Good for them: “On Tuesday, August 4, GEICO instructed its ad buying service to redistribute its inventory of rotational spots on FOX-TV to their other network programs, exclusive of the Glenn Beck program,” said a spokesperson for GEICO Corporate Communications in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “As of August 4, GEICO no longer runs any paid […]
It sure sounds like it: Last session’s senior senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman, still battling Al Franken to be seated in the Senate, has taken a paid job as a consultant to the Republican Jewish Coalition, which harshly attacked Obama last fall, its executive director, Matt Brooks, said. Coleman will join the group as a […]
Couldn’t happen to a better corporation: Wal-Mart’s former Republican outreach director will be charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the next to fall in a long list of current and former lobbyists linked to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, according to court documents filed last week. Abramoff, formerly a powerful Republican lobbyist for the […]
While junior is off at college learning how to grow up to be a good Republican tool, he makes the mistake of saying what he really thinks: The leader of a statewide group of college Republicans has been forced to resign after posting racially insensitive comments about Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on the Internet. […]
Please check your sources! While discussing Jerry Falwell with Chris Matthews, host Contessa Brewer quoted this article from Whitehouse.org in saying that Falwell was the “Executive Director of Global Policy”. Apparently Contessa doesn’t realize that whitehouse.org is a satirical site, and her producer has never heard of whois, which tells you who the domain is […]
John McCain was playing the “blame Clinton” game today on North Korea. Ignore the fact that if Clinton did so bad with North Korea then why hasn’t the Bush administration done anything to correct it in the past 6 years. If the Republicans once again want to put partisanship above national security, then let’s play. […]
Stories like this are just way to common anymore: Thieves took sensitive personal information on 26.5 million U.S. veterans, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, after a Veterans Affairs employee improperly brought the material home, the government said Monday. The information involved mainly those veterans who served and have been discharged since 1975, said […]
Well things are really heating up in DC: Law enforcement officials executed search warrants Friday on the house and office of the CIA’s outgoing executive director, the FBI said. The agency’s third ranking official, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, has been under investigation by the FBI, IRS, Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the CIA’s inspector general, said […]
Via the Associated Press DeLay Indicted in Campaign Finance Probe A Texas grand jury on Wednesday charged Rep. Tom DeLay and two political associates with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, an indictment that could force him to step down as House majority leader. DeLay attorney Steve Brittain said DeLay was accused of a criminal […]
Now that Bob Taft has pleaded no-contest to the four counts of ethic violations, will he resign from office? Following the own standards that the Governor has enforced in Ohio, he should. In August of 2002, the executive director of the Ohio Turnpike Commission resigned hours after Governor Taft urged him to resign or be […]