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Time to Remove Boehner as Speaker?
8 Dec 2012 1:43 pm Rachel Alexander

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) may have finally gone too far betraying conservatives. This past week, he removed three conservative Republican Congressmen from their committee positions in retaliation for not voting for his compromises on the budget with Democrats – compromises that led us to the current “fiscal cliff.” Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) was removed from the Financial Services Committee, and Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) and Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) were removed from the Budget Committee. All three were elected with strong Tea Party support.

An aide to GOP …

Jim DeMint Resigns From The Senate: Our Loss Is The Heritage Foundation’s Gain
6 Dec 2012 11:05 am John Hawkins

Jim DeMint was Tea Party before The Tea Party was cool.
During the Bush years, there were times when he was the lone beacon of conservative light in an ocean of squishy Republican darkness — and he caught Hell for it. His staffers used to ask for any help or support he could get on social media or the blogs when he was getting beaten up because even though he was the one guy representing the grassroots conservative position, he was under constant attack by his own side behind closed …

Time To Double-Down, Not Sell Out
3 Dec 2012 12:00 am Robert Cleveland

“What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?”
-Matthew 16:26

While this year’s election was a mixed bag for the GOP overall, many are still mourning Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential election, and the jury is still out on how the Republican Party will react as they look toward strategies for winning in 2014 and 2016.

One of the most interesting perspectives is coming from those GOP strategists and commentators who still think that the Republican Party needs to moderate even more in order …

Sen. Orrin Hatch: Obama Fiscal Proposal ‘Classic Bait and Switch’
1 Dec 2012 4:12 pm Warner Todd Huston

Senator Orrin Hatch (R, Utah) delivered the GOP weekly address and it was a damn good one.
He pulled no punches and laid it out straight that Obama lied when he ran for re-election and perpetrated a “classic bait and switch” maneuver. What ever you think of Mr. Hatch or the GOP, he spoke truth in this one.

Transcript:

“Hi. I’m Senator Orrin Hatch from the great state of Utah.
“The holiday season is upon us: a time when families come together to celebrate and reflect on another year gone by—and another …

Obama’s Plan: Tax Now, Cut Later
29 Nov 2012 4:49 pm Michael Fell

Obama has demonstrated zero flexibility on his insistence that higher tax rates for the wealthy kick in on January 1, 2013.
To those familiar with “progressive” modus operandi, it is not surprising that the White House and their “progressive” political allies envision Medicare and other “entitlement” savings happening ten to twenty years from now.
This is what “progressives” call a “balanced approach.”
The same “balanced approach” “progressives” used when they promised Ronald Reagan three dollars in future spending cuts for every dollar of tax increases. The same “balanced approach” “progressives” used when they …

Republicans In DC Need To Learn Politics Is Like Boxing
29 Nov 2012 8:59 am John Hawkins

One of the worst things about the Republican Party in DC is how utterly and thoroughly cowed they are by the press. They’re defensive, passive, quick to criticize their own side and far too willing to forgive egregious mistakes by the Democrats.
Why?
Because if they go on the attack, the Democrats will fight back and the media will agree with the Left, Jon Stewart will make fun of them, Saturday Night Live will do a skit, toadies like David Frum, Joe Scarborough and Megan McCain will whine and their knees …

NY Times: Hey, We’re Missing The Big Issues While Focusing On Benghazi Talking Points
29 Nov 2012 7:36 am William Teach

Scott Shane, writing for the Fish Wrap, makes a darned good point, part of one that I’ve been making in blog posts and on Twitter for well over a month. Much of the article is focused on providing cover for Susan Rice, Barack Obama, and others involved in giving us the stupid “it was a video” talking points, but….
(NY Times) Three days after the lethal attack on the American Mission in Benghazi, Libya, Representative C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, asked intelligence …

Washington Post Inadvertently Makes A Good Point On Susan Rice Talking Points
23 Nov 2012 8:39 am William Teach

Instead of running a “we’re thankful for…” editorial Thursday, something positive, the Washington Post editorial board attempted some tushy covering for Team Obama and Susan Rice
The GOP’s bizarre attack on Susan Rice
SINCE THE Senate is solely responsible for the confirmation of Cabinet officers, it’s not often that members of the House of Representatives jump into a debate about the nomination of a secretary of state — particularly before there has been a nomination. That’s one of the reasons a letter sent to President Obama this week by 97 House Republicans, …

Are Republicans Just Too Mean?
21 Nov 2012 3:47 am John Hawkins

Jim Geraghty is a really smart and insightful guy, but I have to respectfully disagree with the theme of his latest column.
So why are Republicans so much less popular than their ideas? A ubiquitous accusation from their Democratic rivals, echoed by an allied media, is that Republicans lack empathy to the point of displaying sheer meanness. With Obama running up huge margins among various demographics — African-Americans, Hispanics, women, young people — the argument is that the GOP increasingly represents an aging, white, bitter, and angry rump of the electorate, …

Two Assumptions That Explain Why Conservatives Will Never Be Able To Trust The NRSC To Make Endorsements In Republican Primaries
20 Nov 2012 3:59 am John Hawkins

Happily, John Cornyn is out at the NRSC, but the very first idea Jerry Moran seems to have coming in the door as the Chairman is to start trying to pick the nominees in Republican primaries.
That’s a bad idea.
Read their lips: no more Todd Akins.
In the wake of the GOP’s Election Day beatdown, influential Republican senators say enough’s enough: Party leaders need to put the kibosh on the kind of savage primaries that yielded candidates like Akin — and crippled Republican prospects of taking the Senate in two straight election …

What Would The Republican Party Ever Do If We Lost Meghan McCain?
19 Nov 2012 6:45 am John Hawkins

Please, please, please, I’m BEGGING YOU, Megan — don’t do it!

