Posts Tagged ‘Hotair’
Video: Are you ready for the Tim Tebow Easter service?
I was curious to see him in action in the pulpit and, after 400+ comments in Headlines on this, figured you would be too. Here’s all 24 minutes of his QA yesterday at the “Easter on the Hill” service in Texas together with a snippet from his answer on “Tebowing” for people who can’t spare the time. Actual quote from Timothy Dolan, the new cardinal from NYC and a contender to succeed Benedict as Pope: “We got over 3,000 people at St. Patrick’s Cathedral this morning, you think one Timothy Dolan would be happy. But I’m jealous because one Timothy Tebow has 25,000.” (The AP said it was closer to 15,000.) Over at Yahoo Sports, “Shutdown Corner” says we’ve got an honest-to-goodness cultural phenomenon here: “I think it’s exactly what we wanted to have happen,” [...]
Great news: Obama diverting a half-billion dollars to the IRS for ObamaCare enforcement
The good news — Barack Obama has finally found a way to use a half-billion dollars to fund job creation, unlike at Solyndra, where both the money and the jobs disappeared. The bad news? They’ll all be IRS enforcers for a law that has a pretty good chance of getting mooted in the next few months: The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law. The money is only part of the IRS’s total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside the normal appropriations process. The tax agency is responsible for several key provisions of the new law, including the unpopular individual mandate. Not just including the individual mandate — it’s almost entirely for enforcing the individual mandate. [...]
Gingrich: I’ll support Mitt Romney if he becomes the nominee
Well, I should think so. After such a long campaign to beat him, then stop him, then force him to “earn” the nomination, though, I guess it wasn’t always guaranteed that Newt Gingrich would support Mitt Romney if he becomes the nominee. It’s now confirmed, though. Gingrich said it himself on Fox News Sunday: “I think you have to be realistic, given the size of his organization, given the number of primaries he’s won, he is far and away the most likely Republican nominee,” Gingrich said … “If he does get to 1,144 delegates, I’ll support him and I’ll do everything I can this fall to help him defeat Obama because the primary goal of the entire Republican party has to be to defeat Barack Obama,” he said. “This makes this maybe the most important election of our [...]
Open thread: Sunday morning talking heads
Lots of religious guests on tap for Easter Sunday morning, including Cardinal Dolan of New York discussing Obama’s contraception “compromise” on CBS and Rick Warren sitting down with Jake Tapper on ABC. If you’re dead set on politics, though, Ron Johnson and Kent Conrad will battle over Paul Ryan’s budget on Fox and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz will turn up on CNN to repeat whichever Democratic talking points her operating system has been configured to run this week. Expect lots of “war on women” nonsense in keeping with Obama’s recent pander-monium. The line-up via WaPo: NBC’s Meet the Press: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL); Sen. John Kasich (R-OH); Archbishop-designate of Baltimore William Lori; daughter of Billy Graham, Anne Graham Lotz; United Methodist Pastor Rep. Emanuel [...]
Allen West: I’d be the vice presidential nominee if it was the “right fit”
Florida Republican Rep. Allen West, who’s been cited by both Sarah Palin and Nikki Haley as a potentially “good” vice presidential nominee, told CNN’s Kyra Phillips he’d strongly consider the VP nod if he were offered it. The future is hard to predict, he noted, but he said he’d find it humbling to be considered qualified for such a high office and he prides himself on serving his country in whatever capacity he can (h/t Erika Johnsen): The money line came when Kyra asked him if he likes Mitt Romney. “I’ve never been on a dinner date with him … so I don’t know if I would like him,” West says candidly. As much as I like the Florida congressman whose outspoken opinions are almost always refreshingly right on, I can’t help but agree with him when he says he’s highly [...]
German solution: Tax the young!
For those who like to cite Germany as some sort of model of fiscal probity and “getting it right” in terms of economic modeling, think again. Like many other nations – ours included – the Germans are looking a decade or two down the road and seeing that their tax base simply isn’t going to support all of the pensioners collecting benefits. They’re experiencing their own “baby boom” problem, with projections that there will be seven million fewer workers paying into the system by 2030. But fear not. They’ve come up with a solution! Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats have drafted proposals that, if law, would require all those over 25 to pay a proportion of their income to cushion Germany against a looming population crisis. The German Chancellor’s ruling party is [...]
Clarence Thomas: Let’s face it, Q&A during oral arguments isn’t helpful
I don’t agree, but I’d never fault a judge for being eager to listen. “I don’t see where that advances anything,” he said of the questions. “Maybe it’s the Southerner in me. Maybe it’s the introvert in me, I don’t know. I think that when somebody’s talking, somebody ought to listen.”… He said the lawyers presenting their cases are capable and don’t need guidance from the justices: “I don’t need to hold your hand, help you cross the street to argue a case. I don’t need to badger you.”… “We have a lifetime to go back in chambers and to argue with each other,” he said. “They have 30, 40 minutes per side for cases that are important to them and to the country. They should argue. That’s a part of the process. “I don’t like to badger people. These [...]
Nikki Haley: I wouldn’t accept the vice presidential nomination
As CNN’s Candy Crowley writes today, it’s never too early for the political world to play veepstakes. So, join the game — but don’t bet on Nikki Haley. In an ABC “Nightline” interview set to air tomorrow at 11:35 p.m. ET, the South Carolina governor said she would turn down the vice presidential nomination if the eventual GOP nominee were to offer it to her. Her strong statement against the VP nod might help to diffuse some of the suspicion aroused by her early endorsement of Mitt Romney. Perhaps she didn’t endorse him merely to position herself well in the Republican Party. Maybe she really did — and does — think he’d be the best person for the job of president. That’s certainly the tone she struck in the “Nightline” interview: A Tea Party favorite [...]
Medvedev: Working with comrade Obama has been the ‘best three years’ for U.S.-Russian relations in a long time
Throughout the 2008 campaign Barack Obama promised that if elected he would ‘restore our standing’ in the world. I’m not sure all of our allies feel the same way, but as far as Russia is concerned: mission accomplished. My colleague Barack Obama and I have once again had a constructive discussion of the various issues on the international agenda and on bilateral cooperation between the Russian Federation and the United States. I said that although there are varying assessments of the reset in relations that has been much spoken about over these last three years, I think that we have accomplished very useful work over this time. These have perhaps been the best three years in relations between our two countries over the last decade. This is an excerpt from prepared remarks delivered [...]
EPA backs off on fracking contamination claims in Texas
Down in the Lone Star State, while it may be too soon to get our hopes up, it appears that a ray of sanity based sunshine may be breaking through the clouds of progressive political obfuscation surrounding the issue of natural gas drilling. And it didn’t even take a court to enforce it. In one pending case involving alleged contamination of ground water by energy exploration efforts, the EPA has backed out of a law suit and said that their claims can not be backed up by the evidence. They also signaled that they will revisit at least two more similar cases before deciding whether or not to proceed. The Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its claim that an energy company contaminated drinking water in Texas, the third time in recent months that the agency has backtracked on [...]
