The Other McCain

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Herman Cain Attends Koch Brothers Meeting, Causes Left-Wing Freak-Out

Lee Fang at Think Progress sees a conspiracy afoot: This weekend, David and Charles Koch, co-owners of the Koch Industries conglomerate of chemical, timber, oil and manufacturing interests, are hosting their twice annual meeting to coordinate strategy and raise funds for the conservative movement. . . . Among those in attendance at the meeting in […]

Health Care and the ‘N-Word’

Last week, when I did a post about efforts to promote state nullification of ObamaCare, my friend Ali Akbar joked on Twitter that I was using the “n-word,” but now apparently nullification is the latest rage: BOISE, Idaho — Republican lawmakers in nearly a dozen states are reaching into the dusty annals of American history […]

Media Shocked — Shocked! — To Discover That Ann Marie Buerkle Is Pro-Life

Da Tech Guy and The Lonely Conservative call attention to the latest “news” from those pillars of journalistic objectivity at the Syracuse Post-Standard: After steering clear of abortion politics during her campaign last year, U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle is now seizing chances in her first month in office to change federal laws as “an […]

Herman Cain Tops Santorum, Christie, Daniels, Pence, Huckabee in N.H.

OK, that’s not the headline on the Politico story, but the order of finish in the New Hampshire GOP straw poll was lots more interesting than the news that Mitt Romney beat Ron Paul: Romney won with 35 percent, beating second-place finisher Ron Paul by 24 points in the WMUR-ABC News straw poll of members […]

VIDEO: Herman Cain on Sean Hannity Show: ‘The Sleeping Giant Has Awakened’

From Fire Andrea Mitchell: Steve Foley at Citizens for Cain looks at polls indicating the GOP needs a “fresh face” for 2012. Meanwhile, Herman Cain will join Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachmann at a Feb. 7 forum in Iowa — but Mitt Romney isn’t returning calls from the organizers.

Senators: Repeal ObamaCare Now!

The House has voted for repeal, and now the folks who brought you the Tea Party Express are demanding that the Senate take action: From CampaignToDefeatObama.com. Mitch McConnell is promising an up-or-down Senate vote on repeal. Let’s keep their feet to the fire, folks. Give us an up-or-down vote, and if it doesn’t pass, we’ll vote […]

ObamaCare Repeal Bill Gets 245 Votes; ObamaCare Passage Only Got 219 Votes

Philip Klein points out this fact at The American Spectator. As an indicator of majoritarian sentiment, I’d say that’s a pretty good argument for Republicans to push for a vote in the Senate. Also: Three House Democrats — Dan Boren of Oklahoma, Mike Ross of Arkansas and Mike McIntyre of North Carolina — joined all 242 Republicans in voting […]

Democrats: ‘Civility’ Means It’s OK for Us to Start Calling Republicans Nazis Again

Disagree with them and you’re a brownshirt: In an extraordinary outburst on the House floor, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) invoked the Holocaust to attack Republicans on health care and compared rhetoric on the issue to the work of infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. “They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie […]

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