I guess he is getting bored with the Appalachian Trail: Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is launching a political comeback that may begin within days. Sanford is planning to run for the Congressional seat he held almost a decade ago, a Republican source familiar with his thinking told CNN late Thursday. “He’s looking all […]
It was a little over a year ago that President Obama came here to Cincinnati and pushed for his jobs plan. In that speech he talked about infrastructure improvements and highlighter the Brent Spence bridge that connects Ohio and Kentucky as a perfect example. Quickly Republicans pounced on this as “earmarks” and “pork barrel”, including […]
If you think that Republican leadership listened to voters in November, then you would be mistaken. Yesterday Mitch McConnell proved that by engaging in one of his own silly games: A move to embarrass Democrats backfired on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Thursday as the Kentucky Republican proposed a vote on raising the nation’s debt […]
If anything great should be remembered from this past election it should be the fact that Grover Norquist has become much less significant. The number of Republicans breaking with the Norquist pledge to not raise taxes keeps rising, with the latest one coming out today: Open criticism of Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax […]
A large health company here in Cincinnati has fired 150 people for failure to get their flu shots: TriHealth offered all of its 10,800 employees free flu shots. Employees had a month to get the flu shot. The deadline was Nov. 16. Employees who did not get the shot were terminated Wednesday, a company spokesperson […]
The darling GOP Governor of the Tea Party, Scott Walker, is under some serious scrutiny: Gov. Scott Walker and his top campaign and Milwaukee County aides were named Monday as part of a team that routinely commingled political and official county business. The disclosures came during the sentencing of a former aide to Walker during […]
It’s really sad when you think about it. During the Bush years, Patrick Leahy was a man that stood on the side of privacy. Now that a Democrat is in the White House, he stands on the side of spying: A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans’ e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government […]
The New York Times has a very interesting article today about Chris Christie and how the GOP has treated him since Hurricane Sandy: A few days after Hurricane Sandy shattered the shores of New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie picked up the phone to take on a different kind of recovery work: taming the Republican Party […]
Make no doubt about it; Republicans absolutely despise democracy. That’s not to say they don’t love the sound of the word, but when it is in actual practice, well they only like it when their person wins. Evidence of that can be seen in the actions and words of Republicans in comparison to presidential votes. […]
We have heard so much this week about why Mitt Romney lost. The one thing I really can’t wrap my head around though is the “blame the campaign” meme that is going on. For example, here’s RedState talking about Romney’s failed ORCA program: So what caused the breakdown and why didn’t it get fixed in […]