Tag: gop

Just now being reported on MSNBC that Senate Democrats will be seeking this vote. Hopefully this goes through and doesn’t get a typical GOP filibuster.

Here in Butler County, Ohio, we are plagued with GOP scandals also. Just today we had this happen: A Butler County official pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor crime. Former county treasurer Carole Mosketti avoided jail time for her conviction on a conflict-of-interest charge, a judge fined her $1,000 and ordered her to pay $3,800 […]

Considering how FOX likes to ask questions like that, I decided to focus one at their debate, and in particular the section on torture. We heard such things as “I would call Jack Bauer” and other cute little comments all supporting torture. Of course the crowd at the GOP debate loved these responses and cheered […]

I wanted to post about his last night, but right after the GOP debate ended on FOX we had a massive storm move through, which left me without internet for most of the day. So – during last night’s debate Ron Paul was discussing our foreign policy and how it helped lead to 9/11: “Have […]

One leader of a nation that devised a sinister plan to lie to their people and invade a nation that is: Tony Blair said Thursday he would step down as prime minister on June 27, closing a decade of power in which he fostered peace in Northern Ireland and followed the United States to a […]

11 GOP Congressmembers met with Bush today. Check out the graphics running on MSNBC right now: Pictures are worth a thousand words, but so is the video of Russert’s report on this news. You can view that here. The days are looking very bad for the Bush regime. I guess that is why Cheney is […]

The administration can pull the “Mission Accomplished” banner back out and hang it again (4 years later). Looks like we got the big guy in Iraq: The interior ministry in Iraq says it has received intelligence that the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been killed. Abu Ayyub al-Masri, believed to be an Egyptian, has […]

We already have the primary battlegrounds changing, as states rush to move their dates up earlier. Now we got George Will saying that Republicans need to give up on Ohio in 2008: In the last 24 elections, since 1912, winners of the presidency won a plurality of the states along the Mississippi. Today the Republican […]

The Bush supporting GOP machine is fracturing: In another sign of Republican unease with the president’s Iraq policies, a third GOP senator expressed support Thursday for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq under certain conditions. Sen. Olympia J. Snowe announced she would sponsor a bill to require American commanders to plan a withdrawal within 120 […]

Leahy is not buying the White House line for one minute that the emails used on GOP accounts have been deleted and are “lost for ever” and neither do I (Think Progress has the video of Leahy’s speech). As someone who has worked on data retrieval, there is a great chance the data is still […]