The Lee Fisher for Senate campaign has been one long, disgraceful slog thus far, with Lee needing to empty out his already small war chest to beat back a challenge in the Democrat primary from Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (who had about $14.92 on hand at any given time in the race). Then Lee miscounted by about 48, when he WAY overestimated his grassroots support at the Northland Independence Day Parade last month on Twitter before disgracefully sneaking off the parade route, which would have been fine except that some people apparently have cameras AND internet access to see the nonsensical number counting (a crowd estimate that would have made the DC Police proud). On top of that, Lee is now on his third campaign manager, and has lost both his Communications Director & Research Director, at least one of whom went to work on another Senate campaign with a better shot at winning. To take the cake, though, media pundits and Democrat bigwigs took notice, culminating in this fantastic video summing up the smoking wreckage that is the Democrats’ best shot at winning a Republican-held seat in the US Senate, in an open contest to boot, against an opponent who had never run statewide versus Lee’s approximate 53 statewide ballot appearances (that number subject to Lee’s own counting practices). Check it out:
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Lee Fisher is on a roll (just not a good one!)
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Don’t Put It On Our Tab gaining momentum
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Back in May, the College Republican National Committee launched an online effort called Don’t Put It On Our Tab, with an accompanying online petition and video, all designed to draw attention to the partisan politics transcendent issue of the rapidly ballooning national debt, which is now well over $13 trillion. Now, they’re back at it with a follow-up video entitled “America is not too big to fail”, and coverage all over the internet, including this great piece penned by CRNC Chairman Zach Howell over at the Daily Caller, where the following passage is taken from:
“Given their political record, it’s not hard to conclude that our Democratic leaders live in an alternate economic reality. Although their philosophies are based on illusions, the consequences of their policies are very real. The president’s confrontational stance toward American business and the fear of future increases in interest rates and taxes have depressed private sector job growth. America’s economy is becoming increasingly government-centric, while private sector initiative has been shackled by burdensome new regulations and uncertainty.
If our government doesn’t end its spend-now, pay-later approach, we will suffer the same fate as Greece. We are big, but we are not too big to fail. Our nation’s prosperity is not the result of our government’s ability to tax and spend its citizen’s wealth—it is the result of American ingenuity, innovation and entrepreneurial energy.”
And here is the brand-new video, America is not too big to fail:
Pass it along, share it with your friends on Facebook or Twitter using the Sociable bar below, and make sure you sign the petition at CRNC.org/petition to tell Congress don’t put your debt on our tab!
Who needs the Fairness Doctrine?
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009The short answer is apparently not Barack Obama’s White House. According to leading left-wing “progressive” radio host Ed Schultz, the White House is communicating directly with on-air personalities at MSNBC, specifically on the “Morning Joe” program. As detailed by the Radio Equalizer Blog and posted on the Drudge Report, on-air hosts were contacted by White House handlers advisors possibly directing the line of questioning against Schultz, who was there to speak out against ObamaCare’s current Senate version. As Schultz notes on his own radio program after the appearance on “Morning Joe” that the White House is so hyper-sensitive to even left-wing chatter, what sort of scandal would this be if it were FOX News with the Bush Administration pulling the strings a year ago?
Shortly after the communication with the White House allegedly occurred, “Morning Joe” featured an unscheduled segment with Obama right-hand man David Axelrod to refute claims made by Schultz and others that the health care bill was crap. Obviously, there was some communication one way or another, and MSNBC consented to having Axelrod on their airwaves at the last minute for said propaganda-filled unscheduled segment.
We may not have seen a Democrat Congress with wide margins of power actually pass the “Fairness Doctrine”, or that legislation under a slick new name, but it is apparent that the White House is intent on enforcing their own brand of fairness as they see fit. But in the end, do they really need the Fairness Doctrine if they will just comandeer the airwaves of an unabashedly liberal network like MSNBC on a whim to talk down opposition from their own side? (And how bad of an idea is this pork spending, tax-hiking, and job-killing health care reform if guys like Ed Schultz & Howard Dean oppose it?)