[VIDEO] THE PANTSUIT REPORT: Hillary Two Hours Late to Rally, Audience Groans
Posted: December 11, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Audience, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Gateway Pundit, Hillary Clinton, Laura Ingraham, The Pantsuit Report, The Weekly Standard, White House Leave a commentMembers of an audience waiting to hear from Hillary Clinton in Oklahoma Friday audibly groaned when it was revealed the Democratic presidential candidate would be late for the event…(read more)
Source: The Weekly Standard
The Democratic Party’s Uber Panic
Posted: July 21, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Donald Trump, Laura Ingraham, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Republican Party (United States), San Francisco, Sanctuary city, Ted Cruz, U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Leave a comment
The latest target is Uber, the app-based ride-sharing service that since its launch in San Francisco just five years ago has expanded to more than 300 cities across the globe.
The latest target is Uber, the app-based ride-sharing service that since its launch in San Francisco just five years ago has expanded to more than 300 cities across the globe. Here in New York, Uber is now locked in combat with the city’s progressive mayor, Bill de Blasio. In a Sunday op-ed for the Daily News, Mr. de Blasio said he aims to freeze Uber’s expansion until his regulators can figure out how best to block any attempts to “skirt vital protections and oversight.”
[Also see – Bill de Blasio Bonds With Mayor of Paris Over Uber Crackdown]

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo meets with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at City Hall in New York, May 30, 2014. Anne Hidlago is on a two-day visit to New York. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
“It is not surprising there is growing opposition to the Mayor’s bill because try as they might, Mayor de Blasio can’t pretend protecting taxi owners is progressive.”
— Uber spokesperson
Ross Barkan writes:
…A spokesperson for Uber pointed to Democrats, including Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and Comptroller Scott Stringer, who support Uber’s growth.
“It is not surprising there is growing opposition to the Mayor’s bill because try as they might, Mayor de Blasio can’t pretend protecting taxi owners is progressive,” said the spokesperson. “The odds have been stacked against us by rushing the bill through the council, but it’s getting harder and harder for the Mayor to explain why he’s against creating 10,000 jobs and protecting reliable rides in communities outside Manhattan.” …(more)
The mayor’s call to arms comes only days after Hillary Clinton used her big speech on economics to sound a similarly dismal note. Though she didn’t mention Uber by name, the Democratic Party’s leading contender for the 2016 presidential nomination fretted that while the “gig economy” may be “exciting” and “unleashing innovation,” “it is also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future.”
Hard questions that Mrs. Clinton no doubt intends the government to answer, even if those answers end up making Uber and others like it less exciting and less innovative.
[Read the full text here, at WSJ]
Republican presidential candidates are having fun with all this. Marco Rubio, who last year sided with Uber over regulators in Miami, accused Mrs. Clinton of trying to “regulate 21st-century industries with 20th-century ideas.” Jeb Bush pointedly traveled by Uber for his visit to Thumbtack, a Silicon Valley startup. Meanwhile, Rand Paul says he would like our government to adopt the Uber model—more information and customer ratings—while Ted Cruz says his campaign will be as disruptive of politics-as-usual as Uber is of old business models. Read the rest of this entry »
Cantormageddon: The Real Reason Cantor Lost
Posted: June 14, 2014 Filed under: Food & Drink, Humor, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Cantor, David Brat, Eric Cantor, JONATHAN WEISMAN, Laura Ingraham, Red Meat, Republican Party (United States), Rib Eye, Steakhouse, T-Bone, Van's Steakhouse 1 Comment“One measure of the extraordinary defeat could be seen in the candidate’s finances. Since the beginning of last year, Mr. Cantor’s campaign had spent about $168,637 at steakhouses compared with the $200,000 his challenger, David Brat, had spent on his entire campaign.”
— New York Times – JUNE 10, 2014