SEEING THE HANDWRITING – The latest U.S. House Democrats to jump ship are California’s George Miller and Henry Waxman, Representatives in the U. S. House, both having served 20 terms.

NOBAMA – While most Democrat candidates for reelection are avoiding the president’s presence in their states, not Rep. Gary Peters (D-Mich), who is running for the seat of retiring Sen.… read more

Remember when Vice President Joe Biden, while introducing Missouri State Senator Chuck Graham during a 2008 campaign appearance, said “stand up, Chuck?”  Unfortunately, Chuck was confined to a wheelchair.  Not to be outdone in “gaffedom” … Texas Democrat gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis responding to a Dallas Morning News article reporting on several discrepancies in her life story, criticized opponent Greg Abbott, suggesting he “hasn’t walked a day in my shoes.” … read more

As Wendy Davis, the Democrat’s hopeful candidate for Governor, was making excuses for fabricating facts about her life story, she said, “my language should be tighter,” as she admitted her biography had been less than truthful.

While others are focusing on misstatements about being a teen mom, her marriage and divorce, how her education was financed, living in a trailer and other “loose” facts, it was her lack of contrition that told me what kind of person she really is.  Attempting to deflect criticism, she said, “I came from a place of struggle, and we can parse dates all day long,” as she accused her likely opponent Attorney General Greg Abbott and his campaign of being “out of touch” with struggling Texans. Continue reading →

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California Senator Diane Feinstein didn’t like the fact that speeches on the Senate floor and some media reports were critical of Hillary Clinton for not doing enough to prevent the attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi.

“Statements on the Senate floor this morning (Jan. 16, 2014) and some media reports about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan report on the attack against our diplomatic mission and CIA annex in Benghazi. Libya, intimate that the report assigns culpability to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the tragedy,” said Feinstein.  Republican Senators McCain. Graham and Ayotte all made remarks critical of Clinton. Continue reading →

How many times have you heard politicians, entertainers or someone from the media say something they have had to apologize for?  Some claim their statement was taken out of context.  A few make heartfelt apologies, while others use the “if I have offended anyone” line.

During a January 17, 2014 radio interview New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, while talking about Republican candidates in New York, said those who oppose abortion and gay rights and favor traditional gun ownership “have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.” … read more

The statement in the 85-page report by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Benghazi indicating the September 11, 2012 attack on our compound in Benghazi was preventable was of particular interest to me.  While most coverage, if any, concentrated on why no forces came to the ambassador’s aid that evening, I continued to question how the administration ignored five months of security warnings.… read more