The first major debate of the 2012 Republican Presidential primaries took place last night and the big news came from Michele Bachmann: Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, an outspoken Republican with close ties to the tea party, announced Monday that she is running for president, a candidacy that could further shake up a volatile fight for […]
He failed at running the RNC and has failed at being a senator: U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, who has struggled to boost his approval ratings because of close ties to President George W. Bush, announced Tuesday he will not seek a second term in 2010. His seat was widely seen as vulnerable in […]
Charles Keating’s law firm has made donations topping $50,000 to the McCain campaign. I don’t really think Obama should go negative, but if he targeted the Keating story in the Cincinnati area it could deliver him a very red part of Ohio. A lot of people in the Cincinnati area lost their life savings because […]
And John McCain does nothing but lie to the American people about it – the same American people expected to bail out these companies. One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager from the end of […]
And it isn’t siting well with some in the GOP: “I think John is treading on some very thin ground here when he impugns motives and when we start to get into ‘You’re less patriotic than me. I’m more patriotic,’ ” Hagel said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “I admire and respect John McCain very […]
Barack and Michelle Obama said this today: Democrat Barack Obama and his wife said Thursday the public is tired of hearing about incendiary remarks by their former pastor, as they sought to put the controversy that has rocked his presidential campaign to rest. “We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle […]
An article in today’s Washington Post discusses how Democrats are targeting their opponents and using past and present legal/ethical problems their competition has faced as issues in their campaigns. The article takes a slant towards painting the Democrats strategy as dangerous. This part in particular highlights that slant: Former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie […]
Now that the Abramoff probe has yielded a conviction that touches the White House, I wonder how they will spin it: David H. Safavian, a former Bush administration official with close ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was found guilty today in federal court of four of five felony charges against him in connection with […]
Well McCain may be busy trying to show he is a good little Bushie this weekend but other Republicans are not buying into it. Several Republicans here said Mr. Bush urgently needed to shake up his staff. Senator Norm Coleman, Republican of Minnesota, pointed to what he described as a series of management and political […]
It sounds like the deal between Jack Abramoff and prosecutors has been struck and the paperwork could be done over this holiday weekend with the official announcement on Tuesday: Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff consulted briefly Friday with a federal judge in Miami as they put the finishing touches on a […]