The right wing rhetoric continues to stoke violence: A 64-year-old Yakima County man has been charged with threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Patty Murray over her support of the National Health Care Reform Act. The FBI and local police arrested Charles Alan Wilson at his Selah home early Tuesday. Wilson was scheduled to make an […]
Republicans be warned: The man recently hired by Michael Steele as a Republican National Committee fundraiser was accused in 2005 by a political action committee he chaired of improperly using PAC money on personal nightclub bills, according to a copy of the complaint filed against him. The revelation about Neil Alpert, who began working as […]
Michael Steele took to the airwaves today to try and fix his highly tarnished record. That of course didn’t work out too well as Steele tried to pull out the race card, something he said he never does just a few short months ago. As if that isn’t bad, now we have the news that […]
Today we have another episode in the dementia that is John McCain. Remember the maverick? Well then you must be thinking of the wrong person, because John McCain says he never called himself a maverick. For more than a decade, famed ‘Straight Talk Express’ rider John McCain has had ‘maverick’ as his and his supporters’ […]
On any other week this might not be that big of a story, but given the expenditures the RNC paid for at a sex club, well today it just adds fuel to the fire: A new entrant in the when-it-rains-it-pours category. The Republican National Committee sent a fundraising mail piece earlier this month with a […]
Obama’s announcement yesterday of opening offshore drilling was met with strong opposition, and not just from the left, but even the right. But what if there is something more sinister at work here? Chances are that Congress won’t go for the plan, so there really is no chance of it surviving without Republican support, yet […]
Well stop the presses! It turns out that the DNC did the unmentionable – they spent money! “The DNC spent at least $2,204,000 for luxury hotels and caterers,” Heye writes at the top of the e-mail. While the data the RNC presents is accurate — including $423,000 spent since Tim Kaine assumed the DNC chairmanship […]
Just the fact that Obama is considering this is ridiculous: The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday. The proposal — […]
Yesterday news broke of federal agents raiding a militia group based out of Michigan, but also spreading to Indiana and Ohio: At least seven people, including some from Michigan, have been arrested in raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as part of an investigation into an Adrian-based Christian […]
Here’s some interesting dirt on Michael Steele: According to two knowledgeable sources, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele once raised the possibility of using party money to buy a private jet for his travel. “I know that … regular ongoing use of planes was something that was looked at,” says one person with direct knowledge. […]