Is Texas Republican Pete Sessions being blackmailed?

The Jawa Report:

Benghazi: Why is a Texas Republican Blocking a Select Committee Investigation?

Speaker John Boehner’s ally – Rep. Pete Sessions – has been using his position as Rules Chairman to prevent the resolution from even receiving a vote!

Are you an aspiring writer and freedom loving college student who identifies as Conservative, Republican or Libertarian?

Well, then: College Insurrection wants you!

The truth about Paul Ryan

Progressive bloggers and TV personalities are up in arms about Paul Ryan’s speech at the Republican National Convention last night. Several of their accusations revolve around Paul Ryan’s own fiscal record, and his description of President Obama’s. I asked my liberal friends on Twitter to send me an itemized list of Ryan’s alleged lies, and they kindly obliged. So far, Ryan appears to have the better of the argument.

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Marco Rubio's unfortunate error

My husband caught this at 17:30 . . .


Did you?


The transcript has what he meant to say: "We chose more freedom instead of more government."

Michele Bachmann strikes back!

BOMBSHELL

Ron Paul gittin' tired, may not make the long haul...

Ron Paul questioned Wednesday whether he would be able to endure a protracted fight for the Republican presidential nomination, wondering to reporters if he would be able to “hold up” through a long primary battle.

“I’m not looking forward to anything being long and protracted. So I hope it ends rather quickly and we do real well in the beginning of the year,” Paul said while campaigning in New Hampshire, according to CNN. “The organization is fantastic. The question is: am I going to hold up if I keep doing all this.”

If a long primary is too taxing, what would a presidential term be like?

Republican debate roundup from 5 bloggers

PowerLine: Impressions of tonight's debate

HotAir: Open thread: The “Perry’s last chance” debate

GatewayPundit: Cain & Able?…. Open Debate Thread – Will Cain Pull It Off?

Patterico: GOP Roundtable Open Thread

Legal Insurrection: Republican New Hampshire Debate – 10-11-2011

Self-hating Democrat blames those greedy Jews

GatewayPundit:

Democrat Waxman: Greedy Jews Vote Republican Because They Want to Protect Their Wealth

John Lennon was a closet Republican, who felt a little embarrassed by his former radicalism, at the time of his death

Fred Seaman worked alongside the music legend from 1979 to Lennon's death at the end of 1980 and he reveals the star was a Ronald Reagan fan who enjoyed arguing with left-wing radicals who reminded him of his former self.

In new documentary Beatles Stories, Seaman tells filmmaker Seth Swirsky Lennon wasn't the peace-loving militant fans thought he was while he was his assistant.

He says, "John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on (Democrat) Jimmy Carter.

Lennon was a closet Republican: Assistant

REASON #708 TO VOTE REPUBLICAN THIS NOVEMBER:

HOTTEST NEW REPUBLICAN STAR

If money is any indication, the hottest Republican House candidate in the country is Kristi Noem. The 38-year-old rancher has raised more campaign cash than any Republican house challenger in the country.

In South Dakota: Another Sarah Palin?

How the mainstream meda (msm) reports the news

Curtis Coleman: IF YOU LIVE IN ARKANSAS YOU MUST VOTE FOR HIM AND HERE'S WHY

Candidate for U.S. Senate from Arkansas questions Obama’s eligibility

The Roadmap for America's Future

by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan:

It's a remarkably comprehensive, daring manifesto that tackles every part of the budget on a presidential scale, from Social Security to tax policy to health-care reform...

Obama's new adversary

After all the rule-bending shenanigans of the Massachusetts Democrats, leaving a dying Kennedy in office, and then ramrodding Kirk's appointment to the Senate to help ObamaCare, now they're desperate enough to ignore the people's vote?

Stunner: Scared Mass. Dems Plot to Delay GOP Victory In Teddy Seat Until ObamaCare Passes

Get it!

20 senators demand probe of health-care vote 'threat'

Did the President really threaten to shut down Offutt AFB...headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command if Senator Nelson didn't vote "yes" on health care???

How is Obamacare to be stopped?

From PowerLine:

Over at Redstate, Erick Erickson makes an impassioned plea for Republican Senators to stop Obamacare in its tracks. Erickson essentially argues that unused parliamentary devices could and should be used by Republicans to oppose Obamacare in the Senate.

It's a terrific post and I couldn't agree more with Erickson's reckoning of the stakes involved. I asked a GOP Senate source to comment on Erickson's post. He has forwarded the following message with embedded links:

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CONFIRMED: BUY HEALTH INSURANCE OR GO TO JAIL!!!

FROM POLITICO

September 25, 2009
Categories: Senate

Ensign receives handwritten confirmation

This doesn't happen often enough.

Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.

Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it "Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold."

The note was a follow-up to Ensign's questioning at the markup.

By Carrie Budoff Brown 11:40 AM

Dr. Strangelove meets Olympia Snowe

This Republican-In-Name-Only keeps turning up in all the wrong places. I cannot tell you how much she disgusts me.

"The cybersecurity threat is real," said Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, which obtained the draft of S. 773, "but such a drastic federal intervention in private communications technology and networks could harm both security and privacy."

Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Mother Jones the bill was "contrary to what the Constitution promises us." According to Granick, granting the Commerce Department oversight of "critical" networks such as banking systems would grant the government access to potentially incriminating information without cause or warrant, a violation of the Constitution's prohibition against unlawful search and seizure.

Like the health care bill, there are several versions of S. 773; what people have seen is vaguely written. The bill does not clearly define what a cyberemergency or critical network is. Nor does it explicitly define the powers of the president in such an emergency or what he is prevented from doing. That is left up to the administration in power.

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