If you want to know what “progressive” policies will do to America in the long run, look no farther than the president’s home state. According to the MSM narrative, the economic disaster in Illinois is Rod Blagojevich’s fault. That’s true
The Obama Administration is concerned their takeover of the financial industry is at risk and are offering Republicans a fig leaf to buckle. First they deny there was a bailout in the legislation. Now they are proposing the removal of
Democrats’ collective fixation on Frank Luntz’s memo on Financial Reform misses the point entirely but it is very telling. The now famous Luntz memo makes strategic recommendations based on an aggregation of voters’ responses to being informed about various portions
At some point in the past few weeks, Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias was sitting in his million-dollar Chicago condo wondering how he could possibly stop the death spiral of his campaign for the United States Senate. It had all seemed
As long as the Democrats continue to control Congress, we’ll have to endure an endless procession of initiatives for the federal government to take over industry after industry. Health insurance and college loans went under federal hegemony with passage of
To my media friends, Grow some and stand up to this guy. Obama is going into a back room and laughing at you. He uses you, he controls you. He has you right where he wants you, in his left
Despite efforts by some weak sisters like Sen. “Bailout” Bob Corker (R-TN) to cut a deal with “Countrywide” Chris Dodd (D-CT) on legislation to create a Blank Check Bailout Bill and lots of loud speculation from Senate Democrats about peeling
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Fox News: And the king of pork is … Sen. Thad Cochran. The Mississippi Republican ranks at the top this year of the Citizens Against Government Waste’s list of congressional earmarkers. Cochran, the
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Fox News: en. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., the ranking member on the panel, offered some when he said Holder had shaken Sessions’ confidence in him since July’s decision to give Mohammad and the others
Remember the summer of 2009, when the Obama administration tried to push through a cap and trade bill? It passed the U.S. House, and it’s been sitting in the U.S. Senate ever since, where I expect it will stay. In
The video vault has now provided us another glimpse into the fever swamp occupied by President Obama’s moonbat science czar John Holdren. Holdren of course is the man brought in to put a scientific imprimatur on the Left’s latest excuse
ABC 24: Tennessee lawmakers took another step closer to passing a new guns in bars law. A Senate committee approved the bill by a vote of 7 to 2 on Tuesday, April 13, 2010.
Are you going to Washington, DC to partake in the Tax Day Tea Party Rally this Thursday? If you are and you will be arriving on Wednesday, Big Government has a party for you! Wednesday night starting at 6:00 pm,
From Politico: John Paulson, one of the world’s richest hedge fund managers, has not been shy about spreading his wealth to Senate campaign coffers — or to the chairman of the committee that could directly affect his bottom line. Paulson
Some who participated in Desert Shield and Desert Storm may remember Eskan Village outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I see it as one of the best examples of what Congress should have done with Obamacare, what we can no longer do
As we watch Obama’s Chicago-style politics in action, it’s time to answer the question the old media, both in and outside Chicago, ignores to this day. Who were the key people in the Chicago Machine who helped advance Obama to
In the wake of the Court of Appeals judgment last week that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lacks sufficient authority to regulate broadband services, senior congressional Democrats are reaffirming their support for alternative methods of executing what some critics charge
More than 100 staff members appointed by three Minnesota congressmen who serve as chairman or ranking member on powerful House committees appear to be exempt from a key requirement in the controversial health care reform bill recently passed by Congress
From the Associated Press: Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the court’s oldest member and leader of its liberal bloc, he is retiring. President Barack Obama now has his second high court opening to fill. Stevens said Friday he will
Democrats understand that passage of Obama’s healthcare “reforms” will probably hurt them in November, so they’re doing everything they can to dampen the anger directed at them and turn it against someone – anyone – else. Anger-dampening was built into
This, I think, very much sums the thinking behind all those wealthy Hollywoodists in favor of ObamaCare: [emphasis added] Actor Sam Robards, the son of Lauren Bacall and the late Jason Robards, was visiting Washington last week with his children
Today, in 1913, the 17th Amendment, providing for the direct election of Senators, became law. Previously, Senators were elected by their state Legislatures, which provided a check on the federal government. In just about a century after enactment, Al Franken
Stanley Greenberg and James Carville claim that the Republican Party has peaked too soon. Incredibly, Greenberg says that “when we look back on this, we’re going to say Massachusetts is when 1994 happened.” Stan’s only claim to expertise in the
As far as white people go, you couldn’t get much whiter than Teddy Kennedy. He was utterly luminescent. Running around in his boxer shorts, chasing the college girls his nephew William brought home that night, he must have appeared almost
The Left is escalating their attacks against Republicans, conservatives and the Tea Party movement. The movement that the Left and the media have laughed off for over a year now as a radical fringe of racists, bigots, homophobes, and domestic
