You know, if Harry ends up getting voted out of office I won’t mind one bit. He has been a very ineffective leader and the Democratic caucus seems content on keeping him in the position: A new poll indicates that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, continues to trail two potential Republican rivals, less than […]
I keep thinking back to the Bush years and every time someone in Congress wanted someone from the Bush administration to testify the Republicans would give cover to Bush by arguing about “executive privilege”. At that time so many of us on the left kept thinking “I wonder if they will do the same when […]
Yesterday Sarah Palin joined the ranks of the birther movement and by late night she issued this statement on her Facebook page: Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger […]
Well at least we now know what she was thinking: Speaking to the conservative talker Rusty Humphries today, Sarah Palin left the door open to speculation about President Obama’s birth certificate. “Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?” she was asked (around 9 minutes into the video above). “I think the […]
This has been a very interesting and sad story that really hasn’t received much attention: Georgia’s powerful House speaker resigned Thursday after a suicide attempt and allegations by his ex-wife that he carried on an affair with a lobbyist. Glenn Richardson, the state’s first GOP speaker since Reconstruction, had won sympathy from even his political […]
NPR: “The Salahis’ testimony is important to explain how a couple circumvented layers of security at the White House on the evening of a state dinner without causing alarm,” Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee chairman, said in a statement released by his committee last night. “If the Salahis are absent from tomorrow’s hearing, the […]
Mike Huckabee is having a very bad week. First we find out that he granted clemency to a violent prisoner who went on to slay 4 Washington police officers. Now the fallout continues as his own flock start to leave: As I mentioned this morning, I resigned my position as Arkansas coordinator for HuckPAC today […]
An ally of RNC chairman Michael Steele is claiming the new RNC purity test is an attempt to “stick it” to Steele: An ally of Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele claimed Tuesday that the so-called “purity test” being circulated by some RNC members is a publicity stunt designed to “stick it” to Steele after […]