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Riehl World View | Links | Related | Sep 01, 2010 10:50 AM EST
Let the talkers talk, and the heads explode . Interesting, perhaps, that the news comes the day after Palin-backed, Joe Miller's primary win. Is Sarah Palin on a roll? In the dinner’s nine years, it has drawn national party stars and up-and-coming figures. Some, such as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in 2004, have gone on to wage competitive caucus campaigns. Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist was the guest a year later, and saw his own presidential ambition fade when Republicans lost the majority in 2006. No Reagan headliner has gone on to become president, or even the party’s presidential nominee. Still, the importance of the visit should not be underestimated, GOP leaders say. “If she’s serious about her own prospects, she needs to be here — and she’s doing that with a big,...
The Corner | Links | Related | Sep 01, 2010 10:06 AM EST
Roll Call explains: Sen. John McCain’s victory in the Aug. 24 Arizona Republican primary was fueled partly by transfers of $7.5 million from his 2008 presidential campaign compliance fund — an account GOP Congressional strategists are now eyeing as they look to finance a growing list of competitive midterm races. McCain’s compliance fund reported $17.1 million in cash on hand as of June 30, with $4.65 million in transfers to the Senator’s re-election committee having been made during the second quarter of this year. Additional transfers were made before the August pre-primary fundraising reporting deadline. McCain also used the compliance account to make $63,900 in charitable donations to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Phoenix and about a dozen Phoenix-area churches. Any presidential...
Riehl World View | Links | Related | Aug 27, 2010 08:59 AM EST
The second of two planned reports on Alaska's unresolved Senate race In a surprising, and for some, hilarious bit of irony concerning the Alaska GOP primary, it seems as though if Senator Lisa Murkowski had read and paid attention to Sarah Palin's Going Rogue , she may not have found herself now fighting for her political life. Roll Call looks back to try to pinpoint why Murkowski is in this mess, but they use an awful lot of anonymous sources to do so. The theories advanced by various unnamed 'Alaska insiders' include John Bitney , Murkowski's campaign manager, being 'in over his head' and an underwhelming performance by two general consultants Murkowski hired. News reports, as well as my own sources, suggest it was Bitney's incompetence that may have been the single most significant factor...
Worldwide Standard | Links | Related | Aug 09, 2010 12:00 AM EST
Republicans were on a roll in Colorado. Now they’re not. After losing badly to Democrats in 2004, 2006, and 2008, Republicans were optimistic about winning the governorship, a Senate seat, one to three House pickups, and any number of state legislative seats in the midterm elections in November. They may still do well, but there are problems. The governor’s race has become a fiasco for Republicans. The frontrunner, former House member Scott McInnis, has become embroiled in a scandal over plagiarism in a report on water for which was paid $300,000. His foe in Tuesday’s primary, Don Maes, is lightly regarded as a general election candidate. And another ex-House member, Tom Tancredo, has decided to run for governor as an independent. The result: Republican prospects for winning the governorship (being vacated...
Gateway Pundit | Links | Related | Jul 30, 2010 08:01 PM EST
Paul Hodes Lookin' Wicked Smart Rep. Paul Hodes has represented New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional district since 2007. Hodes is a rank-and-file Democrat and is considered a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Hodes tends to cosponsor the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Hodes’ own bills. Hodes missed 80 (2%) of 3,221 roll call votes since Jan 4, 2007. Paul Hodes has sponsored 37 bills since Jan 4, 2007 of which 33 haven't made it out of committee and 1 was successfully enacted. Hodes has co-sponsored 478 bills during the same time period. Yep, wicked smart! N.H. Rep. Hodes to N.Y....
Redstate | Links | Related | Jul 29, 2010 11:00 PM EST
Scott’s running a campaign that’s making the DCCC nervous - to the point where they’ve decided to throw money at his opponent as part of their DOOMList - and we spoke this morning about that and other matters. Scott’s site is here , and it’s a measure of the cycle that we’re legitimately talking about taking seats in Oregon. Roll on November… Moe Lane Crossposted to Moe Lane .
Redstate | Links | Related | Jul 27, 2010 03:41 AM EST
It’s no wonder Madam Senator Barbara Boxer (Democrat-California) demands to be called Senator: She thinks it’s a pretty tough job . In fact, she thinks it’s as tough as being “a policeman or a fireman or a veteran.” It gets better, too. She says “the pressure” that she and Maxine Waters feel creates the same bonding that the aforementioned police, fire, and military volunteers endure and experience. No seriously. They actually roll their eyes at the same opposition to their agenda, so it’s just like when, say, two vets drop to the ground when they hear incoming artillery. Some will say I’m exaggerating, and that I’m making a big deal out of nothing. But the Daily Caller’s quotes of her make her intent plain: “We know that if you have veterans in one place where they can befriend each other...
