Category Archive: RINO Circus

Feb
09

What next?

Well, he’s got big brass ones, you gotta give him that. “Senator Santorum and Speaker Gingrich, they are the very Republicans who acted like Democrats, and when Republicans act like Democrats, they lose,” said Mitt Romney today in Atlanta, according to a statement e-mailed by his campaign. I’m speechless. That the smarmy shitweasel could even …

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Feb
08

Explaining Coulter

I still like Jeff’s version, but this one–a forced castration by God only knows who–works too. I don’t have firsthand knowledge that she was kidnapped by RINO Team Six and taken to an offshore medical facility where she was forced to undergo a gruesome surgical procedure, but many of her recent columns suggest that something …

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Feb
03

There’s no such thing as an anti-conservative “GOP establishment”

Just keep telling yourself that. Across America, state Republican parties and legislators are pursuing the opponents they most despise with renewed vigor. You would think that the targets of these efforts are President Barack Obama and Democratic Party officeholders who are hell-bent on turning America into a financially broken, post-constitutional, Washington-controlled playground safe only for …

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Jan
31

Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?

Richard Miniter asks the question of the year: In New Hampshire, Romney also spent heavily. More importantly, he was a “favorite son,” a familiar face and voice as a neighboring governor. And, of course, as he reminded voters in the Granite State repeatedly, he owned property in their state. Even so, he won with a …

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Jan
30

The “Anybody but what we’ve already tried” vote

As a perfect follow-up on a comment of Martin’s here, well, ummm…uuhhh… Bingo. Unfortunately, the GOP elite’s failure to understand exactly why Gingrich did so well portends the sad prospect that Republican leadership isn’t going to improve anytime soon. In election after election, and on issue after issue, the Republican base has felt increasingly frustrated and …

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Jan
29

These are not the independents they’re looking for

Bill expands on a point I also made myself the other day: And before anybody starts blubbering that I’m betraying the Republican Party, keep in mind that I’m not a Republican. I’m a registered Libertarian. I’m one of those independents the GOP Ruling Class keeps on raving that they have to nominate Mitt in order …

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Jan
28

Not cannibals, but jackals

Because it’s not really their own they’re eating. But that’s absolutely the only thing Palin gets wrong here. We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in …

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Jan
26

Bob Dole is very, very disappointed with you people

Who cares? I have not been critical of Newt Gingrich but it is now time to take a stand before it is too late. If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices. Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed …

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Dec
21

No vote for Romney from me

Not ever. No way. Requiring people to have health insurance is “conservative,” GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney told MSNBC on Wednesday, but only if states do it. The argument aims to improve Romney’s appeal to Republican voters concerned about the healthcare reform plan he signed into law as governor of Massachusetts in 2006. The Massachusetts …

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Dec
13

Did somebody say electable?

About Romney? Romney’s changes in position have followed defeats, rather than victories. He’s progressed from liberal New Republican (1994) to moderate technocrat (2002) to rock-ribbed movement conservative (2006) to sane, free-market Mr. Fix-It (2011). (The 2006 transformation came when it was clear from polling that he could not possibly win reelection as governor of Massachusetts.) …

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Dec
06

“This party is too dumb to live”

Apparently so. Republicans on a private Republican National Committee conference call with allies warned Tuesday that party surrogates should refrain from personal attacks against President Barack Obama, because such a strategy is too hazardous for the GOP. “We’re hesitant to jump on board with heavy attacks” personally against President Obama, Nicholas Thompson, the vice president …

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Dec
05

Why we’ll never get a decent GOP nominee

McCarthy lays it out: I carry no brief for Mr. Trump, who is something of a carnival act, and I join the editors in commending Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman, and whoever else among the candidates has the good sense to send his or her regrets. But just to recap, here is a list of just …

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Nov
02

Mitt: just say no way in hell

Captain Ed wonders: is this the best Romney RINOs can do? Can a conservative case be made for Mitt Romney? Michael Gerson tried mightily at the Washington Post yesterday, leaning heavily on Romney’s business experience and cultural background to argue that Romney’s current positions are probably more natural to him than those he adopted for more …

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Oct
23

AT LAST, we have our candidate!

And a Grand Old Repugnican he is, too. Who, you may ask, is T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII? Simply put, a man born to the conservative saddle. The only scion of the legendary swashbuckling conservative editor / author / bon vivant T. Coddington Van Voorhees VI, I have since my earliest days honed a conservatism forged …

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Oct
12

RINOs of a feather

Still think Christie’s the conservative knight on a white horse riding in to save the Republic, do ya? That’s the lowlight from this pitiful spectacle, in which a guy who’s famous for uttering hard truths whether or not people want to hear them endorses a guy who’s famous for telling people whatever they want to …

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Aug
10

VICTORY!

If, as some of us keep saying, by “victory” you mean “pathetic, disastrous defeat.” Why was there a financial crisis in the first place? Because of runaway spending that sent the national debt up against the legal limit. But when all the big spending bills were being rushed through Congress, the Democrats had such an …

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Aug
04

VICTORY!

What it looks like. And what it doesn’t.

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Aug
03

“We will ensure that bills are debated and discussed in the public square by publishing the text online for at least three days before coming up for a vote in the House of Representatives”

Except when we don’t. (Via Jeff)

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Aug
01

We lost

How can you tell? Just check what liberal pundits are saying: The President Surrenders – Paul Krugman, New York Times How the Tea Party Won the Deal – Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast The GOP’s Extortion Politics – Steve Benen, Washington Monthly To the Intransigent Go the Spoils – Clive Crook, Financial Times Whenever they …

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Jul
29

What part of “cut the damned spending” is confusing you?

Hayward offers a crucial reminder to the squishes lamenting the loss of their ability to conduct business as usual: This is said to have “weakened” Boehner. The Tea Party and conservative stalwarts in the House are told they’re “embarrassing” or “killing” the Speaker. Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post calls them the “burn-the-building-down set.”  This is a …

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Jul
20

Screwed, no reacharound

By a Gang of Six: But now, along comes the Gang of Six plan, and some Republicans are apparently intrigued by it. They shouldn’t be. It’s a terrible, terrible plan. It will hand the president a huge strategic victory and deliver nothing that the GOP should be seeking in this fight. It’s far, far worse …

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Jul
13

Is Jennifer Rubin the new Peggy Noonan?

So it would seem.

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Jul
10

No deals with Democrats

But of course, they’re going to make one. The tax hikes will be all too real, as will the damage they do to the economy, and the spending “cuts” will vanish like the smoke they are. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush was promised $2 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax hikes by …

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Jul
09

Can’t these clowns get ANYTHING right?

Via Glenn: this is why we’re doomed. If these jackasses can’t even find a simple, no-nonsense way to correctly and honestly undo a relatively minor mistake like this one, how the hell can we possibly expect them to rid us of entrenched, inviolable behemoths such as, say, the Department of Education? Those looking for a …

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Jul
09

When he’s right, he’s right

Gingrich, I mean. And he is on this one. Republicans should reject the establishment’s demand for a tax increase. There is plenty of money to be saved from a bloated government without giving Washington one penny of higher taxes. The pressures from the Washington establishment to raise taxes are unending. This has been true for …

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