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The GOP elite’s $1 million object lesson — and the message of NY-23

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 4, 2009 02:14 AM

Conservatives owe NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman immeasurable gratitude. He overcame impossible odds (single digits just a month ago) to come within two points of defeating Democrat Bill Owens. Hoffman had zero name recognition. National Republican Party officials dumped nearly $1 million into the race on behalf of radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava, who [...]

How Scozzafava repays NRCC and RNC

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 1, 2009 05:54 PM

Hey, how did that six-figure RNC donation to the NRCC plus $85,000 to the New York GOP plus nearly half-million-dollar investment in advertising and other independent expenditures on behalf of radical leftist Dede Scozzafava work out?
She repaid the GOP by endorsing Democrat candidate Bill Owens. Some gratitude, eh?
“Since beginning my campaign, I have told [...]

Radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava quits

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 31, 2009 11:00 AM

Halloween treat.

Yes, Newt, the GOP should be “purged” of left-wing saboteurs

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 27, 2009 11:32 AM

Plus: The rejected RNC solicitation form of the day.

Cartoon of the day

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 26, 2009 01:38 PM

Newt and Dede sitting in a tree, erasing lines between “R” and “D” (TobyToons via RedState):

The latest Club for Growth poll on NY-23 shows conservative candidate Doug Hoffman continuing his surge over the liberal Democrat and the radical leftist “R” in the race. (Caveats: Sample size is small and CfG is pro-Hoffman. Still. Hoffman’s got [...]

Newt for 2012? No, thanks.

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 26, 2009 09:47 AM

The most prominent GOP endorser of radical leftist NY-23 congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava is openly musing about running for president in 2012.
No, thanks:
Callista and I are going to think about this in February 2011. And we are going to reach out to all of our friends around the country. And we’ll decide, if there’s a [...]

Dallas Tea Party activists push back against Gingrich’s straw men

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 23, 2009 02:33 PM

Call them out.

The friends of Dede Scozzafava

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 22, 2009 09:27 AM

Judge the Margaret Sanger award winner by the company she keeps:
Fundraising reports for all the candidates in the New York special election are due today, but the candidates have been required to report all donations above $1,000 in the final weeks of the race.
And, to get a sense why conservatives have been so cool to [...]

Dear Newt Gingrich: Meet Ronald Reagan

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 20, 2009 06:47 PM

So, Newt Gingrich is invoking Reagan to defend his endorsement of radical leftist Dede Scozzafava in the NY-23 special congressional election?
Triple-gag:
“If you seek to be a perfect minority, you’ll remain a minority,” says Gingrich. “That’s not how Reagan built his revolution or how we won back the House in 1994.”
Let’s quote Reagan back to Gingrich, [...]

Calling them out: NRCC, RNC & Gingrich back Margaret Sanger Award winner

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 16, 2009 01:06 PM

If you have given to the NRCC, RNC, or Newt Gingrich under the impression that they are using the money to support conservatism, you might want to ask for your money back.
As I mentioned in my column post on the NY23 special election, the NRCC is using conservatives’ money to back a radical leftist and [...]

Newt Gingrich on the couch with Obama & Al Sharpton

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 8, 2009 03:11 PM

This is what happens when you get too much Beltway on the brain.
Newt Gingrich — who sidled up on a couch with Nancy Pelosi for one of Al Gore’s global warming ad campaigns — championed President Obama’s education speech today.
Subtext be damned.
Gingrich, you should know, has been on a summer road trip with police-bashing, [...]

The Thrilla in Vanilla: Gore vs. Gingrich in Global Warming ‘Showdown’?

By Doug Powers  •  April 24, 2009 11:03 AM

It’s on! Or maybe not so much:
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has added Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to the roster of witnesses for its hearing on a climate bill today. He joins former Vice President Al Gore on the witness list.
The Hill is reporting the meeting of these two as a [...]

Poll time: Is Newt Gingrich the best choice for RNC chair?

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 10, 2008 01:04 PM

Really?
He crumbled on the behemoth bailout.
He cuddled Nancy Pelosi on Al Gore’s global warming couch.
And he’s played footsie with Hillary Clinton on health care.
Is Newt Gingrich really the best choice for RNC chairman?
You tell me:

Should Newt Gingrich be RNC chairman?

Yes.

No.

Please put him out to pasture.

Doesn’t matter. I stopped giving $ to the RNC years [...]

Gingrich gets back on the couch with Pelosi; Pence remains a stalwart “No!”

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 28, 2008 04:35 PM

Together again.

Poll time: Are you pumped?

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 29, 2008 01:29 PM

Vote.

Newt breaks up with Nancy

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 6, 2008 05:12 PM

Couch buddies no more.

