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The Maine GOP’s barbaric yawp.

Yes, Ezra Pound’s from Idaho it’s actually Walt Whitman, and I’m an idiot. [UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit readers. It must be admitted that when I read this particular article: In a move that seemed to...

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GOP shuts down deficit-increasing ‘jobs’ bill.

Ace of Spades HQ sums up wonderfully (if originally profanely) the destruction of that 100 billion dollar (and 30 billion deficit-increasing) waste of tax money* known as a ‘jobs bill:’ Democrats: Give...

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Fourth of July: REPUBLICAN BREEDING GROUND!!!!!

I suspect that the Democratic party probably doesn’t want to ever see this sentence from a Harvard statistical survey appear in a news story: Taken together, the results indicate that Fourth of July...

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Tim Pawlenty repeats call to hang tough on debt ceiling.

It’s hardly a surprise – Pawlenty has been arguing since January that automatically raising the debt ceiling without exhausting other options (read: spending cuts) first is a bad idea – but the video...

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House Freshmen not on-board for any deals?

I think that this quote below from a New York Times article on whether the GOP will allow themselves to be stampeded on irresponsibly raising the debt ceiling might just be fairly representative of...

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Gov. Mark Dayton’s (D, MN) budget surrender ceremony.

The formal capitulation took place yesterday, and signals an end to Gov. Dayton’s ill-conceived, ill-timed, and ill-executed attempt to dominate the Minnesota legislature in the same way that...

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#rsrh The great PBS/Obama/Lincoln kerfluffle.

Background: As all of you know, it’s not a true critical Obama speech without at least one howler of a historical error in it somewhere, and last Thursday’s was a beauty of one: did you know Lincoln...

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Reagan’s place… at Brandenburg Gate then, and in the party now.

There has been a certain amount of …well, the usual invocation of Ronald Reagan’s memory in order to justify other people’s positions on issues, particularly the ones where they’re not majority...

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#rsrh QotD, The Choice… Crud. The Choice COULDN’T Be Clearer, Huh? edition.

US News and World Report, in the process of pointing out that, hey, maybe we need a little whiteboard time in our political debate right now: Courtesy of the White House pool report on Vice President...

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#rsrh QotD, It Was Obvious In 2003 edition.

Via Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt: One of the things I’ve learned this week is that Republicans are the most incompetent racists ever. They’re just bloody awful at it. — Charles C. W. Cooke...

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Evergreen title: “The rumors of the GOP’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.”

I’m going to use a bit of Sean’s quote here, because I know that he’ll forgive me: The story buried by the national media’s fixation with Hillary Clinton’s next move is the solid bench that Republicans...

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The GOP simply MUST NOT pick Las Vegas for the 2016 Convention.

James Richardson makes an eloquent case for why Nevada Democrats – explicitly including current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid – should put local needs over partisan ones by making it clear that the...

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How the GOP can come back: A *practical* suggestion.

I think that RS McCain gets why we lost in 2006 and 2008 exactly right: …the Democrats did something very smart after 2004. Instead of freaking out over those “values voters” and getting all down in...

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Thaddeus McCotter (R, MI-11) on RedEye.

Via Pat Cleary. The video is a little out of sync, but the sentiments are right there: Plus, bonus points for the Rush reference; a band that was pretty much constant background music for me for most...

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A handy checklist for people who wish to complain about the RiNOs in the GOP.

[UPDATE]: Here are couple more links for you: Rebuilding the GOP: The Committeeman Project Get Your STORC On I am not ordering anybody to follow this checklist. I’m not even going to nag about it. I am...

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Winning with ‘No.’

From last week’s article on the growing awareness of Democratic corruption, by the always-interesting Jen Rubin: …with the growth of government and the enormous amount of cash sloshing through...

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Funny: I’ll believe that Bruce Bartlett is serious about helping the GOP...

…when it takes me less than ten minutes to track down his Congressional District (VA-10, Frank Wolf) or his local party apparatus (Fairfax County GOP).  Neither of which is particularly mentioned in...

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NRCC outrecruits DCCC with female candidates.

Way to bury the ledes there, WaPo. I suppose that I should be nicer. After all, the Washington Post bothered to actually report that there has been a heavy surge in female recruitment by the GOP this...

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