President Obama and other Democrats are staking Ohio on the auto bailout. If they win here, it will be because they convinced Ohio voters that the economy is improving on President Obama’s watch and that Ohio is leading the way as a result of the auto bailout. They’re willing to give him another four years to do the same with the rest of the country. | Read More »
Courtesy of Google Maps (and HT: Al Jazeera), we can now see an up-to-the minute map of the protests spreading across the Middle East, northern Africa, and into Asia. It only takes about three seconds on the Al Jazeera site to see that they are driving the narrative that Muslims are (and should be) angry about the anti-Islam film. Here are some of the headlines | Read More »
You can’t make this stuff up. On a day when the Middle East is on fire (literally, as Joe Biden would say), the Obama for America – Ohio Facebook page thought it would be a great idea to cheer Obama’s faithful fans with this: Jay-Z and Beyoncé will be meeting up with the President for an evening in NYC sometime soon. And today only, you | Read More »
Gaffe -Noun: An unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder: “an unforgivable social gaffe”. From The Hill today: “Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) began resurrecting some of President Obama’s most famous gaffes on the campaign trail Tuesday, reminding a crowd assembled at a Pennsylvania steel plant of the president’s remark four years ago that some voters are “clinging to their guns | Read More »
“Over the last hundred years, look what we’ve done in this country in terms of civil rights, women’s rights, Social Security and Medicare and minimum wage and worker’s compensation and prohibition on child labor and clean air and safe drinking water and auto safety, seat belts, airbags. All these things have given people the ability to live thirty years longer longer. Back a hundred years | Read More »
By now we’ve all had time to absorb Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate. The responses have been mostly ecstatic from those on our side of the political spectrum, including words of support from Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party Express, FreedomWorks, and Concerned Women for America. I suspect that some of these groups have been willing to overlook some of the clunkers in | Read More »
It has been fairly widely reported that fifteen military groups have filed a “motion to intervene” in the Obama for America vs. Husted case. I posted a diary last week claiming that the Obama campaign was suing to disenfranchise military voters. Since that time there have been various comments (including in response to my diary) citing an apparently unimpeachable source: Snopes, which has apparently debunked | Read More »
[promoted from the diaries as part of the Ambitious Writer's Program] On paper, the lawsuit is filed in federal court as Obama for America v. Husted. If you read the content of the complaint, it should actually be called Obama v. the U.S. Troops. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday: “Obama for America, the U.S. president’s re-election campaign committee, sued two Ohio officials over changes to state law | Read More »
If you had any doubt that our national leaders are more concerned about preserving their jobs than with preserving our Republic, Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-OH) End Government Shutdowns Act should quickly dispel those doubts. Portman, joined by Senators Tester (D-MT), Barrasso (R-WY), Boozman (R-AR), Coats (R-IN), Cornyn (R-TX), Enzi (R-WY), Hoeven (R-ND), Lee (R-UT) and McCain (R-AZ) introduced a bill today that will attempt to insulate | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries by Vladimir, an uneducated conservative blogger. The headline on the U.S. News and World Report website read: ”Sen. Sherrod Brown’s Wife Makes Conservative Blogger Look Silly.” On the WaPo’s Politics blog the headline read, “Connie Schultz hopes for ‘teaching moment’ on conservative blogger’s failed gotcha,” and TPM wrote about “A Reporter’s Failed Attempt to Sandbag Connie Schultz.” This (allegedly newsworthy) media frenzy | Read More »
Can someone please tell me what in Hades this is doing in a bill on the floor of the United States Senate? IN GENERAL. – Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall conduct a study of : (A) video game console energy use; and (B) opportunities for energy savings regarding that energy use. (2) INCLUSIONS. – | Read More »
Promoted from diaries. Take a look at this video before continuing to read. I encourage you to watch the entire, paint-drying minute and five seconds: To you and me and every reasonable person with an ounce of compassion, this looks like a nursing home. But if you’re a sleazy, Democratic political operative, this looks like juicy, salacious oppo research, because the nursing home is owned | Read More »
Yesterday I posted a lengthy list of crimes against conservatism by Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), who is rumored to top Mitt Romney’s short list of VP candidates. At the bottom of the diary was a link to the brief summary of an ominous-sounding bill introduced by Portman on Friday. The text of the bill is finally up at the Library of Congress website and it’s bad. | Read More »