Lunch-losing video: Gingrich and Pelosi tag-team for Al Gore

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 22, 2008 12:13 PM

Green: The color of capitulation.

No Newt for prez

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 29, 2007 03:37 PM

McCain-Feingold gets in the way of Newt Gingrich’s presidential aspirations.
Looks like he’s got his hands full with “American Solutions.”
More here.
Is there more to the story?

Bush administration EEOC sues the Salvation Army…

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 3, 2007 10:21 AM

…over its requirement that employees speak English.
It’s ridiculous.
Newt Gingrich asks: “Why is the government undermining the efforts of charities to encourage people to learn English? And doesn’t it have better things to do with our tax dollars?”
Apparently not.

Dirty Democrat Files: Jim McDermott rebuffed
Dirty Democrat Files: Feinstein follow-up

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 1, 2007 09:02 PM

Eavesdropper. Blabbermouth. Corruptocrat.
Well, well, well. Remember left-wing, sleazebag loon Jim McDermott, the Democrats’ favorite hypocritical wire-tapper? There’s breaking news on his decade-old case (hat tip: William A.):
Rep. Jim McDermott had no right to disclose the contents of an illegally taped telephone call involving House Republican leaders a decade ago, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
In [...]

Gingrich’s baggage: “Gotten on my knees”

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 8, 2007 10:53 PM

Newt goes to Focus on the Family’s James Dobson to acknowledge his extramartial affair carried out during the Clinton/Lewinsky era:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.
“The honest answer [...]

CPAC interview with Newt Gingrich

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 6, 2007 08:14 AM

Here’s our second Hot Air video report from CPAC–An interview with Newt Gingrich during his visit to bloggers’ row.
Topics covered: illegal and legal immigration, the Diversity Visa Lottery (he’d kill it), Visa Express and Saudi visas, the matricula consular card (he said he doesn’t know about it), the war, and defeating Hillary Clinton. My [...]

Blogging and vlogging CPAC

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 1, 2007 02:30 AM

Bryan Preston, Ian Schwartz, Erick Stakelbeck, and I will be covering the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference for Hot Air. I’ll also liveblog events and photoblog here at mm.com throughout the 3-day conference. If you’re planning to attend, we’ll have a booth in the exhibitor hall that opens at 10am later today. In addition [...]

Giuliani will be at CPAC

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 26, 2007 12:15 PM

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference will kick off later this week. Hot Air and I will be there covering the action, manning a booth, shooting video, signing books, and reporting on the scene.
Patrick Ruffini sends word that Rudy Giuliani will attend. Via the Politico’s Jonathan Martin:
I reported a piece last month about how [...]

Dirty Democrat Files: Jim McDermott
found guilty of ethics violations

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 12, 2006 09:35 AM

Getting away with it
Hello, culture of corruption:
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., violated House ethics committee standards by giving reporters access to an illegally taped telephone call involving House Republican leaders a decade ago, the ethics panel said Monday.
In a report released days after Congress adjourned, the ethics panel said that McDermott, a former ranking member of [...]

Arianna and Hillary: Pot and kettle

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 7, 2006 11:23 AM

Former Gingrichite Arianna Huffington scolds Hillary Rodham Clinton for being a political fake.
I think I need to go to the emergency room and get my sides sutured up from bwa-ha-ha-ing at Arianna Huffington’s op-ed attacking Hillary Clinton in the Los Angeles Times this morning.
So, what’s Arianna’s beef with Hillary?
There are politicians with great instincts as [...]

Predators in the House

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 2, 2006 10:10 AM

Disgraced GOP Rep. Mark Foley’s instant messages with an underage page are absolutely appalling. He was a 54-year-old man abusing his position of power with a 16-year-old boy. Based on all the reporting so far, and there may yet be more to come, Rep. Foley was exactly the kind of sexual predator–“sicko,” in his own [...]

HOW DEMS STORE THEIR BRIBES

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 23, 2006 10:39 PM

Hot Air affiliate Flip Pidot of Suitably Flip, inspired by the Rep. William Jefferson case, has the photoshop of the day:

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Meanwhile, Roger L. Simon notes Newt Gingrich’s tin ear. Denny Hastert’s got it, too. Glenn Reynolds has more.
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JIM MCDERMOTT: LAWBREAKER

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 28, 2006 01:07 PM

Baghdad Jim McDermott finally gets his due:
A federal appeals court ruled today that Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., violated federal law by turning over an illegally taped telephone call to reporters nearly a decade ago.
In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that McDermott violated the rights of House [...]

EAVESDROPPING FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 21, 2005 07:34 AM

Democrat Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle, who leaked the contents of an illegally recorded cell phone conversation between former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. John A. Boehner, is complaining about the NSA’s warrantless surveillance progam.
Audio clip here.
Chutzpah.



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