There was so much talk the other night when Obama was asked about Farrakhan supporting him. I wonder if the media will now focus on McCain’s endorsement problem: Calling Pastor John Hagee a “bigot,” the conservative Catholic League is calling for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to denounce/renounce/reject his endorsement Wednesday. With a Youtube link to […]
It appears that it just might be: Conservative media outlets rushed with surprising vehemence to defend Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday against a critical article in The New York Times, embracing a maverick they have often attacked. Rush Limbaugh calls it “the drive-by media … trying to take him out.” Laura Ingraham, another influential […]
Then America don’t want it! In a widely expected move, Sen. John McCain‘s (R-Ariz.) press department resigned en masse today. Communications director Brian Jones stepped down, along with deputies Matt David and Danny Diaz. Research director Brian Rogers and South Carolina McCain spokesman Adam Temple are also leaving the campaign. None of the depatures is […]
From Roll Call via Think Progress: In a second blow to House Republicans this week, the FBI raided a business tied to the family of Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) Thursday afternoon as part of an ongoing investigation into the three-term lawmaker. Details of the raid on Patriot Insurance Agency in Sonoita, Ariz., were not immediately […]
Funny how the same party that argued “if people can’t survive on minimum wage, they need to work more” is bitching like a bunch of children about having to work a full 5 day week. The Politico has an article up with such quotes as this: “They should really work us so we get things […]
From the front page of Today’s Washington Post: A Republican congressman knew of disgraced former representative Mark Foley’s inappropriate Internet exchanges as far back as 2000 and personally confronted Foley about his communications. A spokeswoman for Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) confirmed yesterday that a former page showed the congressman Internet messages that had made the […]
This is really bad for a Senator, but even worse for a lawyer: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham may have a future as a fiction writer. He’s being accused of fabricating a Senate debate and sending it to the U.S. Supreme Court, which didn’t think much of the work. The high court dismissed it. At issue […]
You know it is bad for McCain when you got NewsMax going after him with this little piece: McCain’s Out-of-Control Anger: Does He Have the Temperament to Be President? Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is considered a front-runner for the 2008 race, but does McCain have the temperament to be president? As portrayed by the mainstream […]
Chris “Tweety” Matthews has an article up about the Southern Republicans Convention going on this weekend and in particular their straw poll vote for the 2008 Presidential candidate: Sources tell me that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., plans to shock his supporters tonight by asking them to NOT vote for him in the presidential straw poll […]
When Bush signed the torture ban into law in December he used his “executive privilege” to make sure that a he could pick and choose where it applies. It seems like he wasted no time either: Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law […]