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Election 2008

The Astroturfing of the “Coffee Party”

March 13, 2010

I heard a little buzz a few weeks back about some people who are upset with government who want to organize to get this country moving in the right direction by breaking the gridlock in Washington and get our representatives to be more representative.
Sounds great, right?  Kind of sounds like the Tea Party Movement, but [...]

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New Democrat Strategy — Divide Republicans

January 26, 2010

We already know that one 2010 Democrat strategy is to blame Bush for everything, even though the Dems have had more power to yield this past year than any President/Congress combo since the Great Society.  Yet, a memo released today also indicates another prong in the Democrat attack:  divide Republicans ideologically between the weak-kneed moderate [...]

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McCain-Feingold Gets Beaten Up By SCOTUS

January 21, 2010

Today the philosophy behind McCain-Feingold got beaten up by the five members of the Supreme Court who can still read the Constitution! Campaign Finance Reform was supposed to take the money out of politics.  It has not.  CFR was supposed to get the special interests out of political campaigns.  Ha! (I was even laughing [...]

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Was Hillary Right?

December 11, 2009

One of Hillary’s campaign mantras in the 2008 Democrat Primary was that Barack Obama lacked the experience necessary to govern.  Liberals are now wondering if Hillary was right:
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Huckabee 2012 Campaign Unlikely to Receive Clemency

November 30, 2009

When the story of the four police officers who were ambushed and murdered in a Washington state coffee shop broke yesterday, few could have imagined that the story would have a newsworthiness beyond the intrinsic horror of the event.  Today, we learned that the crime may have an impact on the 2012 Presidential election.
It turns [...]

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The Fabricated Obama Persona

November 16, 2009

The Obama campaign was heralded for its use of Twitter in the 2008 campaign cycle.  Many of his supporters followed his Tweets, feeling that it was a connection that they had to him.  Yet as with much of his persona during the 2008 Presidential campaign, Obama’s Twitter account was actually a scripted fabrication.
While in China [...]

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“Quarter-Life Crisis” Hits Young People

September 27, 2009

I am generally not a fan of the Millennial Generation (born c. 1982-1999) because they’ve mostly been coddled by their helicopter parents, they’ve had the bar lowered in regards to failing in school, and they expect success and rewards simply for showing up.  Their sense of entitlement is a little scary.  Glued to the Internet and feeling that [...]

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Still a Center-Right Nation

August 18, 2009

We can still continue to thank Ronald Reagan for his great success in turning “liberal” into a bad word in American politics.  Not only that, but Reagan’s success in promoting a conservative agenda set the basic political atmosphere we have lived under for nearly three decades.
Remember how the Democrats were the Whigs after the 2004 [...]

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Is This Obama’s “Read My Lips” Moment?

August 2, 2009

“Read My Lips.  NO NEW TAXES.”  This was one of George H.W. Bush’s most infamous campaign slogans during the 1988 Presidentail campaign.  It was a memorable pledge, it received lots of airtime, and it came back to bite him in a big way, possibly costing him reelection in 1992.
Now, Obama is on the verge of [...]

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A Comment on the “Birthers”

July 28, 2009

They have a name now:  “the birthers,” those who believe that Barack Hussein Obama was not born an American citizen and according to Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States, should be immediately disqualified from serving as President, and potentially rescinding all of his actions while in office. 
They claim that no [...]

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Senator Al Franken

July 1, 2009

Yes, Al Franken has been (ahem) elected a United States Senator from the state of Minnesota — Jesse Ventura and Walter Mondale-Land now has a new embarrassment!
I feel bad for Norm Coleman.  He did the noble thing by conceding promptly after Minnesota’s Supreme Court handed the election to Franken after a long and arduous legal battle [...]

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Bush Defends Himself

June 18, 2009

Yesterday, Dubya showed up to speak with business folks in Erie, PA, and defended himself on EITs (enhanced interrogation techniques) and his general policy in the War on Terror… um, sorry, that’s Overseas Contingency Operations (gag!).  Despite the headlines Bush indicated that he wasn’t going to criticize Obama, although he did get in a few jabs on those [...]

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Blame Reagan? Not So Fast!

June 9, 2009

Nope, I’m not surprised.  New York Slimes lackey Paul Krugman blamed Ronald Reagan for the deregulation that led to the current economic crisis last week.  Obviously, that’s ridiculous and others have chimed in to refute that claim.  
I hear that same kind of argument every three seconds from Kool-Aid drinking Democrats out here in Jersey — all [...]

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GM Fails: “Government Motors” Looms

May 30, 2009

Word on the street is that GM is going to finally declare bankruptcy, which they should have done months and billions of bailout dollars ago.  The Obama Nation will control 72.5% of the company, while stakeholders have been pressured into settling for 25%.  Of course, all of this has been done for two reasons: 1)  keeping the [...]

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I Heart Cheney

May 22, 2009

I’ve liked Dick Cheney since the summer of 2000.  He was going to be a steady hand at Veep, had no ambition to be the top dog, so he decided to shoot from the hip and be the Administration’s authoritative voice on security issues.  He beat the heck out of Joe Lieberman in the 2000 [...]

