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Let’s start with a little math. There are 22 Republicans in the Illinois Senate. Their time in office adds up to approximately 280 years. There are 51 Republicans in the Illinois House. Their time…
Read MoreAn article in the left wing Guardian newspaper had this title and subtitle: Obama is the change that America has tried to hide Only one candidate offers the radical departure for the 21st century…
Read MoreAmericans who don’t savor the prospect of a President Barack Obama need to realize he is where he’s at because of the failures of the Republican Party. If elected Republican leadership had been doing their…
Read MoreHapless Jim Oberweis and his hired hacks have served the purpose of bringing the failures of the Republican Party to the attention of more political observers. Losing another congressional district in Illinois is just a…
Read MoreThe Daily Herald ran an Associated Press story a few days ago with this headline: “Many of the nation’s statehouses gleefully mix sex and politics.” ALBANY, N.Y. — Of all the wisecracks heard in…
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The downward trajectory of the GOP as shown in the recent loss of Illinois’ 14th congressional district can only be reversed through a reformation in the civic and political culture of the Republican Party both…
Read MoreThe Chicago Tribune reported in an Associated Press story today that the Alaska state Republican Party convention “that could have unified a troubled party has descended into infighting.” Horrors! The lieutenant governor, of all the nerve,…
Read MoreEvery now and then we like to highlight Republicans around the country that are worth watching because they’re demonstrating leadership and providing good examples to follow. In the past we’ve discussed the current governor of Alaska,…
Read MoreOberweis spokesman Bill Pascoe said their campaign did not expect to lose to Foster. “I think everybody was surprised. We did not see it coming,” Pascoe said. — Northwest Herald news article, March 9,…
Read MoreThe early fears of facing Barack Obama in the general election were based in part on the idea that the young and inexperienced U.S. Senator from Illinois would use his melodious voice and dazzling…
Read MoreIf our national political discussion is going to be about “hope,” skin color and gender, instead of about economic and foreign policy realities, then the Democrats will win. If Republicans aren’t going to learn…
Read MoreWe all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it. — Jean-Claude Juncker, former prime minister of Luxembourg Why do so few elected Republicans work to…
Read MoreIllinois rank and file Republican voters can’t afford to spend the next five years they like did that last five years. It’s no longer good enough to blindly trust the men and women who…
Read MoreState Senator Debbie Halverson seems to think there are differences between men and women but unlike Larry Summers, the President of Harvard, she is not being politically corrected for those thoughts. She is not…
Read MoreIt may have happened, but I don’t remember reading that during the Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman visited Capitol Hill before he won in the Shenandoah Valley – or that General Sherman testified…
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