In perhaps the best video clip ever produced from a speech at the impeccably boring (Jonah Goldberg ensures me this isn’t the case and threatened to burn my doorstep, so we’ll take his word for it) American Enterprise Institute,... read more »
April 6, 2011 2:11 pm / 1 comment
I’ve been hoping that the GOP would put Paul Ryan in a more visible position when it comes to messaging. Thankfully, it’s happening. When it comes to articulating the real problems we’re facing and explaining how to solve them,... read more »
April 5, 2011 8:48 am / 1 comment
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At a fundraiser yesterday in Philadelphia, Vice President Biden made the ridiculous comparison of GOP policy to blaming rape victims for being raped.
From Fox News:
“When a woman got raped, blame her because... read more »
March 19, 2011 12:29 pm / 1 comment
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Mitt Romney’s been taking barbs from other conservatives for his health care reform plan enacted in Massachusetts while he was governor, but now an unlikely ally has come to his side: tea party champion... read more »
March 17, 2011 1:37 pm / no comments
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I love this. Just a few months after the 2010 elections and everything is already picking up again. The Senate races are going to be expecially exciting.
Anyway, after Sen. Ensign’s retirementseveral potential... read more »
March 15, 2011 10:23 am / no comments
It seems some of the more liberal Wisconsin Republicans in Madison may be growing tired of the deadlock in the state’s capitol and want to come up with a compromise with the runaway Democrats and protesting unions. Is Gov. Walker’s... read more »
February 21, 2011 7:04 am / 3 comments
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When tragedy strikes, it is a knee-jerk reaction of the litigious society in which we live to introduce new legislation to try and prevent it from happening again. You see, to those that we elect to represent... read more »
January 13, 2011 1:31 pm / 3 comments
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More evidence of ‘violent political rhetoric?’ You decide, but I highly doubt it. And this is not a branch off of the Gabby Giffords tragedy. Look at the dates.
From Seattle PI:
A... read more »
January 12, 2011 6:46 pm / no comments
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A new poll out of Texas shows that Texan Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison could be a potential target in a primary and/or for Democrats in 2012 if she seeks re-election, as she was previously not going to... read more »
January 10, 2011 9:31 am / no comments
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From John Rossomando at the Daily Caller, now that Harry Reid can make the effort to change the rules of the filibuster (requiring 60 votes for cloture on any bill that is presented to the Senate) should... read more »
January 10, 2011 6:57 am / no comments
I know , I know. I said in today’s Daily Dose that the START nuclear arms treaty seemed practically dead to me. Turns out I was wrong.
From The Hill:
Republican senators say privately they expect the Senate to ratify the New START treaty... read more »
December 20, 2010 6:14 pm / 1 comment
As it appears this morning, the START nuclear arms treaty Barack Obama struck with Russia appears to be in hot water as chances for it’s passage creep from slim to nearly none. START would be the first treaty to ever be ratified by the... read more »
December 20, 2010 12:06 pm / no comments