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Remember this from the 2008 general election?

In all the commotion over Hillary Clinton's long goodbye to the Democratic nomination fight, an odd moment in the Republican race got surprisingly little attention.

Presumptive nominee John McCain called a Phoenix radio station last Friday and confessed to a secret passion for ABBA!

Well McCain isn't the only GOP ABBA Fan:

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich briefly stopped a campaign event here to shut off his phone as his ringtone sounded ABBA’s “Dancing Queen.”

Like two peas in a pod. Maybe they can get out together with the wives and sport the customs:

The number two vote getter for the straw poll at CPAC, Bobby Jindal, clarifies the rules of Republicans to Larry King last night:

King: One more thing. It may be moot now, but RNC Chairman Michael Steele took some shots at Limbaugh and then apologized. What do you make of all of that?

Jindal: Well, I didn't follow the day's events. I'm glad he apologized.

(h/t Attaturk)

So Jindal doesn’t know what all the commotion was about, but he knew Limbaugh must be right? Wow this takes the cake. They have given carte blanche to a man who makes fun of Parkinson's disease, uses racial innuendos to discuss our President, called Hillary Clinton a “hoe”, is a pill addict and a whole slue of other things. And this is the direction the Republican Party wants to do? Again – you guys are fucked.

Republicans may change the rules allowing former senators to attend
weekly GOP luncheon meetings after retired Sen. Lauch Faircloth attended a
session while lobbying a bill pending on the floor.

He attended Tuesday‘s luncheon, just hours before a crucial vote on the
bill, which would end decades of lawsuits against manufacturers and their
insurers, potentially saving them great sums of money.

The episode came as lawmakers on both sides of Capitol Hill — the House
and Senate — are examining ways to reform lobbying rules in the wake of the
Jack Abramoff scandal. Just two weeks ago, the House voted to take away
access to the floor and the House gym from former members who are now
registered lobbyists.

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All the commotion about lobbying reform following the conviction of Abramoff
died down real quick. Of course this is because the party running our government
is the most corrupt party in our nation. Real change won't be possible until
there is a change in control.

From Reuters via MSNBC:

Protest campsite moving closer to Bush ranch

Relative of man who fired shotgun offers space to antiwar demonstrators

Reuters

CRAWFORD, Texas - Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, is moving her camp closer to President Bush’s Texas ranch.

The piece of private property was offered by a relative of a man who had fired a shotgun in frustration over the protests, a source in the Sheehan camp said. The property owner is also a veteran.

“A neighbor of President Bush’s has offered us his land,” the source said. “It’s got plenty of acreage for us, it’s private land, we would have legal permission to be on it, it’s much closer to the ranch — in fact it’s across the street from his (Bush’s) church.”

“We have taken him up on his offer,” the source added.

Sheehan was not immediately available for comment.

Sheehan was expected to begin moving as early as Wednesday morning.

She is in the 10th day of her vigil on Prairie Chapel Road, which leads to Bush’s 1,600-acre ranch. She calls her site “Camp Casey,” after her 24-year-old son, who was killed in combat in Iraq.

According to the source, the land offered to Sheehan is owned by Fred Mattlage, who is a distant cousin of Larry Mattlage, a man who fired a shotgun over the weekend in frustration over the commotion caused by the vigil.

‘I support what you all are doing’