“Do you think it’s a total coincidence that the one percenters are taxed at such a low rate?” – Ellis Henican Mitt Romney, whose networth is about a quarter of a billion dollars, revealed that his tax rate is around 15 percent—highlighting the tax advantages enjoyed by wealthy Americans who make most of their money from [...]
“Conservatives used to be good at politics. But, this year, they’ve been completely skunked by this moderate guy from Massachusetts that, frankly, most of them don’t like or trust very much.” – Ellis Henican Rick Santorum, trailing Mitt Romney in the polls, got an endorsement he terms “a very big deal.” With the South [...]
“Isn’t there something contradictory about saying: government get out of my pocket, government get out of my morality, government get out of my life but please pass a bunch of laws telling people what they can look at on the internet.” – Ellis Henican It’s been called the year of the Constitutionalist. The Republican field [...]
“Michael Kinsley said that a political gaffe is just another name for a politician telling you the truth.” – Ellis Henican Listen to Ellis Henican, hosting the Alan Colmes show (1/9/12), draw a parallel between Mitt Romney’s “I like being able to fire people” comment and Gordon “Greed” Gecko. E-mail ellis@henican.com Follow him at twitter.com/henican
“The stream of deportations under the Obama administration is considerably higher than in the Bush years – and that makes no sense at all.” – Ellis Henican The case of Jakadrien Turner – a fourteen year old Texas teenage runaway deported to Colombia in May of last year after giving a false name to Dallas police – [...]
“I don’t think Newt handled this right. When you announce you’re gonna slime the other guy and then you go ahead and slime the other guy -he’s ready for it.” - Ellis Henican Newt Gingrich has been telling anyone and everyone that he’s out for revenge and plans to begin negative attacks against Mitt Romney. Gingrich blames Romney [...]
“We’ve had months and years of struggling…this is good. Let’s just keep doing more of what we’re doing—stimulating the economy, get people back to work. Do what we know works and let’s congratulate ourselves.” – Ellis Henican The December jobs report said we gained 200,000 jobs and reduced the unemployment rate to 8.5% – but there [...]
“It’s dumb, politically, that Republicans have not been able to rally around a single candidate. 75% of the vote chopped up 5 different ways is never going to be a very big number.” – Ellis Henican There’s a Mitt and Anti-Mitt campaign going on – it’s time the Republicans think about consolidating. Listen to Ellis [...]
THE NEWS IN SONG: Down to the wire music to campaign by… and they’re all singing the same tune. University of Iowa Bassoon Quartet “Iowa Fight Song” http://tinyurl.com/iowafight Sing along if you care to: “Fight! Fight! Fight! for IOWA. Let every loyal Iowan sing. The word is “Fight! Fight! Fight! for IOWA. Until the walls [...]
ELLIS HENICAN is a columnist at Newsday and a political analyst on the Fox News Channel. He also hosts a nationally syndicated weekend show on Talk Radio Network, is author of a New York Times Bestseller, and is the voice of “Stormy” on the hit Cartoon Network series “Sealab 2021.”
FDA’S DECISION SOUNDS CURRUPT – BUT IT’S ALL WE’VE GOT
“Cozy, Cozy. It’s corrupt in the worst kind of way.” – Ellis Henican Food and Drug Administration advisers said the benefits of four popular Bayer AG birth-control pills outweigh the blood-clot risk. What the FDA didn’t disclose is that four of the advisers have had ties to Bayer – who’s own studies show no excess [...]
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