The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Herman Cain on the Iowa Caucuses

Duane Lester interviews the not-yet-official candidate after an event in Council Bluffs, Iowa: In Iowa, like New Hampshire, candidates really get the chance to be vetted. This meeting that we had here today is a good example. They didn’t hold back. And in Iowa, you can’t just buy enough advertising and you’re going to win […]

4 Dems Vote to Repeal ObamaCare?

Kinda. It was a procedural vote: [T]he new Republican-led House took a first step Friday toward a symbolic vote to repeal his landmark health care overhaul law, which would provide coverage to more than 30 million Americans without health insurance. But the 236-181 largely party-line vote is unlikely to amount to more than a political […]

Lisa D on the Herman Cain Bandwagon?

CPAC director Lisa DePasquale profiles Herman Cain in her latest “De Pasquale’s Dozen” column at Human Events. CPAC starts Feb. 10 — just 34 days from now — so go register now.

If John Boehner’s Lost Nick Gillespie …

. . . well, he’s lost libertarians in leather jackets: Memo to Speaker Boehner: If You Won a Congessional Majority Because You Pledged to Cut Spending and You Can’t Think of a Single Program to Cut Now, Please Go Home That’s the headline on a Gillespie post at Reason magazine’s Hit & Run blog after […]

Calling the Democrats’ Bluff

Armed with a rather bizarre CBO estimate — claiming to show that repealing ObamaCare would actually increase the deficit — the president is now trying to push Republicans off their game: President Obama officially drew a line in the sand Thursday evening, threatening to veto House Republicans’ attempt to repeal Obama’s landmark healthcare law. In […]

Herman Cain Will Speak at CPAC!

Via Citzens4Cain on Twitter comes the latest news: The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a project of the American Conservative Union Foundation, is pleased to announce that business leader and talk radio host Herman Cain will address the event to be held February 10-12 in Washington D.C.  Mr. Cain will speak on Friday, February 11 […]

Ann Marie Buerkle Sworn In
UPDATE: Alas, Poor Marco Rubio!
UPDATE: Catching Up With Griffith
UPDATE: Interview With Renee Ellmers

Wednesday’s trip to Capitol Hill was amazing. I spent most of the afternoon with Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, her staff, supporters and family, including a trip to the basement of the Capitol for her ceremonial swearing-in photo with Speaker John Boehner. The lady in the middle holding the Bible is Congresswoman Buerkle’s 89-year-old mother. I’ll […]

How Much Spending Will GOP Cut?

Evidently not the $100 billion they promised: Many people knowledgeable about the federal budget said House Republicans could not keep their campaign promise to cut $100 billion from domestic spending in a single year. Now it appears that Republicans agree. As they prepare to take power on Wednesday, Republican leaders are scaling back that number […]

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