XL oil pipeline, is only being held because outgoing Senate Majority leader Harry Reid hopes that it will help embattle Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu retain her seat in next month’s run-off election in Louisiana. The word around town is that
President Obama says he intends to act quickly to offer executive amnesty to illegal immigrants, and aides say that move could come as soon as this week. This need for haste may be due to his party growing weaker with
Under a Republican-controlled Congress there will be changes in Washington, DC—with energy policy front and center. The past six years have seen taxpayer dollars poured into green-energy projects that have embarrassed the administration and promoted teppan-style renewables that chop-up and
A clearer picture of the strategy Republicans in both the House and the Senate will use to stop President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty in government funding bills is beginning to emerge. The key point is that no matter what
As it picks through the rubble of the midterm elections, one of the bigger challenges for the Democrat party is recognizing not so much that its policies are perhaps too left-wing for the public, but that they are largely irrelevant.
As Democrats race to distance themselves from disgraced Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber and his disparaging remarks about “the stupidity of the American voter,” a 2013 Senate hearing transcript reveals top Democrat Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) lauded Gruber as a “very smart”
The next head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) argued President Obama will not “poison the well” as Republican leaders have argued—if he moves forward with executive amnesty. “I don’t believe this is going to
A group of Senate Democrats, led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), are voicing their support for President Obama’s expected executive actions on immigration. In a letter to Obama Monday, Reid and Sens. Richard Durbin (D-IL), Charles Schumer (D-NY),
Republican Arkansas Sen.-elect Tom Cotton said Congress should prohibit the federal government from issuing work permits, Social Security numbers, and federal IDs to illegal immigrants who may be soon granted executive amnesty. On Fox News Sunday, Cotton said Congress used
On Sunday, President Barack Obama conceded that there are some things he “cannot do” unilaterally on immigration. At a G20 press conference in Australia, Obama was asked why in years past he has said he could not act as an
There are at least two notable issues that emerge from this brief clip of Barack Obama’s latest remarks on the current fire storm surrounding Jonathan Gruber, ObamaCare and the White House. First, Obama describes Gruber as “some adviser who never
“We don’t need a fundamental transformation of America, we need a fundamental restoration of all that’s good and safe and free in America,” said former Alaskan Governor and GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin at a recent event in support
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said she voted against Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) as leader of Senate Democrats because the party got “walloped,” in the midterms and she interprets that to mean they need to
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) said instead of going forward with his executive amnesty plan President Barack Obama needs to “take a breath” and “learn he lost the election.” Romney said, “My advice to
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” depicted a bourbon summit between President Obama and future Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) where the two get massively drunk. At first, the two disagree on what the message of the election was, with Obama
Representative Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) slammed the Obama administration for its planned executive action on immigration and recent revelations regarding remarks made by Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber during the GOP’s Weekly Address on Saturday. Transcript (via ABC News Radio) as Follows:
On Friday’s “NewsHour” on PBS, New York Times columnist David Brooks poked holes in all of the possible justifications the Obama administration has for opposing the construction of Keystone XL pipeline. The issue has been re-raised in recent days as
By now everybody knows what happened in the 2014 midterms. The challenge is to keep the results–a great victory for Republicans–in perspective. In particular, now that the 2014 midterms have passed into history, we can ask: What implications can we
Nationally, Republicans had an outstanding election earlier this month. Besides the huge gains in the U.S. Senate, House Republicans made modest gains (12 seats), bringing their majority to an impressive 244 of 435 members. That said, one cannot help but
Proponents of the Common Core standards are spinning the GOP electoral wave in their favor. Faced with plummeting support of the education boondoggle, its advocates seem to be hoping no one will notice how unpopular they really are. Common Core
With oil prices crashing, discount airline Virgin Atlantic’s IPO on Friday was a barn burner. Trading under the symbol “VA,” the stock opened about 25% higher than its estimated offering price at $27, then moved up to end the day
The State Board of Education (SBOE) will vote to adopt new K-12 social studies textbooks, instructional and online materials on Friday, November 21 in Austin. This final week of the multi-month social studies textbook adoption process is not for the weary. Progressives
A new article written for AP defends President Barack Obama’s expected executive order to protect illegal immigrants from GOP criticism by noting that presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush also extended amnesty to illegal immigrants. The article cites the
Among the few shorelines bypassed by the mighty Republican “red wave” last week was New Jersey, where GOP Senate nominee Jeffrey Bell lost to incumbent Cory A. Booker by 13 percentage points. The outlier yields lessons to a party seeking
Friday on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show,” the former Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT) said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) saved the U.S. Constitution by refusing to take up the over 400 bills sent to him by the House of Representatives.
