May 10, 2011 – As Democrats are doing more and more around the country, it appears they are setting up Davis to be the spoiler so a Republican can … The irony is that while Davis cannot win, he could be the spoiler to get the Democrat elected. … If that happens, the media will use this race to claim voters are rejecting the tea party movement.…

May 10, 2011 – From the diaries by Erick As so often seem to be the case, the GOP doesn’t follow the Democratic playbook when it comes to obstruction … Remember when the ABA rating was the “gold standard”? … comments, Reyna was nominated for the Federal Circuit, not the DC Circuit (a BIG difference), so my original comments below are apples…

May 10, 2011 – So, the big rumor that just started going around is that Microsoft will buy out Skype. This worries me. … And just as we saw in the Net Neutrality debate, when large, incredibly wealthy firms like Google were painted as the little guy, the … scrappy underdogs despite bringing in billions of dollars, now Sprint is supposed to be the little guy.…

May 9, 2011 – In case you missed it, Jay Cost had a great piece on Friday on “the Food Stamp recovery”, laying out the ways in which the currently-underway … [I]f the economic recovery does not begin to show substantial improvement, the likes of which we have not really seen in the last two … In many ways, a weak recovery is an even more perilous time for a big-government guy like Obama than an economic crisis.…

May 4, 2011 – The guy everyone wanted, Mario Cuomo, refused to run (Mike Pence and Chris Christie should take note). … His message was the economy. He won. Big name Republicans are again this year sitting it out. Chris Christie is nowhere. … Mike Pence, the guy a lot of grassroots conservatives wanted to run, will run for Governor of Indiana.…

May 2, 2011 – The Navy Seals and the elite group who, says the Washington Post, ” exist(s) outside military protocol and engage in operations that … are at the highest level of classification and often outside the boundaries of international law”, are loathed and hated by the left … The big homes, big salaries, and big competitive natures they possess? Their refusal to give extra taxes?…

May 19, 2011 – He has the outsider credentials, the evangelical street cred, and the messaging. … Tim Pawlenty Pawlenty is the guy I’m keeping my eye on. … That’s one reason I think the Romney camp made such a big deal out of his Las Vegas, NV take of $10+ million.…

May 17, 2011 – Massive debt-equity ratios and the financial instruments made available by Wall Street got many businesses big and small into trouble … So the only guy running with the professed foreign policy credentials has nothing to say about foreign policy? … In the case of Bush Sr., his ability to build on the end of the Cold War; Reagan gets most of the credit, but lost in that, Bush…

May 16, 2011 – The big downside? … He’ll be the guy who gets the crowds within the state policy network excited. … Given his recent statements on religion and his record as Governor, he’s the guy who will be seen as the adult by the media and the…

May 16, 2011 – He seems to want to be the ideas guy, but that really amounts to being a conservative technocrat. … Please click here for the rest of the post. 4. Who’s the Boss? … Now, one might think, so what’s the big deal?…

May 15, 2011 – the reform minded movement sweeping the GOP.First, he endorsed the individual mandate and said he would not bash Mitt Romney over the … He seems to want to be the ideas guy, but that really amounts to being a conservative technocrat. … The transcript of the related remarks is below the fold.Endorsing individual mandate: GINGRICH: well, i agree that all of us have…

May 13, 2011 – The establishment fears her. I’d gladly support her. Ron Paul The third time is only the charm in fairy tales. … Tim Pawlenty If Mike Huckabee does not get in, Pawlenty could shine as the anti-Romney, evangelical. He’s a good guy. … Mitt Romney The guy we all want to like, but just have such a hard time liking. His defense of Romneycare hurts him.…

May 13, 2011 – The guy fascinates all of us, but let’s face it: he also raises a lot of questions. … Who’s the real guy behind the money, flash and fast talk? Join us. I promise you this won’t be interviews as usual. … The reality is that Republicans don’t have the requisite political power to statutorily roll back big government policies through the…

May 11, 2011 – Tom Coburn is the only significant fiscal conservative on the committee.Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) had the seniority to get the job … , but: “Oh gosh, I’ve got all the stuff I can stand,” Burr told The Hill when asked last week whether he was interested in the spot.Burr … Senator DeMint has taken the lead on Obamacare repeal, the GOP health care alternative, pushing for Paul Ryan-style medicare voucher…

May 28, 2011 – With their big, beady red and rubber fangs, unions have found Scabby to be a reliable symbol to protest the use of non-union labor … “Imagine hurting an ice cream guy whose crime is daring to sign a lease at the mall!” … Ironically, Big Sky Balloons, the maker of the unions’ now famous rodent, is a non-union company. _________________ “I bring reason…

May 26, 2011 – The Fight of the Century 4. The Willingness of the Press to Believe Democrat Spin 5. Lee Fang: Math is Hard 6. … Heh.Honestly, I’d never heard of this guy until about a month ago, when he made the mistake of thinking he knew something about oil … The secret meetings? The refusal to let the American people see the language?…

May 25, 2011 – There’s the Twitter feed. Oh, what a gold mine that is. The GOP should be put to the noose. … Koch funding is the same bete noir on the left as Soros funding is on the right. … Maybe we shouldn’t hire this guy to cover a subject he hates? Maybe? Maybe the whole Dave Weigel thing was an object lesson?…

May 23, 2011 – Off to the races with the horses we have 2. Mitch Daniels as Mario Cuomo 3. The Perils of the Pre-1967 Proposal 4. … the guy it helps the most is Tim Pawlenty. … click here for the rest of the post. 6.…

Mar 29, 2011 – Fred is the guy who coined the term “big government conservative” as a way to defend Bush’s big government agenda. … I like him very much, but he has become the guy the GOP leaders go to so he can parrot their talking points with a veneer of “conservatives … That means precisely that the GOP is losing the budget fight.How are we losing the budget fight?…

Mar 24, 2011 – Dick Blumenthal, the guy who lied about a war record, all but spitting on actual war veterans, wants to use the deal to push for Net … We need patent reform, and not the Leahy bill which would just make life easier for big corporations with lots of patent lawyers. … Anyway, Big Government continues to hammer on the unfair, un-Constitutional, economy-hurting Amazon Tax proposal to attempt to apply…

Apr 10, 2011 – by the National Black Chamber of Commerce, the Latin Builders Association, the U.S. … Across the country, in California, the exclusion of minorities has led to the Aboriginal Blackmen United pushing back at the IBEW for … “This is what I would refer to as using the minority card; using the fact you’re a minority to make big ruckus against Tommy White,…

Apr 7, 2011 – That is not stopping many an activist — largely a group of people who do not even know whether the guy is actually a conservative or … The first rational explanation is that the poll is wrong. … The second rational explanation is that the rest of the field is a big yawn.…

Apr 27, 2011 – But it only takes so many smacks to the head at the gas pump and grocery store and job and bank to make people stop digging the guy … This is no big deal. Why is he making a big deal?” … And then, while you’re still poring over the certificate and the silliness of the entire issue, the president will be flying Air Force…

Apr 27, 2011 – alone should) steamroll the dissenters on the Fed’s policy-making board, and just step up to be a big-time unemployment fighter … You’ll get a big swing in rates in the midcurve and at the long end, with no beneficial impact on economic activity. … The bottom line is that the Federal Reserve is not the place to be looking for a way to reduce the extremely serious problem of…

Apr 26, 2011 – with the government. … The government can punish them because they’re in the mood to punish them. … In America, though, the market still works enough to reflect the pain fairly quickly to the average person.…