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Tweet In the wake of the 2008 election, Republicans and conservatives were paralyzed.  They’d been trounced, not so much by sweeper percentages (that is, the elections were all just over the slightly 50% mark), but by huge numbers of elections in which Democrats edged out Republicans by those few percentage marks.  If there are 100 [...]

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Tweet That Nancy Pelosi is a pistol.  Here she is, a terrible public speaker, but still arguing strongly that it’s absolutely unconscionable for Congress to sneak bills through committee, to vote on things they haven’t read and don’t know, to vote on bills that the American public hasn’t had to read, to have bills in [...]

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Tweet It’s Sunday and there’s nothing I can do to change yesterday’s vote at this moment.  I need to relax. Jennifer Rubin is also sanguine, bless her heart. UPDATE:  The Anchoress urges us to be not afraid, even in the shadow of the jackboot.

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Tweet Maybe she got those Dems to vote yes because she assured them that, at the end of the day, the Senate will vote no.  Or, maybe, we’re screwed: The US House of Representatives has approved the broadest US health care overhaul in a half-century, handing President Barack Obama a major victory on his top [...]

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Tweet I like how clearly Karl Rove sums up the economic pain the Democrats’ proposed health care plan will impose on the economy as a whole and on individual Americans: For starters, the bill is a lot more expensive than advertised. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) pegs its cost at $1.055 trillion over 10 years, [...]

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Tweet The way this attack ad against rising star Doug Hoffman (in NY’s 23rd district) is framed, it’s clear that Hoffman’s sin is being wealthy: I think that’s a marvelous standard by which to disqualify people from political office, at least this year.  (And we know from what happens in Massachusetts that you can change [...]

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Tweet Got the following email from a friend, which is an appropriate follow-up to the post I did about Michele Bachmann’s recommendation that you call your Congress person daily to protest Obama Care: Hey, all! When you make those phone calls to senators and congresspeople in response to Michelle Bachman’s call for help, Roberto suggested [...]

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Tweet Just got the following message: Citizens in Action is providing Americans who are opposed to the proposed health care legislation  with an easy and effective way to fax the 31 Senators who could vote one way or the other on health care reform. Because the first important Senate vote is Tuesday, the time to [...]

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Tweet My mind is full of Fleet Week events.  As in the past two years, it promises to be a very exciting week for me and my family.  I know I’m going to be on a Coast Guard boat on the Bay when the Blue Angels fly, I know I’m going to a reception to [...]

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Tweet AllahPundit explains what’s really and truly going on in Washington, D.C.: Let me remind you again: They can pass any bill they want any time they want. Conservatives can scream their heads off at these things and there’s not an ounce of good it’ll do if Democrats are united. This whole partisan “war” Obama [...]

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Tweet The National Republican Senatorial Committee puts out this timely public service announcement: I’ll echo Laer, at Cheat-Seeking Missiles (which gets the hat tip for this video):  “Yeah, I know the GOP is hardly perfect and has a ton of lessons to learn, but I have to say, this message motivates me to open my [...]

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Tweet Rep. Michele Bachmann has set up an online petition in which you can add your name to the list of people who want Congress to stop funneling money to ACORN.

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Tweet The Democrats, corrupted by power, are now seeking absolute power.  Here’s the story from the horse’s mouth, the horse in this case being Minority Whip, Eric Cantor: In a completely unprecedented fashion, House Democrats have used their power as the majority party to shut out floor amendments from the minority party on spending legislation. Right at [...]

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Tweet Michelle Malkin has caught on to the fact that the Left side of the blogosphere has a new meme:  they contend that, should there be a pandemic, it can be traced to the always evil GOP because Rove/Collins opposed flu pandemic funding in the porkulus bill. The only problem with this is that it’s [...]

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Tweet From Minority Leader John Boehner, a little information about the House Democrats’ $825 billion “stimulus” bill. A Dozen Fun Facts About the House Democrats’ Massive Spending Bill 1. The House Democrats’ bill will cost each and every household $6,700 additional debt, paid for by our children and grandchildren. 2. The total cost of this [...]

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Tweet Depressed today.  Decided to do a risk assessment of possible (and impossible) and likely (and unlikely) outcomes.  Feel free to chime in. McCain & Palin win and Republicans eke out a majority in Congress:  Impossible. McCain & Palin win and Democrats retain control over Congress:  Less and less likely. Obama & Biden win and [...]

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Tweet Normally, I’m entirely on board with the theory that “that government is best which governs least.”  Normally, I fear last minute bail-outs, especially those from a Democratically-dominated Congress. But the world economy is a different animal.  When thinking of it, it’s worth thinking also of Roosevelt’s warning that “the only thing we have to [...]

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Tweet In the “I wish I’d said that” department is this truly excellent post from Power Line, pointing out that this crisis (a) establishes that McCain, not Obama, is a leader and (b) that the Democrats cannot possibly be telling the truth when they try to blame McCain for the House’s inability to reach an [...]

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Tweet You’ve all heard the question that is the title of my post, haven’t you?  Is an audience necessary for a sound to have meaning or even existence? And what if, in our world, the intermediary to the audience bugs out?  That’s today’s question, as Republicans vigorously debate the new drilling despite the fact that, [...]

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Tweet I must work, but I have to give you a couple of quick links, one of which you may want to act upon and one of which is just nice to know. On the “you might want to act” (by contacting your representatives in D.C.), Right Wing News offers useful information about the expiration [...]

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Tweet IBD does an enjoyably neat job of cutting Nancy Pelosi down to size: When challenged in an interview with Politico.com about her bullheaded refusal to let Republicans submit energy policies for approval, Pelosi resorted to risible hyperbole to justify her iron-fisted rule of the House parliamentary process. “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m [...]

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Tweet I was out this morning getting my oil changed — and learning that it will cost almost $2,000 to fix my car from its recent run-in with a low post.  When I got home, I found an interesting message on my answering machine. It’s the recorded voice of Dennis Kucinich begging me to “Press [...]

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Tweet After seeing the insanity unfold before his eyes, a visiting law professor felt compelled to say this: “I am really astonished at the mood in this room,” commented one witness, George Mason University School of Law professor Jeremy Rabkin. “The tone of these deliberations is slightly demented,” Rabkin said. “You should all remind yourselves [...]

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Tweet J. R. Dunn has a wonderful antidote to political despair.  I have some optimistic predictions of my own: I think the current gas crisis, coupled with the holes being punctured into Global Warming, and China’s status as No. 1 C02 polluter, will create a popular ground swell that will force the Demos’ hands (1) [...]

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