An Uphill Climb Just Isn’t That Fun

     Harry Reid is in DEEP trouble, and he knows it.  He is facing an opponent he has never faced before—a Conservative female Republican who thinks fast on her feet and actually knows what she is doing.  Reid is also facing another opponent he has never faced before—the Tea Party.  The Tea Party has Reid in its sights and it looks as if they just may make the kill.
     After the slugfest that was the Republican Senate primary in Nevada, they settled on Sharron Angle.  Angle, a former teacher turned state Senator, originally started way back in the polls from fellow Republicans Sue Lowden and Danny Tarkanian.  However, after the Tea Party learned about Angle, they decided to endorse her and send out their grassroots support for her.  This is what fueled her candidacy and helped her win the primary.  Angle is now going full steam against Reid.  She has already raised close to a million dollars and Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund has already endorsed her and sent her money. 
     Even though Angle has the grassroots support behind her, she still has to unseat one of the most powerful politicans (and Democrats) in Congress.  Reid has a campaign war chest of $9 million and he has already unleashed a ruthless, lying campaign ad against her; claiming she wants to phase-out Social Security and Medicare, as well as many other outrageous claims.  If we are going to take back the Senate in 2010, we must push back against the Democrats’ crazy campaigning and fight back hard. 

Incompetence IS Disgusting!

     Let’s be honest here; the Federal response to the BP oil spill down in Louisiana is anemic to give it any credit.  President Obama has spent most of his time golfing while birds are struggling to breathe with oil in their lungs and the state of Louisiana has been forced to pay for its own National Guard troops (usually in an emergency like this the Federal government reimburses the state for these expenses).  This is close to making the incompetence showed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina petty.  Analysts have stated that this is the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, even worse than the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill—from which oil can still be found in Prince William Sound, AK. 
     The effects of this spill are already starting to come to fruition.  The fishing industry is taking a huge hit in Louisiana around the oil spill and with that hit comes a long-lasting economic depression.  Louisiana is a state that relies heavily on fishing and tourism to stay afloat, and this oil spill is going to set both back many steps for generations to come.  The only government official that seems to be showing any concern over this disaster is Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA).  He has been on the ground, meeting with cleanup personnel and staying on top of things.  The most President Obama has showed is a piddly little 3-hour beach tour in which he accomplished nothing. 
     Fishing and tourism aren’t the only things that are going to be damaged by this—the Democrats are going to take a huge hit this fall.  In 2006 and 2008 Democrats won on the expectation that they were going to show real leadership in Washington.  They have utterly and completely FAILED!  Let’s show Washington a message this November and THROW THE BUMS OUT! 

Transparent As Mud!

I think it’s pretty obvious—the Obama administration tried to revert back to their old Chicago swamp-politics with the revelations about the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic primary. 
It has come out that someone in the Obama administration asked Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA) to drop out of the primary race against incumbent Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) with the lure of a high post in the administration.   Speculation says that Sestak was offered the post of secretary of the Navy because Sestak used to be a Navy admiral or ambassador to Russia because Sestak is fluent in Russian.  No matter how you chew this, it stinks. 
Now the Obama administration is trying to loop Bill Clinton into this one, saying that it was Clinton who offered the job to Sestak in lieu of the Obama administration.  Talk about ducking and dodging!  During the 2008 campaign, Obama talked fervently about the need for transparency in the Federal.  Well, Mr. President, I do believe you have broken that promise. 
I’m not surprised this happened.  Obama rose to prominence in Chicago, the home of dirty filthy politics.  To rise in Chicago politics, you have to play dirty and that’s just what Obama did.  He pulled the wool over the eyes of all of America and now the wool is starting to fall off, and the results are not too pretty.  Keep up the heat on the Obama administration to come clean about this and let’s let them have it!  Thank goodness we have great Libertarian/Conservative think tanks like the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation to advocate our causes.  

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There Will Be Blood

     Ohio Senator George Voinovich (R) will not be seeking reelection this year.  That means that his Senate seat is now up for grabs.  This is going to be a bloody race for a Senate seat.
     The parties have chosen their nominees.  The Democrats have chosen current Ohio Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher as their candidate, and the Republicans have chosen former Congressman Rob Portman.  Both are fixtures in their respective sectors of Ohio politics and are strong, determined candidates.  Fisher has been in Ohio politics for 30+ years and brings the most clout with him out of the two.  Portman was a Congressman from Ohio’s 2nd District for 14 years as well as being the Director of the Office of Budget Management for the Bush administration from 2006-2007. 
     The two candidates are both hard campaigners.  Fisher already has started going negative with his campaigning as well as fundraising to replenish his depleted bank account after a bloody primary raced against Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.  Portman, however, who ran unopposed in his primary has close to 8 million dollars in his bank account which he is using on his Jobs for Ohio Tour.  However, Ohio is not an easy election environment for either party to compete in.  The northern part of the state is mainly Democratic and the southern part of the state is mainly Republican.  It is a perfect mix of all races as well as classes of people.  You can go from the rural eastern part of the state all the way to the western part of the state, which includes metropolitan cities such as Columbus, Cincinnati, and Dayton. 
     Personally, I endorse Rob Portman in this race.  He was my former congressman and he has the experience as well as the knowledge to vote in Washington with a clear head as well as judge with and independent opinion.  Lee Fisher, however, is a traditional Liberal Democrat.  He will only do what his party elders tell him to do, he will not form his own opinions.  He has also committed himself to much of the Obama agenda, which makes him a prime target for Tea Partiers and Conservative Republicans.  Ohio needs to replace a good senator with a great senator—and Rob Portman is just the person for the job.