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Conservatives Kill Amnesty Bill —- For Now

Matthew Vadum

My article from the Aug. 1, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Conservatives Kill Amnesty Bill —- For Now By Matthew Vadum A conservative-led uprising among House Republicans scuttled Speaker John Boehner’s worse-than-useless border crisis and immigration legislation yesterday but party leaders vowed to try again today to pass the emergency funding bill. “The bill as it was had more loopholes than a knitted afghan,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said in a statement released exclusively to FrontPage late yesterday. Tonight, many members were able to come together and hammer out many of those problems so that we could live with the … Continue reading Conservatives Kill Amnesty Bill —- For Now

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Memo to Conservatives: Republicans Aren’t Your Friends

Matthew Vadum

My article from today’s American Thinker: Memo to Conservatives: Republicans Aren’t Your Friends By Matthew Vadum One of the reasons the national Republican Party is such a mess is because Republicans are far too reluctant to criticize their own. Republicans are nice people.  Too many Republicans think it’s wrong to criticize other Republicans. This failure to be forthright has had consequences.  It has allowed the Republican Party to take up political space it has no business occupying as it embraces left-wing statist tyranny.  Much of the time, the GOP is merely Democrat-lite. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) … Continue reading Memo to Conservatives: Republicans Aren’t Your Friends

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No, Your Majesty, Congress Will Not Be Available Wednesday

Matthew Vadum

Will Sergeant at Arms Wilson Livingood slam the doors of the House of Representatives shut in President Obama’s face if he shows up uninvited Wednesday? The president has asked to address a joint session of Congress that day in order to deliver for the umpteenth time another dreary, excuse-filled teleprompted oration on how he’s going to magically create new jobs for Americans. The Obama White House doesn’t give a farthing’s cuss that a high-stakes Republican presidential candidates’ debate has been scheduled for the same evening at the Reagan Library. Obama flak Jay Carney says the timing is a fluke. As the Washington Examiner reports White House … Continue reading No, Your Majesty, Congress Will Not Be Available Wednesday

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DNC-Sponsored Mob Violence Possible: ACORN, Obama Behind Plan To Dump Garbage On Speaker Boehner’s Home?

Matthew Vadum

(originally posted at NewsReal) The Democratic Party is officially encouraging supporters to go to Speaker John Boehner’s house and dump garbage on his lawn in order to intimidate him into rubber-stamping President Obama’s destructive spending spree. Such protests can easily turn violent, especially with the tense, hyper-partisan atmosphere on Capitol Hill right now. Is it a coincidence that not long after longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard took over as executive director of the Democratic National Committee the DNC is planning destructive ACORN-like protests?  Not bloody likely. As chief of the DNC’s day-to-day operations, Gaspard runs Organizing for America, the Saul Alinsky-inspired organization created to wage war on American democracy. … Continue reading DNC-Sponsored Mob Violence Possible: ACORN, Obama Behind Plan To Dump Garbage On Speaker Boehner’s Home?