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Repeal and replace?
The sourcing on this one is awfully thin, which raises two possibilities. One: The details are exaggerated or outright made up to try to start a firestorm among ObamaCare-hating conservatives. Two: The details are spot-on and are being deliberately leaked to see how ObamaCare-hating conservatives react. Can some parts of this thing be preserved or [...]
Zero.
Another day, another congressional shutout of O’s latest unserious gimmick. That makes three in the past year. The Senate torpedoed his last budget 97-0 in May 2011, then the House dropped a goose egg on him in March with a robust 414-0 tally. Now this. 610-0: Republicans forced the vote by offering the president’s plan [...]
Palin power?
Wish we’d spent more time covering this given how interesting the race has become over the past week or so but here’s an eleventh-hour open thread for those who’ve been following it at other righty sites like Red State. Three candidates: Jon Bruning, the state AG and establishment favorite; Don Stenberg, the state treasurer and [...]
Culture.
Former President George W. Bush’s pollster for his 2004 re-election, Jan van Lohuizen, has put out a memo to Republican operatives suggesting a shift in the way the GOP discusses same-sex marriage… “Recommendation: A statement reflecting recent developments on this issue along the following lines: “‘People who believe in equality under the law as a [...]
Plus: C'mon, Sen. Rob Portman isn't all that boring!
Virginia’s chief executive Bob McDonnell is a pretty darn popular governor who’s consistently led the purplish state to back-in-the-black budgets, and although he’s often typecast as being too “vanilla” to really help Mitt Romney round out the GOP ticket, his name has been much circulated as a potential running mate. But, he certainly isn’t the [...]
Bitterness.
Compare and contrast to Trey Grayson, who managed to collect himself and attend a unity rally for the tea partier who knocked him off in a bitter Kentucky primary in 2010. Then again, that rally was four days after the election, not 16 hours, so Grayson had had a chance to come to terms with [...]
"What's the endgame?"
Larry Kudlow asks the most pertinent question about Ron Paul’s continuing efforts on the campaign trail after Mitt Romney has all but wrapped up the GOP nomination, which is what Paul hopes to accomplish by continuing to contest it. Paul says he’s not ready to follow Rick Santorum’s lead by endorsing Romney in the near [...]
Nothing doing.
The debate about maintaining the ceiling on some federal student loan interest rates was President Obama’s flavor-of-the-week campaign meme two weeks ago, but the Congressional kerfuffle continues. Although the interest-rate hike would actually affect relatively very few student loan recipients, the White House succeeded in generating quite the to-do over the debate — and here [...]
Nothing doing.
The debate about maintaining the ceiling on some federal student loan interest rates was President Obama’s flavor-of-the-week campaign meme two weeks ago, but the Congressional kerfuffle continues. Although the interest-rate hike would actually affect relatively very few student loan recipients, the White House succeeded in generating quite the to-do over the debate — and here [...]
Endgame?
The polls in Indiana close promptly at 6 p.m. ET. If you believe the latest numbers, we’ll get a call sooner rather than later. How did it come to this? WaPo: At the start of 2011, Lugar met with senior party strategists who walked him through the mistakes made by the likes of Murkowski and [...]
Hmmmm.
Earlier in this cycle, Republican fretted that Ron Paul could go rogue and run as an independent in the general election, which conventional wisdom held would be a disaster for the GOP. Paul has (mostly) insisted that he has no intention to make an independent general-election run, but maybe Republicans were too quick to worry. [...]
That gosh darn "anti-wind libertarian, free-market fundamentalist echo chamber!"
It warmed my heart when Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) spearheaded a bill last February that would roll back a bunch of the energy-related tax credits that riddle our tax code and distort free-market signals in our energy sector. Tax credits are just one of the forms that subsidies can take, but all subsidies encourage rent-seeking [...]
Two thumbs up.
Last night, the GOP took another step towards unifying behind its presumptive nominee for President, Mitt Romney. Rick Santorum, who emerged late in the cycle to become Romney’s toughest competitor, formally endorsed him as the nominee in an e-mail sent out to supporters: Rick Santorum has officially endorsed Mitt Romney, and notified his supporters in [...]
Reelection.
President Barack Obama launched a new phase of his re-election campaign on Saturday by branding GOP challenger Mitt Romney as an eager rubber stamp for extremist Republicans in Congress and offering himself as a hard-charging champion of an embattled middle class. In the first formal rallies of his bid for a second term, Obama acknowledged [...]
