By now you may have heard that a measure calling for “nonparistan elections” (or more accurately, nonpartisan primary elections) has made the 2016 South Dakota ballot. Is this something conservatives have been chomping at the bit to see…or is it something that liberals (who usually support the Democrat agenda) are primarily interested in?
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Quote of the Day: Civility Over What’s Right
It is actually more important to some people that they be considered polite and well behaved than it is to actually win elections.
Read more ›Why Does Congress Want to Release Criminals on Society?
Before swinging the prison doors wide, Congress needs to consider that President Obama’s response to Ferguson and elsewhere has created a climate where police are unable to safely do the same job they did a few years ago.
Read more ›New Year’s Greetings to RNC Chair Reince Priebus
The GOP’s stunning lack of accomplishments in reversing or reining in some of the JayVee Team’s most egregious excesses after gaining majorities in both chambers has been… stunning. What happened with the House majority exercising the power of the purse to douse President Pants on Fire’s constitutional bonfires? Slapping down executive over-reach on… Well. I lost count.
Read more ›Obama’s Transformation of America in 2015
2015 may be remembered as the year when the world finally was turned upside down with actions once deemed so bizarre that they would never even be considered becoming the norm, and the formerly accepted norm being shouted down by a mob that imposes its version of correctness.
Read more ›Franklin Graham, Wouldn’t a Second Political Party be Nice?
Webster defines bipartisan as “cooperation and agreement between two major political parties”. It seems to me that from a legal, constitutional standpoint, the major parties cooperate and agree on, well…everything.
Read more ›A GOP Senate in 2017: Why Should We Care?
Senate Republicans are scheduled on Jan. 11 to consider the nomination of Luis Felipe Restrepo for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Why are Senate Republicans giving any more judges to President Obama in his lame duck year when their goal should be to bottle up the remainder of the Obama agenda?
Read more ›GOP Does the Democrats’ Work For Them
Democrat Senator and future leader of that party in the Senate Chuck Schumer broke D.C. protocol by telling the truth about how the minority party still controls the agenda when he gloated, “Sen. [Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell wants to see the Senate work. But the good news for [Democrats] is, to make it work, he has to do basically our agenda.”
Read more ›GOP: Suicide by Omnibus
Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued arelease hailing the passage of his omnibus federal spending bill titled, “House Passes Spending Bill to Advance Republican Priorities.” If the omnibus advances Republican priorities, the GOP officially died on Dec. 18, 2015.
Read more ›Are We Seeing a Republican ‘Die Off’?
In 2004, Republican popular vote totals for president peaked — at 62,040,610 votes for George W. Bush. They have been down ever since. 59,948,323 votes were cast for John McCain in 2008. And 60,933,500 votes were cast for Mitt Romney in 2012. Meaning, in the past decade, Republicans have proven unable to expand their voting coalition.
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