May 31st, 2011

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Thank Speaker Boehner for Blocking Obama Recess Appointments

You need to call Speaker Boehner’s office right now at 202-225-0600 and thank him for the extraordinary step he took this week to slow down President Obama’s radical agenda. With the Obama legislative agenda stalled, the left has turned its attention toward using the Executive power to accomplish their socialist goals. The key to this [...]

Morning Briefing for May 31, 2011

RedState Morning Briefing For May 31, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Thank Speaker Boehner for Blocking Obama Recess Appointments 2. Washington is Broken, and Needs Leadership. Where is President Obama? 3. The Foreseeable Consequence of the “Arab Spring” 4. Everything you need to know about #Weinergate [...]

About Those Thousands Who Went to Joplin This Weekend…

If you watched the news on Sunday, you may have seen President Obama (dubbed the “Healer in Chief” by HuffPo) pay a campaign visit to Joplin, Missouri where residents are still recovering from the horrific tornado that ripped apart the town a little more than a week ago. There were reportedly thousands that poured into [...]

Washington is Broken, and Needs Leadership. Where is President Obama?

From the diaries by Erick Last week Treasury Secretary Geithner said:  “Our plan is for Congress to pass the debt limit. Our fallback plan is for Congress to pass the debt limit, and our fallback to the fallback plan is for Congress to pass the debt limit.”  Is he in a state of denial? Based [...]

Eric Cantor on deficit: progress, and no tax hikes.

Allow me to summarize for my readers this Hill article (”Cantor to Democrats: See, cutting spending’s not that hard”) on some hopeful (repeat: hopeful) signs of deficit reduction on the horizon: Eric Cantor: …See, cutting spending’s not that hard*.  And there’s not going to be any tax hikes. Debbie Wasserman Schultz:  …OK, now that you’ve [...]

Obama’s military gap

Gallup reports that veterans and active military are less likely to approve of President Obama’s job performance. Gallup found that 37% all active-duty military personnel and veterans approve of Obama’s job performance compared with 48% of nonveterans. This is fitting rebuttal to TIME’s Joe Klein, who recently asserted on “The Chris Matthews Show” that Obama’s [...]

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter [R-MI], Part-Time Union Shill

When George Bush was President, there were times when it was hard to tell some Republicans from their Democrat counterparts. They were loose with the purse strings and some were even foolish enough to believe that they could curry favor with unions by voting to effectively eliminate secret-ballot elections. Despite the fact that EFCA was [...]

Memorial Day 2011

HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC General Orders No.11, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 1868 The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every [...]