Redstate | Links | Related | Jul 20, 2010 08:30 AM EST
[UPDATE]: Ben Domenech over at the New Ledger calls this a “ formality .” Roll Call reports : President Barack Obama sent the Senate his nomination of Donald Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday — a move that comes two weeks after Obama bypassed Congress to put his stalled nominee in the post until the end of 2011. Via Senatus : background here ; and Allahpundit over at Hot Air reports that he’s “ honestly shocked .” It is somewhat shocking; you don’t usually see an administration so openly caving in public. As I see it, there are several possible reasons for this: The President is attempting to rally the base . It’s now conventional wisdom at this point - thanks largely to the White House, honestly - that the Democrats are going to...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run | Links | Related | Jul 16, 2010 06:53 PM EST
Union buzz: United Food and Commercial Workers Western States Council endorses pot legalization Proposition 19. Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's home in Atherton (God's country!) attracts a protest by 1,100 nurses. L.A. Times runs puff piece on John Chiang, the state controller who has been fighting Gov. Schwarzenegger on all efforts to rein in public employee compensation... ...and reveals that Sen. Barbara Boxer has 11 times as much cash on hand as challenger Carly Fiorina. Ed Mendel of CalPensions.com wonders if Schwarzenegger might roll back a massive 1999 increase in public pensions and finds a fun relic: a brochure promising that state payments to the pension fund (which have since increased by 2,400 percent) would not go up.
The Corner | Links | Related | Jul 13, 2010 07:16 AM EST
The most transparent president of all time made his most transparent move yet in the recess appointment of an unabashed socialist, Dr. Donald Berwick, as his new healthcare rationing czar (i.e., administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services at HHS). That is, Mr. Obama could not more clearly have told Senate Republicans to go pound sand if he had held up a sign, live on C-SPAN, that said 'Go Pound Sand!' Roll Call ( subscription only ) reports that, upon returning to session, our redoubtable GOP senators reacted by taking to the floor to denounce the recess appointment in the harshest terms and to issue 'stern warnings' that, as one staffer put it, all future Obama nominees would be viewed through the 'prism of Berwick.' They then bravely closed ranks to unanimously ... wait for it ... join...
The Corner | Links | Related | Jun 30, 2010 11:53 AM EST
In case you missed it, good stuff from Chris Horner (as usual): First, let’s recall that Rahm Emanuel is best understood in context: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is, it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.” Second, today Roll Call reports (subscription required) that during today’s White House meeting — called by the president to try and advance his global-warming agenda by using the Gulf spill as the tail to wag that otherwise dead dog — Obama accused Tennessee senator Lamar Alexander of raising a “talking point” by seeking to discuss response measures the government might employ in the Gulf, and went on to say that the oil spill was not the topic of the meeting. Remember, the point of the meeting was supposed to be how to pass a spill-response bill,...
Gateway Pundit | Links | Related | Jun 28, 2010 11:49 PM EST
Scott Brown could help kill the democrat's $19 billion bank tax. Scott Brown says he won't support the democrat's $19 billion bank tax on consumers. The Washington Times reported: UPDATE: Roll Call is reporting that Senator Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat, is planning to vote 'no' on the Wall Street bill. The financial regulatory reform bill seemed like a sure thing just almost a week ago. However, after Democrats in both chambers looked to hike $19 billion in taxes on banks, things changed. Senator Scott Brown, Massachusetts Republican, voted for the original Senate bill along with Senators Olympia Snowe, Maine Republican, and Susan Collins, Maine Republican. However, the new taxes could be a problem for Democrats looking for Republicans to join their...
Red County | Links | Related | Jun 26, 2010 08:24 PM EST
The only person who has been fired in the midst of the oil spill fiasco has been the former head of the Minerals Management Service of the Department of the Interior. According to a June 17 editorial in The Wall Street Journal, it is now clear that both the Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, and the White House energy “czar”, Carol Browner, both lied to the nation regarding the recommendations by drilling experts, alleging that they had agreed to a moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf. Browner, citing the falsified recommendation to impose a moratorium, inserted after the memorandum had been received, said, “No one’s been deceived or misrepresented.” She lied. From the beginning of the oil spill, the administration has failed to respond in a timely fashion. In an article in Human...