Last Tuesday, Mitt Romney lost—and he lost big. As Republicans, we lost again. I felt sad, exhausted, beaten down, and heartbroken. It was the first time that I considered that the Republican Party, which I love so much, might die.
…I know there are many out there, especially in the more conservative sphere, that regard me with disdain. I don’t fit into the traditional Republican box that the wingnuts who have hijacked my party think all Republicans should. For the …

When It Comes To Fund Raising and GOTV Efforts, Democrats are Playing Three Dimensional Chess While Republicans are Playing Tic-Tac-Toe
14 Nov 2012 6:14 am John Hawkins

The GOP is behind the Democrats in numbers and one of the biggest ones is our get-out-the-vote and fund raising effort. In fact, it is entirely possible that if Mitt Romney had Barack Obama’s GOTV campaign in place while Obama was saddled the disastrous Project ORCA that the GOP used, it might have been enough to swing the entire election.
Sound preposterous? Well, keep in mind that Project Orca wasn’t as good as Obama’s campaign to begin with, was poorly executed and crashed in swing states all across the country …

The Name ‘Republican’ Is Damaged Beyond Repair
12 Nov 2012 2:45 pm Warner Todd Huston

Fact: Millions of Republican voters did not come out to unseat Barack Obama.
Explanation: The Republican brand has been damaged beyond repair.
Solution: Is Herman Cain Right? Do we need to replace the GOP with a new party?
The Republican brand has been destroyed beyond repair. This is all something we really can blame on the Bush family in general and George W. Bush in particular. Not only do independents and moderates not trust anyone that has the millstone “Republican” hung around his neck, but even too many Republican voters themselves can …

Tax Cuts & Fighting Tax Increases On The Rich Are No Longer Winning Political Issues
12 Nov 2012 8:28 am John Hawkins

We have spent so much more than we have for so long that spending cuts alone probably will not be sufficient to eradicate our deficit, our debt, and fund our future entitlement programs. While we should certainly try to fix the problem just by cutting spending, it’s almost a certainty that we’re going to have to increase taxes at some point to prevent defaulting on our obligations. — John Hawkins, 5 Somewhat Unpleasant Assumptions I Make About Taxes, July 13, 2011
One of the most quoted statistics on the Right over …

Q&A Friday #112: Could The GOP Take Back The Senate In 2014?
9 Nov 2012 4:16 am John Hawkins

Question: What would the GOP have to do in order to take the Senate in 2014? — President Friedman
The GOP could conceivably take the Senate back in 2014, although we’d need to have a really big year because we underperformed so much this year. Six months ago, most people thought the GOP was on track to pick up 3-4 seats. Then it shrank to two seats. In the end, we LOST two seats despite the fact that the Democrats had a lot more seats to defend.
The good news is …

Q&A Friday #112: Should The GOP Give Up On Social Issues?
9 Nov 2012 3:49 am John Hawkins

Question: It seems pretty obvious that Romney avoiding social issues only allowed to the Obama campaign to define him in the eyes of the electorate(and Akin, Murdoch, etc. didn’t exactly help). Going forward do you feel like the Republican party should switch their positions on social issues and take the ideological stance of limited government protecting individual rights as they do with economic issues, or do you feel that Republicans should stay the course, and strongly define their position on social issues for the next election? — Daytrip
The GOP’s last …

My Two Cents: Why Obama Won And Romney Lost
8 Nov 2012 8:36 am William Teach

This will probably be the last post on the meaning of this loss, but, this is part of a conversation I was having with a moderate Republicans who voted Obama and a moderate Liberal who voted Romney late yesterday. Consider that, in exit polls,

52% said that the country is on the wrong track.
Only 23% rated the economy positively.
Only 25% said they were better off than 4 years ago. 51% want smaller government.
38% said unemployment was their most important issue, 37% said rising prices

Those are some big points. Yet, somehow, …

After The Elections: Where Is America Now? It’s Dead, That’s Where
7 Nov 2012 6:21 pm Warner Todd Huston

Due to the re-election of Barack Hussein Obama, the United States is officially a failed experiment. In fact, his election in the first place in 2008 signaled the end.
Because so few of you people out there know anything about history any more, I’ll have to explain that opening line above. You see, the founders considered the United States an experiment in self-government. As Ben Franklin is said to have remarked upon leaving the first Constitutional Convention, the founders had given us a republic “if you can keep it.”
By that, …

Election 2012: Breaking It All Down
7 Nov 2012 7:10 am William Teach

First off, congratulations to Mr. Obama for winning a second term.
However, if we look at the popular vote, this does not present a mandate. All together, we are looking a split of about 59 million for Barack to 57 million for Mitt. Doesn’t matter, because I truly expect Obama to mostly move even further to the left. My predictions

He pushes hard on amnesty for illegals, climate change (hoax) legislation, more financial sector crackdowns, and a “grand bargain” which is front loaded with tax increases with spending cuts coming much later. …

L.A. Times: Hey, Did We Mention That You Romney Voters are ALL Racists
6 Nov 2012 2:30 pm Warner Todd Huston

Sandy Banks of the L.A. Times has figured out why anyone would vote against Barack Obama. Why, they are all racists, of course. Oh, you don’t use “the N word,” she tells us, but we know what you Romney voters really think.
Banks dropped all pretense of logic or fairness in her November 4 piece going right for the throat and claiming that the nation’s “kumbaya era” is over merely because a white man dared run against Barack Obama for the office of President of the United States.
Like all these hate-filled …

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