Category: The Republicans
May 25, 2013
A Tea Party based ‘Draft Sarah’ movement has sprung up in recent months, leading to speculation that the former governor may challenge first-term Democratic incumbent Mark Begich for the US Senate in 2014. Palin trails …
May 22, 2013
The next time you see any of the following Senate Republicans:
Lamar Alexander (TN)
Roy Blunt (MO)
John Boozman (AR)
Richard Burr (NC)
May 18, 2013
Maybe it’s just me but I’m tired of the same old same old in our politics. The big-box monopoly parties have morphed into two sides of the same coin, two heads on the same bird of prey. Today our choice …
May 11, 2013
Shortly after last year’s presidential defeat and at the beginning of the Great Republican Panic of 2013, I wrote here about what a bad idea morally and legally amnesty for illegal aliens is. Guess what? It still is.
In …
April 26, 2013
The Republican Party is definitely changing for the better. We may finally have found a two party system of Government, once again, keeping checks and balances, with a watchful eye on each other. The Republican young gun Senators, even though …
April 25, 2013
Republicans and conservatives in particular, base their beliefs on the strict interpretation of the Constitution with limited government, free market capitalism and a strong defense. Unfortunately the policies and legislation created by the GOP does not align with the …
April 17, 2013
Republicans are flailing about these days, trying to rebrand themselves before the next election cycle. A certain amount of introspection and internecine debate is inevitable after suffering a stinging loss against an opponent with a dismal record. One thing the …
April 13, 2013
House Republicans have a plan to balance the federal budget in 10 years. The House Democrats’ plan will do so in 30 years. Senate Democrats have no plan. In fact, the Senate hasn’t even passed a budget …
April 7, 2013
The GOP has had an honorable history. Under Lincoln it crushed the slave owning oligarchy that had plunged America into civil war. Under Grant the KKK was crushed and the first civil rights bill passed. Under TR(a man who undoubtedly …
March 29, 2013
In another case in the annals of conservative “adaptation” to yesterday’s liberal innovation, Ohio Republican senator Rob Portman has just announced that he now supports faux marriage. The change was motivated, he said, by his son having come out to …
March 17, 2013
All of the Democrats and most of the Republicans sitting on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Tuesday gave the nomination of John Brennan as leader of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) the go-ahead, which now sends the nomination …
March 1, 2013
It doesn’t look good for conservatism in America. Despite conservatives controlling the House of Representatives and thirty of the governorships the case can be made that conservatism is on life support, and it’s not a hard case to make. The …
February 12, 2013
Do we really learn more from our mistakes than our successes?
If we do, then Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett should be a virtual font of learning about now. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the governor has …
February 7, 2013
Republicans never learn. We keep falling, like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, for the amnesty trick. It attacks the GOP on two fronts. The first is that illegal’s are already here, they aren’t going anywhere, so we might …
February 5, 2013
With yet another stinging presidential defeat barely in the rear view mirror, pundits are making dangerous and inadvisable suggestions about the future of the Republican Party. They are suggesting that if Republicans want to win elections, they will have to …
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