http://www.redstate.com/tsquare Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:51:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/10/14/tonight%e2%80%a6-we-are-all-rush-limbaugh/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/07/10/a-simple-question/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/06/06/the-real-issue-at-hand/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/05/31/peggy-noonan-is-wrong-again/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/05/20/i-am-not-asking-for-a-seat-at-the-table-but-you-should-be/ (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 ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/04/21/100-days-100-mistakes/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/01/26/rush-to-obama-i%e2%80%99ll-see-you-and-raise-you%e2%80%a6/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/01/24/an-outline-for-responce-to-the-stratigy-of-barack-obama/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/01/24/the-strategic-brilliance-of-barack-obama/ 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 ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/01/23/the-new-tone-in-washington-i-won/ (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 ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/01/19/a-letter-to-president-obama/ In which I take on a role I know very well... that of a Father. From here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17532.html We get the news that The One is coming 'courting' It's no secret Barack Obama is trying to seduce Republicans these days. But his conservative courting runs much deeper and wider than is publicly known. Obama ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/01/17/a-brief-note-to-gop-elected-officals/ As detailed here http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/stlog/2009/01/p-d_layoffs_the_memo.php The St. Louis Post Dispatch annonced yet another round of layoffs... this one including that very far left fellow traveler Eric Mink That's right... tsquare won't have Mink to kick around anymore. Now... normally I don't like to take pleasure in the misfortune of others... and when I do... ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/01/11/into-everyones-life-a-little-sunshine-enters-now-and-again/ I'm working on setting the details for the St Louis Anti-Inauguration ‘party’to be held on Jan. 20thIf ever we conservatives had reason to drink... this is the reason and the day to do so. Left to myself, I'll pick a  place that will be grossly inconveant to most anyone else... ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2009/01/08/st-louis-anti-inauguration-%e2%80%98party%e2%80%99/ Roland Burris! The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that Gov. Blagojevich today is expected to name former state Comptroller and Attorney General Roland Burris to Illinois' vacant U.S. Senate seat, a knowledgeable source said this morning. A news conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1354679,w-blagojevich-obama-senate-seat-burris-123008.article Oh Happy Day! http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2008/12/30/breaking-news-and-the-winning-bidder-is/ Playing off of Moe's post: http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2008/12/29/and-here-i-thought-that-the-great-netroot-betrayal-was-merely-a-tagline/#comment-9053 This shows just why... as well as the way to break the back of the Obama administration. Obama can not deliver everything for everybody. This should be a given seeing how he was sold to the public as everything for everybody. Hope and change isn't policy it's ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2008/12/29/on-the-subject-of-netroots/ You guys are making my teeth hurt over there http://www.redstate.com/erick/2008/12/25/rebuilding-the-party-the-technology/ Six blind men describing an elephant… each right in their own way… each missing The Big Picture. For the Democrats sitting where we are now in early 2005, The Big Picture was to win. In 2005 Obama was still a skinny little kid ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2008/12/25/the-big-picture/ An Instructive Lesson in Our Modern Media and Government Perhaps you saw the headlines: "GOP Senators Kill Auto Bailout" Which is what the MSM the Democrats and the union wish you to know The perhaps you know what actually went on as detailed by Larry Kudlow: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/whos_losing_the_us_car_busines.html In truth, the UAW is to blame. If ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2008/12/14/conservatives-and-compromise/ Gentlefolk: We seem to have at the very least a handful of Red State folks in the St. Louis metro area. With the holidays upon us, anyone interested in meeting for a drink and good conversation? Let's do this... what do you say? http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2008/11/25/st-louis-red-state-meet-up/ I live within the 1st District in Missouri. It is not something that I am proud of. My Congressman is William “Lacy” Clay Jr. The reason he represents the 1st District is that his Father William “Bill” Clay Sr. held the seat for 32 years. This after 5 years as ... http://www.redstate.com/tsquare/2008/11/22/the-missouri-1st-district/