The year is nearly over – time to review what’s happened in 2010 while we look forward to a superb 2011. I’ve picked a few posts we’ve done each month this year…some were more enlightening, some were more argumentative, and some were just more entertaining. We took all of December off, but look forward to getting back at posting more in 2011. Thanks for visiting the site this year, and wish y’all a Happy, Blessed, and Prosperous New Year. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Republicans’
Three Conservative Bros Presents…2010 Year in Review
Posted in Arizona, Immigration, Democrats, economy, Elections, Environment, Foreign Affairs, Health Care, Illegal immigration, Immigration, Liberal Elitism, Media, Obama, Politics, Race Relations, Radical Islam, Republicans, State of the Union, Terrorism, tagged Democrats, economy, Election, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Media Bias, Obama, President Obama, Racism, Republicans on December 29, 2010| 1 Comment »
Arizona Immigration Law: Republican Response
Posted in Immigration, Polls, Republicans, tagged arizona, arizona boycott, arizona immigration law, gallup poll, GOP, hispanics, illegal immigration, immigration, latinos, Republican Party, Republicans, Wrigley Field, Wrigley immigration protest, Wrigley protest on April 30, 2010| 3 Comments »
We are almost a full week into the debate on the new immigration law passed in the state of Arizona and the heated rhetoric is still prevalent. The opponents are bringing out the big outrage guns through marches planned by Rev. Sharpton, boycotts against traveling to Arizona, boycotts against companies headquartered in Arizona, and even boycotts against Arizona iced tea…which is manufactured in New York (like a bad salsa commercial). Facebook groups against the bill have been created, Paul Rodriguez has canceled his comedy tour through Arizona, and people are picketing the Arizona Diamondbacks…even on the road. You cannot view the media without finding some opinion relating the law to racism, Nazi Germany, or apartheid which no doubt should shape the opinion of the nation. Unless it hasn’t. (more…)
Health Care Summit: Mission Un-complished (w/UPDATE)
Posted in Democrats, Health Care, hypocrisy, Obama, Politics, Republicans, tagged CBO, Congress, Congressional Budget Office, Democrats, Eric Cantor, Health Care, Health Care Summit, health reform, John Boehner, John McCain, Lamar Alexander, Obama, Paul Ryan, President Obama, Reconciliation, Republicans, Senate, Senate Health Bill on February 25, 2010| 1 Comment »
The health care summit today made for some interesting television…if you find policy discussion devoid of any real confrontation interesting. Although boring, I love watching politics in action…I am a political wonk like that. I listened to way too much of it, and jotted down a couple things I liked and didn’t like about today’s forum. (more…)
More Amusement
Posted in Democrats, Elections, Fraud, hypocrisy, Politics, Polls, Republicans, tagged ACORN, Ben Nelson, CBS, Cornhusker Kickback, Democrats, Health Care, James O Keefe, Medicaid, Obama, Politics, Raging Grannies, Republicans, Tim Tebow on February 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »
A story our website failed to cover extensively was the backroom deals that took place in the Senate to get Obamacare passed. One of the big recipients was Ben Nelson a formerly popular Governor from Nebraska. In return for his vote his state received ‘the cornhusker kickback’, which among other things gave the state a permanent exemption from the state share of Medicaid expansion for Nebraska, meaning federal taxpayers have to kick in an additional $45 million in the first decade. Maybe America is beginning to wake up, the very constituents that benefited from this deal booed and heckled Nelson out of a Pizza Hut. Now he trails by 31 points in a hypothetical match-up with Nebraska’s current governor for the 2012 elections. I commend the citizens of Nebraska for holding their representatives accountable.
While the heat was on Nelson and negotiations were being made, Nelson ran this video to help persuade his fellow constituents.
We found out this week, that it’s not a Ben Nelson campaign ad. You probably can’t make out the disclaimer, but the ad was paid for by the Nebraska Democratic Party. So, not only did Nelson get bought off with Medicaid funding from the federal treasury, it now appears he got TV ads from the NDP. The DNC and Organizing for America have been asking supporters of “real” health care reform for funds and to the tune of about 500,000 dollars that support went to Nelson. The same Nelson that helped kill the public option, medicare buy-in, and insisted on harsh anti abortion language. Funny, that at this very time in Martha Coakley was running some horrendous ads in Massachusetts. Think this money could have been better spent?
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State of the Union Recap: Part II
Posted in Democrats, economy, Elections, Health Care, Military and Defense, Obama, Politics, Republicans, State of the Union, tagged afghanistan, Democrats, Health Insurance Reform, Healthcare Reform, Iraq, Liberal Policy, national security, Nuclear Proliferation, Obama, Politics, Republicans, Spending Freeze, State of the Union, Statist on January 28, 2010| 4 Comments »
Healthcare: Nevertheless, about 45 minutes into President Obama’s speech, he pivoted back to Healthcare and more specifically “health insurance reform.” (more…)
State of the Union: GOP Response
Posted in Republicans, State of the Union, tagged Bob McDonnell, Bobby Jindal, Election, Health Care, national security, Obama, Politics, Republicans, State of the Union on January 28, 2010| 2 Comments »
{ED. NOTE: Click here for SOTU recap, Part I or here for SOTU recap, Part II}
Newly inaugurated Virginia governor Bob McDonnell gave the Republican response to the State of the Union. Of course we caught a few of the ole Republican talking points, “Top-down, one-size-fits-all decision-making should not replace the personal choices of free people in a free market” “No government program can ever replace the actions of caring Americans freely choosing to help one another.”
State of the Union Recap: Part I
Posted in climate change, Democrats, economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Obama, Politics, Republicans, State of the Union, tagged conservative, economy, Education, Energy, Health Care Reform, Job Growth, Jobs, Obama, President Obama, Republican Party, Republicans, State of the Union, stimulus, Tax Cuts on January 28, 2010| 12 Comments »
{ED. NOTE: Click here for SOTU Recap, Part II or here to the Rebublican Response}
In an effort to review all parts of the State of the Union, we have split the address into three parts – conveniently it works, since there are 3 Conservative Bros. In Part I, I will focus on the beginning of the speech that covered most of the jobs bill, economy, and personal financial issues. MacGregor will cover the second part of the speech that included topics such as Health Care Insurance Reform, Campaign Financing, Defense, Budgeting, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and much Republican baiting. Finally, Timmy will recap the Republican Response by Gov. Bob McDonnell and look forward.
In general, I found Obama’s first State of the Union address to be very unbalanced, without a centralized message. He was very condescending in most parts, some light-hearted jabs, others, hooks to the jaw. There was minimal to no outreach towards Republicans or apologies for boxing them out of the process in the first year, but many times blame was thrown at the feet of Republicans. It showed the lack of leadership by the man claiming the Republicans were showing no leadership that rather than focus on the failures of his record majority, although it was mentioned, he threw most of the blame at the minority party who had no say in his health bills or most of the 2009 Congressional happenings.
He took some of populist angst towards the economy and made it his own, but also stuck a foot in the sand on some liberal policies that he wants to see passed right away. While many, including myself, expected him to come to the center in this speech like Clinton before him, I found generally he was still looking to pass unpopular policies in the cover of the “for the people” banner. The same policies that have led to defeats in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Some contradictions, some mea culpas, some off the cuff laughs and a LOT of ego. (more…)