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…Steven Rattner. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece outlining five steps a House GOP majority should undertake to change the game in Washington and govern in spite of President Obama. In that piece, the first step I outlined was The Inquisition, a flurry of investigations into the misdeeds of the Pelosi Congress [...]

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Trends in polling across congressional and senate elections, as well as presidential approval and overall mood of America, seem to be continuing if not intensifying in advance of what looks like an historic election on Nov. 2. In fact, a couple of polls within the last few days indicate that things could be far worse [...]

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So we’ve been talking here at the Hayride about this tidal wave, this earthquake, this electoral holocaust which is coming in November. And we’ve been describing all the reasons why the Republicans are going to get the votes to make John Boehner Speaker of the House next year. They might even have the votes to [...]

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As someone who generally gets news and information on line, it becomes rather easy to spot ruling class narratives as they evolve.  When the Financial Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, the New York Times and other elite publications pronounce that “everyone knows” taxes must be raised in Washington, DC to “pay for” the operations [...]

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I hate primary elections. And even though I don’t like Louisiana’s jungle primary and think party primaries are the best way to generate good candidates in a general election, I’ve got to admit that “necessary evil” is the best way to describe them. Take the 3rd District race between Hunt Downer and Jeff Landry, which [...]

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“Cap and Trade” continues to haunt the oil and gas industry, the petrochemical industry, and the electrical generating industry, to name but a few who have deferred capital investment in this country partly because that threat won’t go away.  Pelosi and Waxman got it through the House of Representatives, and John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and, [...]

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The big unanswered question of the 2010 elections is: will the Republicans recapture the House, the Senate, or both ? Currently, the House is controlled by the Democrats 256-179, while the Senate is controlled by the Democrats by a 59-41 margin. Since most of the information about this subject on either side of the political spectrum [...]

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There are lots of interesting new polls out, but we’ll open with something interesting from Dick Morris… My observations from the campaign trail are that this year’s elections will be a total and complete disaster for the Democratic Party. In fact, it will amount to the obliteration of an entire generation of Democratic officeholders. It will [...]

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There are two ways of looking at last night’s results. There is the point of view already being trumpeted by the Washington establishment that “Primary night yields good news for Obama, Dems.” There is, however, still the reality that in the 22 states where both parties had contested primaries, 54% of primary voters have chosen a Republican ballot. [...]

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With the likelihood of our being confronted with a lame duck Congress in November, a Congress with nothing left to lose and a liberal agenda that includes climate change, Cap and Trade, and energy policy still unfulfilled, we felt it was appropriate to update readers on recent developments in the field of climate change science.  [...]

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