Archive for the ‘2010 Elections’ Category

Every vote counts!

August 4th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Think your vote doesn’t count?  Look at this: COUNTY  TOTAL BY COUNTY Jason Allen  Dan Benishek      01 ALCONA 2,052 559 545 54% 02 ALGER 1,859 527 469 54% 04 ALPENA 4,912 1,293 1,424 55% 05 ANTRIM 5,547 2,549 910 62% 06 ARENAC 2,089 498 450 45% 07 BARAGA 1,195 159 497 55% 09 [...]

Ciro Rodriguez doing his best Pete Stark

July 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Pete Stark did his best in his effort to win the honor of most unhinged Representative.  It’s damn good too.  Hank Johnson going into obsessive detail over his concern of Guam tipping over ranks right up there as well.  Nancy Pelosi confidently assuring us that once we pass health care reform we’ll find out what’s [...]

Passing on the most basic responsibility of governing

June 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Steny Hoyer has decided Congress doesn’t need to pass a budget this year.  It’s just too darned complicated to pass a budget when there’s all that darned debt.  Rather than being faced with the possibility of increasing the debt even more, or making painful budget cuts during an election year, Hoyer is punting until later [...]

The Constitution, the Civil Rights Act, Obama, and Rand Paul

June 2nd, 2010 | 2 Comments

Immediately after the Kentucky US Senate primary, Rand Paul made what a lot of people consider a gaffe that got all kinds of media exposure: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The entire country went bonkers over the fact that Rand Paul would dare do the unthinkable and dick [...]

The economy Obama inherited

January 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments

A full year into Obama‘s four year term, he’s still passing the buck: “Today’s report from C.B.O. confirms that the recession inherited from the Bush Administration continues to erode the budget’s bottom line,” said Representative John M. Spratt Jr., the Democrat of South Carolina who is chairman of the House Budget Committee. From the start [...]

Obama digging deeper

January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Fresh on the surprise pounding Obama’s candidate took in Massachusetts, Obama unleashed his fury on banks, again.  Apparently the message wasn’t received.  I thought it was funny when Robert Gibbs blamed Coakley’s loss on George W. Bush.  Now it just seems pathetic.  Here’s a clue, it’s a simple one, but apparently not one Obama and [...]

The Brown formula for success

January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

I’m seeing a lot of stuff about how people are now expecting a lot of Republicans to follow in the footsteps of Scott Brown.  Seems like a rather simple plan to me: Pose naked for Cosmo. Smile a lot, sincerely. Crank out a couple of smoking hot daughters. Smile a lot, sincerely. Have at least [...]

Boston Tea Party

January 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Am thinking it’s kinda odd that the recent Tea Party movement became real in Boston tonight. Am also thinking Robert Gibbs sums up exactly why Coakley lost, and why more Dems will lose if something doesn’t change quick: That upset and anger, quite frankly, dates much farther back than simply the 2008 election.  That’s not [...]

Republicans aren’t quite dead yet.

January 14th, 2010 | No Comments

When Obama won in 2008, he brought a lot of Democrats in with him.  That was just the icing for what had been a slow erosion of the Republican pinnacle of the early 21st century.  Republicans have rarely wielded a whole lot of power in the Senate and Congress, so being outnumbered probably meant a [...]

Ray Manzullo’s savage religion

November 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Ray Manzullo made this unfortunate comment a little while ago: U.S. Rep. Donald Manzullo told WREX-TV in Rockford, Ill., that alleged terrorists imprisoned at the Navy base are “really really mean people whose job it is to kill people, driven by some savage religion.” He then went on to clarify a little: He said he [...]