Category Archives: Democrats

Texas Senate Race Update for April 20, 2012

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Lawrence Person

Q1 reports trickle out and Team Dewhurst attack websites start popping up like mushrooms: Ted Cruz has accused David Dewhurst of helping use gimmicks to balance the state budget because, well, gimmicks have been used to balance the state budget. … Continue reading →

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Wisconsin Democrats Go for the Walter Mondale Strategy

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Lawrence Person

The one where you tell potential voters “I’m going to raise your taxes.” We all know how well that worked out for him: Sadly, the Saturday Night Live “What Were You Thinking?” skit with Mondale does not appear to be … Continue reading →

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Texas Senate Race Update for April 12, 2012

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Lawrence Person

Reminder: I will be liveblogging the Texas Senate debate here tomorrow at 7 PM. Feel free to drop by for insightful commentary, snarky asides, and no doubt a veritable cavalcade of deeply embarrassing typos. Now this week’s Senate race news: … Continue reading →

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RIP: Artist Thomas Kinkade, Dead at 54

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Lawrence Person

Painter Thomas Kinkade has died at age 54. Kinkade was the extraordinarily popular “artist of light” who managed to turn himself into a franchise, opening up mall stores to sell reproductions of his paintings. This was the sort of thing … Continue reading →

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Texas Senate Race Update for April 5, 2012

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Lawrence Person

Expect things to be a little slow for the Easter weekend: Ted Cruz appeared on Fox 26 in Houston: Cruz got attacked by Progress Texas for advertising on Rush Limbaugh. So Cruz reaches conservative listeners and gets liberals to attack … Continue reading →

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Keith Olbermann’s Appeal Becomes Ever More Selective

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Lawrence Person

How bad do you have to suck to be fired and replaced with Eliot Spitzer? Evidently you have to suck as bad as Keith Olbermann. He went from CNN to MSNBC to Current TV (whose audience ratings clock in slightly … Continue reading →

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Texas Senate Race Update for March 23, 2012

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Lawrence Person

Wednesday night I finally got a chance to interview Craig James, so I hope to have the video of that up next week (though I have to warn you in advance that the technical quality is not as good as … Continue reading →

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Democrat Paul Sadler: Texans Don’t Understand How Awesome Obama Is Because They’re Racists

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Lawrence Person

It should be no surprise that Democratic senate candidate Paul Sadler supports the the whole liberal checklist of Obama initiatives. However, what’s surprising is how easily he plays the “Obama’s opponents are racist” card on his fellow Texans: “If he … Continue reading →

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The Two Year Anniversary of ObamaCare

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Lawrence Person

Today is the two year anniversary of the passage of ObamaCare. Note that Republicans are marking the anniversary of Obama’s signature achievement, while the White House is not. Even Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer admits that it’s an electoral liability for … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for March 20, 2012

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Lawrence Person

Had a busy day working and keeping track of contractors laying sod in my back yard, so here’s another LinkSwarm: Two ads, one saying people should reject Catholicism, one saying they should reject Islam. Guess which one The New York … Continue reading →

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