The Republican Establishment sees the 2012 presidential nomination process breaking wide open and it's panicked. In one last, desperate attempt to reassert control of the party from the Tea Party, the Establishment is floating another presidential candidate: Mitch Daniels. The party leadership tapped Daniels to give the GOP response to the State of the Union Address -- and his performance shows … [Read more...]
Conservative Powerhouse: If Obama Raises Taxes, GOP Will Impeach Him
January 28, 2012 By
The move to impeach Barack Obama is moving forward -- either in this term or, Heaven forfend, in the next. This week, one of the most influential conservative heavyweights raised the prospect of ignobly kicking the president out of office between elections. Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform is the author of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a promise signed by hundreds of office-seekers … [Read more...]
Video: Biden, I Told Obama to Hold Off on Killing Bin Laden
January 28, 2012 By
Vice President Joe Biden has been missing in action for some time. Now we know why. Biden has run for president twice, in 1988 and 2008, and has not ruled out running a third time in 2016. But the Democrats' Harold Stassen just made a peculiar campaign move: He told a public audience that, when asked, he told Barack Obama not to launch the mission that killed Osama bin Laden. Describing the … [Read more...]
Expert: Obama’s “Job Training” Boondoggle Won’t Put People Back to Work
January 27, 2012 By
In his State of the Union Address, Obama proposed job training programs to end unemployment. There's just one problem It's been tried and failed miserably. Here's what one of the scholars at the Heritage Foundation had to say about the matter: More Job Training Programs on Top of All the Other Redundant and Ineffective Programs – David B. Muhlhausen, Ph.D. Tonight, President Obama called for … [Read more...]
Obama Wants America Run Like the Military – and He’s Giving the Orders
January 25, 2012 By
Presidents often use State of the Union Addresses to articulate a more comprehensive ideology of government or society. In the 2012 SOTU, what did President Barack Obama hold up as his ideal? Military life. Obama took the name of the armed forces in vain, twice, simultaneously claiming undeserved credit for killing Osama bin Laden and forecasting the way his opponents should fall in line, … [Read more...]
Obama: I’ll Keep Pushing Amnesty, Solyndra, and Executive Fascism
January 25, 2012 By
One of the less-explored realities of his State of the Union Address last night is that Barack Obama doubled-down on the most controversial, unconstitutional, and blatantly illegal aspects of his presidency. Addressing his million-strong job deficit and the need for energy, Obama promised to continue funding Green energy ventures in the full knowledge that many will turn out ot be failures. … [Read more...]
