Special Guest – Jimmie Bise. Clyde and Jimmie hoist Rangel by his own petard, and then explore the use of “mongrel” as a descriptive term. As if such one-sided language is as far it went this week, they spend some time contemplating “Jew money.” Filibuster revision is in the air, landing with a dead-cat bounce. [...]
Recently, President Obama’s political strategy on policies that are problematic or controversial has been to double down instead of reevaluating or changing course. When polls showed the overwhelming majority of Americans disapproved of the massive health care bill during the winter and Massachusetts voters sent an unmistakable message by electing Sen. Scott Brown, who campaigned [...]
House Democrat leaders yesterday put the squash on an attempt by four junior members to offer an amendment to cut over a billion dollars from the Departments of Transportation and HUD. According to Politico, the perpetually grumpy Appropriations Chairman David Obey led the fight against the spending cuts while being quietly spurred on by the [...]
Andy McCarthy does it right. Read his whole article. The decision will not stand on appeal. Here’s a slice: The judge also employs a cute bit of sleight-of-hand. She repeatedly invokes a 1941 case,Hines v. Davidowitz, in which the Supreme Court struck down a state alien-registration statute. In Hines, the high court reasoned that the federal government had traditionally followed [...]
The Democrat civil war continues to rage on as even the most loyal members of Speaker Pelosi’s platoon begin to wonder about their strategy. “‘We have frankly not been very good in weaving the narrative,’ ” Rep. Gerry Connolly told Politico’s Richard Cohen. “ ‘[T]here has been no coordination to stick with the message.’ ” [...]
Yesterday, Senate Republicans stood united to filibuster the Democrats’ “Disclose Act,” a partisan assault on the First Amendment, designed to rig the fall elections in Democrats’ favor. The bill was written by the man in charge of electing Democrats in the House, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and the man who just recently had the [...]
The impending tax hikes, set to go into effect on Jan. 1, will affect average Americans— not just business tycoons and movie stars as Democrats love to bogusly claim. According to our friends at the Ways and Means Committee, if the tax hikes are implemented, the child tax credit will be cut in half—from $1,000 [...]
Oil be spilling all over the place – from the gulf (twice!) to Kalamazoo. Barry lies about abortion and foreign election money – again. Clyde deflates the latest buzz about Hillary running in 2012, but affirms that she is anyway. It seems Sherrod’s husband has a slave complex. Barry’s October Surprise is revealed in the [...]
Two weeks ago, President Obama used his weekly address to attack Republicans, blaming them for holding up a bill he says will help small businesses in the struggling economy. Obama said, “[T]hree times, a minority of Senators – basically the same crowd who said ‘no’ to small businesses – said ‘no’ to folks looking for [...]
Who would have thunk it—Christina Romer was against tax hikes before she was for them! According to today’s Wall Street Journal, “[e]conomists who say Mr. Obama should have relied more on tax cuts cite research of an unlikely source: Ms. Romer, his adviser.” The chair of the Council of Economic Advisors for the White House, [...]
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