Sen. Marco Rubio has good reason to smile as he enters the New Hampshire race. While all of the candidates have been campaigning in sweaters, for some reason, Fox’s Megyn Kelly chose to ridicule Rubio for wearing one. (Reuters/Rick Wilking)
Sen. Ted Cruz may have won the Iowa caucus, but it was Sen. Marco Rubio who got the bump going into New Hampshire with his third place Iowa finish, putting him in second place there behind Donald Trump. Continue reading
“You know, every secretary of state that I know have (sic) done that,” was Hillary Clinton’s response to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper’s inquiry into her receiving $675,000 for speeches to financial firms. “That’s what they offered to pay,” she snarkily added.
Hillary Clinton during Feb. 4, 2016 debate with Sen. Bernie Sanders.
If Cooper had done his homework, he could have pointed out that former secretaries of state Colin Powell and Madeline Albright usually speak for $50-60,000 dollars. Condoleezza Rice was paid $150,000 for a speech at the University of Minnesota. Cooper did, however, point out the difference that they weren’t running for office.
To that, Clinton stuttered, “I didn’t … to be honest, I wasn’t … I wasn’t committed to running … I didn’t … I didn’t know whether I …” When Cooper interrupts with, “you didn’t know you were running for president?” She responded, “I didn’t.” Continue reading
With the Iowa caucuses now in the rear view mirror, here’s what I see ahead for the Republican candidates for president.
Sen. Ted Cruz: Cruz was expected by some to come in second to Donald Trump, but Trump didn’t have the effective grassroots volunteer organization that Cruz had. Trump skipped the Iowa debate and failed to have a surrogate to stand up for him in the caucuses.
Despite the win, if you can call the process which is normally referred to as a “beauty contest” a win, it isn’t likely to propel him to victory in New Hampshire. It is said that New Hampshire doesn’t reward the Iowa winner. While he trailed Trump by four points going into the Iowa caucuses, he trails Trump by 19 points in New Hampshire. Continue reading
“Mr. Trump has no policy anchor; his political strategy is to rile up the ignorami. – Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., columnist.
There are many unanswered questions about Donald Trump. (businessinsider.com)
In the lead-up to the Iowa caucuses, I listened to Iowans give their views of the presidential candidates. While many of them didn’t shy away from saying why they were supporting others who really have no chance there, Donald Trump has obviously stirred those who are simply fed up with Washington’s ways.
His promise to make America great again has struck a high note with voters even though they have no idea how he would be as president. While they seem to think they have nothing to lose, many of us know better. Beyond his worn out sound bites on the wall, deporting illegals and China, we haven’t heard any specifics on a Trump administration agenda. Continue reading
Here’s the question of the day: Can someone who faces charges for mishandling highly classified documents; failure to provide security for the ambassador and other Americans in Benghazi; and failure to keep her duties at State and her connection with the Clinton Foundation at arm’s length, be permitted to run for president? She is currently under investigation for all three.
(Cartoon courtesy of Cleveland.com)
The late Friday confirmation by the administration that Hillary Clinton’s unsecured home server contained closely guarded secrets, including 22 e-mails with the highest level of classification, comes just three days before the Iowa presidential nominating caucuses. They will not, of course, be part of the document dump. Continue reading
Earlier this week, I began writing another piece on the continued effort to convince us that we, and the carbon dioxide we emit, are the cause of global warming and ultimately the weather disasters around the world.
A full page in the Jan. 24, 2016 USA Today devoted to how weather made news world-wide in 2015 was the impetus. I saw it as another liberal snow job to promote the reduction of carbon emissions, which “they” would have us believe causes extremes in weather – hurricanes, cyclones, record heat, floods and drought.
As I began to draft this piece critical of the USA Today scare tactic, an article in the Jan 25, 2016 Wall Street Journal, “The Climate Snow Job,” came to my attention. “The notion that world-wide weather is becoming more extreme is just that,” wrote Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist and Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Click here, to read his interesting column.
I stored this piece in “Drafts” while I concentrated on more topical news – Iran, ISIS, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Continue reading
A read of The Wall Street Journal’s Bookshelf column, “In Praise of the Political Insider,” a review of the Lott/Daschle collaboration, Crisis Point, by Mark Salter will give you a totally different perspective than mine posted here yesterday.
Salter, a former administrative assistant to Sen. John McCain, who collaborated with the senator on several books, certainly presents a myopic view of former senators Lott and Daschle.… read more
When I heard that the National Review was coming out against Donald Trump in its latest edition, I didn’t give it much thought. I was amused by references to it as the conservative movement’s most influential publication, which has readership of about 150,000. I used to be an avid reader of NR with a hard copy subscription, but I became dissatisfied with its direction under Rich Lowry in the late 90s and didn’t renew.… read more
While conservative voters are trying to make up their minds to support one of the “outsiders,” who promise to overhaul Washington’s ways, or one of the senators or governors who have records of accomplishment, who returns to the scene but former Senators Tom Daschle and Trent Lott to tell us how to change things.
Former Senators Tom Daschle and Trent Lott at the WBUR studios. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
The pair have collaborated on a book, “Crisis Point: Why We Must and How We Can Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America,” their prescription for change.
Here we are in the midst of a political revolution, the result of an angry public disgusted with Washington DC, a president who lives by executive order, and a polarized Congress and these guys believe they have the solution.
You will remember that they formed a joint leadership during the 50-50 Senate in 2001. That worked well didn’t it. Continue reading
(Cartoon courtesy of Michael Ramirez, IBD)
I hope you weren’t among those so grateful for Iran’s quick release of our sailors and their boats that you dismiss the fact that it again pointed to America’s weakness abroad.
Pictures of our sailors on their knees with their hands on their heads were broadcast around the world with quotes by an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general saying our Marines were “crying,” and “admitted humbly our power and might.” Continue reading