Blog Profile / Right Turn
| URL : | http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Conservative | |
| Posts on Regator: | 4376 | |
| Posts / Week: | 40.3 | |
| Archived Since: | April 20, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Sunday wrap
Who said it? 1. “The law is irrelevant.” 2. “[W]hat we do now know is that for roughly two years, the IRS was targeting Americans based upon their political beliefs. What we do now know is that the IRS misled … Continue reading ?
Obama’s budget is another instance of lost credibility
It turns out that President Obama’s Office of Management and Budget is no more trustworthy than the rest of his administration. His budget, unsurprisingly to conservatives, is not “balanced” and does not deliver on its promise to cut $1.8 trillion … Continue reading ?
The Treasury connection: Not merely an IRS scandal
The Internal Revenue Service scandal may be the worst of all the current Obama administration fiascoes. It is an easily understood gross misuse of the powers of government to target opponents of the president. What is more, the administration’s supplicants … Continue reading ?
Distinguished pol of the week
This week’s distinguished pol, Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), can speak for himself (from Friday’s hearing on the Internal Revenue Service scandal): Well done, congressman.
At least someone in the MSM covers Benghazi
Jay Carney insists Benghazi, Libya, is not a scandal, but then he doesn’t admit to having misled the media about the origin of the attacks. The administration now tells CBS News, “We’re portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or … Continue reading ?
The 10 most bizarre things about the IRS scandal
If you have been following the Internal Revenue Service scandal over the past 24 hours or so, you may be reeling, just a bit. And if you haven’t, you’ve missed an out-of-body experience in which the IRS, the administration and … Continue reading ?
Five questions about the AP surveillance
As is their pattern, defenders of the president offer a straw man in regard to the subpoena of Associated Press phone records: Shouldn’t we investigate leaks? Duh, yes. The entire question, however, revolves around the extent of the probe and … Continue reading ?
Holder is at it again: Do these guys ever tell the truth?
When Attorney General Eric Holder appeared at a Judiciary Committee hearing this week, most of the attention was on Benghazi. My colleague Glenn Kessler reports on a less widely remarked upon exchange this week between Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Holder during the … Continue reading ?
The week the dam broke for Obama
This was arguably the most consequential week of President Obama’s second term, maybe of either. What changed? The insanity of allowing the Internal Revenue Service to implement and police Obamacare reached its apex when ABC News reported: The Internal Revenue … Continue reading ?
Morning Bits
No grown-ups around. “If it wasn’t clear that President Obama’s policy on Syria is simply bizarre, Secretary of State John Kerry’s hat-in-hand trip to Russia last week should lay bare the reality. Asking Russia to support U.S. interests in Syria … Continue reading ?
When it rains, it pours: Ten press conference take aways
President Obama’s press conference in the rain was not a success, if by success, his supporters would mean an event which convinces anyone who doesn’t work for him that he’s getting ahead of the scandal deluge. The sight of a … Continue reading ?
The buck stops here, the fish rots from the head
The uncommunicative communications team at the White House seems to think “I had no idea” and “I learned from the newspapers” are answers befitting the president in response to the plethora of scandals. They are not aware, apparently, that the … Continue reading ?
Conservatives can appeal to Hispanic voters
The right’s most prominent think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, has been institutionally mum during the Heritage Foundation meltdown over the latter’s discredited immigration study, although individual AEI scholars have debunked it and publicly made the case for immigration reform. … Continue reading ?
The talking point emails
Conservatives, including some Republican congressmen, say emails released by the Obama administration confirm that the White House was lying about the Benghazi incident. The White House says it supports its version. Some Media Matters wanna-bes in the left-wing blogosphere say … Continue reading ?
The media break up with Carney and Obama
Politico’s faux media critic (who doesn’t actually criticize liberal media) Dylan Byers intoned about White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, “Three days into a changed environment in the briefing room, [reporters] say they admire how he has held his ground, deflecting … Continue reading ?
Holder’s recusal and the leak investigation are unprecedented
Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Judiciary Committee he recused himself from the leak investigation involving sweeping surveillance of the Associated Press because he was a “fact witness,” meaning he had access to the classified data at issue and was questioned about … Continue reading ?
Obamacare impacts hiring decisions
Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute explains the recent Gallup poll finding that “41% of small-business owners say they have held off on hiring new employees and 38% have pulled back on plans to grow their business”: Starting in … Continue reading ?
Morning Bits
Like Jay Carney, Media Matters has a really bad day. Huffington Post: “The DoJ’s actions are simply not the sort of thing that anyone who works in the journalism or media industry are likely to defend. Or so I thought, until … Continue reading ?
The war for women (voters)
While some Republicans think they may get by now and in 2014 by simply pointing fingers at the numerous Obama administration scandals, forward-looking Republicans are trying to attend to the party’s message and policy deficits. The Young Guns Network, a … Continue reading ?
Immigration exclusionists: Not so conservative
Immigration exclusionists like to imagine they are pristine conservatives. But in fact their anti-immigration stance has displaced their fidelity to conservative goals, even aside from the fact that immigration reform is pro-growth, will end de facto amnesty and improves national … Continue reading ?