Twenty-five Republican members of the House correctly voted against John Boehner for House Majority Leader. House Speaker John Boehner was elected to his third term as the No. 1 Republican in the lower chamber, but not without resistance from more than two-dozen fellow GOP lawmakers. Boehner collected 216 votes. Former speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., his closest […]
Obamacare Sends Mary Landrieu Packing
The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher explains that the Democrats knew that Landrieu’s goose was cooked. Democrats thus refused to shovel any cash, which could be better used in 2016, into this year’s sinking Landrieu reelection effort. The single cause for Landrieu’s embarrassing beating? The policies of Barack Obama. Obama has really put Democrats on the […]
Ugliness on the Bayou
NRO’s John Fund describes Mary Landrieu’s bid for reelection as “an ugly, dark campaign that invents facts, stirs up racial animus, and distorts reality.” Sounds like a page out of True Detective. Senator Mary Landrieu comes from a political dynasty in Louisiana — her father was mayor of New Orleans, and her brother is the […]
Mary Landrieu and the Party of Jim Crow
Originally posted October 27, 2014. Would you know what to do if you, with only a knife and your wits, encountered a bear in the woods? Meet Mr. Elbert Guillory, state senator from Louisiana, who would suggest that you get in close, inside the bear’s paws and under its chin. Along with being a […]
Dan Sullivan Wins Alaska: GOP +8
There is official confirmation now of what most knew already, Republican Dan Sullivan will be the next senator from The Last Frontier. FoxNews reports here: Republican candidate Dan Sullivan defeated Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Begich in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race Wednesday. The win gives the GOP eight Senate pickups in the midterm elections. The party […]
The Case for Black Republicans
Michael Taube points out in the Washington Times that the GOP’s gains in the midterm elections have important racial implications. With the election of Mia Love to the House from Utah and Tim Scott to the Senate from S.C., perhaps Democrats tiresome and shameful propaganda about the GOP and race has finally turned a corner. […]
Doubling Down on Hostility, Antagonism, Distance
Republicans didn’t win last Tuesday. Democrats lost. In a grim, bitter, graceless news conference on Wednesday, Mr. Obama took no responsibility for what The Economist called a “massacre.” His lack of political humility is disturbing. “I’m the guy who’s elected by everybody,” said Mr. Obama. As Peggy Noonan writes in the WSJ, the election was […]
America Rejects Obama
Louisiana’s Sen. Mary Landrieu now finds herself in a December runoff election, which I predict she will lose. Landrieu is telling Louisiana voters that because she supported the Marxist-tinged and bankrupt policies of Barack Obama, it should not be the focus of voters. Rather, Mary wants voters to concentrate on what is best for Louisiana. […]
Obama Sinking Faster than the Lusitania
On 1 May 1915, the Lusitania, loaded with over 100 tons of ammunition and shrapnel shells, set sail from New York with over 100 Americans on board (warned by German diplomats in New York that they were in danger.) New York Customs Collector Dudley Malone had advised U.S. President Woodrow Wilson that “practically all her […]
Grace under Pressure
In the WSJ, Peggy Noonan notes the “thumpin” George W. Bush took in the midterm elections of his second term when his party lost six Senate seats and 30 House seats, and reminisces about his gracious response to a reporter’s question. For those who think Mr. Obama has faced unusual levels of rhetoric, consider this […]
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