Jeffrey A. Setaro

Political & Cultural Commentary from a Constitutional Conservative.

2012 Elections

Romney: “I’m not concerned about the very poor.”

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On a morning when Mitt Romney should be celebrating his big win yesterday’s Florida primary, his campaign is instead trying spin remarks he made in an interview CNN’s Soledad O’Brien: I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there. If it needs […]

Breaking: Barney Frank Won’t Seek Re-election

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Break out the Champagne! From CNN: Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, a 16-term Democrat, will announce Monday he does not intend to seek re-election in 2012, according to a statement from Frank’s office. Good riddance, don’t let the door hit you on the way out Congressman. H/T: Weasel Zippers. Update: Matt Mackowiak tweets: With Rep. Barney […]

Ron Paul: Killing Of Anwar Al-Awlaki An Impeachable Offense, a Step Toward “Tyranny”…

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I want to like Ron Paul, he makes a lot sense when he talks about monetary policy and the need for greater transparency and oversight of the Federal Reserve, but he loses me when he starts talking about foreign policy and says things like this: Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama’s targeted killing […]

Allen West: Ron Paul ‘Not the Kind of Guy You Need to Be Sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave’

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I’m going to get hate mail for posting this, but what hell. Ron Paul, makes a lot of sense when he talks about monetary policy, or the need for greater transparency at the Federal Reserve, but Allen West is right… His foreign policy ideas are dangerously isolationist, and frankly, naive. And for that reason I […]

2012 Presidential Straw Poll — Round 4

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It’s time for round four of our 2012 Republican Presidential Primary Straw Poll. For this round are (in no particular order): Herman Cain, John Bolton, Thaddeus McCotter, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Gary Johnson, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and John Huntsman Changes from round three: I’ve removed anyone who isn’t […]

Rep. Michele Bachmann Wins Iowa Straw Poll

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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) won the 2011 Iowa straw poll with 28.55 percent of the vote, Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) finished second with 27.65 percent and former Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty finished a distant third 13.57 percent. From the Wall Street Journal: None of the 16,892 votes filed at Iowa State University in Ames will […]

The fallacy of the 10:1 Mix of Spending Cuts and Tax Hikes Question

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I suspect most of you have seen or heard about this exchange during the Republican Presidential Debate in Iowa last Thursday night: It was a bullshit question, first of all unless those spending cuts are immediate they’ll never materialize… particularly when the baseline for negotiations is that the taxes increase are made in the first […]

Video: Newt Gingrich BLASTS Chris Wallace for his “Gotcha” Questions at Iowa Debate

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This is just pure golden goodness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxQTp07KS_k&feature=player_embedded Ouch, I love it! It’s about time Republican candidates started calling the sound bite media on the carpet for wasting everyone’s with time trivial, tabloid gotcha questions instead of asking substantial policy questions. Newt was absolutely right to go after Chris Wallace the way he did tonight… and judging […]