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Congress Passes Payroll Tax Cut, Unemployment Extension

By Doug Powers  •  December 23, 2011 11:49 AM

Punt to February

House Repubs Agree to 2-Month Payroll Tax Cut Extension

By Doug Powers  •  December 22, 2011 09:36 PM

**Written by Doug Powers After a few days of positioning, John Boehner announced a little earlier today that House Republicans planned to accept a two-month payroll tax cut extension instead of the year-long deal they sought. Learn all about it on MSNBC’s holiday special, “How Obama Saved Family Friday Pizza Night.” From ABC News: House [...]

Boehner: House Will Reject Senate’s 2-Month Payroll Tax and Unemployment Extension; Update: Vote Delayed Until Tuesday

By Doug Powers  •  December 19, 2011 01:45 PM

**Written by Doug Powers Last I heard, the House vote on the Senate-approved plan that would extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment for two months (which also includes a provision for the job creator that dare not speak its name) was to take place this evening. At this time, the odds of House passage [...]

Fox News GOP Debate Open Thread

By Doug Powers  •  December 15, 2011 08:49 PM

Swan song in Sioux City

Iowa GOP Debate Open Thread: Pre-Caucus Raucous

By Doug Powers  •  December 10, 2011 07:22 PM

One more time

Perry, Bachmann Latest to Decline Trump Debate

By Doug Powers  •  December 8, 2011 10:34 PM

Fired?

Donald Trump to Moderate GOP Debate

By Doug Powers  •  December 2, 2011 04:01 PM

Anybody who answers “you’re fired” is fired

The New Hampshire Union Leader Endorses…

By Doug Powers  •  November 27, 2011 11:59 AM

Significant?

Al Sharpton: Resist Pie We Much

By Doug Powers  •  November 23, 2011 11:55 AM

The GOP ate it all

GOP Debate Open Thread

By Doug Powers  •  November 22, 2011 07:50 PM

National security

South Carolina GOP Debate Open Thread

By Doug Powers  •  November 12, 2011 06:26 PM

National security and foreign policy

The self-immolation of Rick Perry; Update: Perry to appear on Letterman; Rush jibes, then criticizes criticizers

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 10, 2011 12:16 AM

Scroll for updates… En fuego. Big Government’s John Nolte has a term for Rick Perry’s devout adherents — “Perrykrishnas.” Tonight, after Perry’s latest mortifying GOP debate gaffe in which he can’t remember the name of the third government agency he would cut and gazes helplessly at Ron Paul to bail him out, Nolte tweeted: “Currently [...]

New Hampshire Sets GOP Primary Date

By Doug Powers  •  November 2, 2011 04:41 PM

**Written by Doug Powers The date for the New Hampshire primary was set today. The NH vote will be one week after the Iowa Caucuses and will be followed in January by South Carolina and Nevada. From CNN: At long last, New Hampshire’s secretary of state has set the first-in-the-nation primary for Jan. 10, restoring [...]

Who’s Up for a GOP Debate Hosted by ‘The View’?

By Doug Powers  •  November 1, 2011 03:53 PM

Could happen

Obama’s 2012 Opponent: The ‘Republican Congress’

By Doug Powers  •  October 27, 2011 11:35 PM

**Written by Doug Powers This falls into the “nice try” category, but ultimately it probably won’t fly. From The Hill: President Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly referring to the Congress as “Republican” even though their party controls one-half of the unpopular institution. Obama and his allies have started to deploy the phrase [...]

NYT/CBS Poll: Cain Maintains Lead Over Romney; Update: DWS Blasts Perry Tax Plan

By Doug Powers  •  October 25, 2011 01:31 PM

**Written by Doug Powers Karl Rove stuck a fork in him, Hillary Clinton mocked him, much has been made of a couple of statements that needed clarifying, other GOP candidates as well as those who make a good living off the current bloated tax code have blasted 999, and his Chief of Staff is a [...]

GOP Debate Open Thread

By Doug Powers  •  October 18, 2011 07:37 PM

**Written by Doug Powers The start time for the latest GOP debate is 8 p.m. eastern on CNN. Heading into the debate, the big story is the Herman Cain surge: The spotlight will be on Herman Cain during the eighth Republican presidential debate Tuesday night, the first since the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO’s surprise first-place [...]

