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Walter Reed: Victim of Underfunding and Privatization
As the Walter Reed scandal sears the public, more attention is being paid to whose heads should roll than what policies need reform. While both are important, if bad policies don't change, new people can't do a better job. It's becoming clear that Walter Reed suffers...
Newt: One of the "Worst Persons In The World"
Newt Gingrich's blaming of New Orleans' 9th Ward residents for a "failure of citizenship" by being unable to "get out of the way of a hurricane" -- remarks jointly pushed into the spotlight by this blog and Huffington Post's Matt Browner Hamlin -- won the coveted...
Conservatives Pout and Complain
My Campaign For America's Future colleague Eric Lotke has his take on CPAC posted at TomPaine.com, "CPAC: Conservatives Pout And Complain." Here's an excerpt: The conservatives at central headquarters don’t seem to have learned the lesson of 2006 ... Americans want...
The Conservative Movement: Stuck on Step 1
The following was initially posted at The Huffington Post. As everyone knows, the first step is admitting you have a problem. Yet during my three days attending the Conservative Political Action Conference, I failed to find much recognition from conservatives that...
Newt: The Savior?
The CPAC presidential straw poll was announced today, right before Newt Gingrich delivered the final address of the event. Mitt Romney nominally won, but with a paltry plurality of 21%, and he paid for "scores" of staffers to participate in the poll. Further, there...
The Conservative Iran Debate: Bombing or Assassination
Two of the conservative movement's most beloved intellectual leaders, Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity, had slightly differing takes on how to approach Iran, though both received jubilant applause by their respective standing-room-only audiences. Coulter, in discussing...
Newt on New Orleans 9th Ward Residents: A "Failure of Citizenship"
There's more to say about Newt Gingrich (who looks more like a presidential candidate after today) but let me call attention to this from his grand finale address to CPAC: He blamed the residents of New Orleans' 9th Ward for a "failure of citizenship," by being "so...
"Energy Independence Is Not A Possible Option"
Whoever said "failure is not an option"* hasn't met the visionaries of the American Petroleum Institute -- aka, the lobbyists for Big Oil. Big Oil's chief economist John Felmy spoke on a CPAC energy panel ... and let's take a moment to reflect on that: The biggest...
Bizarre Sight Of The Day
A Sam Brownback supporter with a lip ring. The evil grasp Britney Spears has on our youth has even infiltrated CPAC. The terrorists have won. You may go home now. For more, check out our Conservative Failure page
Blogger Ethics Panel Time
Rudy Giuliani was glowingly introduced today by a member of the so-called liberal media, Washington Post columnist George Will. Will assured the audience that Giuliani's conservatism is "the flavor of Margaret Thatcher's" and "produced the 8 consectutive years of the...