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The First 100 Days

April 29, 2009

One hundred days into the Obama Nation and life continues, though things seem more insecure and ominous every time Obama speaks.  And there’s 1,361 more days until January 20, 2013! 
A lot of damage has been done, which has been cataloged here since Day One: Year Zero, (January 20, 2009, in the PO calender: PO,”Pre-Obama” or in our case “PO” could easily mean “Post-Obama” [...]

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One Less Pale Pastel

April 28, 2009

Pennsylvania Senator “Benedict” Arlen Specter finally jumped ship and embraced his inner wuss — he’s become a Democrat.  On March 17th in an interview with The Hill, he said this about staying a Republican:

So why the jump?  Principle or politics?  Hmm…  We all know the answer to that.
Check out this poll taken Friday which has conservative [...]

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Have We Still Lost the War, Harry?

April 20, 2009

Here’s the Senate Majority Leader roughly two years ago:

What’s horrible is that his ilk is now in charge of two branches of our government! 
When it was “Bush’s War” it was OK to declare defeat as such when the biggest military turnaround in American history since General Grant took over the Army of the Potomac in 1864 was unfolding, [...]

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No “Fair-Weather” Patriots in Trenton

April 15, 2009

I’ve just returned from a Tax Day Tea Party in Trenton, New Jersey, in front of the State Capitol Building.  It was rainy, wet, windy, nasty — no “fair-weather patriots” as the lead organizer Brian indicated.  My feet were freezing and my throat raw, but the spirit was there from the young to the very old.  We [...]

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The Cries over Sarah Palin’s Inexperience Seem a Little Silly Now

March 18, 2009

Noemie Emery has an absolutely brilliant column in today’s DC Examiner, reminding all of the Obamacons with Palin Derangement Syndrome of their words before the election regarding Palin’s experience.  It is a wonderfully sarcastic article which gets right to the point:
Now that the Obama presidency is nearing the 60-day mark, it’s time to thank those fastidious [...]

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Organized Effort Against Rush No Surprise

March 4, 2009

Democrat Party lackeys Rahm Emmanuel, Stanley Greenberg, Paul Begala and James Carville had been purposely targeting Rush Limbaugh as the new focus of evil in the modern world, according to the Politico today.  No surprise here — they got all they could from picking on Sarah Palin, who’s getting back to a normalcy in Alaska.  So, they took [...]

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Rush at CPAC

March 1, 2009

I was sitting at the car dealership yesterday getting ready to pick up my new sweet ride, when I looked at the clock.  It was 4:40pm and I was going to miss Rush’s speech to CPAC.  Suddenly, the last people in the waiting room left and I decided to fiddle with the TV in order to see [...]

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A Little Hope for a Change

February 15, 2009

Though only about a month into the Obama Nation, an early political pattern may be developing:  Obama remains popular, but the Congressional Dems are slipping.  On the eve of Election Day, the generic Congressional ballot gave the Dems a six-point lead in Rasmussen’s poll.  Today they only have a one-point lead, a statistical tie and a consistent downward slide since November 4.  [...]

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Newt’s Response to Congress’ Debacle

February 14, 2009

The Stimulus Package is going to be law by Tuesday.  We all knew from November 4th that we weren’t going to win many battles.  This is no exception, in fact it’s the perfect example:  We tried. We lost.  That’s that.  No use whining anymore;  it’s happened.  The time has come for action in the arena [...]

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Obama’s (Lack of?) Political Prowess

February 5, 2009

Barack Obama is not that good of a politician, and that he doesn’t have the political skills necessary to have a successful Presidency.  Conventional wisdom says that Obama was a brilliant strategic politician who soundly beat John McCain last November due to his immense political skills and moving speaking ability.  As the transition wore on, [...]

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Ousting Blago

January 29, 2009

Blago is now the former Governor of Illinois.
In a 59-0 vote, the Illinois State Senate sent a message to Rod Blagojevich:  don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out the door!  Don’t worry, every single media outlet within 3000 miles will want to hear Blago’s side of the story — how his trials and tribulations [...]

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244-188: Stimulus Passes House sans Republicans

January 28, 2009

Sweetness.  Not a single Republican broke ranks to vote for the $819 billion “stimulus” package (not including the extra 300 million or so in interest we’ll eventually have to pay on the deficit because of this bill), and 11 Blue Dogs decided they wanted to be reelected in 2010 without the stench of this monstrosity.
I anticipate [...]

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Bloomberg’s Thin Skin on Kennedy

January 26, 2009

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has always been a liberal, occasionally piggy-backing on others during his climb to power (read: Rudy Giuliani). 
That being said, Mayor Mike’s thin skin (or utter reluctance to criticize the Kennedy Klan) came out when he described the press’ treatment of CAROLINE KENNEDY as “reprehensible” and ”totally inappropriate” in regards to the [...]

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Democrats To Try To Seat Franken

January 22, 2009

Harry Reid has announced that he plans to try to seat Al Franken this week, even as an election contest by Norm Colman looms.  Under Minnesota Law, a Senator cannot be seated until it is certified by the Governor and Secretary of State.  It is also a provision of MN law that the Governor and [...]

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Our New Secretary of State

January 21, 2009

In the last few minutes, Barack Obama’s second choice for the job, Hillary Clinton was confirmed 94-2 as America’s next Secretary of State.
The Good Side:  Mike once brought this to my attention:  notice how the New York Yankees haven’t won a World Series since Hillary’s been Senator?  Perhaps the Bronx Bombers will be back now that she’s [...]

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