the the ex-house, and I come upon this: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/politics/04scotus.html?hp In expansive remarks at a law school in Florida, Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday vigorously defended the Supreme Court ’s recent campaign finance decision. Now that would seem to be at odds with the President… Both these men | Read More »
President Obama will be heading to Massachusetts to campaign for Martha Coakley this Sunday, according to two senior sources informed of the president’s decision, a last-minute effort to give the Democrat a needed boost in the Senate race. It’s a sign that Democrats are deeply worried about Coakley’s prospects and the party’s 60-seat majority, and believe the president can help turn out the Democratic vote | Read More »
Local station has the story: http://www.kitv.com/politics/22094469/detail.html HONOLULU — Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV. Paramedics responded to the call at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort. Limbaugh suffered from chest pains, sources said. Paramedics treated him and took him to Queen’s Medical Center in serious condition. | Read More »
Breaking news: The latest calculation of the National Debt as posted by the Treasury Department has – at least numerically – exceeded the statutory Debt Limit approved by Congress last February as part of the Recovery Act stimulus bill. The ceiling was set at $12.104 trillion dollars. The latest posting by Treasury shows the National Debt at nearly $12.135 trillion. From here: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/16/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5987341.shtml The Democrats | Read More »
Earlier this evening, as most of you now know, one of our own, Rush Hudson Limbaugh, while taking withering fire, crashed and burned. Tonight, Rush is no longer ‘just’ a radio personality. Tonight, Rush is no longer ‘just’ a NFL owner denied Tonight, Rush is us. And we are him. Tonight Rush became the metaphor for all of us… every man woman and child in | Read More »
I make no claim to be one of those ‘best and brightest’ in the GOP. so someone will need to explain this to me… use small words as you know I’m a conservative from fly over country. Under the (RCP) headline of: “GOP, Country Better Off Without Stupid Sarah” Our friend Peggy Noonan does what I think is a hit piece on Sarah Palin http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124716984620819351.html | Read More »
Last week Mort Kondracke, someone that I find otherwise reasonable, wrote this column about his mother http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/28/congress_should_aid_good_death_like_my_mothers_96704.html As he presents her, a remarkable person, great mother, and someone that most anyone would like to know. I didn’t really take notice until near the end: The hospice movement has grown dramatically since its importation from Britain in the 1970s, especially after Medicare decided to pay for | Read More »
Yesterday we who follow such things were presented with an almost perfect example of how the moderate wing of the GOP is wrong. It starts… well I start it with Byron York’s piece: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/When-Democrats-derailed-a-GOP-Latino-nominee-46407227.html Wherein he reminds us of another Latino court appointment… and how that ended: Estrada’s nomination for a federal judgeship set off alarm bells among Democrats. There is a group of left-leaning | Read More »
I am not asking for a seat at the table. I’m not even asking that they feel me or anyone else out about picks like this. What I am saying, however, is that the NRSC clearly has some screws loose and lacks good judgment. – Erick Erickson I’m going to pick on Erick here. No, I like him fine… I like what he is trying | Read More »
(All due apologies to the AFI) Please join with me now in “celebration” of Barrack Obama’s 100 days in office. Take a moment from your busy day, paying for other peoples mortgages or health care and list below (in the comments) one of your favorite Obama mistakes. Let’s see if we can’t list (one per comment please) at least 100… one per day. I’m sure | Read More »
In the political poker game that The One started, this afternoon, Limbaugh flipped the next card: Rush raises the stakes on Obama_ I have a serious proposal to make: the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan 2009. There is a serious debate in this country as to how best to end the recession. Recessions will end on their own if they’re left alone. The average recession will last | Read More »
This is a continuation from my earlier entry of The Strategic Brillance of Barack Obama “Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy’s plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy’s forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy’s army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.” -Sun Tzu, | Read More »
And the real reason it should be of interest to Republicans. There is an old adage in US politics: ‘don’t get into an argument with a guy that buys ink by the barrel.’ Yet that is exactly what Obama did. Why? Just what did Obama do here? He did several things: He put the Republicans there… and indeed everywhere, on notice that Limbaugh won’t be | Read More »
As reported here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17862.html President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning – but he also left no doubt about who’s in charge of these negotiations. “I won,” Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation. The exchange arose as top House and Senate Republicans expressed concern to the president about the amount of | Read More »
(posted a bit early… hey he’s got his schedule, I’ve got mine) President Obama: Just typing those words… they don’t send a tingle up my leg but a shiver down my spine. You sir are the embodiment of two great American adages. The first being that anyone can grow up in America and become President. You are now the personification of that phrase. Not through | Read More »
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