Jan 15, 2010 – Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska today asked Harry Reid today to remove the deal he secured for his state in Medicaid funding from the … it was intended to act as a placeholder to ensure that all states received similar treatment once negotiations to reconcile the House…

Jan 15, 2010 – on Wall Street’s million-dollar bonuses to justify his new tax, hoping to incite the class warfare anger that has propelled the Democrat … Since government should “Never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” in the words of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, government…

Jan 15, 2010 – Heading into the 2010 mid-term elections, House Republicans want to re-focus their efforts towards providing solutions to failed Democratic … House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), has said that could include a new version of the the 1994 “Contract with America,” which … “At our annual retreat, House Republicans will be working on solutions to fix the failed Democrat policies enacted over the last 12…

Jan 14, 2010 – Congress, twenty Republican governors and governors-elect sent a letter to the House and Senate leaders urging them to pass “meaningful … The governors assert that the House and Senate bills fail to fix the broken Medicaid and Medicare systems and instead entitle 15-20 … In Washington State, House and Senate bill HJM-4009 declares: “The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States specifically…

Jan 13, 2010 – health care system a majority abhors. 2010 will be a unique year because voters have seen the myth of the moderate Democrat … In the House, party switches have already won the Republicans one seat, and more are likely to follow. … may find that their constituents cannot be bought by earmarks or deluded into voting for what they are told is a "conservative" Democrat…

Jan 13, 2010 – Democrat Martha Coakley is the voice of the “little people” the way Ted Kennedy was the voice of sobriety. … Democrat Menino was in the middle of a re-election bid; Coakley was wrapped up in her own senatorial bid. … Then there’s Coakley’s relationship with Massachusetts’ corrupt former House Speaker Sal DiMasi.…

Jan 11, 2010 – As President Obama announced his analysis of how the Christmas Day near-miss terrorist attack occurred, Democrat Senate and House…

Jan 11, 2010 – Not racist: Chris Dodd praising fellow Democrat and former Klansmen Robert Byrd, saying he “would have been a great senator at any … Racist: A Republican ad in which a ditzy white woman says she met biracial Democrat Harold Ford “at the Playboy party.” … Not racist: Cartoonists depicting Condoleezza Rice as a slave, a “house ni**a,” and a parakeet perched on Bush’s shoulder—often with…

Jan 30, 2010 – from Mike Brownfield with the Heritage Foundation If a casual observer were to watch President Barack Obama’s speech today to House … Democrat leadership that is an impediment instead of a conduit.” … And by that I mean, you’ve gotten the subtext of House Republicans that sincerely want to come and be a part of this national conversation…

Jan 29, 2010 – Carafano with the Heritage FoundationPOLITCO reported Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to freeze defense spending too … “Everybody has to make a sacrifice,” the San Francisco Democrat said in an interview conducted as part of POLITICO’s “Inside Obama’…

Jan 29, 2010 – political activism, beginning with donations to ReverseTheVote.org --the NRCC fund committed to defeating the 24 most vulnerable House … In recent weeks some of the attention of the powerful anti-Democrat grass root organizing has passed over to expressions of concern … But even the modest assessments of the undertow threatening Democrats puts the loss of seats in the House nearing takeover land of…

Jan 29, 2010 – Barack Obama's Panic Week has come and gone, but did his White House learn anything from the historic repudiation of his leftist … Congress - this despite the presence of a sizeable Democratic majority in the House and (until recently) a filibuster-proof Democratic … Martha Coakley, the very first thing the White House brain trust did was to elevate the role of a professional political operative…

Jan 29, 2010 – My friend David has been brought into the White House to revive the president's campaign, to recover the momentum he lost somewhere … The idea that a "Kennedy seat" could be bequeathed automatically to a Democrat sounded like Massachusetts voters believe in something…

Jan 28, 2010 – In the present case, we have an overwhelming Democrat majority in Washington pushing an overwhelmingly unpopular health reform plan … Yet if we are going to build our house on the shifting sands of public opinion, future battles will either force us to embrace that…

Jan 28, 2010 – Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that "unease would be the gentlest word" to describe House Democrats' refusal to pass the Senate health care … The victory of a Democrat in the special election to fill Vice President Gerald Ford's House seat in February 1974 was a clear indication … Barack Obama in his first year adopted the priorities of what pundit Joel Kotkin, a Democrat himself, calls the "gentry liberals."…

Jan 28, 2010 – The Arkansas Democrat was recalling Obama's remarks in an election strategy meeting to Jane Fullerton of the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette … On Monday, when ABC News White House Correspondent Yunji de Nies asked Robert Gibbs about Obama's "you've got me" statement, the White … House press secretary responded: "I have not talked to the president about that. ...I hope it's not newsworthy to think that the president…

Jan 27, 2010 – With Mexico unable to pay the $25 billion it owed the big financial houses, Clinton's White House decided the banks shouldn't be on … issued by Washington Mutual to non-English-speaking strawberry pickers earning a combined $14,000 a year to purchase a $720,000 house … that mammoth mortgages to people who could barely afford food somehow went bad, Wall Street firms could be confident that their Democrat…

Jan 27, 2010 – Sixteen years ago, it was another ambitious young Democrat who swept into power and immediately began implementing his plan for nationalized … Upon announcing his retirement from Congress this week, Arkansas Democrat Marion Berry reported that the White House seems to believe … Berry was just the latest in a string of Democrat retirements, a foreboding trend ahead of expected electoral-forced retirements for…

Jan 27, 2010 – In fact, this is precisely what the founding generation wanted when they designed the Upper House.             … The Senate, not the democratic House of Representatives, has final say in presidential appointments, treaties with foreign nations, … He envisioned an Upper House similar to that of the House of Lords in England where each member would be from “the most distinguished…

Jan 26, 2010 – In the House, the bleak political environment is already sending more Democrats into retirement, the latest being Rep. … Marion Berry of Arkansas -- the fifth Democrat to call it quits in the past few months. More retirements are expected. … Heading into this year, House Democrats were looking at potential losses of between 20 to 30 seats.…

Jan 26, 2010 – He has a reasonable majority in the house. He was swept into the White House with all the force of a Pacific tsunami. … He quickly squandered billions of dollars in the hopes that a shotgunned stimulus bill that fed democrat districts would solve his…

Jan 26, 2010 – The winners Pete Sessions — The chairman of the campaign arm for House Republicans will reap the political spoils of Senator-elect … With more than a 70-seat disadvantage, Republicans in the House face an uphill challenge - so large that many potential Republican … Obama to return to whom he portrayed himself to be — a mainstream Democrat who governs from the middle.…

Jan 26, 2010 – Bayh, the Democrat from Indiana, who had been coming in behind the House Republican Study Committee leader in robo-polls. … First because I have been given the responsibility to shape the Republican comeback as a member of the House Republican Leadership … and, second, because I believe Republicans will win back the majority in the House of Representatives in 2010.…

Jan 26, 2010 – What's more, with a Democrat in the White House likely to appoint justices who support abortion rights, surely the Supreme Court isn't…

Jan 25, 2010 – According to a report in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette excerpted by Politico, President Obama has fingered himself as the reason that … Arkansas reported on the administration's response to Democrats' worries that a 1994-style wind was beginning to blow: "[The White House…