Rep. Parker Griffith (D-AL-5) is expected to announce today that he is switching from Democrat to Republican: According to a senior GOP aide familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place in this afternoon in his home district in northern Alabama. Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional health care […]
This is interesting. Polls had Rudy doing good against Gillibrand: Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is expected to announce Tuesday he is not running for U.S. Senate or anything else in 2010, effectively ending his storied – and often stormy – electoral career, The Daily News has learned. The announcement, at which he’ll also endorse Republican […]
And this headline here is perfect humor to ease the health care reform fatigue stress: Dick Cheney: HUMAN EVENTS’ Conservative of the Year Oh wait – let my get it all: Dick Cheney: HUMAN EVENTS’ Conservative of the Year by John R. Bolton There – that’s better. Needed that byline in there. Nothing like naming […]
Joe Sudbay points to a post by political psychologist/neurologist Drew Westen on Huffington Post where he gives a very brutal, yet honest, assessment of President Obama: Somehow the president has managed to turn a base of new and progressive voters he himself energized like no one else could in 2008 into the likely stay-at-home voters […]
When the Democrats regained control of the Senate on a wave of “anti-corruption” one of the first things they did was pass something now known as “rule 44”. In a nutshell what rule 44 says is that any earmarks/congressionally directed spending must be reported before a vote can proceed. Last night John Cornyn asked if […]
I’m just spit-balling here, but something has struck me. For years we have talked about how banning abortion was a necessity for Republican victory, as backed up by the evidence of them actually not doing much to deliver once in office. The thought is that Republicans need to keep the abortion debate alive to insure […]
This is something I never thought I would see: Senate Republicans said Thursday that they would try to filibuster a massive Pentagon bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an unusual move that several acknowledged was an effort to delay President Obama’s health-care legislation. Late into the night, Democrats emerged from a huddle […]
Classy guy here: The spokesman for U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul resigned Thursday after the campaign acknowledged that he maintained a page on a Web site that included racist remarks and suggested the government bore some responsibility for the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Christopher Hightower’s resignation came five hours after he told the […]
Al Franken has shown the most balls we have seen from Democrats in a long time, and today was no exception. Here is Al shutting up Joe Lieberman, which then enraged McCain:
We are seeing a very bad pattern here: The White House is once again explaining how uninvited guests wound up shaking hands with President Barack Obama. This time, a Georgia couple hoping to tour the White House ended up at an invitation-only Veterans Day breakfast. White House officials say the couple mistakenly showed up a […]