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May 16, 2012 – 3:36 pm | 2 Comments | 11 views

It looks like Speaker of the House John Boehner is up to his old tricks again, threatening to block an increase in the federal debt limit ceiling without obtaining significant new cuts in spending.  There is little doubt that the last two years, which resulted in over $1.0  trillion per year in deficit spending, will bring the country close to …

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Europeans Reject “Republican-Style” Austerity

May 7, 2012 – 2:09 pm | 6 Comments | 40 views

In the recent presidential elections in France the voters sent a very clear signal to the French government, to the other European members of the EU, and to a lesser extent, the rest of the industrialized world.  The message was that the French people would no longer tolerate sharp budget cuts and economic austerity as a response to the budget …

Walker Recall Will Give Tea Party a Black Eye

May 4, 2012 – 3:35 pm | 9 views

In a few more weeks the people of the State of Wisconsin will be voting to decide whether or not to throw conservative Governor Scott Walker out of office.  The recall vote will be a major test of  Walker and the the ultra-conservative “Tea Party‘s” ability to strip public worker unions of their collective bargaining rights, and to balance their …

Speaker Boehner: Incompetence on Steroids

April 30, 2012 – 2:17 pm | 3 Comments | 22 views

With the possible exception of Newt Gingrich, John Boehner  just may  be  the most ineffective Speaker of the House  that America has ever seen. Not only has Boehner failed miserably in bringing  the various elements of his own Republican Party together, but has become a pariah to the Democrats for his refusal to even consider many of President Obama’s legislative …

Job Growth Will Propel Obama To A Second Term

April 18, 2012 – 2:41 pm | 4 Comments | 40 views

The Republicans  have spent the last year or so wrangling with each other in an attempt to get across to the voters their own particular brand of  conservatism.  Likewise, the Democrats have spent the last year or so responding to the GOP‘s trumped-up charges of mismanagement, and have attempted to brand the Republicans as extremists who out to destroy the …

Rep. Allen West : “Congress Infiltrated With Commies”

April 14, 2012 – 3:06 pm | 24 views

In this  year of great political turmoil within the Republican Party, it would be difficult to come up any additional  characters that could possibly be more derisive, or further out of touch with middle class Americans, than  the presidential wanna-bees of Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann and Cain.  Over the course of the  last year, all of these Republicans have …

The Reverend Santorum’s Truth Impairment

March 26, 2012 – 2:02 pm | 2 Comments | 7 views

It seems as if Rick Santorum‘s reputation for being autocratic and humorless is really starting to show itself on the campaign trail.   In fact,  the Reverend Rick has even begun using salty language toward the mainstream  media, whom he perceives as liberal, self-serving and controlled by evil, lying pundits.  These days, Santorum is pushing forward with a one-man crusade to …

Tea Party Bravado Results in Mitt Romney

March 16, 2012 – 2:53 pm | 4 views
Tea Party Bravado Results in Mitt Romney

Many Americans who have watched the drama of the Republican presidential primaries unfold have been astounded by the total lack of enthusiasm among the electorate.   Simply stated, the prospect of Mitt Romney becoming the inevitable nominee has left the majority of Republicans disgusted and disenfranchised.  Many of the GOP faithful feel that Romney has been foisted on them by the …

Super-Tuesday: Romney’s Armageddon

February 29, 2012 – 2:29 pm | 6 Comments | 5 views
Super-Tuesday: Romney’s Armageddon

The contentious race for the Republican Party’s presidential nominee was far from being resolved by last night’s primary elections in Arizona and Michigan.  The razor thin win by Romney in his home state of Michigan clearly indicates that the ultra-conservative, Tea Party  wing is not yet willing to give up  hopes  that one of their own (i.e. Rick Santorum) will …

Tea Party Will Crash and Burn With Santorum

February 17, 2012 – 2:07 pm | 7 Comments | 6 views
Tea Party Will Crash and Burn With Santorum

During this particular time in the primary “election cycle”, the Republican and Democratic Party front-runners usually step forward to stake a claim to their  party’s presidential nomination.  This time around, however, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are both claiming to be the Republican candidate best suited to take on Barack Obama in the November election.  The battle for supremacy between …

The National Review Endorses Santorum

February 13, 2012 – 2:40 pm | 12 Comments | 7 views
The National Review Endorses Santorum

In this highly political environment there are no lack of conservative publications, radio talk shows,  and television stations attempting to uncover the strengths and weaknesses of the Republican presidential candidates.  The most influential, perhaps, of all the conservative publications in the country is The National Review.  This is a publication  written by staunch conservatives (many of whom are Republican leadership …

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