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How Republicans Operate
The IRS “scandal” gives us an object lesson in the modus operandi of conservatives. 1) Grossly underfund an agency. 2) Task that agency to investigate an entirely new kind of possible fraud. 3) Whine...
View ArticleKentucky Getting Ready to Ditch Mitch As Democrat Grimes Leads McConnell 48%-46%
PoliticusUSA, By Sarah Jones, June 26 What looked like it could be an anomaly is beginning to look like a real thing in Kentucky. The Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell...
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If You Had Told Me This Appeared on The Federalist Website….
…I would have laughed in your face. But it did: Why abandon K-Street, and acknowledge, then reject, the Big Business perception of the GOP? They’ve had the Republican Party’s back for some time,...
View ArticleGov. Rick Perry of Texas Is Indicted on Charge of Abuse of Power
New York Times, By Manny Fernandez, August 15 Austin, TX – A grand jury indicted Gov. Rick Perry on two felony counts on Friday, charging that he abused his power last year when he tried to pressure...
View ArticleA Climate of Unaccountability
They’re back! John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Bill Kristol, Dick Cheney – the people who pushed the U.S. into the devastating mistake that was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, have discovered yet another...
View ArticleFormer pig castrator Joni Ernst poised to win Iowa Senate seat for Republicans
Republican once considered an obscure one-term state senator has the momentum in Iowa despite suffering the ridicule of her rivals The Guardian, By Rory Carroll, November 3 Des Moines – Joni Ernst...
View ArticleSenate control may be not be decided Tuesday
McClatchy, By David Lightman, November 2 Polls released Sunday show it’s increasingly likely that control of the Senate may not be decided Tuesday, as no one in Louisiana and Georgia races has the...
View ArticleLet the Recriminations Begin!
These mid-term elections were never going to be easy for the Democrats. They had way too many seats at stake in the Senate, many of them Democrats who won reliably Republican seats during the...
View ArticleTwo Years’ Vacation
A couple of points to be made about last night’s midterm elections. 1) The election map last night was singularly antithetical to Democrats. To put it in terms conservatives understand, we were...
View ArticleUS mid-terms: Republicans win control of the Senate
BBC, November 5 The Republicans have won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, increasing their power in the final two years of Barack Obama’s presidency. The party won in Arkansas,...
View ArticleThe Dems die a little more in Maryland
The shocker victory of Republican governor-elect Larry Hogan here in deep blue Maryland is a vivid example of how the Democratic Party is paying the price for having sold its base down the river. Here...
View ArticleWhy Dems Lose Midterms
The preliminary numbers are in, and voter turnout was at a record low nationwide. Conventional wisdom says that each party, Republican and Democrat, can count on roughly 45% of the vote, no matter...
View ArticleGOP wins Alaska, unseating Sen. Mark Begich
MSNBC, By Jane C. Timm, November 12 Republican Dan Sullivan is the apparent winner in the Alaska Senate race unseating Democrat Mark Begich, NBC News declared early Wednesday morning. Sullivan led...
View ArticleLouisiana Senate Candidates Race to Hold Lame Duck Votes On Keystone XL Pipeline
ABC News, By Arlette Saenz, November 12 After two years of inaction on the Keystone XL pipeline, it could be a Louisiana Senate run-off that finally forces Congress to vote on the measure. The...
View ArticleSen. Mary Landrieu loses runoff in Louisiana to Rep. Bill Cassidy
Washington Post, By Sean Sullivan, December 6 Republicans put the finishing touches on a triumphant midterm election by picking up a ninth Senate seat Saturday when Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) defeated...
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