President Obama concedes loss of House in 2010.
The race card? Sure. But, more importantly, Obama played the GOTV Card here. The political junkies on both sides are now nodding: everybody else, watch this video and it’ll be discussed in just a bit....
View ArticleSex scandals: partisan poison at the polls?
Some unsolicited, un-paid for, and probably unwelcome advice to the Democrats: if it is true – again, if, if, if, if, if, if – that Dale Kildee is in fact guilty of the sexual molestation charges made...
View Article#rsrh House Natural Resources Committee orders special briefcases*.
Well now. House panel votes to issue subpoenas to administration officials involved in doctoring a report on the Gulf oil spill to justify a moratorium and in squelching another that concludes EPA...
View ArticlePolitico: excusing in 2012 their lack of foresight about 2010?
I need to push back on this cover-their-rear statement by Politico on the ‘surprise’ flipping of the House of Representatives in 2010. [House Speaker John] Boehner doesn’t play political prognosticator...
View Article#rsrh Charlie Cook’s Cold Water on Fourth Wave Election Hopes/Fears.
He says that it’s not likely to happen, and I agree. One might have expected that two years after Republicans picked up 63 House seats—the biggest gain in a midterm election since 1938—Democrats would...
View Article#rsrh Interesting House Forecast from The Monkey Cage: D+ …1.
Which is pretty close to ‘standing pat.’ I’m not really going to go into the tall weeds on this one – my math isn’t up to the task – but the result is pretty darn close to my own gut call of...
View ArticleOn why gun control is still Senate Kabuki theater.
(H/T: Instapundit) Let me translate this: For a second straight day, [Speaker of the House John] Boehner refused Thursday to commit to holding a full House vote on Senate-passed gun legislation. But he...
View ArticleA random snark at Politico for not really thinking things through.
Sometimes you get the feeling that Politico is just going through the motions. Republicans, who have a 17-seat majority, head into 2014 favored to keep the House because, in large part, of the...
View ArticleOh, dear: Jim Moran is *upset* at the House of Representatives.
Excuse me, I need to poison the well here a little: Jew-hating, military-hating (and completely hypocritical), notoriously corrupt, potentially violent, and just generally scummy Congressman Jim Moran...
View ArticleOn ‘reforming’ the House of Representatives by making the terms four years long.
While I agree with Glenn Reynolds’ basic observation… “@washingtonpost: Would we be better without midterm elections? A political reporter makes the case” Must look bad for Dems this year… —...
View ArticleMy major thought on the House lawsuit against Obama.
Basically, the House of Representatives is suing the President because the latter refuses to implement the Obamacare employee mandate. This is not actually a paradox: the fastest way to get that...
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