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Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 05, 2013 15 Comments
Nancy Pelosi was wrong:  Even after passing the bill, no one could have possibly known what was in it! That’s because America’s finest bureaucrats are creating a galaxy of amazing new rules to implement provisions of the “Affordable Care Act”.  In the traditional Friday-night document...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 04, 2013 50 Comments
A little over two years ago, the newly-minted Speaker of the House John Boehner essentially said that Tea Party freshman would soon have an “adult moment,” when their principles came in to contact with Beltway politics. Dawn Wildman is a state coordinator for the California...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on January 03, 2013 7 Comments
Despite the large scale and outspoken dissatisfaction by many Republican lawmakers of Speaker Boehner following the fiscal cliff vote, most are in agreement that his speakership is not going to be legitimately threatened today. That being said, today’s vote may not necessarily be the smooth...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2012 11 Comments
I am going to keep repeating The Christmas Strategy until someone in Republican circles listens: I say call his bluff. If a deal which tackles deficits from both revenue and spending can be reached this month, great. If not, pass a 90 day extension of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2012 39 Comments
The amount of money spent by Romney/RNC and Obama/DNC was astounding — over $1 billion each. As Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.com (and others) have been exploring, the Republican money was concentrated on a small number of connected consulting firms: One-Third of RNC’s Final Five Weeks...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 73 Comments
The inevitable post-election lull seems like a good time to sits and think. And one of the things I sits and thinks about is the future of small conservative blogs. There seems to be a corporate consolidation of blogs on the right and the left.  Already...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2012 15 Comments
Trying to get as many of the reader photos out as possible before the election, since they have expiration dates. This is from commenter LukeHandCool: My wife took this picture of a Romney banner on one of the fraternities at USC when she was dropping...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 13, 2012 7 Comments
A recently released Associated Press article on the Operation Counterweight race between David Rouzer (R) and Mike McIntyre (D) has echoed a common assertion regarding Mike McIntyre’s political status. A member of his party’s conservative Blue Dog caucus, McIntyre casually quotes Scripture, rails against illegal...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on September 30, 2012 12 Comments
The battle between Lee Anderson and John Barrow for the fate of Georgia’s 12th Congressional district is under way and it appears that the race is going to be a tight one. This is on the Operation Counterweight final list. After a protracted primary battle,...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on August 29, 2012 36 Comments
I first wrote back in June that Missouri Senator Claire MacAskill’s effort to distance herself from the President by skipping out on the DNC was “not a bad strategy.” In July, I reported that Nancy Pelosi had essentially endorsed it as the “official strategy” of...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 02, 2012 30 Comments
Ballotpedia has compiled data on the average net worth of our elected officials for the years 2004 to 2010. As the average net worth of Congress has increased since 2004, and held about even from 2007 to 2010, the average American family net worth dropped...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2012 76 Comments
Let me be as clear as I can be.  Anyone who supports Israel must vote for Romney.  Obama, in complete control of foreign and military policy, will be unrestrained by electoral considerations in a second term, and will impose his vision of a Middle East settlement...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on July 19, 2012 23 Comments
Below is a screen shot from the DNC homepage with a confident (or, maybe confused) looking Joe Biden proclaiming: I’m there! Are you? Well, apparently not. Unlike Vice President Biden, many Congressional Democrats will be staying away from this year’s Democratic National Convention. Although the...
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