Republican Senate Candidate Gabriel Gomez, who made headlines by calling his opponent in next month’s Massachusetts special Senate election Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) “pond scum” for running an internet ad that compared Gomez to Osama bin Laden, doubled down by repeating the
According to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the so-called Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill does not have enough votes at this point to pass the Senate. Even though the bill has exited the Senate Judiciary Committee with a 13-5 vote,
Establishment Republican Senators John McCain (AZ) and Lindsey Graham (SC) defended State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on Friday, shortly after President Obama nominated the Benghazi talking points manipulator for a promotion. She would be up for the position of Assistant
BOSTON, May 24 (UPI) — Massachusetts Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez called his Democratic opponent, Rep. Ed Markey, “pond scum” in an interview. Gomez was asked by National Public Radio about a Gomez political advertisement in which he accused
After Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), who is running for the Senate seat abandoned by Secretary of State John Kerry, released an ad attacking his Republican opponent, businessman Gabriel Gomez, inking Gomez with Osama bin Laden the race has gotten ugly
On the Senate floor on Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said there may be more conservative, pro-liberty “wacko birds” in the Senate than suspected. Cruz said “it has been suggested” that “those of us who have been fighting to defend liberty”
Greta Van Susteren had Karl Rove on her show, Thursday night, to discuss the Holder/AP/Fox News scandal following the revelation that Eric Holder personally approved the search warrant for James Rosen’s private emails under the pretext that he was a “possible
Even as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) political targeting scandal widens, an army of 2,137 IRS agents are gearing up to implement and police numerous aspects of Obamacare. Their enforcement of the law is under the leadership of Sarah Hall
On Thursday, former Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that the Gang of Three – Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT) – had provoked Democrats into trying to change traditional Senate rules. Cruz said
NJ Gov. Chris Christie has staked out a curious path to the GOP nomination in 2016. His bromance with President Obama may add a few points to his expected landslide reelection, but it is hard to see it endearing him
New charts from Senate Budget Committee Member Jeff Sessions (R-AL) show the dramatic rise in food stamp enrollments and welfare spending. Over the last decade, thirty million more individuals have signed up for food stamps. *** U.S. welfare spending last
Breitbart News reported on Jan. 25 that the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. declared President Barack Obama’s recess appointments unconstitutional. Now another federal appeals court has done so as well, all but guaranteeing the Supreme Court will take up
(AP) – A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency’s new acting
Even as the Obama administration weathers the fallout from a politicized Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative non-profit organizations, President Obama is moving full-speed ahead on politicizing non-partisan agencies. His new nominee for the Office of Personnel Management – the agency
Secretary of Commerce nominee Penny Pritzker coasted through her Senate Commerce Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C. Thursday. Members of both parties on the committee largely ignored Pritzker’s questionable business practices, offshore investments, and tax problems, as well as the
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee completed its work on the “Gang of 8” Amnesty Bill. The full Senate is expected to take up the legislation the first week of June, when it returns from Memorial Day recess. On Thursday,
Senate Democrats are looking to paint a recent Republican fracas between Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) as further evidence of an obstructionist GOP whose recalcitrance is bogging down budget negotiations. When Paul
On Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) challenged Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), saying he would attend a Houston Astros home game in an Arizona Diamondbacks cap if McCain could produce a written letter with signatures of a majority of Republicans agreeing
A few weeks ago, I predicted that Penny Priztker would fail to be confirmed by the Senate. After all, she was such a weak candidate in 2009 that she withdrew her first nomination as Secretary of Commerce. But with Sen.
On Thursday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke out at the Senate Judiciary Committee with regard to the so-called Gang of 8’s immigration bill. Cruz stated that the bill might do more harm than good: “Number one, it doesn’t stop illegal
Breitbart News has confirmed the biographical claim of E. W. Jackson, who won the Republican Party’s nomination for Lieutenant Governor on Saturday and is only the second African-American to be nominated for a statewide office by the Republican Party in Virginia
The Senate will finally confront one of the architects of the subprime mortgage crisis today, hauling a tax-dodging, union-busting, bank-breaking, billionaire member of the “one percent” before the Senate Commerce Committee… to consider her confirmation as Secretary of Commerce in
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he did not trust House and Senate Republicans in budget negotiations with Democrats. The conservative Senator said he would object to sending the Senate budget to conference unless the conferees promised not to raise the debt
Texas lawmakers announced Monday that CSCOPE, a controversial online curriculum system used in 78 percent of school districts in the state, will be removed from the state’s education system. The curriculum program has been lambasted by parents, faculty, and conservative
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) said during Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing that the Senate’s immigration bill would make immigrants “indentured servants” to unscrupulous companies. Sensenbrenner’s comments came during an exchange with hearing witness Julie Myers-Wood, the former assistant secretary of
