Republican House Speaker John Boehner responds to a question about whether race plays into challenging the Obama administration on different issues. The question was in response to remarks made Wednesday by Attorney General Eric Holder in a speech to supporters of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network. During the speech, Holder had gone of script […]
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., comments on Rep. Darrell Issa’s, R-Calif., inquiries into the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. Issa and Cummings serve together on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and have used harsh words against each before, such as in March when they clashed at a hearing involving […]
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., expresses her disappointment over Wednesday’s failure to move forward on the Paycheck Fairness Act. In a near volcanic eruption on the Senate floor, Mikulski said: “To simply get a vote on the Senate floor, we have to vote on a motion to proceed on whether we’re even going to take it […]
Newt Gingrich decried the left’s “new fascism” Sunday, speaking on This Week With George Stephanopoulos. The former Speaker of the House said this new brand of fascism was forcing people out of their jobs for having conservative beliefs. Gingrich cited the recent resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich for donating $1000 to an organization supporting […]
Attack ads are as American as apple pie as you can see from this video documenting actual attack ads from around the year 1800. If anonymous political speech, the other widely decried villain of this political season, helped found the United States, attack ads are as American as apple pie. If you fancy yourself a […]