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Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti GOP Rep. Dave Reichert is a real piece of work. The Republican cap-and-tax 8′er from Washington state apparently went to a GOP conference meeting this week and showed the audience a pop music parody video that substitutes Lady GaGa’s famous “Just Dance” chorus with the words “Just Tax.” Rep. Reichert was [...]

Walter Olson has the scoop on how Dems tried to stuff goodies for trial lawyers in the House Democrats’ health care takeover bill. Republicans apparently stymied those efforts last week, but like the Terminator, they’ll be back. Keep an eye on this one: Just before the House leadership’s 794-page health care reform bill went to [...]

He’s on the Senate floor right now praising Sonia Sotomayor’s “extraordinary record of academic achievement,” inspiring “life story,” and “great work ethic.” He squawks several times that “elections have consequences.” Predicts that she will be no more liberal than Souter. “Time will tell.” “There are things about this nominee that are troubling.” But he’s gonna [...]

Sen. John Thune sponsored an amendment to the defense authorization bill allowing concealed carry permit holders to carry their weapons across state lines as long as they abided by other states’ CCW rules and regulations. The Senate just voted down the measure by 58-39, falling two short of the 60-vote threshhold needed to block a [...]

Obama lied, transparency died!

‘You’re going to destroy my presidency.’

Obamacare for illegal aliens by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009 Big Nanny Democrats want to ration health care for everyone in America – except those who break our immigration laws. Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee defeated an amendment that would have prevented illegal aliens from using the so-called “public health insurance [...]

Former Democrat Rep. Nancy Boyda of Kansas was once so allergic to positive reports about the surge in Iraq that she walked out of a House hearing in a snit fit. Flashback 2007: Kansas Rep. Nancy Boyda is defending her decision to step out of a hearing room last week while a retired Army general [...]

“If it’s so good, why doesn’t Congress have to be on it?”

Can a population control freak holding the prestigious title of “Science Czar” get away with published musings on forced abortion, mass sterilization programs, and a “planetary regime” to re-engineer society by simply stonewalling? He’s trying his best. Last week, I called the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to press Science Czar John [...]

It doesn’t get much more dishonest than this: “Reducing the Need for Abortions Initiative.” Steven Ertelt reports on the abortion bailout bill disguised as “pro-life” legislation: Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat who is a former NARAL staffer, and Rep. Tim Ryan, an Ohio Democrat whom Democrats for Life of America recently kicked off its [...]

Check this out. GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe wonders why Democrat Gov. Bill Ritter would support cap and tax given the heavy fiscal toll it would impose on Colorado. Inhofe: “Are you here supporting Waxman Markey today?” Watch the answer:

Photoshop credit: Reader Dave We need a Do Not Resuscitate order for the flailing Democrats’ health care takeover plan. It’s Code Blue and Team Obama is in panic mode. Certain sign of desperation: Summoning the nutroots to help. And another from Mark Knoller, who reports that the White House has moved up Obama’s health care [...]

$9,090/month pork salesman.

The Taxinator may be breathing a sigh of relief over “fixing” California’s budget problems. But darker clouds loom. Case in point: California’s huge government pension fund is expected to report today a whopping annual loss of an estimated $56.8 billion, almost a quarter of its investment portfolio. The loss at the California Public Employees’ Retirement [...]

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Inarticulate.

Ever since we saw Up, our family has made a game of giving out “Cone of Shame” awards. Thought it would make a great blog feature, too. The inaugural award winners: Barbara Boxer, for last week’s naked display of liberal condescension, vapidity, and tone-deafness in her “I’ve got a black person’s report right here!” rejoinder [...]

B-b-b-b-but I thought the Democrats’ plan was all about enhancing “choices” and “options”… “Democrats and President Obama have denied that the creation of a new government-run health care plan would be a Trojan Horse for single-payer health care, but a new report by the Lewin Group (comissioned by the Heritage Foundation) finds that the House [...]

The House passed a Treasury appropriations bill last week that includes an amendment reversing President Obama on the closure of nearly 800 Chrysler car dealerships and more than 2,000 GM dealerships. The amendment sponsor was Republican Steve LaTourette of Ohio. 215 Democrats and 4 Republicans voted for the overall package. Bipartisanship! The most snort-worthy reaction [...]

…the lower his poll numbers go. Down, down, down. Heading into a critical period in the debate over health-care reform, public approval of President Obama’s stewardship on the issue has dropped below the 50 percent threshold for the first time, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll… …Since April, approval of Obama’s handling of [...]

Flashback: Locke with Chinese president Hu Jintao. I reported extensively on former Washington state governor Gary Locke’s extensive China ties, conflicts of interest, and questionable judgments– all documented well before Locke “sailed through” his confirmation hearing with help from apathetic or clueless Republican senators. Now comes word from Shanghai, via the WSJ, that Gary Locke [...]

In a comprehensive rebuttal to Weekly Standard book reviewer Peter Berkowitz, best-selling author, lawyer, and radio talk show host Mark Levin diagnoses a malady that seems to infect so many elitists and effete-ists on the Right who look down their noses at conservative rabble-rousers who speak and act too immmmmmmoderately in their attacks on tyranny [...]

Scroll down for updates…evidence of desertion mounting… My prayers are with the family of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier seen on the Taliban abduction video released this weekend. The Jawa Report has the full clip. All Americans should hope and pray for his release from jihadi custody. There’s one question I have, though, about [...]

I’m on a weekend getaway unplugged with family in the Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s gorgeous. Talk amongst yourselves.

The rotten American Conservative Union/David Keene pay-for-play scandal underscores a point I’ve made over and over and over again: The GOP can’t attack the Democrat culture of corruption (my new book comes out July 27) until it cleans its own house first. The John Ensign mess keeps getting worse. Stubborn, selfish, prevaricating Mark Sanford keeps [...]

Get your tea party on.

The Democrats in Washington don’t want to talk about Obama’s Gitmo release policies. But you do have a voice. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a Senior Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has posted a video and petition opposing the transfers of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the United States. He’s also sponsoring an [...]

Sen. Chris Dodd is an unrepentant crony Democrat caught up in multiple sleazy scandals, hypocrisy, and lies that have turned off his constituents and his own local party leaders. Sen. Orrin Hatch is the vice chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. What the hell is Sen. Hatch doing praising Dodd as “one of the [...]

Jimmie Bise gives you a preview of the obituaries that will be written if Obamacare passes. R.I.P.: …to drive home the real cost to real people, I decided to do some quick “back of the envelope” calculations to see just what kinds of businesses might have to start firing people if the President’s health care [...]