After a month of spirited dissent and calls for justice from the Cuban-American community in light of President Obama’s capitulations to the Castro regime in December, the Republican Party is answering by hosting some of the most prominent members of the Cuban dissident community at tonight’s State of the Union Address.
It’s not exactly a shocking revelation that liberals are interested in supporting Republicans who want to drag their party to the Left, especially after a historic midterm election where liberalism got its posterior kicked sideways. Give the Left credit for springing into action after just a few days of freaking out at the stupid voters, and writing tear-soaked screeds about how we probably shouldn’t have stupid midterm elections anyway, or maybe we shouldn’t even have Congress–at least not when a liberal Democrat is president. After screaming into their op-ed paper bags for a brief interval, they set about undermining the Republican wave by seeking to convince the winners that they should behave like losers. There are plenty of receptive ears in the Republican power elite for that message.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair wowed the audience at a joint House-Senate Republican retreat with a speech on how the West must combat the threat of Islamic Extremism. Mr Blair told lawmakers that America should look to lead on
Bloomberg.com conveniently labels freshman Republican Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado a conservative, while pointing out that his position on illegal immigration amounts to little more than giving Barack Obama a free hand to do what he wants, irrespective of what the American people or even the House might prefer.
White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett is not pleased with the Republican effort to defund President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform, arguing that his actions have actually improved the immigration system.
Florida Congressman Richard Nugent (R), fresh off being booted from his seat on the House Rules Committee for opposing Speaker John Boehner in the recent Speaker of the House election, delivered a magnificent gutting of Boehner by calling out the Speaker’s missteps and poor leadership.
By some reports, Democrats may attempt to use the terror attacks in Paris to try and stop the Republicans from using budget negotiations for the Department of Homeland Security as a means to put a crimp in the President’s amnesty plans.
House Republicans claim that next week they’ll vote on a plan to block some parts of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, but the president has insisted that he will veto any bills that make it to his desk that might curtail his amnesty plans.
A record percentage of Americans (42%) identified as political independents in 2013, according to Gallup. The percentage is “the highest Gallup has measured since it began conducting interviews by telephone 25 years ago,” and it has “come more at the
In the just-completed 2024 presidential election, the Republican Party has won the White House for a third consecutive time—only the third instance in a century that the GOP has managed this feat. So it’s worth pausing over the origins and
Wednesday on the “The Tom Joyner Morning Show,” Al Sharpton talked about the Republican takeover of the U.S. Congress. Sharpton said, “This is the largest majority Republicans have had since the 1920s, and what will happen, and how we deal
As Republicans assume control of Congress this week, pundits and political observers are handicapping the odds of legislation passing the GOP controlled Senate. While House Republicans enjoy their largest majority in almost a century, Senate Republicans have just 54 seats in the Chamber. It is a solid majority but a handful of seats below the 60 vote threshold to end filibusters on legislation.
A whopping 84% of Republicans who voted in the midterm elections would be less likely to vote for a member of Congress who does not vote to defund President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty.
Because of a recent scandal that damaged Republican House Whip Steve Scalise, Speaker John Boehner (R, OH) has been reduced to making personal phone calls in order to drum up enough support to be returned to his leadership role as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest couldn’t resist drawing attention to Republicans for allowing Rep. Steve Scalise to stay as House Majority Whip, after reports that he addressed a group of people at a white supremacist group convention. Earnest explained that Republicans know that they needed to “broaden their appeal” to minorities, gays, women, and young people, but that it was eventually up to the party to decide.
Conservatives rightfully worry that Republicans in Washington will pursue a modest agenda with their Congressional majorities, but the states provide fertile ground for a broad reform legislation. In recent years, Republicans and conservatives have won public sector reforms in Wisconsin, broad tax reform in a number of states, and have led three states—Indiana, Oklahoma, and South Carolina—out of the Common Core education regime.
In an appearance on NBC’s “Today” on Thursday, “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd laid out what he foresees as the make-up of the 2015 political landscape, much of which has to do with the 2016 presidential contest. According to
White House Senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer doesn’t think that Republicans will succeed in defending President Obama’s executive amnesty in 2015. Pfeiffer suggests that Republicans won’t have the political momentum to sustain a mini-shutdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
Ahead of President Obama’s press conference on Friday, Dan Pfeiffer, his senior political adviser, mocked Republicans for failing to repeal Obamacare. “We just finished a debate on how funding the government for next year and the Republicans didn’t even have
A new NBC News-Wall Street Journal survey shows that Chris Christie is at the bottom of the pack among the 2016 GOP hopefuls, with the fewest number of voters saying they could support him for the nomination. The December 10
