Almost one month has passed since the November 6th midterm elections. Many have analyzed the losses suffered by the Republican Party in Illinois. To the base of the Party – Conservatives who stand firmly on the adopted Republican Party platform – the causes are abundantly clear. Party leadership made no attempt to unify the Party, failed to support good candidates and failed to effectively communicate to voters the principles of the Republican Party. Due to this failure of leadership and lack of accepting any responsibility for the losses, Illinois Conservative Union (ICU) calls for Tim Schneider to step down from his position as Chairman.… Continue Reading
Written by Daniel Horowitz
If we are so busy “owning the libs” that we ignore the libs festering within our own ranks to the point where “our party” agrees with 90 percent of what the libs want, isn’t it time we focused on cleaning our own house?
The biggest news of the day outside the Kavanaugh cloture vote in the U.S. Senate is that one Republican, Lisa Murkowski from the solid red state of Alaska, voted against him.… Continue Reading
Tags: Brett Kavanaugh, Dave Brat, Democrat Party, Donald Trump, Jim Jordan, Joe Miller, Kevin McCarthy, Libertarian Party, Lisa Murkowski, Marsha Blackburn, Mitch McConnell, Obamacare, Republican Party, RINOs, SCOTUS, Thad Cochran
Federal Issues | David E. Smith | October 9, 2018 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Complacent Conservatives Should Learn the Murkowski Lesson
Written by Tamara Jackson
Our nation was founded unlike any other nation in history. England embraced a feudal system, followed by a system of peerage and a (dead) state church whose head was the country’s sovereign and often tyrannical ruler.
France endured a godless revolution, resulting in a political system constrained by the motto: “liberté, égalité, fraternité.” (i.e. “liberty, equality, brotherhood”)
That sounds noble, but devoid of God and godly principles, only freedom and equality are left, both determined precariously by the whims of the masses rather than transcendent Truth.… Continue Reading
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Republicans have already given away the farm.
Imagine a teenager goes on a shopping spree with his dad’s credit card one month and unalterably charges the card with hundreds of thousands in expenditures. Then, the next day at the supper table, he passes his dad a note saying he is willing to help balance the family’s budget. You are as foolish as that dad if you are taken in by the GOP’s vote this week on a balanced budget amendment.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Budget Control Act, Congressional Budget Office, Donald Trump, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Medicaid, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, Omnibus Spending Bill, Paul Ryan, Republican Party
Federal Issues | David E. Smith | April 11, 2018 11:00 AM | Comments Off on The Stupidity of the GOP
Written by David Limbaugh
Hillary Clinton’s abhorrent remarks in Mumbai, India, warrant our attention because, like it or not, they represent the thinking of a large swath of the modern Democratic Party.
But my aim is not to highlight Clinton’s never-ending catalog of excuses for losing the presidential election, except to note that rather than blame everyone and everything but herself, she should apologize for stealing the nomination. If she hadn’t done that, she wouldn’t have to blame anyone.… Continue Reading
Monte Larrick’s introduction to the video posted below says it well:
“You see and feel what’s happening in Illinois…high taxes…fiscal chaos…businesses and your hard-working friends leaving the state…a liberal social agenda…and we can’t just blame Democrats for the mess in Illinois when too many Republicans are contributing to our state’s downfall.”
While there is much to cause despair, the truth is that Christian conservatives can make a huge impact — especially when it comes to the workings of the Republican Party.… Continue Reading
Written by Lt. Col. Allen B. West
[Over the summer], MSNBC host and former U.S. Congressman from Florida Joe Scarborough said on a late night talk show that he was no longer a Republican. Scarborough admitted that he would be registering as an Independent. This is the same Joe Scarborough who came of age in the constitutional conservative ideological legislative revolution of one Newt Gingrich and his “Contract with America”. Of course, these days there are many folks changing their party affiliations to Independent.… Continue Reading
Tags: Border Adjustment Tax, Contract with America, Don Gaetz, gender reassignment surgery, James Mattis, Joe Scarborough, John Kasich, Josiah T. Walls, Kevin Brady, Medicaid, Medicare, national debt, Newt Gingrich, Obamacare, Republican Party, Rick Scott, Social Security, transgender troops, value added tax, Vicki Hartzler
Political | David E. Smith | September 21, 2017 5:24 AM | Comments Off on What Does it Mean to Be a Republican?
Written by John Biver
Every time state spending increases and taxes are raised, Republicans and conservatives issue statements expressing disappointment and disgust with those who played a part in making it happen. For many of us watching this Illinois tax and spend train wreck year after year, these statements are tiresome.
Bad things happen. Our side reacts to those bad things with statements.
These pages have outlined and linked to other articles explaining that Illinois’ problem is a simple math problem.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Brady, Bruce Rauner, Donald Trump, Ken Griffin, Reagan Democrats, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Tax Increases
Illinois Politics, Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | July 7, 2017 5:00 PM | Comments Off on Ineffective GOP Messaging Leads to Tax Hikes Without Reforms Every Time
Written by Bryan Fisher
Well, now we know why the GOP establishment kept their ObamaCare replacement package locked in a room where not even GOP senators could read it. Everyone naturally wondered what they were hiding, and now we know. They were hiding it because it is a horrible, no good, very bad piece of legislation.
If it repeals ObamaCare in any meaningful sense (and it doesn’t), it only replaces it with something as bad if not worse.… Continue Reading
Written by Spencer Irvine
This is a follow-up to our previous post on the disruption of town halls across the nation due to left-wing protesters, who aren’t from the area where the town halls are being held, and where the liberal media praised the protesters for standing up to the Republicans and President Donald Trump. The protesters praise themselves on a MoveOn.org website and at the Town Hall Project.
So far, fourteen Republicans have seen their town halls disrupted by left-wing protesters.… Continue Reading