Second verse, same as the first
The patience of the folks at TransCanada Corp. may not be infinite, but it’s lasting far longer than I would have expected them to continue putting up with the nonsense coming out of the White House. On Friday, they filed yet another permit to move forward on construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, complying with [...]
Blame.
Yesterday, I wrote about the claims from Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein that the GOP is ideologically extreme and scornful of compromise, noting that the Democrats are similarly afflicted with the problems they identified. However, we need not simply analyze their claims on the basis of what is wrong with both parties. We [...]
Blame.
Yesterday, I wrote about the claims from Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein that the GOP is ideologically extreme and scornful of compromise, noting that the Democrats are similarly afflicted with the problems they identified. However, we need not simply analyze their claims on the basis of what is wrong with both parties. We [...]
Blame.
Yesterday, I wrote about the claims from Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein that the GOP is ideologically extreme and scornful of compromise, noting that the Democrats are similarly afflicted with the problems they identified. However, we need not simply analyze their claims on the basis of what is wrong with both parties. We [...]
Blessings.
Mitt Romney’s task as presumptive nominee will be to unite the party behind his leadership in time for the general election against Barack Obama. That requires a delicate balance of expanding the message beyond the GOP tent while embracing the conservatives who have been reluctant to back Romney. He has to find ways to reach [...]
Dreams.
“House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) poured cold water Thursday on efforts by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to advance immigration reform by suggesting that such a plan would not be able to pass the GOP-led House this year. “Asked by a reporter whether he thought the House could pass an immigration measure this year that [...]
Dreams.
“House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) poured cold water Thursday on efforts by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to advance immigration reform by suggesting that such a plan would not be able to pass the GOP-led House this year. “Asked by a reporter whether he thought the House could pass an immigration measure this year that [...]
Themes.
That Mitt Romney, man — that is one out-of-touch dude. He seriously needs a reality check, or something, and Team Obama has made it their mission to give him one with their “keep the GOP honest” crusade. President Obama has been slowly but surely making the campaign-rounds, especially through clutch battleground states, concentrating his messaging [...]
It's a trap.
Let the games begin. With Romney expressing his support earlier this week for extending the freeze in student loan interest rates, defusing this as a wedge issue just as the President was embarking on his college tour, Democrats in the Senate have decided to counter with, what else, the class warfare card. Via Bloomberg (emphasis [...]
It's a trap.
Let the games begin. With Romney expressing his support earlier this week for extending the freeze in student loan interest rates, defusing this as a wedge issue just as the President was embarking on his college tour, Democrats in the Senate have decided to counter with, what else, the class warfare card. Via Bloomberg (emphasis [...]
Plus, "people coming out of the woodwork" to donate to Romney.
Remember the kerfuffles over book editions and “vulture capitalism”? Water under the bridge. Rick Perry announced his endorsement of Mitt Romney last night, after confirming with Newt Gingrich that his campaign will roll to a stop next Tuesday: Texas Gov. Rick Perry endorsed likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday after campaign aides to [...]
A "crude" analogy?
Well it’s not new exactly, just new to the intertubes, but it certainly explains a lot. From the Foundry via Weasel Zippers: This clip actually originated from Sen. James Inhofe’s office so thankfully the GOP is already on this. A little more background from the Senator’s press release: Not long after Administrator Armendariz made these [...]
Outrageous.
Or perhaps it is how I learned to start being concerned about “manufactured” outrage. It depends on how you look at it, I suppose. After all, when I read generally conservative columnists like Matt K. Lewis or John Podhoretz disdaining “manufactured” outrages from different angles — even when the GOP may enjoy some temporary advantage [...]
Polarization.
Via Greg Hengler, I’m … kind of torn on this one. On one hand, it plays into every fear among the conservative base of the GOP about Mitt Romney. On the other hand, the statement from the man formerly known as the worst American President in modern times makes it very, very difficult for Team [...]
Polarization.
Via Greg Hengler, I’m … kind of torn on this one. On one hand, it plays into every fear among the conservative base of the GOP about Mitt Romney. On the other hand, the statement from the man formerly known as the worst American President in modern times makes it very, very difficult for Team [...]
"It’s pretty clear Governor Romney is going to be the nominee.”
Last night provided a moment to Newt Gingrich that Rick Santorum managed to avoid. Santorum withdrew before a potentially embarrassing loss in Pennsylvania, keeping his credibility intact after a surprisingly successful run, which prompted most of the GOP to rally to Mitt Romney. Gingrich couldn’t take the hint and insisted that the race would change [...]
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