Real Clear Politics is reporting today that Mitt Romney’s short list in the Veepstakes is down to four, one of which is Ohio Senator Rob Portman. The Kentucky Post reported this week: “And with Ohio expected to be another crucial battleground state, Portman is widely speculated to be a potential vice presidential pick for Romney. “The senator has made many high-profile appearances in recent weeks, | Read More »
Flame throwing—and often bomb throwing—Cleveland Indians closer, Chris Perez, had a mind-dump session with the New York Times today, lambasting Cleveland fans for not supporting the Indians to his satisfaction, for “blindly” supporting the Browns, and for hating on poor LeBron James: “I don’t get the psyche,” said Perez, who grew up in Florida. “Why cheer against a guy that’s not even in your city | Read More »
Of course it wasn’t the Republicans. We all know better than that. Actually, it was NPR and their liberal buddies: “Ohio Gov. John Kasich has appointed a television sports commentator and former Canadian league football player to the state Board of Education. “Stanley Jackson, a Republican from Marion, attended Ohio State University and played football there, but does not appear to have graduated, Ohio State spokesperson Amy Murray said.” | Read More »
“I think the next act will be dragging women out of patient rooms into the streets and screaming over their bodies as they are dragged out of getting access to women’s health care. That’s what I feel like is occurring today with the legislation that is on the floor” (Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee made this statement during the floor debate | Read More »
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is in a tough race to maintain his seat against State Treasurer Josh Mandel. The Real Clear Politics average currently has Brown up by 7.7 points and Mandel is closing the gap, even after several weeks of extremely negative attack ads, not by Super Pacs, but directly from the Brown campaign itself. Not exactly a commanding lead for an incumbent who | Read More »
Politicians send troops abroad to die. Then they bestow fake honor on them at home. It’s called Memorial Day. Chances are EVERY member of Congress will be back in their district, pontificating and posing as a patriot, who values the sacrifice of the fallen. Yet… Last week an amendment to end legalized kidnapping failed in the House, 182-238. And so began a long, detail-pregnant e-mail | Read More »
It’s not that complicated. Or it shouldn’t be. But if you want to apply for a prestigious “Obama Organizing Fellowship,” perhaps you should really wrestle and thoughtfully consider your answer to the question below. Even if you think you already know the answer because God gave you certain equipment at birth that makes the answer quite obvious to anyone with eyes and a lick of | Read More »
Despite their statements to the press and on their website attempting to distance the group from the five suspected terrorists who were members of Occupy Cleveland, their presence in court on Monday sent a different message. Members of the Occupy Cleveland community showed up in force today to support the “Cleveland 5″ for their first day in court. According to Scene (a local hipster publication): “By | Read More »
Although Occupy Cleveland has a nice little statement on its website attempting to distance the group from the terror suspects who were active members of the group, directly below the statement is a video hailing the actions of suspected would-be bomber and Cleveland Occupy leader Brandon Baxter for his March 5th arrest. From the Occupy Cleveland site: “On the morning of March 5th, Occupy Cleveland, in conjunction | Read More »
Cleveland Magazine has just posted an interview from the tents at Public Square in Cleveland with the shell-shocked reaction of the remaining Occupiers on receiving news that their comrades had been arrested for plotting to blow up an area bridge. As I posted earlier today, the men have a clear link to the Occupy Cleveland movement and this article confirms that all five men were | Read More »
Meet Cleveland Occupier Brandon Baxter. A few weeks ago he was one of the few remaining protesters manning the shabby Occupation tent on Cleveland’s Public Square. Today he was arrested for plotting to blow up a major bridge in the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area. Anthony Hayne is another member of Occupy Cleveland. He was highlighted in an October, 2011 story in the Lakewood | Read More »
UPDATE: When I originally wrote this diary, I was under the impression that there were nine, and only nine, senators holding up this bill. It has since been brought to my attention that the nine listed below are the senators who are most likely to influence the decision to bring the bill to a floor vote. It’s important that all Ohio senators hear from their | Read More »
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