For the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, wrote an article calling for American women to “join together to combat [the decision’s] nefarious effects on our lives and our families.” In the piece, Pelosi ridicules Justice Antonin Scalia for supporting freedom of speech on the grounds that people can just “shut it off” if they don’t want to listen. (more)
Fans of the Colbert Report finally have what they’ve been dreaming of. (more)
As the 2012 campaign heats up, it seems like everywhere we hear warnings of “shadowy groups” pumping millions into campaigns, “and nobody knows where that money is coming from.” (more)
Comments from President Obama’s top spokesmen are coming back to haunt the White House Democratic strategists who announced Friday the formation of new groups to help re-elect the president without disclosing donors, a tactic Obama and other Democrats decried just months ago. (more)
Kevin Drum Gives Up on Unionism: Isn’t it odd that the defense of unionism on the left by Paul Krugman and Mother Jones‘ Kevin Drum focuses almost exclusively on labor’s role as “countervailing” political power to business–especially its role in supporting the Democratic party with money and manpower? Time was pro-labor economists argued mainly about the actual effect of unions within individual firms and industries–they raised wages, we were told, not only redistributing profits but providing workers with a “voice” that even resulted in increased productivity. You don’t hear these arguments that much anymore. After the collapse of two of the three big UAW auto firms–beaten in the market by non-union American factories run by Honda, Hyundai and Toyota–the idea the unions actually help employers compete has apparently become too implausible for Drum and Krugman to advance with a straight face. (more)
As President Obama and the national Democrat establishment gear up for their billion-dollar-plus 2012 election campaign, insiders connected to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are hatching plans to protect the tenuous Senate Democrat majority. These Reid insiders are forming a “super” political action committee, called Majority PAC, to raise unlimited money in order to go on the offensive in Senate races across the country. Reid’s people are within their rights to form the PAC, thanks to the Citizens United v. FEC victory at the United States Supreme Court last year. Now all Americans are free to utilize their free speech rights in this way. However, because the entire Democrat Party machinery was against this landmark decision last year, this blatant reversal reeks of hypocrisy. President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid spent an inordinate amount of time attacking the decision and trying to defeat it through legislative means; meanwhile they lost their majority in the House and now have a fading majority in the Senate. (more)
America is in a financial crisis. For years, politicians on both sides of the aisle have ignored the 800-pound gorilla in the room — our climbing $14 trillion national debt. That trend seems like it will continue with reports coming out over the weekend that President Obama will request more government spending in the State of the Union. I had hoped that a detailed plan on how to curb our government’s overspending would be the focus of the president’s speech. However, it looks like what he really wants is, in essence, another stimulus. We all know that the stimulus package passed during the early days of this administration failed miserably and contributed to the $14 trillion debt. If we do not address the ever-increasing debt, America may sink into a dangerous financial abyss. (more)
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court decided the landmark case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. It restored the First Amendment protection of political speech. It also inspired the scorn of incumbent Democrat politicians. (more)
While President Obama’s eyes are set on a Christmas vacation in Hawaii, the American people’s minds are fixed on the largest tax increases in American history, which are looming on the horizon. Every American taxpayer will be hit hard by the Obama tax hikes. At a time of economic strife, and today’s reports of unemployment rising to 9.8 percent, President Obama’s thoughts should be on creating jobs for the American people. Raising taxes will only hurt small businesses and job creation. (more)
The decision by House Democrats to anoint Nancy Pelosi their leader once again is the equivalent of giving the American people a fruitcake for the holidays. And let’s face it — nobody really wants a fruitcake! Sadly, the similarities between the embarrassingly unpopular duo don’t stop there. According to recent polling data, “Leader” Pelosi’s approval rating just before the tsunami was at 29 percent. That is painfully low, and represents a total rejection of the failed policies she championed over the course of her infamous speakership. Whether it’s 9.6 percent unemployment, record debt, the government takeover of health care, or cap and tax, the Pelosi agenda was sent packing in 2010 to the tune of over 60 House seats. (more)
Republicans may be in control of the U.S. House of Representatives when the 112th Congress comes to Washington, D.C. in January, but the 111th Congress isn’t dead yet. When the disastrous Pelosi-Reid-led Congress comes back for its lame-duck session on November 15th, it should have one thing in mind: do no more harm to country or party. But clearly, doing what the American people want has not been the modus operandi thus far. We should all be uneasy, because six weeks is enough time to do a lot more damage if we let our guard down. (more)
You know the wheels are coming off the Democrat Party when a Member of Congress calls for the impeachment of Chief Justice John Roberts because of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. Last week, Democrat Congressman Peter DeFazio from Oregon told the always fair and balanced Huffington Post: (more)
When I think of the influence money has had in U.S. elections, I’m reminded of that wonderful scene in the 1963 motion picture Cleopatra where Egypt, in a Senate vote, officially becomes Rome’s ally under some rather “surprising” circumstances: (more)
In his October 5th article entitled “Gingrich’s 527 Promotes itself and Newt – But Not GOP Candidates,” Talking Points Memo “reporter” Ryan J. Reilly refers to our film “America at Risk” when he states, “…Gingrich has called for a federal ban on Sharia law, and Gingrich’s production company teamed with Citizens United to produce a documentary on the supposed threat of Islam in America.” Mr. Reilly needs to get his head out of the sand. Either he has been under a rock for the past thirty years or he has taken the Michael Moore view that “there is no terrorist threat.” Radical Islam is not a “supposed threat,” it is a real threat. Nearly 3,000 people were murdered over nine years ago because of radical Islam. (more)
As Senate Democrats come back from another long hot summer, one would think that their focus would be our struggling economy and job creation. But even though the unemployment rate is stuck at 9.6 percent, Senate Democrats’ main focus is not jobs; it’s President Obama and Senator Schumer’s crusade against the First Amendment. Senator Schumer and other anti-First Amendment Democrats have floated the idea of resurrecting the DISCLOSE Act during this work period. Senator Schumer failed back in July when he brought this ill-conceived legislation to the Senate floor, and now he is going to try again while Americans are still looking for work. (more)
Outside groups supporting Republican candidates in House and Senate races across the country have been swamping their Democratic-leaning counterparts on television since early August as the midterm election season has begun heating up. (more)
The national unemployment rate is hovering around 9.5 percent and the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in July we lost 131,000 jobs. With the current economic situation it is no surprise that President Obama wants to talk about anything but the economy. (more)
For months, lawyers and constitutional scholars have debated the effects of Citizens United vs. FEC. (more)
What’s more important than putting together a new budget for the federal government? If you’re one of the 219 representatives whose vote secured the passage of the so-called “DISCLOSE Act” in the House last Thursday, the answer is simple: providing incumbents with job security. (more)
