Posts Tagged ‘Washington’
Jack Goodman: Candidate for Congress Missouri’s »
Via BBCW: March 2010 One of the challenges for Goodman as a candidate in the Seventh District race is the fact he is one of two men considered to be a politician in a year when anger is directed at the politicians. When I met Mr. Goodman for lunch today and an interview, he comes across as more of a citizen legislator than career [...]
Democrats May Use Slaughter Rule to Pass Pro-Abortion »
Pelosi a few hours ago publicly stated she is indeed looking into using the "Slaughter Rule". Why do we need a House of Representatives or a Senate. If the leadership can deem an issue passed either through the Slaughter Rule or by circumventing the filibuster by invoking the Nuclear Option at will, irregardless of the "Byrd Rule" what purpose is [...]
The Rahm Emanuel Show »
Raphael J. SonensheinIt was a very strange sight. There in The Washington Post was an article by reporter Dana Milbank making a case that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s excellent advice has been ignored by a naïve President Barack Obama and that Emanuel is the great unappreciated asset of a collapsing administration with a weak [...]
Beck Set Him Up Only Long Enough To Knock Him Down »
Glenn Beck of all people was selected to interview resigning Congressman Massa.I watched only a few minutes that included the end of the interview. Beck was coy, holier than thou, and condescending. Beck was Obama's mouthpiece.The most poignant moment came, when Massa related he had had his fill of Washington and the Democrat Party, Beck turned to [...]
Low-Tax Texas Beats Big-Government California »
Michael Barone"Stop messing with Texas!" That was the message Gov. Rick Perry bellowed on election night as he celebrated his victory over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican primary for governor. In his reference to Texas' anti-littering slogan, Perry was making a point applicable to national as well as Texas politics and addressed to [...]
Dead Legislation Walking »
Heritage FoundationAnother day, another stream of health care fantasy from the White House. A quick look at two health care events from yesterday, one in Glenside, Pennsylvania, and the other in Tawas City, Michigan, clearly exposes the yawing gap between the Obama administration's health care rhetoric and cold hard legislative reality. First in [...]
OBAMA USURPATION OF PRESIDENCY IS THE GREATEST CRIME »
The Obama Eligibility Question Lives On March 9th, 2010 By Paul Hollrah Beyond surviving the current political madness in Washington, the American people have no greater task ahead than to insure themselves that another Barack Hussein Obama can never again hold political power in our country. When the Founding Fathers met in [...]
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AMERICAN GRAND JURY Greetings everyone,The American Grand Jury Spring Tour announced this past week is already drawing a lot of attention. So far it looks like we are 2/3rds full on the Motorhome registration. We will be leaving from Phoenix, AZ (tentatively on Monday, May 10th and returning 2-1/2 weeks later). We have a number of scheduled [...]
From proximity to peace? »
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030803612_pf.htmlTuesday, March 9, 2010; A18THE OBAMA administration appears near to a diplomatic achievement it expected long ago: the relaunch of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. It will be a modest start -- not a big conference or a convocation to Camp David [...]
A sober approach to sanctioning Iran »
David IgnatiusThe cynical (and usually correct) critique of economic sanctions was summed up this way by a retired U.S. diplomat named Douglas Paal: "Sanctions always accomplish their principal objective, which is to make those who impose them feel good." The Obama administration is struggling to craft a new round of U.N. sanctions against Iran [...]