Obama: Republican Plan Means Dirty Air, Dirty Water, and Fewer People with Health Insurance

By Doug Powers  •  October 17, 2011 08:15 PM

Don’t forget “grandma will get pushed off a cliff”

GOP 2012: The Hold Your Nose Tracker

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 17, 2011 10:14 AM

Photoshop: Reader Jimmy D. Yes, I’m still struggling. Like many of you, I am still carefully weighing all the costs and benefits of each declared GOP candidate. As the candidates continue highlighting each other’s unsavory left-wing alliances, I thought it might be helpful to compile a Hold Your Nose Tracker of the current top four [...]

Republicans Propose Their Own Buffett Rule

By Doug Powers  •  October 16, 2011 12:26 PM

**Written by Doug Powers The apparently futile efforts to make it easier for Warren Buffett and some other guilt-ridden wealthy people to give the government more money continue: Republican lawmakers have introduced their own “Buffett Rule” that would allow billionaire investors like Warren Buffett who say they’re not paying enough taxes to voluntarily give more [...]

Herman Cain: Electrify the Border Fence

By Doug Powers  •  October 15, 2011 06:59 PM

Amped up about illegals

Rasmussen: Cain Tied With Romney, Gingrich Now Third

By Doug Powers  •  October 13, 2011 07:02 PM

Newt scoot?

Mooooderate GOP Governors’ Club: Christie to endorse Romney

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 11, 2011 01:29 PM

Photo credit: Cumberland County GOP Not that it’s any surprise. Back in May, Gov Chris Christie gave Romney cover after his Obamneycare walk-back speech. In May 2009, Romney campaigned for Christie in NJ. Now: Just making it official today: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, just one week after definitively announcing he will not run for [...]

Sarah Palin is out of 2012 race

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 5, 2011 06:26 PM

Sarah Palin will continue to be one of the nation’s most powerfully effective voices for grass-roots conservatism. She is at her best when challenging the Beltway GOP establishment and taking on the corruption and profligacy in both parties. More power to her. *** Gov. Palin broke the news on the Mark Levin radio show — [...]

Video: Perry’s cringe-worthiest debate moment

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 23, 2011 12:08 AM

This is a gimme. Seriously. I mentioned Rick Perry’s DREAM Act debate blunder in my round-up post. It gets second place. The cringe-worthiest moment, by a hair, was when Perry botched what should have been his most potent attack on Mitt Romney’s chronic flip-flopping. As I noted on Twitter when it happened, any random high [...]

FOX News/Google GOP 2012 debate: The “Obama lite” label and venture socialism; Updated: Wrap-up, winners, losers

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 22, 2011 07:31 PM

Graphic via FoxNews.com The latest GOP 2012 debate starts at 9pm Eastern tonight on Fox news. GOP Rep. Thad McCotter dropped his quixotic, redundant bid today (really, how many pro-bailout, pro-health care entitlement expansion Republicans do we need in the race), so he’s off the schedule. Taking his place: Libertarian Gary Johnson. Yep, another quixotic, [...]

Jay Carney Gives President Obama a History Lesson

By Doug Powers  •  September 10, 2011 11:57 AM

**Written by Doug Powers From the “Imagine the media reaction if Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann had said this” file we find the transcript from President Obama’s “jobs speech” Thursday evening in which he briefly strayed from his teleprompter to add five words: We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. [...]

GOP Debate Wednesday Night Open Thread

By Doug Powers  •  September 7, 2011 07:43 PM

**Written by Doug Powers Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney will tee it up at 8 p.m. ET at the Reagan Presidential Library. The debate is on MSNBC or you can watch it online here. If you can’t watch the debate but want to [...]

Rep. Clyburn on Super Committee Appointment: What a Great Opportunity to Redistribute Some Wealth!

By Doug Powers  •  August 14, 2011 11:56 AM

**Written by Doug Powers Not-so-bold prediction: History will record this “Super Committee” plan as the worst “great idea” to come from Washington since their last great idea. Mitch McConnell has said Republicans on the Committee should be open to compromise, all six Democrats on the Committee earned an “F” from the National Taxpayers Union, and [...]

Iowa Straw Poll Winner Announced; Update: Pawlenty to Drop Out

By Doug Powers  •  August 13, 2011 06:44 PM

**Written by Doug Powers Watching the results being announced right now. Here’s how it played out: Michele Bachmann wins with 4,823 votes. Ron Paul 2nd with 4,671. Tim Pawlenty 3rd with 2,293. Rick Santorum 4th with 1,657. Herman Cain 5th with 1,456. Rick Perry (write-in) 6th with 718. Mitt Romney 7th with 567. Newt Gingrich [...]

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