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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2010 4 Comments
I previously have highlighted the candidacy of Mike Stopa, running in the Republican primary for Congress in the MA-03 District.  The primary is this Tuesday, September 14. If there are any voters in MA-03 reading, please get out and vote for Stopa.  And tell others....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2010 8 Comments
Renee Ellmers is running for Congress in the 2d District of North Carolina against Bob Etheridge (you remember him, more below). Mrs. Ellmers was kind enough to tape a video for Legal Insurrection readers, asking for your support.  I’m completely on board for her campaign,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2010 30 Comments
Prof. Stephen Bainbridge and Dan Riehl have been debating the Delaware Senate Republican primary, and whether it is worth electing “RINO” Mike Castle.  Bainbridge says yes, Riehl says no. I don’t know enough about Castle or Christine O’Donnell to weigh in on whether Castle is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2010 5 Comments
Tipping point approaching.  From The NY Times, Fewer Young Voters See Themselves as Democrats The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2010 5 Comments
Trust me, I’m not counting my chickens before they have come home to roost.  But it is enjoyable to read the distraught comments from those trying to run away from the wave. The “wave” is the most recent Gallup poll showing a 10 point generic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2010 5 Comments
Mike Stopa is running in the September 14 Republican primary for Congress in the MA-03 District, currently (and hopefully not for long) occupied by Jim McGovern. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aBHPqaceXA?fs=1] Check out Stopa’s YouTube channel, which has some great videos on how to kill Obamacare, as well as this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2010 7 Comments
The credibility of the Congressional Budget Office suffered a grievous blow during the health care debate when the CBO was forced by Harry Reid to “score” Obamacare using preposterous and plainly contrived assumptions in order to keep the cost estimates below a trillion dollars. Now,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2010 1 Comment
Ed Driscoll (h/t Instapundit) has put together a list of Harry Reid’s Top 10 most disastrous quotes. While a Top 10 list is hard for Reid, I might have included the following: Reid comparing opponents of Obamacare to those who opposed abolition of slavery. Reid...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2010 3 Comments
Amy Gardner, writing in The Washington Post’s Post Politics column, has a very fair — and revealing — article on Harry Reid’s attack machine, and its distorted portrayals of Sharron Angle: All summer long, Reid’s small army of young, eager staffers has bombarded Nevada voters...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2010 6 Comments
Harry Reid famously played the race card during the health care debate by comparing those who opposed Obamacare to those who opposed the abolition of slavery. Now he is at it again, this time claiming that no one of Hispanic heritage should vote for a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2010 10 Comments
Watching Robert Gibbs go after the Professional Left, and the Professional Left firing back, certainly has been amusing. But I’ll have to stand up for Gibbs, at least in his first heart-felt salvo. Gibbs made two related points. First, that the Professional Left is “crazy”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2010 7 Comments
Mary Katherine Ham and Guy Benson have a guest post at HotAir setting forth 10 key false promises by Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats about Obamacare, ObamaCare: The sum of all fears. The post is long, but worth the read. Here are the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2010 8 Comments
The Missouri vote overwhelmingly approving a referendum opting out of Obamacare’s mandate has left-wing bloggers scratching themselves with bewilderment. The reaction falls into three basic categories: (1) the folks just don’t understand that this is good for them, (3) if only we had a public...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2010 2 Comments
Remember my now-classic post about all the “little-noticed” provisions in Obamacare, “Little-Noticed” is the New “Unexpected”? Well, “little-noticed” is back, this time with regard to the equally massive text of the financial regulation overhaul, SEC Says New FinReg Law Exempts It From Public Disclosure (emphasis mine): So...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2010 5 Comments
Obamacare as we know it is not enough, Reid to Netroots: “We’re Going To Have a Public Option”: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeking to console liberal activists who were disappointed by the final version of the national health care law, assured them that there...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2010 20 Comments
Now that the left-wing blogosphere and Democratic media operatives Media Matters and Think Progress have found the Religion of Context when it comes to Shirley Sherrod … how about finally apologizing for the months long smear in 2009 that Census worker Bill Sparkman was killed...
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