The Corner | Links | Related | Jun 24, 2010 11:16 AM EST
Why would General Stanley McChrystal give that kind of access to a lefty rock-n-roll magazine? Maybe because he's a kindred spirit who felt the need to assure Rolling Stone 's Michael Hastings that he voted for Obama -- even against McCain, a military legend who shares McChrystal's transnational progressive outlook. 'Now it can be told,' elaborates Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic ' The story about [McChrystal] voting for Obama is not contrived. He is a political liberal. He is a social liberal. He banned Fox News from the television sets in his headquarters. Yes, really.' Yes, really. The revealing Rolling Stone profile also tells us that the general 'banned alcohol on base [and] kicked out Burger King and other symbols of American excess.' (Recall the very similar Obama edict that American...
The Corner | Links | Related | Jun 17, 2010 08:14 PM EST
DISCLOSE has been yanked for now: Following a rebellion by two important factions of rank-and-file House Democrats, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has pulled a campaign-finance bill opposed by a broad coalition of special interest groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Pelosi and other Democratic leaders had scheduled a Friday vote on the DISCLOSE Act, a bill requiring special-interest groups to disclose their top donors if they choose to run TV ads or send out mass mailings in the final months of an election. The legislation is designed to roll back the controversial Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case, which overturned restrictions on corporate campaign activities. But after complaints from the conservative Blue Dogs and the Congressional Black Caucus, Pelosi was...
The Corner | Links | Related | Jun 14, 2010 11:25 AM EST
I don't fully know what Mitch Daniels had in mind , but I wonder if this is something of it: Government expansion and spending is so untenable right now that getting together to roll that back will likely have the effect of pulling back on some of the social radicalism. So much of it is radical economically and socially. And so if we get together on the big picture first, economically, we'll have more of a shot of coming to some kind of natural agreement on abortion funding and other issues. But at a moment in human history when demographically and culturally we're at many crossroads, I don't plan to sit out fights that go to the heart of who we are.
Riehl World View | Links | Related | Jun 13, 2010 09:13 PM EST
Never let a crisis, or major screw-up on the part of his administration go to waste. The nation's reaction to the oil spill has been nothing like reaction to the oil spill. If he were being honest, he'd be advocating the need to drill near shore and on land, including in ANWR. Do you think that's going to happen from Mr. Green Jeans? I doubt it. And his comparing the oil spill to 9/11 is likely to only cause more voters to roll their eyes and wish this idiot would go away before his four incompetent years are up. Yeesh! Or, as Gabriel Malor asked on Twitter, is he effin' insane? Sounding reflective as he heads into a bruising electoral season, President Barack Obama told POLITICO columnist Roger Simon that the Gulf disaster “echoes 9/11” because it will change the nation’s psyche for years to...
Patterico | Links | Related | Jun 08, 2010 12:44 AM EST
[Guest post by DRJ] CBS News reports Joran van der Sloot has confessed to the murder of Peruvian Stephany Flores. In a way, her death may have been related to the death of Natalee Holloway: “According to BNO the Holloway case played a roll [sic] in the Flores killing. BNO reports that police say van der [...]
NewsBusters | Links | Related | Jun 07, 2010 12:30 PM EST
As I walked into the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal Studios Sunday evening, I had no idea the level of vulgarity I was in store for. Attending my first MTV Movie Awards, I was immediately stunned by the number of F-words in the opening video clip of Tom Cruise recreating his movie executive roll in the film 'Tropic Thunder.' Little did I know that the evening would be filled with F-bombs from a number of Hollywoodans, so much so that the man that accepted the award for best movie at the end of the festivities (Peter Facinelli of the 'Twilight' series) commented, 'I just want to say I've never heard the word 'f--k' used so many times in one evening.' At that moment, I thought Facinelli was going to comment about just how absurd all the vulgarity was. Instead, he went on an F-bomb-laden speech of his own (...
The Patriot Room | Links | Related | Jun 06, 2010 10:08 PM EST
NYT via Drudge: The sentiment that fueled the rage during those Congressional forums is still alive in the electorate. But the opportunities for voters to openly express their displeasure, or angrily vent as video cameras roll, have been harder to come by in this election year. If the time-honored tradition of the political meeting is not quite [...]
The Corner | Links | Related | Jun 06, 2010 08:29 PM EST
Don’t you think it’s a good thing that Israel had videotape of the action aboard that ship? Does the world -- you know, “the world”: NPR, Der Spiegel , UCLA -- believe Israeli testimony without hard evidence? Does it believe it with hard evidence? Look, an Israeli has to film himself taking a leak, if the world is to believe he did so . . .
