For your Tea Party Convention round-up multimedia enjoyment…
OrlandoSentinel.com: Sarah Palin tells ‘Fox News Sunday’: Barack Obama needs to ‘toughen up’ if he wants to be re-elected
FoxNews.com: Palin ‘Would Be Willing’ to Take On Obama in …

8:45pm ET Update:
Regardless of what the federal government may do concerning healthcare, a majority of States are looking at or passing their own constitutional amendments to keep Congress from encroaching on their turf, and House …

There’s been a lot of news that has come out in the aftermath of the political earthquake we call the election of Senator-Elect (Wow!) Scott Brown (R-MA: how often have you associated an “R” with …

One more quick update for this posting. Via AmericanPower, here are the YouTube videos of Senator-Elect Scott Brown (R-MA)’s acceptance speech last night in Boston:

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Update:
With 100% of the precincts reporting, Brown …

I have been highlighting numerous stories here at The Right Side of Life that show how this week — and, specifically, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 — will be changing the political landscape as the Massachusetts …

A quick poll update:
HotAir.com ran a number of poll models on the Massachusetts special election. While the “worst-case” scenario still shows Coakley trailing by 4 percentage points, it’s important to take note of the number …

Via RealClearPolitics:
Coakley loses one-in-five Democrats to Brown, while the Republican state senator has 94 percent of Republicans behind him. Brown has a commanding 58-37 advantage among “unenrolled” voters, mainly independents and those who prefer not to …

At this point in the Massachusetts special election (to be held Tuesday, January 19, 2010), both the GOP and the Democrats show internal polling numbers with the State Senator ahead.
Steve Kornacki writes that the State …

Excellent video (huge h/t JammieWearingFool), above, in full post mode, to go along with an earlier video posting.
She wasn’t satisfied in disclaiming any knowledge in the “Reporter Down” incident, nor in making a strike-out against Fenway …

Thursday, January 14, 2010 Update:
You’ll see at the bottom of last night’s update the second slip-up where State Attorney General Martha Coakley didn’t want to stand outside, in the cold, shaking hands at Fenway Park.
So, …

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Update:
The Washington Times is reporting on the “Kickback Campaign,” where South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is currently focusing his efforts on challenging the Nebraska Compromise but is leaving the door …

After an extremely positive showing by State Senator Scott Brown during last night’s debate as well as a phenomenal outpouring of over $1.3 million for his campaign, his Democrat opponent, Massachusetts (spelled correctly!) Attorney General …

Via LegalInsurrection, a quick update for those of you who didn’t get a chance to watch either via Boston.com or C-SPAN this evening at 7pm et:
In a general discussion on healthcare, David Gergen, debate moderator, …

Saturday, January 9, 2010 Update:
At T-10 days until the special election, Public Policy Polling, a left-leaning polling organization, posted today that Lt. Col. Brown as leading in MA, 48-47.
Best aspect? The indies are speaking out:
-Brown has …

Friday, January 8, 2010 Update:
Excerpted from Yahoo! News: “What Health Care Reform Means for the States,” the “Nebraska Compromise” is also known as the “Cornhusker Kickback,” and appears to be the beginning of the precipice …

Above is the video (click the post link for full page mode), and here are some statistics via an email from ResurgentRepublic.com showing, as I noted in my previous posting, the Democrats starting the New …

There’s been a lot going on regarding healthcare, especially concerning State-based reaction and Democratic retirements (likely on account of the toxic voting), so much so that I’m going to quickly jump from link to link.
Enjoy:
The …

The quote comes from an article in USA Today. The President’s budget proposal is expected to cash in taxpayer’s hard-earned monies at the rate of more than $3.5 “t”rillion:

All this would come at a price …

The vote, which officially started at approximately 5:30pm ET, came to a close just before 11:00pm ET tonight after Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) got back from Mansfield, OH after attending a wake for his late …

The fact that the so-called stimulus bill has been pushed through the national Bicarmeral Legislature at breaknik speed without due legislative processes in both chambers may not be known by the American people, but even …

New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg (R), after being considered as Commerce Secretary, withdrew himself after watching the [lack of] stimulus debate and the move of Census from Commerce.
Here’s the video, courtesy of FreedomsLighthouse.com.
RedState.com’s commentary:
The media …

It looks like the Senate came up with a deal on the so-called stimulus bill:
Senate Democratic leaders struck a deal with a handful of moderate Republicans late Friday on a leaner economic-recovery package and pushed …

CNN reports that House Republican leaders have created a listing of some of the pork in the stimulus bill being debated by the Senate:
• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power …

Update: From RedState.com:
Results from a new Rasmussen Reports survey released today shows that only 37% of those polled now favor the Democrat’s idea of stimulus, while 43% oppose it and 20% cannot make up their minds. …
Even …

Update: He’s bowing out.
Let’s start with the basics from the AP:
Tom Daschle collected nearly a quarter of a million dollars in fees in the last two years speaking to leaders of the industry President Barack Obama …

There are many reasons to believe that only a slight handful of GOP Senators are going to be proverbially peeled away from the caucus to vote for this thing. For starters:
It seems the House passed …