US Senator Harry Reid, who lost the Senate Majority Leader position, the chief obstructionist of 2013-2014 Congressional term. He will either retire or lose his seat in 2016 to popular Republican Governor Brian Sandoval.
Best Political Theater
The Montana US Senate race, with one Democratic candidate after another dropping out. Incumbent Max Baucus resigned to become ambassador to China. His replacement, John Walsh, suspended his campaign after revelations that he plagiarized his Master’s Thesis, then shamefully attempted to blame this failing on PTSD. The final Democratic nominee: ultra-leftist state senator Amanda Curtis (
complete with embarrassing YouTube clips).
Worst Political Theater
DCCC Chair Debbie Schultz comparing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to a wife-beater. Immoral and stupid, like all Democratic War on Women rhetoric.
Under-reported story of 2014
Nevada Rancher Clive Bundy standing up to the federal government with a private militia: little guy beats back Big Government. The New York Times' attempted racial smear exposed Big Media’s shameless, biased liberal agenda, too.
Over-reported story of 2014
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Los Angeles philanthropist Donald Sterling's heated, racist argument with mixed-race girlfriend. Public pressure forced him out as owner of the LA Clippers. This was a non-story, based on information illegally obtained. This dope opera of middling proportions took up front-page news in Los Angeles and nationally, even while scandal upon scandal cascaded out of the White House.
Biggest Government Waste
Welfare spending/food stamps. There are 43 million (and growing) food stamp recipients in the USA.
Best Government Spending
Foreign: Drones strikes against Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist fighters as well as other guerilla warfare groups in the Middle East.
Domestic: All the investigations and reports under House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa.
Boldest Political Tactic
Vladimir Putin seizing and annexing Crimea. Ouch! The Russian President took a risk, then advantage of a very weakened American President.
Biggest Surprise
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Republican Gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan wins in Deep Blue Maryland, with possible overtones of the Old Line State turning purple in the next two years. Would Lord Baltimore be a Republican if he were alive today?
Biggest Disappointment
Rhode Island Republican gubernatorial nominee Allan Fung losing to uber-leftist Democratic Treasurer Gina Raimondo, because of a non-serious third-party spoiler. Hopes for a ruby red Republican Rhode Island delayed once again. (Hopefully, not for long).
Underrated Political Event
Hong Kong protests against autocratic Beijing Communist Regime, and the Chinese Communist crackdown. Student demands for local control and political freedom from Beijing deserved out attention, but instead the mainstream media and the American President chose to focus on upstart race-baiting and other progressive talking points: climate change, transgender rights (?), global equality.
Overrated Political Event
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Georgia Democrat Michelle Nunn's campaign for US Senate. Yes, she was the daughter of a political scion. She had worked with Republican President George Herbert Walker Bush. But no, she never had a chance, and I had predicted that the race was "much ado about nothing" from the outset.
Worst Political Scandal
The VA wait lists. Our serving men and women died, while Edward Snowden's fellow espionage traitor Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning got a sex-change. The fact that this scandal still has not received proper attention and redress only redoubles its opprobrium.
Best Idea
Republican (
male and
female) candidates (especially Michigan US Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land) mocking the Democratic War on Women meme.
Worst Idea
President Obama's Executive action on immigration. His move has only galvanized conservatives (in both parties) against his lawless Presidency. This illegal action will not only poison any bipartisan efforts with Congress, but will dampen the next Democratic Presidential nominee's chances.
Sorry to See You Go
Joan Rivers: From her acerbic wit against Hollywood and Washington DC hypocrisy, to her zest for living life to the fullest, to
her bathetic complaints of Barack and Michelle, along with her epic rant against the world's growing cause of
Palestinian agitators, her aggressive success was admired, and she will be missed.
15 Minutes of Fame
House Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), who threw a last-minute hissy fit during the IRS investigations with: "I am tired of this!" The Democratic caucus then presented I-pads with Chairman Issa's cutting off discussion after Lerner taking the Fifth about her involvement in the targeting of conservative groups.
Best Spin of The Year
President Obama, after the 2014 Shellacknado :"I hear you, and for those of you who didn't vote. . ." In other words, I hear that there are not that many that I have to hear. (As if!)
Most Honest
Ben Shapiro, for knocking the hell out of media hyped lies and left-leaning bias in the mainstream media, with the help of New Media sites
Breitbart.com and
TruthRevolt.org
Macro-Prediction
The UK will leave the European Union, and a more autocratic state will replace the European Community as a result. Expect to see a fussy bureaucrat turn into a frenzied dictator.
Micro-Prediction
Hillary Clinton will not be the 2016 Democratic nominee for President: too old, too much baggage, light on ideas, heavy on over-exposure. Look for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to secure the GOP nom, or at least come very close.
New Year's Resolution
Get a paid syndicated position as a political columnist, commentator, along with my own radio show.
Happy New Year!
Bye Bye!
