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.…

Oct 27, 2015 – Strategies — get big (in terms of organization), tout electability and inevitability, keep yourself close enough to the center that … For a guy who is usually pig-ignorant about conservatives and the GOP this is not a bad answer. … Let the little boys play in the primary — even brag that you were willing to ‘lose the primary’ just to let the GOP base have no doubt…

Oct 27, 2015 – school playground or a game of ‘the dozens‘ where the guy with the best zinger in anointed the winner. … And this is the guy who Reince Priebus is allowing to moderate a GOP debate on the economy. … Like the network can host the interview and get the ratings boost but the RNC chooses moderators.…

Oct 27, 2015 – The emerging plan is designed to remove the risk that the government might default and diminish the prospect of a partial government … Now the budget deal may be in big trouble. … Paul Ryan, the guy who will have to move the spending bill to support the budget through the House, is not happy.…

Oct 26, 2015 – He had the name recognition, the bona fides of having been a governor, and the good fortune of being the favorite candidate of the … He is polling in the single digits, including in his home state of Florida(Ouch).  His big money donors are maxed out. … brother and father in Houston to try and calm the nerves of GOP elites worried that the guy who was supposed to be the next Mitt Romney…

Oct 22, 2015 – This leads us to the big question: Can the Donald Trump campaign endure a loss? … the thinking of the D.C. press corps based on polls. … Right now, if four polls had come out saying Trump at seven and Jeb at 29, all the media commentary—without either guy changing a thing…

Oct 20, 2015 – The big news in this poll however, is the choices Democrats would make if they had a chance to vote for the Republican of their choice … About the only people who like Kasich are the Circle of Jerks who make up the DC-NYC media and are overwhelmingly Democrat. … So of course they love the guy who expanded Obamacare. That about says it all.…

Oct 19, 2015 – Right on schedule, left wing media began toeing the administration line: Assad’s first big Russia-backed campaign is not going well … This, by the way, written by the guy who blamed the Israelis for restricting traffic on the bridge from Gaza to the West Bank. … While those offensives have resulted in a number of seized villages, they haven’t secured any big territorial gains for the regime.…

Oct 18, 2015 – Bush years, to the detriment of the rest of the country. Republicans do not see DC as a productive engine of the economy. … Read the whole article at the last link, it is worth it. … If he can’t play the verbal game in the big leagues he needs to get out.…

Nov 6, 2015 – A Republican strategist well connected to the donor world added: “When he’s with major donors, they expect the guy they see with all … Trump the man on stage—the persona—is such a familiar role to him, who by all accounts is a nice guy in person, that it will likely … But it’s the persona that got all the media attention, and befuddled the pundits while rocketing him to the top of the polls.…