In Virginia, Republican Bob McDonnell beat Democrat Creigh Deeds by over 17%, more than all but one poll ever showed as his lead and 4% more than the final RealClearPolitics average of polls of the race showed. The incumbent is a term-limited Democrat.
In New Jersey, Republican Chris Christie beat Democrat incumbent Jon
When Ken Salazar was selected by then-President-elect Obama to be Secretary of the Interior, radical environmental groups panned him as “especially weak in…combating global warming." The “Center for Biological Diversity” tried to paint Salazar as nearly conservative (though everyone in Colorado recognized his non-leftist votes to be a
[...]I know, I should have written this earlier, but for any of you who can vote in any of these races and who have not yet sent in your ballots, I have a couple of recommendations for School Board candidates.
First, in Boulder County (in the area where I live), I [...]
I’ve heard some Republican radio personalities wonder aloud whether the H1N1 pandemic is going to be Barack Obama’s Hurricane Katrina. I’d argue it shouldn’t be – which is not to say it won’t be.
The late and undersized deliveries of the “swine flu” vaccine were not primarily caused by government, but [...]
Republican Darrell Issa (R-CA) was ready to force the HouseCommittee on Oversight and Government Reform to vote on whether tosubpoena records of Countrywide Mortgage’s “Friends of Angelo” programand other such Countrywide programs which might show favorabletreatment being given to politicians (of both parties).
The Democrats, led by committee Chairman Edolphus Towns [...]
In recent days, major retailers including Target and Walgreens have removed from their shelves a halloween costume which many (including me) think is clever and funny because of complaints by groups who support illegal immigrants.
The costume is of an “illegal alien", that is from another galaxy, not another country. It comes complete with a [...]
Over at HumanEvents.com, I explain how the Obama Adminstration is cynically trying to bribe recipients of Social Security into supporting the destruction of our health care system:
Please see "Obama Tries to Bribe Seniors With COLA"
[...]Recent events have shown lobbyists across the health care sector the truth of Dick Armey’s axiom that “if you make a deal with the devil, you are the junior partner.”
In July, the pharmaceutical industry cut a “deal” with the White House in which the Administration promised the industry that health care “reform” won’t cost [...]
For the last month on my morning drive-time radio show on AM760, we have been discussing the Frontier Airline situation, and how it serves as an important microcosm of all the debates about jobs, the economy, public policy, and corporate welfare inherent in Greg LeRoy's terrific book called The [...]
Over at PoliticsDaily.com, former Democratic speechwriter Wendy Button reaches a remarkable conclusion for a liberal, following her collision with the economic and political reality of government-controlled health care.
[...]Following is the text of a note I faxed to the Washington, DC office of Senator Lindsey Graham…
October 13, 2009
Dear Senator Graham,
As an active
blogger for my own site (Rossputin.com), for the Denver Post,
FreedomWorks, and the National Taxpayers Union, and as a contributing
The International Energy Agency is reporting a "surprising" and "significant" decline in worldwide CO2 emissions in 2009, versus 2008. The reason, of course, is the deep worldwide recession which has wiped trillions of dollars out of the planet's wealth.
[...]One thing you can say about global warming climate change alarmists is that (like all leftists), they are almost amusingly utilitarian, i.e. they will do or say anything to reach their goals, even if their goals are based on a concept that has no foundation. Actually, that’s not fair. It’s [...]
It's amusing to be called "stupid" or "dishonest" by someone who carries the water for the furthest-left, most economically-ignorant fringes of American Democrats, but that's what David Sirota has just called me (in addition to "unpatriotic") because of...
[...]Just in case anyone is stupid, dishonest or unpatriotic enough to claim that concerns of political violence are manufactured fantasies by Democrats, please make sure to read this story. Here's an excerpt:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently invoked the grim specter of political violence, arguing that today’s angry...
Perhaps the ultimate expression of the liberal echo chamber and the current utter disconnect between Democrats and the rest of American society was reflected in a Rasmussen Reports poll released on Tuesday.
[...]As Democrats renew their push for energy taxes in the name of the Cult of Global Warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, a man who believes we can fight global warming by all painting our roofs white (seriously, he does), is telling Americans that we’re...
[...]Local elections this fall for school boards and municipal offices -- the ones that haven't been canceled for lack of interest -- occur in a murky fog of nonpartisan obscurity. In my Denver Post column this week, I likened the voter's dilemma, absent Republican and Democratic tags to help...
JunkScience.com has begun a series of “Wanted” posters for American “Carbon Criminals”, CEOs who are supporting the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill as a way to steer money from taxpayers to their corporations.
Two of my most-despised corporate villains made their list, Jim Rogers of Duke Energy and Jeffrey...
[...]It's amusing to be a Republican spectator at the feverish Democratic huddle that is Bill Ritter's email list. Day after day, some revved-up copywriter churns out breathless warnings about the sinister threat posed by my side to their side, the dynamic duo of our Governor and our President.
Obama hero-worship [...]
[These are my recollections as best I can recall. You can imagine
that between the chaos and the years, some details may be slightly
incorrect…but only slightly.]
Eight years ago today, I was sitting in my office in Chicago when I
saw news of an airplane hitting one of the World [...]
After receiving much unflattering attention, President Barack Obama will broadcast a message to America’s primary school students today. And while the White House is calling opposition to Obama’s message “silly” (along with Obama proxies like the NY Times’ Thomas Friedman who called the outcry “just stupid"), the tempest is understandable.
