With staunch conservative Marco Rubio well ahead in the primary poll, two independent sources have come out saying that Governor Charlie Crist (R-FL) is going to quit the Republican Party and run for the US Senate as an Independent. As part of a growing trend over the last year, a re-energized hardline conservative movement in America is pushing out against center-right Republicans for the 2010 midterms. This battle is reminiscent of the one for the US House in the NY-23 district last November. Accord... (more)

Here is video / audio of Charles Krauthammer on the "Special Report" Panel last night where he said the GOP should show up for the Feb. 25 Health Care Meeting with President Obama and designate a single spokesperson to go back and forth with Obama. (more)

A group of Republican Senators “will introduce a constitutional amendment tomorrow requiring the federal government to keep a balanced budget,” The Hill reports. (more)

The Democrat Party’s “40 year majority” will come to a close 38 years early. The unbearable trinity of Pelosi, Reid, and Obama has managed to alienate a nation desperate to support new leadership. They accomplished this by an insistence on unwanted quasi-Socialist policies and an irritating propensity to lead with their chin in foreign policy. The era of Obama is over, even as his Health Care proposal will likely pass. But does this mean... (more)

Hotline on Call has a new poll that provides good news for former Massachuetts Gov. Mitt Romney and bad news for Mitt Romney. And it has bad news for former Gov. Sarah Palin and good news for Sarah Palin. (more)

So, "members of Congress and top GOP aides are livid" with Steele's remarks. Ive spotted some bloggers complaining, too. Pardon me if I'm short on patience for the mind-numbed who can't follow the game without cheerleaders, or the mostly useless GOP congress and associated organizations that dumped big money into Scozzafava, while letting Scott Brown hang.... (more)

The Senate on Wednesday will have to take an unplanned vote on whether the Democratic health care proposal is constitutional. Sens. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and John Ensign, R-Nev., on Tuesday raised a point of order against the legislation on behalf of a caucus of conservative senators. (more)

I listened to Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell on Sean Hannity’s radio show yesterday. He sounded tired and barely able to rally the troops against the Democrats’ government health care takeover. He told Sean’s guest host at the end of an obligatory-sounding critique of Harry Reid that, and I quote, “We’re going to fight ‘em all the way to the finish line.” (more)

The head of the Republican National Committee today unveiled a "Seniors' Health Care Bill of Rights," claiming that the GOP's first priority in health care reform is protecting seniors. (more)

The state of South Carolina has a great chance to change course in political leadership. What will it take? An effort like the one in 2008 for President Obama. Read more, and please contact all you know in S.C. to urge them to get off the couch and into the streets. (more)