In response to Harry Reid Threatens to Go Nuclear – In 2005 He Felt Differently (Video): Asked in 2008 if he would ever invoke the nuclear option like the nasty R-words once considered, Majority Leader answered, “as long as I am
Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” (1992) holds my top spot, but Oliver Stone’s “JFK” (1991) is undoubtedly my second favorite film of the 1990s. When I first saw this masterpiece, I was still a liberal and therefore bought into its every
Host Chris Cuomo is afraid of all this anti-Obamacare talk going on in Washington these days. He says it’s “dangerous.” Cuomo’s fear was revealed as he hectored Texas Senator Ted Cruz during the November 20 broadcast of his early morning
The Hill reports today that the new GOP strategy with respect to Obamacare is to let it collapse on its own: Republican lawmakers who pushed the government shutdown to stop ObamaCare say their new plan is to sit back and
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) defeats Hillary Clinton in Colorado, one of the most important swing states, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is tied with her in the same poll even though the Washington establishment derides Paul and Cruz as the
My colleague Matt Boyle takes issue with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for focusing on minority outreach when he and Mitt Romney failed to turn out the Republican Party’s base in 2012–by which I take him to mean white voters. Respectfully,
On Sunday, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) implied that he was investigating a run for the presidency. Commenting on qualifications for the Oval Office, Walker said, “I think it’s got to be an outsider. I think both the presidential and the
The 2013 elections taught us a lot, even if many activist conservatives and tea partiers don’t seem interested in learning the lesson–at least not yet. In Virginia, the Republican party ran a social conservative, Ken Cuccinelli, who failed to unite
Gallup recently released poll numbers showing that only 9% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing. It is the lowest approval rating the US Congress has received in the thirty-nine years that Gallup has been conducting that poll.
Today, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution that directly calls “on the Government of Iran to immediately release Saeed Abedini and all other individuals detained on account of their religious beliefs.” The Senate resolution was sponsored by Senators
In response to So, When Does Ted Cruz Get His Apology?: Was it really only a few weeks ago that Republicans were supposed to be in disarray over the shutdown, tearing themselves to shreds in gladiatorial combat – half-naked Tea
That crazy Ted Cruz. The Texas freshman Senator (R-Tea Party) tried to defund Obamacare, then accepted a one-year delay in the individual mandate as a compromise position. But you can’t govern from one House of Congress, and the one he’s
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s book tour is taking her to cities where establishment Republicans will not feel safe as the 2014 midterm elections near, even as entrenched establishment groups attempt to wage war against Tea Party candidates. While promoting
Speaking at The Atlantic’s Washington Ideas Forum, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was not happy with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for, in his opinion, causing the recent federal government shutdown.
Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) are among the headliners as the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy launches its National Lawyers Convention at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. with tonight’s keynote address by Supreme Court
All the talk about repealing and replacing Obamacare is now apparently going to be backed up with potentially substantive legislation that will be spearheaded by Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) During an appearance on Fox News’ with Megyn Kelly, Cruz
In response to The GOP Needs To Unite Behind Full Repeal – There Is No ‘Fixing’ ObamaCare : No question that Democrats are desperate to get Republican fingerprints on ObamaCare. In fact, I notice they’ve gotten curiously quiet with their
In response to ‘Keep your plan’ bills are the beginning of repeal: Sadly, many of the same Republicans who opposed the Ted Cruz and Mike Lee strategy of defunding ObamaCare, are now playing footsie with Dems on these phony “fixes”
In response to Conservatives Were Wildly Optimistic About California’s Obamacare Exchange: Those million dead insurance plans in California were probably a big factor in Senator Dianne Feinstein’s decision to hit the ObamaCare lifeboats. She didn’t wait long after she got
On Monday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said it was disappointing that the Republican establishment is joining Democrats to wage war on conservatives. She also made the point that the same types of establishment politicians and their consultants who shy
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin an the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition this weekend…
On Monday evening, former CBS News insider Bernie Goldberg appeared on The O’Reilly Factor to blame the tea party for a potential 2016 presidential loss. “As far as the tea partiers are concerned, anybody to the left of Ted Cruz
MSNBC host Martin Bashir plays a video of a young Ted Cruz performing in a school play in the early ’90s as an excuse to call the Senator a series of nasty names.
In response to The White House Lied About the Cause of Healthcare.gov’s Failure: Another thing that’s been bugging me about the pitiful capabilities of HealthCareDotGov is that it’s so out of whack with Obama’s big, boisterous claims that fifty million
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin dismissed President Barack Obama’s apology last week for lying to the American people that they could keep their health insurance plans under Obamacare. In an appearance on the TODAY show on Monday to discuss her
