Awwww…. Newt wants us to see him as a big softy: Forget the back and forth attacks with Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich’s campaign has decided to take another route on his bid to the Republican nomination: pets and music. The campaign said today that it will soon launch a “Pets With Newt” site aimed at […]
The Senate and House have both passed the 2 month extension of the payroll tax cut, sending it to President Obama for his signature. Looks like Americans can breath a little easier this holiday, but the fight will continue after the first of the year.
James O’Keefe is back in the news again, but not for his usual videos smearing different organizations. This time he is found as the accused. From Raw Story: Conservative blogger Nadia Naffe accused O’Keefe of sending her harassing messages after she backed out of an upcoming hidden camera sting on the “Occupy Wall Street” protest […]
One thing the payroll tax cut fight has given us is a big fracture in the GOP. Here’s a couple of quotes that caught my eye: Rep. Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican whom Boehner picked to be on the conference committee, summed up the beating his caucus had taken when he said, “I am willing […]
One of the reasons John Boehner has said that his people opposed the 2 month extension of the tax cut is that the payroll processors would have problems with it. That makes we wonder about this: Just under two years ago, House Republicans, including some of the party’s more conservative members, were arguing that a […]
The state that lies a few miles from my house has just seen the outcome of a political scandal that I’m sure some on the right will try to blame on ACORN somehow: A Marion County judge has ruled that Secretary of State Charlie White was ineligible to be a candidate and the office should […]
He wants you to think he’s the common man, while hiding his estimated wealth upwards of a quarter billion dollars: Mitt Romney, who is one of the wealthiest men ever to seek the presidency, said on Wednesday that he had no intention of releasing his tax returns if he became the Republican presidential nominee, breaking […]
Boehner just announced that they will agree to the two month extension, while he held back tears (seriously – it looked like they were ready to come out!). Here’s what it is: The House will agree to the Senate bill by anonymous consent The Senate will immediately appoint conferees to hammer out the differences towards […]
Following the news that the House GOP was starting to splinter from Boehner, including Tea Partier Sean Duffy, news organizations are now reporting that there will be a vote on the payroll tax cut possibly as early as this evening. I’ll keep you updated as more news breaks.
Gallup is out with a new poll that shows U.S. satisfaction is really low right now. Given the economic state and how broken Congress is, that should come as no shock. Some on the right are pushing this as the “Obama is Carter” meme: The second term of Jimmy Carter is going about as well […]