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The final vote in the Senate on the Federal Reserve chairman’s re-nomination this afternoon was 70-30.
Among the Republicans supporting Ben Bernanke: Alexander, Barrasso, Coburn, Cochran, Collins, Enzi, Graham, Gregg, Hatch, Kyl, Lugar, McConnell, Murkowski, Voinovich, and Snowe.
Seven Senators switched their votes after voting for cloture (the procedural vote was 77-23).
Via The Hill’s Jordan Fabian, [...]

Last gasp.

When last we left the Senate chamber, Harry Reid had dragged himself onto the floor after an hour delay to recess until 12:01am Eastern. An hour after midnight, the Dems brought the defense authorization bill up for a cloture vote. This after months and months of delay on the bill, which has been used by [...]

Welcome to the Democrat Party’s civil war
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Seems like only yesterday the Washington establishment had proclaimed the Death of the GOP. Pundits churned out public autopsy reports faster than the L.A. County Medical Examiner. Liberals gloated over the supposedly irreparable fissures between right-wing populists and Beltway Republican elites. Conservatism, we were told, [...]

AF: “As the Senator from Minnesota, I object.” JL: “Really?!”

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
Yesterday, House Republicans held a forum on ACORN’s political criminal enterprise in the face of repeated refusals by the Democrat majority to investigate and on the heels of AG Eric Holder’s insistence that ACORN get its tax dollars. Ranking GOP member Rep. Lamar Smith stood firm on the need to deny new [...]

Mark Levin held the #1 spot on the NYTimes best-seller list for 12 weeks this summer.
Culture of Corruption has held the top spot for the past 3 weeks.
Glenn Beck’s latest book has topped the paperback non-fiction list for 9 weeks.
The latest broadside against Obama from Dick Morris and Eileen McGann has also been on the [...]

Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say their views are growing more conservative, according to a new Gallup poll:
Despite the results of the 2008 presidential election, Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather than more liberal, 39% to 18%, with 42% saying they have not changed. [...]

Killing cap-and-tax won’t happen without massive resistance and persistence. Gird your loins and get on the phone next week.
Via the Tulsa World, Sen. Inhofe says it’s “dead in the water” — notwithstanding the arrival of a new clown in town:
U.S. Jim Inhofe, who earlier said a criminal investigation “probably should be’’ conducted into allegations the [...]

Showtime.

DLTDHYOTWO.

The Kabuki Theater of Outrage.

State Supreme Court ruling just handed down. Maybe Franken will march onto Washington, Burris-style?
The Minnesota Supreme Court has rejected Democrat Al Franken’s petition for an election certificate that would put him in the U.S. Senate without waiting for a lawsuit to be resolved.
Franken is ahead of Republican Norm Coleman by 225 votes. Coleman’s ongoing lawsuit [...]

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Looks like our GOP friends are gonna roll!
My column carries the ball forward on the Tim Geithner debacle. Two debacles, really: 1) The serial tax-dodging, ridiculous excuses, and bailout failure of Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary nominee; and 2) Geithner’s go-along apologists in the Senate GOP. Underscoring the theme of my column today? Read this headline: [...]

Wow. Today is just one big, bad joke. Al Franken. Roland Burris. Bill Richardson. Now this:
Leon Panetta will head Obama’s CIA.
Another day, another clueless Clinton crony named to a top job for which he has no experience. The unqualified fish rots from the head down, after all. Via NYT. Damned scary:
President-elect Barack Obama has [...]

Punchline.

Laughingstock.

Scroll for updates and links to the lame and lamer liberal responses to this post…
Before we fully launch into the action-packed first week of 2009, I want to provide you with a year-end wrap-up of original blog reporting on this site and across the conservative blogosphere. Why? Well, over the weekend, a few bloggers on [...]

*The latest from Gaza…
Two more senior Hamas terrorists are dead. And this: 35 Palestinians killed by Islamists, 75 shot in legs in the past week “to ensure they don’t help Israel.” Allahpundit’s full coverage is here. The clock is ticking. U.S. tells UN Security Council to stuff it.
*Stuart Smalley is up 225 in [...]

My vote for most bizarre ballot of 2008 (via Minnesota NPR):

More snort-worthy goodness: Allah’s disputed ballot cheat sheet.

It’s on.

Franken-fright.

Some late-night election updates for you:
*The Minnesota Senate race pitting the nation’s unfunniest comedian against Norm Coleman is a dead heat at 42-42. There’s talk of a recount.
*In a reprise of 2004, the Washington state gubernatorial race is a squeaker. Democrat incumbent Christine Gregoire is holding a premature celebration; GOP challenger upstart Dino Rossi, who [...]

Crikey.

So, will Michelle Obama be calling our country “downright mean” again at the end of the night? Or will she and The One get the chance to “transform” the constitution, the military, the schools, and every other aspect of American life in their image?
Toledo police are gearing up — literally — with gas masks and [...]

Nerve.

Sinking ship.

The ghost of censors past.

Voter fraud fugitive.