Atlas Shrugs | Links | Related | May 30, 2010 01:53 PM EST
Dhimmi MSM Stenographers Get Talking Points from Hamas-Linked CAIR Thirty little buses in New York City…my, how they roll. Through our organization Stop Islamization of America, Robert Spencer and I have placed ads on New York City buses, offering help to Muslims wishing to leave Islam. Our ads ran previously on buses in Miami, but in New York they’ve received international notice. The religious liberty bus ad campaign was covered in the last few days by every major network: ABC, NBC, CBS (New York), CNN and FOX, as well by Associated Press, Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, Britain’s Daily Mail, Russian television, and many more–too many news outlets to list here. [...] The New York Daily News, meanwhile, offered up more pure derangement from CAIR in its story about how Detroit’s SMART bus system, in violation...
The Corner | Links | Related | May 28, 2010 08:46 AM EST
While I think many of the complaints that yesterday's G-File was too gross and not nearly edifying enough have ample merit, you need to understand something: That's going to be how I roll from time to time. You can always unsubscribe. Though, if you do, a little part of Jack Fowler dies inside. Still I promise more tasteful nudity and less cringing next time.
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run | Links | Related | May 27, 2010 03:33 PM EST
Find of the day: a website devoted to music about the bomb. From the site's self-description: Every art form had to deal with the arrival of the atomic age in one manner or another. Some artists were reserved and intellectual in their approach, others less so. The world of popular music, for one, got an especially crazy kick out of the Bomb. Country, blues, jazz, gospel, rock and roll, rockabilly, Calypso, novelty and even polka musicians embraced atomic energy with wild-eyed, and some might argue, inappropriate enthusiasm. These musicians churned out a variety of truly memorable tunes featuring some of the most bizarre lyrics of the 20th century. If it weren't for Dr. Oppenheimer's creation, for example, would we have ever heard lines like 'Nuclear baby, don't fission out on me!' or...
WSJ.com: Washington Wire | Links | Related | May 27, 2010 11:33 AM EST
Democratic political strategist and Clintonista extraordinaire James Carville has been on a roll, blasting President Barack Obama's handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher in emotional terms only a Louisianan could muster.
The Corner | Links | Related | May 27, 2010 10:57 AM EST
The administration has fired the head of the Minerals Management Service: WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic sources say the Obama administration has fired the head of the U.S. Minerals Management Service in response to blistering criticism over lax oversight of offshore drilling. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity before the official announcement, tell The Associated Press that President Barack Obama will announce the decision Thursday. Elizabeth 'Liz' Birnbaum had run the service in the Interior Department since July 2009.
Atlas Shrugs | Links | Related | May 27, 2010 10:23 AM EST
Thirty little NYC buses.....my, how they roll. Funny how the LA Times says that 'Muslims are calling the ads a smoke screen for an anti-Muslim agenda.' It was CAIR that said that. So is the LA Times saying that the unindicted co-conspirator, Hamas-linked CAIR is representative of all Muslims? Is the LA Times actually saying US Muslims are haters, extremists and terror tied? Wow. Islamic (sharia) law is very clear: apostasy is punishable by death. Why does CAIR equate being pro-freedom with being anti-Muslim? Leaving Islam? Bus ads in New York are offering help LA Times Muslims are calling the ads — paid for by a conservative activist and the organizations she leads — a smoke screen for an anti-Muslim agenda. New York —The questions on the ads aren't subtle: Leaving Islam? Fatwa on your head? Is your family...
Riehl World View | Links | Related | May 26, 2010 08:15 PM EST
As HuffPo, of all places, points out - Democrats want to pay off some potential voters but are reluctant to punish some big donors. This is the Congress we have thanks to the Democrats - bankrupt in every way. It would be hard to fashion from scratch a more politically potent standoff, yet the Republican Party is barely being forced to fight -- as Democratic lawmakers balk at deficit spending and hesitate to close a tax loophole on a wealthy class of investors with close social and political ties to powerful Democrats. The Democrats have spent so much money, they're becoming afraid of their own policies and politics , especially if it might hurt their fund raising. You know, what Obama does, while occasionally taking time off to play at being the golfer-in-chief, or something. Roll Call...
NewsBusters | Links | Related | May 24, 2010 03:03 PM EST
Shortly after noon today, during a story about actress Lindsay Lohan's latest legal woes, some footage of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) made it into the B-roll loop. A case of some 'Mean Girls' in the editing room, or just an innocent mix-up? I think it's the latter [h/t Tim Graham and Yahoo's Holly Bailey ]:
Flopping Aces | Links | Related | May 23, 2010 01:35 PM EST
Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce is on a roll. Pearce is the author of the Arizona of the recent Arizona immigration law that Democrats, led by Barack Obama, are wrongly and stupidly deriding. Eric Holder suggested that the law might be un-Constitutional, but I am still waiting for that shoe to drop. Not only does [...]
