Democrats have been throwing a big hissy fit since the gun control bill failed in the Senate earlier this week. There’s one little detail they aren’t telling you, though. It probably could have passed if President Obama and Harry Reid…
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Lindsey Graham Voted For John Brennan, Blamed Rand Paul
by Lonely Conservative • • 9 Comments
I’m going to have to keep my commentary here to a minimum because I really want to curse and this is a family-friendly blog. Lindsey Graham on why he voted to confirm John Brennan: Speaking to reporters after he came…
Republican Senator Richard Shelby To Be Deciding Vote To Confirm Hagel?
by Lonely Conservative • • 4 Comments
The AP reports that Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) said he will vote to confirm Chuck Hagel as defense secretary, despite the fact that he joined the filibuster against Hagel last week. So, what changed his mind? Meh. “He’s probably as…
House Votes Today On HR 325 – No Budget, No Pay Act
by Lonely Conservative • • 9 Comments
House Policy Committee Chairman James Lankford (R-OK) had a conference call with bloggers this morning to discuss HR 325, the “No Budget, No Pay Act.” It’s a five page bill that basically suspends the debt ceiling for three months to…
Video: President Obama Asked About His Old Vote Against Raising The Debt Ceiling
by Lonely Conservative • • 9 Comments
Kudo’s to Major Garrett for asking President Obama about his previous opposition to raising the debt ceiling. Too bad the president totally ignored the part about when he voted against raising the debt ceiling. Tweetvaso link
Finally A NYC Politician Displays Some Sanity
by Lonely Conservative • • 6 Comments
Judging by the way some New York and New Jersey Republicans have been acting you’d think that Speaker John Boehner had agreed to raise taxes without any concession from the Democrats on spending. Oh wait. He did that. But that’s…
Rep. Peter King Needs To Chill Out – Upate – The Tantrum Worked
by Lonely Conservative • • 6 Comments
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has been all over TV blasting the GOP, not for allowing that rotten fiscal cliff deal to pass, but for failing to hold a vote in the House on the pork laden hurricane Sandy relief package…
Maybe Those Single Women Don’t Notice Their Taxes Because A Republican Lowered Their Tax Rates
by Lonely Conservative • • 5 Comments
An AP story about how single women vote, and routinely vote for Democrats, has an interesting quote from a woman named Sara Stevenson. Stevenson is single and would never vote for a Republican, neither would most of her single female…
Ratification Of UN Disability Treaty Goes Down In The Senate
by Lonely Conservative • • 2 Comments
Here’s a little bit of good news. A United Nations treaty to ban discrimination against people with disabilities went down to defeat in the Senate on Tuesday in a 61-38 vote. The treaty, backed by President Obama and former Senate…
Why Should The US Ratify The UN Disability Treaty? There Are Plenty Of Reasons Not To
by Lonely Conservative • • 8 Comments
I’ve been meaning to get to this UN disability treaty but something always comes up. There are a number of reasons the United States shouldn’t ratify this treaty, not to mention that the US leads the world in how it…
Caregivers Coaxed The Mentally Disabled Into Voting For Obama
by Lonely Conservative • • 10 Comments
I wish this was some kind of joke, but it’s not. It’s true, and it makes sense seeing that so many caregivers in group homes and nursing homes are union workers. Here’s one story of how they coaxed a mentally…
In Some Philly and Cleveland Precincts Obama Got 100% Of The Vote
by Lonely Conservative • • 19 Comments
Are there any elected Republicans out there willing to look into this? Seriously, this is alarming. I know cities turn out the vote for Democrats, but really, 100% of the vote went to Obama in all of these places? In…
You Get What You Vote For
by Lonely Conservative • • 9 Comments
Unfortunately, those of us who did not vote for Barack Obama are in the same boat as those who did. But at least we’re aware that his policies are destructive and can take steps to prepare, even if only to…
US Senate Candidate Wendy Long Told By Poll Worker To Vote For Democrats
by Lonely Conservative • • 11 Comments
Wendy Long, who is running for the US Senate in New York against the Democrat incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand sent out a press release describing how a poll worker told her to vote for Democrats. “This morning when I went to…