Kyle Bell

Indiana’s Republican Governor Mitch Daniels says that a top priority for the upcoming 2012 legislative session will be a right-to-work bill that would cripple unions and lower wages by making dues voluntary. “When Indiana gets a chance to compete for new business, we win two-thirds of the time,” Daniels told a South Bend reporter. “Unfortunately [...]

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American voters soundly defeated a series of extremist measures that looked to take away collective bargaining rights for public employees (including police officers, firemen and teachers) in Ohio, same-day voter registration in Maine, and legally defining personhood as beginning at conception in Mississippi. The Ohio and Maine laws were passed after Republicans took control of [...]

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The GOP Congress is doing what no other employer in America would ever allow: Republican leaders in the House of Representatives have unveiled a plan that would allow the GOP Congress to have one week off for every two weeks of work. While relatively common to have fewer workdays during an election year, the 2012 [...]

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The media darling of the minute is New Jersey governor Chris Christie. You can’t turn on a television news program without a “journalist” talk about whether or not Christie will get in the race, even with no new information. The man known for his grumpy demeanor is unlikely to win a lot of Republican votes [...]

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9:50 p.m.: That’s it. The debate is over. Not much new came out of it. I watched it so that you didn’t have to. The one surprise that I had was the amount of unanimity among the candidates. The only real disagreements were over Romney’s healthcare plan (basically everyone on stage agreed that Romney’s plan [...]

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It’s quite common to hear a Republican politician to use the phrase that “the market knows best”. They should be alarmed then to see the reaction that the market has had to their manufactured debt ceiling crisis and the deal that came out of it. We are coming off the worst day for the Dow [...]

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The metaphor that Republicans are hostage takers has been used by several writers regarding the debt ceiling debacle that has brought the nation’s economy to its knees. The analogy is an incorrect one for a simple reason: hostage takers are supposed to let go of the hostage after their demands are met. President Obama and [...]

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Have you heard ads on TV blaming the country’s deficits on President Obama? You likely have if you’ve watched cable news in the past couple weeks. They are being blanketed nationwide in a $20 million effort by a conservative group known as Crossroads GPS. Working behind the scenes is Karl Rove, the former political mastermind [...]

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There are some pretty wacky proposals out there from the Republican Party, including attempts to redefine rape, ban Sharia law (which if they didn’t know, was never law in the first place), and now out of New Hampshire, a law to prevent college students from voting in elections. Yes, we are essentially re-debating the 26th [...]

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Senator John Thune of South Dakota declared on Tuesday that he would not be seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2012. The “rising star” in the Republican Party, as he is often called, would have had a decent shot at winning the party’s nomination. Personally, I had my bets on him. Unlike Palin, Romney, [...]

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