“This is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There’s not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America – there’s the United State of America.” – Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address
He also said he didn’t want to pit Blue America against Red America, giving a lot of people, including a number of whites, high hopes for a Barack Obama in 2008. … read more
I, for one, haven’t given up on the charges of targeting conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service.
Perhaps it’s because I’ve gotten hooked on the daily feature posted by Instapundit, The IRS Scandal, Day XXX, written by Paul Caron of Pepperdine University School of Law, who writes the TaxProf Blog.… read more
A couple of weeks ago, a friend forwarded to me a piece circulating the Internet reviewing all of Hillary Clinton’s failures, and posed the question to those who would consider voting for her – Are you nuts?
Hillary’s amateurish campaign logo looks like it was designed by a grade-schooler and has already caught the fancy of creative types on the Internet. See below. (usa.today.com)
If you’re thinking, no one is seriously thinking about putting her in the White House, guess again. Politicususa, a blog that claims to be the “home of real liberal politics,” recently stated, “attempts to gin up various scandals against Hillary Clinton has had no impact in Iowa …” And get this – “Iowa Democrats say 76 to 17 per cent that Clinton is honest and trustworthy.” Have they switched from drinking the Kool Aid to Iowa corn whiskey?
I’m reminded of the song, Iowa Stubborn, from The Music Man. “And we’re so by God stubborn we could stand touchin noses for a week at a time and never see eye to eye.” Continue reading
With appearances of the GOP candidates picking up of late and new “old” candidates throwing their hats in the ring, I thought it was time to give you another look and a comment on Fox News First’s Power Index, courtesy of Chris Stirewalt.
Jeb Bush continues to hold down the top spot though I don’t know why.… read more
There hasn’t been much humor on the campaign trails since Marco Rubio called Hillary Clinton, “yesterday,” but John Kasich, who isn’t an official candidate, got in a good one during a Washington Post interview. He said he’s never listened to Jeb Bush and didn’t know what is meant by Bush’s theme. … read more
In my May 25, 2015 post, “Questions I would ask Hillary,” I mused about the opportunity to ask Hillary Clinton about her role as secretary of state. My first question concerned her failure to recognize the series of warnings facing the Benghazi consulate over a five-month period leading up to the attack.
If looks could kill. This is the look I could imagine if I had the opportunity to ask her any questions. (Getty Images)
Continuing with the focus on Benghazi, Madam Secretary … and again, please excuse my lengthy lead-in to my question.
As evidenced by documents recently released, prior to the attack, you and your staff were busy behind the scenes developing a scenario that would make success in Libya a notable accomplishment of your tenure at State.
Just one month prior to the attack, Jake Sullivan, your deputy chief of staff, wrote of your leadership on Libya, citing your “ownership/stewardship of this country’s Libya policy from start to finish.” You were being touted as “the public face of the U.S. in Libya.” Continue reading
What! Has Kramer lost his mind … his conservative credentials?
No, but tell me which of the twenty odd Republican candidates out there is a true conservative? None of them. And none of them are going to get elected repeating what they’ve told us so far.
Is Ohio Governor John Kasich the Republican presidential contender everyone’s overlooking? (newsmax.com)
You’re right. John Kasich hasn’t even declared he’s in the race, and neither has Scott Walker, Jeb Bush and a few others.
I have been giving this piece some thought over the past month, and when I saw he took the tenth spot in the latest Quinnipiac University national poll and heard that his announcement could come on June 30, I figured now is as good of a time as ever. An April Quinnipiac poll revealed Kasich has a 61 per cent approval rating compared to a 29 per cent disapproval.
I’ve personally been impressed with Kasich since 1998 when I heard him give a campaign speech in support of another candidate in Phoenix. There was something about him I liked. He stood there with his shirt sleeves rolled up and no tie. No microphone. His message was straight-forward without clichés. Down to earth and believable. Continue reading
When you think of all of the unanswered questions about Hillary Clinton’s past, it’s mind-boggling to muse what you would ask her if you had the opportunity, as improbable as one could imagine such an occasion.
Forget the unanswered questions of her years as first lady, including the missing Rose law firm papers, the travel office firings, the cattle futures, and the mysterious death of Vince Foster. And don’t bother inquiring about her decision to stand by her man with all of his dalliances, because that’s clear now.
This is how I imagine Hillary Clinton when being questioned. (allenwestrepublic.com)
You might be interested in getting answers to these questions, but they’re meaningless to younger voters who were just infants when the Clinton’s soiled the White House. And forget die hard Democrats. They don’t care.
I believe Independents and women (including some Republicans), who want to see a woman become president, are still persuadable. Continue reading
I don’t know how Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin thought a group of low-information people could name an accomplishment of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. You may recall that former State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki couldn’t answer that question either.
But try he did. Halperin sat down with a focus group interview of Hillary Clinton supporters in Iowa recently and the response was silence when he asked a man, a woman who passed and a second woman, who couldn’t respond to that question.… read more
There he stood – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio – on the steps of the nation’s Capitol, flanked by the most liberal of liberals, including Al Sharpton and Representatives Raul Grijalva, John Conyers, Barbara Lee and Keith Ellison, all purveyors of the “taker” culture.
By now you have most likely heard about his 13-point Progressive Agenda, his attack on income inequality, recommending what he calls bold steps to make a difference for ”every day Americans.” He jumps from increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour, national paid sick leave and paid family leave, universal pre-K and after school programs and childcare, to closing tax loopholes that allow CEOs and hedge fund managers and billionaires to avoid – are you ready for it – “paying their fair share in taxes.”
Flanked by Washington’s purveyors of the “taker” culture, NY City Mayor Bill de Blasio outlines his 13-point Progressive Agenda. (usatoday.com)
He promises there’s more in his agenda, including the expansion of Social Security, debt-free college and investments in schools, not jails.
Ironically, President Obama was speaking at Georgetown University that day saying, “I think the effort to suggest that the poor are sponges, leaches, don’t want to work, are lazy, undeserving, got traction.” Continue reading