Not soon after his media-enabled reelection, when President Obama’s poll numbers almost immediately began to crater, the media narrative shifted to the steady drumbeat of, “But the approval rating for Congress is much lower.” That spin was obviously directed at
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — In exclusive interviews here, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) and Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) both called for Congress to cut off funding from President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty. “I agree with that completely,” Vitter said when
Leading liberal thinkers such as Thomas Friedman often lament that the U.S. can’t be “China for a day,” with a single day set aside for a dictatorial government to avoid the messiness of democracy and simply impose the radical policies
President Obama said in October that while he was not on the ballot, his policies were. The result was a historic rejection of his radical agenda. Perhaps more than any issue, voter disgust over the President’s amnesty for undocumented individuals
In a conference call with reporters Wednesday morning, Mark Dubowitz, an Iran expert and executive director of the nonpartisan Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that Congress has tools at its disposal to resist efforts by the Obama administration to circumvent
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) declared that the public should be “burning up the phone lines” on Capitol Hill in support of Obamacare’s repeal in light of comments insulting the American public’s intelligence and citing the opaque nature of the law
Perhaps the most vocal and even most visible Progressive member of the Senate Democrat caucus, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is reportedly “under consideration for a leadership position.” If Hillary Clinton is to be challenged from the Left for her party’s nomination
President Obama sent out a letter to his Organizing for American brownshirts, asking them to stand up and voice their support for his liberal agenda in final two years of his presidency. Here is the letter. Please try to contain
Republican National Committee Chairman is warning Republicans against accepting President Obama’s threats of executive amnesty as a reason to move forward on immigration reform and says Congress should avoid addressing major issues until GOP reinforcements arrive in January. “I just
In what is perhaps one of the more politically cynical moves one might imagine during the upcoming lame duck session of congress, Senate Democrats are considering moving forward on a vote on the Keystone pipeline as a means of propping
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said he believes that Republicans “have the votes” to block executive action on immigration by the president on Tuesday’s “Mark Levin Show.” Sessions repeatedly emphasized that such an order would go against the will of the
When the federal government promises “reform,” there’s no guarantee things will get better (they generally don’t) but you can be certain it will spend more money. Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald says he’s implementing “the largest restructuring in the department’s
BEIJING (AP) — His influence at home quickly fading, President Barack Obama is looking east to China, the opening stop of a three-country tour that will test his ability to play a commanding role on the world stage during his
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald reported that Phoenix VA Director Sharon Helman is “still on the government payroll” on Monday’s “Wolf” on CNN. McDonald said “what we do is when there’s an indication that there could be a violation of
Getting elected is tough, but for the new Republican majority in Congress, working with President Obama could prove downright daunting. After the drubbing Democrats took in the mid-term elections, the president oddly pronounced if the GOP has some ideas to
With President Obama still adamant that he will move forward with executive action on immigration, the Center for Immigration Studies is out with a new report looking at a possible population that might receive benefits under an executive amnesty order.
With the decision last week by the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the King v. Burwell case, there is renewed interest in the arguments surrounding the case. Today, Brian Beutler at the New Republic poses a legal solution
President Obama still loves his job, even though his party lost both houses of Congress in the recent mid-term elections. When asked by CBS’s Bob Schieffer about his reaction to the Democrat’s drubbing by Republicans, Obama admitted that “we got
On Monday, Rush Limbaugh’s attorney sent a letter to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee warning them of an potential lawsuit over the DCCC’s manipulation of comments from his program. Limbaugh demanded “an immediate retraction and public apology.” According to the
A group of sheriffs is looking to mobilize their peers around the country to gather in Washington, D.C. to call on Congress and the Obama administration to secure the border. According to a letter from Bristol County, Massachusetts Sheriff Thomas
Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds has an excellent list of suggestions at USA Today for an early salvo of bills the Republicans could fire off when the new Congress comes into session. As he puts it, there are three kinds of bills
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was honored Sunday night at the ACLU’s 91st annual Bill of Rights Dinner at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, where she picked up the Ramona Ripston Liberty, Justice, and Equality Award for her work
HOUSTON, Texas — Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer told President Obama Sunday that Republicans have told the President, “Don’t do it.” The issue: his taking executive action on amnesty. President Obama told Face the Nation viewers that he does not
It didn’t take long for the ruling class to push back. Three days after the voters rebuffed administration policies that President Obama had insisted were on the ballot, the Capital City’s practitioners of the political dark arts were back at
“New Generation” Republican Carl DeMaio conceded to incumbent Democrat Congressman Scott Peters Sunday in one of the most contentious and highly targeted House races in America. Initial results Wednesday showed DeMaio ahead. That flipped late Thursday with a results update,
