SEAN HANNITY

Election Results One of the busiest days of the primary election season has left many wondering about the power of the Tea Party and its future.  Whatever these candidates choose to call themselves, what's important is that conservatives claim victory in November. The main headlines came from Kentucky and Georgia.  In Kentucky, Mitch McConnell went on to handily beat his Tea Party challenger Matt Bevin.  In Georgia, two candidates - Jack Kingston and David Perdue - will face each other in a run off July 22nd. In both cases of Kentucky and Georgia, the media's narrative has been the "defeat" of the Tea Party by the establishment.  That may be the case in Kentucky, but I wouldn't be so quick to call that the case in Georgia.  What's important is that people like Kingston, for example, are conservative.  Whether an official Tea Party candidate or not, conservative values are what matter most. But the media is eager to declare the Tea Party dead.  A new CBS poll released today shows that Tea Party support is at an all-time low of just 15%.  That is less than half of the support it had in 2010 before the midterms.  This poll shows that most of the lost support was among Republicans, but it doesn't explain exactly why that would be the case. The bottom line here is, while the media would like you to believe that as some of these Tea Party-backed candidates are defeated by more established candidates, there is still a thirst for conservative solutions. Outrageous: Howard Dean It's been a while since we've heard from Howard Dean, but he's back on the scene with some inflammatory comments directed at Republicans. At a Democratic campaign rally in Colorado, Howard Dean told the crowd that Republicans "aren't American" and they think it's OK to take away the right to vote. I'd like for Howard Dean to name one specific Republican who does not want Americans to vote.  Is he talking about showing ID to prove who you are before voting?  That's not taking away anyone's supposed right.  It'd be like saying the federal government has stripped Americans of their "right to consume alcohol" because you must show ID before purchasing.  I would consider someone telling a group of people to "stay away from our country" as being un-American because it fails to embrace our welcoming spirit of diverse cultures, opinions, speech, etc.  Democrats must be getting nervous if they are willing to stoop to this level of hyperbole and hysteria. The VA Scandal Continues The VA scandal has now spread to 26 facilities across the country, according to the Office of Inspector General at the Veterans Affairs Department.  Obama finally addressed the scandal this morning. After a meeting with VA Secretary Shinseki, Obama addressed the growing scandal.  Obama said, "It is dishonorable, disgraceful and I will not tolerate it. Period."  This was also something he knew about since 2008, so if it it was so intolerable, we must wonder why he didn't address it before now. Obama stood by Shinseki, even after repeated questions (and expectations) about his resignation. Some would like to blame the wait time scandal as a budget problem.  But that simply isn't the case.  Investors Business Daily has some of the research, which finds that spending has been increasing all while scandalous behavior has been spreading: "The VA's budget has been exploding, even as the number of veterans steadily declines. From 2000 to 2013, outlays nearly tripled, while the population of veterans declined by 4.3 million.  Medical care spending - which consumes about 40% of the VA's budget - has climbed 193% over those years, while the number of patients served by the VA each year went up just 68%, according to data from the VA.  From 2008 to 2012 alone, per-patient spending at the VA climbed 27%. To put that in perspective, per capita health spending nationwide rose just 13% during those years." >>TV Tonight (10PM ET) Governor Sarah Palin weighs in on the debate over Hillary Clinton's health.