Massachusetts Miracle

The intensely followed special election for the late Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat (in a manner of speaking) came to an apparent end Tuesday night at approximately 9:30 pm. From the very beginning, election results hovered around 52-53% in favor of Brown to Coakley’s 47-48% with little fluctuation.
Coakley’s concession speech, which came about 20 [...]

Transparenc-peek

It has all the irony of a fascistic regime promising the amenities of an open democratic political process, yet under-delivering in the most comically absurd way. “Sure, you can vote!” leaders say, “You just have to vote for someone in the Communist Party.” In our America, incessant promises of governmental “openness” and “transparency” once wooed [...]

Happy Birthday SGP! An interview with co-founder, Teri Christoph on how it all got started.

I recently reached out to SGP co-founder and Executive Director, Teri Christoph to get the inside story on how the group was started one year ago today. Happy Birthday Smart Girl Politics!
SGN: Stacy Mott is the founder of SGP, right? How and when did you get involved? Were you also a part of its “birth”?
TC: [...]

Liberals on Sunday Talk Shows Reveal Their Anger with Pelosi’s Bill

By Kathy Barkulis
A war is brewing within the Democrat Party ranks. It didn’t take long for the liberals to spew their dissatisfaction with the abortion ammendment to Nancy Pelosi’s healthcare bill. They appeared on the Sunday talk shows to decry the compromise and promised to change the terms before they would support the Senate version [...]

Saturday Night House Ram Down

Open up and say,“Ah!” Or we’ll do it for you.
While many of their constituents were undoubtedly asleep, late into the night in a rare Saturday session, the House narrowly passed the healthcare bill by a vote of 220-215. One Republican, Ahn Cao, contributed to the yeas. Two others came from the Democratic seats picked [...]

Gingrich More Committal on 2012 Race

Although he says he has no “great personal ambition…to run for president” Newt Gingrich admitted during a C-SPAN interview that a Presidential run in 2012 is definitely within the realm of possibility. The key factor in the decision will be whether there is a dearth of strong candidates come February 2011 such that Gingrich will [...]

A Regrettable Encounter with NOW

I thought fellow Smart Girls would get a kick out of this.  And also put to rest any doubts as to the so-called “National Organization for Women” and their mission of attacking conservatives instead of, well, promoting women as their title might suggest.
Here is what happened: I put an ad out on Craig’s List recently [...]