This weekend, a noteworthy Republican passed away. Years before the contributors to this site were born, Jack Kemp left his professional football career to run for Congress. From 1971 to 1989, Jack Kemp served in the U.S. House of Representatives serving his adoptive hometown in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York. Kemp served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during [...]
Posts Tagged ‘republicans’
A Memo to Congressional Republicans: Keep Up the Fight!
Republicans should take note of recent polling data from Rasmussen Reports, consistently one of the most accurate polling firms in the nation. According to a Rasmussen poll released on January 23, 59% of U.S. voters are concerned that President Obama and Congress will increase government spending too much over the next one to two years. [...]
Nepotism in American Politics
Someone needs to tell the Caroline Kennedy the upper house of Congress is not the House of Lords. The party that claims to represent middle and working class Americans is seriously considering appointing a daughter of a former president with no public office experience to the Senate seat currently occupied by the wife of a [...]
Budget news could mean pragmatism from the President-elect.
Two stories appeared in yesterday’s (Wednesday’s) New York Times which deal with the budgetary situation in the country as President-elect Barack Obama prepares to be sworn in later this month. In noting a forecasted $1.2 trillion deficit, the article appearing in the business section noted that the president-elect desires to spend $800 billion on a new economic stimulus package. [...]
Some thoughts on Palin
The one Republican who could call 2008 a breakthrough success career wise is Governor Sarah Palin. She may not be the Vice-President-Elect, but she rose from being a recently elected governor of an often ignored state to one of the prominent national leaders of the Republican Party. She can thank John McCain for that, but [...]
Why We Can’t “Wait for Them to Fail”
I have had a number of people e-mail or Facebook message me something along the lines of, “Well, the Dems may won, but they’re going to fail. All we need to do is sit back and wait.” James touched on this extremely well in his post earlier today, but I wanted to elaborate a bit [...]