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Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, Santorum Family’s Miscarriage is Off-Limits January 7, 2012 11:45 am

I’m a pro-choice liberal Democrat, a fierce feminist and a sworn enemy of Rick Santorum. But there are people re-circulating an old story about Santorum and a tragic miscarriage that he and his wife suffered […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, The Winner of the Iowa Caucus: Barack Obama January 3, 2012 11:31 pm

I’ll tell you who won last night’s Iowa caucus for the Republican presidential nomination, and it wasn’t one of the two guys that essentially tied for the win: It was a Democratic president by the name of […]

Gabriel Coeli commented on the post, Obama Mouthpiece Calls Iowa “Too White” After State Voted for POTUS January 3, 2012 9:15 pm

Are you sure you’re taking it in the right context? Mitchell only mentioned that Obama proved he could win white votes here. In the quote you mention, it seems pretty clear that she was referring to the fact […]

Gabriel Coeli commented on the post, The Impact ACORN Could Have on the 2012 Elections January 3, 2012 9:02 pm

I’m really trying to figure this out. ACORN doesn’t exist anymore, Ray. Who are the “many people” that are afraid of ACORN pulling its old tricks in 2012? The “many people” that don’t know ACORN has been out of […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, Why the Hell is the Tea Party Supporting Santorum? January 3, 2012 6:28 pm

Rick Santorum is about as far as is humanly or politically possible for a candidate to be from what Tea Partiers say they believe in. But he’s surging in Iowa right now, and a lot of that is thanks, in part, to […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, The State of the Republican Primary Field December 28, 2011 6:48 am

With just a few days to go until the seminal Iowa caucuses, and all the flurry of analysis and prognostication that go along with them, the Republican field is unusually settled; this has been the most chaotic […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, The OCCUPIED Consitutional Amendment Picks up Steam December 16, 2011 8:18 pm

If you haven’t read about the OCCUPIED amendment already, do so. Everyone from the fiercest Tea Party patriot to the grittiest camping Occupier can get on board with this Constitutional amendment. It’s been […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, The Gingrich-Huntsman “Debate” December 13, 2011 8:28 pm

The 90-minute “Lincoln-Douglas” style debate between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich (which was not a debate at all but actually a panel discussion, because the two hardly disagreed on a thing) was really about two […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, Reagan and the End of the American Golden Age December 12, 2011 10:49 pm

“Government,” Ronald Reagan famously declared, “is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.” It was that philosophy that ushered in a new era in American politics – one of supply side […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, The Return of Bull Moose Progressivism December 9, 2011 2:55 am

“To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.” – The Progressive Party Platform of […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, Why Everyone But Romney Has Led The Field December 9, 2011 2:54 am

I’ve been trying to figure out the Republican presidential primary “ferris wheel” for a while. Mitt Romney has stayed pretty steady – about four out five Republicans can’t stand the guy, and aren’t voting for him […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, Is Romney Facing a Replay of 2008? December 2, 2011 10:06 pm

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:

In a generally weak field of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, the establishment declares, by fiat, that Mitt Romney has the conservative bona fides […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, The STOCK Act Can Help Stop Congressional Insider Trading December 1, 2011 8:21 pm

Now there’s the Republican party I remember. Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts has just put forth a bill in the Senate to stop Congressional representatives and senators from trading stocks on nonpublic […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, Republicans’ Obstructionism Will Come Back To Haunt Them November 30, 2011 8:42 pm

The Republican House majority is all set to gleefully shoot down President Obama’s proposed tax breaks – that’s breaks, mind you, meaning people pay less taxes – over the fact that in order to make the proposal […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, Time to Take Gingrich Seriously November 29, 2011 7:30 pm

Two reasons to take Gingrich seriously:

1. It looks like Herman Cain is about out of this thing. Despite the best efforts of conservatives to preemptively exonerate him of sexual harassment, he couldn’t keep […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, The Birthers Won’t Go Away November 23, 2011 12:09 am

Somebody, please. Please explain to me how this could possibly still be an issue.

Orly Taitz, the self-appointed leader of the “birther” movement – people who subscribe to a fringe-conservative claim that […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, The Smashing Bipartisan Success of the Super Committee November 21, 2011 8:43 pm

By all accounts, the highly experimental, unprecedented “super committee” – the group of House and Senate lawmakers from both parties who were convened to come up with $1.2 trillion in budget cuts – succeeded […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, America Can’t Stop Another Meltdown November 2, 2011 9:17 pm

Over at The Economist, they put together a little thought experiment at their annual Buttonwood Conference. Time Magazine has a great blog that covered the event. Hat Tip.

At this conference, they asked […]

Gabriel Coeli wrote a new post, The Patriots Who are Occupying Wall Street October 29, 2011 12:35 pm

I’m not here to pass judgment on the Occupy protest movement. I know what they’re about, I understand what they’re trying to say, I have a very strong opinion about them and none of that matters.