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It was a fools errand. We were not going to defund obama care. Instead of bringing people through crisis, we are creating it for them. Republican senator burris said, its the stupidest idea ive ever heard. And i think a lot of Establishment Republicans really never thought it would come to this. In the last 24 hours, conservatives tried to come to grips with the depths of their defeat. I was pondering if i can ever remember a greater political disaster in my lifetime. All this crap about the law of the land. The law of the land is the constitution john boehner was never going to fight hard on ...

They blundered themselves into the disaster they engineered. And today, theres plenty of blame to go around. This morning, the crisis is over. We fought the good fight. We just didnt win. Folks said we were going to lose turned out to be correct. I cant argue with that. It was a fools errand. We were not going to defund obama care. Instead of bringing people through crisis, we are creating it for them. Republican senator burris said, its the stupidest idea ive ever heard. And i think a lot of Establishment Republicans really never thought it would come to this. In the last 24 hours, conservati...

In virginia right now, the election is not over, despite the calendar. We know that bishop e. W. Jackson is not going to be Lieutenant Governor in virginia. We know that Ken Cuccinelli is not going to be governor in virginia, but you know what . Ken cuccinelli is still the attorney general of that state, and that turns out to be really, really important, given that the election is not yet over. For the last generation or so, attorneys general in virginia have stepped down if they wanted to run for some other office in order to avoid a conflict of interest. One of the jobs of the attorney gener...

Right on through. Republican senator ted cruz has taken his oneman show on the road with a soldout performance that killed friday night before an audience of 600 at the Republican Party of iowas fall Ronald Reagan commemorative dinner. It was cruzs first visit to the state since the 21hour talkathon that propelled him into infamy among his fellow republicans and into the stratosphere among his tea party base. Tea party crowds have since devoured cruzs message of the little guy resistance to Big Government tyranny. And at friday nights dinner, he served them up a hefty slice. Im convinced were ...

This country for reasons that hope for reasons that help to layout a little bit in my talk, and if youre kind enough to get the book i would be happy to sign it for you afterwards. The notion of success i think lay at the heart of the american dream. And, in fact, the idea of the individual living head in the race of life, pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps as the old of them are saying, i think its embedded in our national dna. All of us avert i think some version of go make something of yourself, go make something out of yourself. Usually from anxious parents during our adolescence w...