[...]Late Saturday night, Obama's "Green Jobs" czar, avowed communist, and "9/11 truther" (part of a group that suspects that 9/11 was perpetrated by the US government), Van Jones, resigned from his Obama Administration job.
Some on the left, such as Howard Dean, are saying Jones was the victim of a smear attack. But even the [...]
It's being widely reported/rumored that President Obama will offer his own health care insurance reform plan next week, including naming certain items he insists on having in any bill that he'll sign. It's not clear whether a "public...
' [...]I’ve just returned from a few days in beautiful Steamboat Springs, Colorado, including attending in (and briefly speaking at) the inaugural Steamboat Institute Freedom Conference. (I encourage you to read the 4 newspaper articles linked to throughout this note.)
[...]Now that the vandalism at Colorado Dem headquarters is known to come from one of her own, albeit not "a good Democrat" as she lamely puts it, party chairman Pat Waak owes an apology to Republicans, independents, and everyone else opposed to the government medical takeover -- whom she slurred yesterday in reflexively blaming [...]
Late last night, Ted Kennedy died of brain cancer. A long-time fixture in American politics, a man with, let’s say, an interesting history, and the last of the major “Camelot” figures of the Kennedy dynasty (despite, of course, there still being plenty of Kennedys around), the US Senate will be a different place without [...]
Supply-side economics, which teaches that incentives matter in the creation of wealth, has few better interpreters than Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore. Laffer and Moore have few higher exemplars of good results than Colorado. We rank 10th for economic performance since 1997 and 2nd for favorable outlook going forward, in [...]
Last week, the Administration leaked news of a reduced 2009-2010 budget deficit estimate (even though the reduction was basically smoke and mirrors) during a mid-week morning. Then they tried to bury the real news of the week, that the 10-year budget estimate is actually being increased by more than 25% to over $9 trillion. [...]
Subbing for Dan Caplis on the Caplis and Silverman radio show, former Congressman Bob Beauprez just announced that he will not be a candidate for the US Senate in 2010.
With the apparent entry of former Lt. Governor Jane Norton into the race, the field is already crowded enough, with several announced candidates including Ryan [...]
I owe Jonah Goldberg an apology.
When his book “Liberal Fascism” came out last year, I didn’t buy it because for some reason – maybe the
[...]Even some of those who have bought into the hoax of man-made global warming are calling the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill what it is: A complete debacle full of pork and redistribution of wealth that stands no chance of making a measurable change in climate.
The latest attack on the bill comes from former Senator [...]
My favorite Colorado organization by far is the Leadership Program of the Rockies. I went through the Program several years ago, learned a lot, made many
[...]During the economic downturn from roughly 1929 to 1939, Franklin Roosevelt implemented a raft of anti-capitalist, anti-growth policies, from wage controls to higher taxes to simple badgering of businesses (especially utilities). The result was that Europe emerged from the depression sooner while Democratic economic policies turned what could
[...]On AM760 this morning, I interviewed Tom Jensen at Public Policy Polling about his firm's new survey of Colorado voters, which will be released over the course of the week.
In a post on the White House blog on Monday evening, the Obama Administration says they are shutting down the flag@whitehouse.gov web site at which they had encouraged to snitch on other citizens who were not agreeing with the White House’s talking points...
[...]During our health care discussion this morning on my AM760 drive-time show, we focused in on the public option and President Obama's controversial comments about it in Grand Junction over the weekend. In the 8am hour, Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) happened to be listening in, and decided to make [...]
As I’ve been predicting for some time, it appears that any health care reform bill which might pass the Senate will not have a “public option” in it. Over the weekend, Barack Obama and... [...]
Over at the Peoples Press Collective, a commenter posed the usual liberal canard that Medicare is more efficient than private insurance. Here’s the right answer:
Beth,
[...]I almost never post e-mails I receive, but this one seems important...and I'm busy packing for a weekend away with the family, so here goes:
Something very disturbing is happing in America when free speech is assaulted from the White House. Not just emailing your neighbor's name to a permanent data [...]
Talk about trying to do something about a problem (in the case the problem of the ongoing assault on liberty and fundamental principles of the American Founding.) I’m extremely proud of my colleague from the Leadership Program of the Rockies’ Advisory Board, Jennifer Schubert-Akin who has not only founded The Steamboat... [...]
You may have heard that, in the style of Goebbels and Lenin and Mao and Castro, the government is looking for informants to tell them about web sites spreading “disinformation” about the Democrats’ planned takeover of the health care system.
In the couple years of my life which got somewhere near a wild youth, I bought part of a night club which was, for a short time, the hottest club in Chicago. I’m reminded of that experience – in particular reminded of the General Partner of the company – by the Democrats’ current hysterical [...]
Or will they undo it? Heading into 2010 and with Coloradans steamed about the $100 gotcha penalty, Bill Ritter and his party had better heed the cautionary tales of Gov. Bill Clinton, dumped by Arkansans in 1980 for raising vehicle fees, and Lt. Gov. Don Beyer, denied promotion to the top job [...]
Instead of writing a blog entry this morning, I’m doing preparation in
order to guest host for Amy Oliver on Newstalk 1310 KFKA in Greeley. Please listen in at 1310 on your AM dial or online at [1310kfka.com] from 9 AM to 11 AM Mountain Time. (11 AM to [...]
A Republican in Grand Junction, call her Carol, wrote Sen. Michael Bennet urging him to oppose provision of tax-funded abortions in any health care reform bill. He replied with a form letter by email, withholding a direct answer but signaling his likely support of the abortion funding.
"Read between [...]
