Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the second-highest Republican member of the Senate, has drawn a 2014 primary challenger. Erick Wyatt of Rockport, Texas filed papers this week with the Federal Election Commission to run for Senate against Cornyn, the Senate Minority Whip, who is up for re-election in 2014.
Ted Cruz spoke in Ohio at the Cuyahoga County GOP Lincoln Day on Thursday, and he said that President Obama’s “longest lasting legacy” will be helping to create a new group of Republican leaders, says Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Let’s hope he’s right, since Obama’s first four years apparently weren’t painful enough for the American people.
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is becoming increasingly concerned about his 2014 re-election chances in Kentucky, according to a progressive Super PAC that says it is partnering with unnamed Tea Party groups to paint McConnell as a corrupt insider and knock him out of his longtime Senate seat in a Republican primary.
With sequestration budget cuts set to take effect in less than a week, Republican Sen. Tom Coburn has sent a letter to the White House asking for more information about a new initiative to help cities receive federal grants and other aid. The initiative involves White House and administration officials traveling to 100 cities around the country, helping local governments apply for federal money.
President Barack Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House. The results are transformational. With more technology, and fewer resources at many media companies, the balance of power between the White House and press has tipped unmistakably toward the government.
Rush Limbaugh takes a page from Michelle Obama’s playbook . . . kind of. The president’s demagoguery is way over the top, and the mainstream media is nowhere to be found.
The U.S. has been denied direct access to the only publicly known suspect in custody in connection with the September 11 Benghazi terror attack.
For generations the Republican Party has presented itself as the political home of Americans opposing ever-bigger government financed by ever-higher taxes. But the Establishment now appears poised to permanently disenfranchise middle class voters from the Party of Lincoln.
The president’s push for new gun control legislation has driven up demand for guns and ammo around the country, in some cases dramatically.
Attitudes toward immigration are polarized by party, according to another the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Seventy-five percent of Republicans think all or most immigrants should be deported, compared to 40 percent of Democrats who think the same.