Leading up to last week’s Connecticut primary, we constantly heard of this “insurgency” in Connecticut. The right quickly labeled Lamont’s campaign as that, because he dared to challenge an incumbent. Here we are one week later and look how things have changed: White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said this morning that President Bush will […]
Earlier toay the Texas GOP asked Justice Scalia to block the appeals court ruling that Delay had to stay on the ballot. CNN just reported that Scalia has refused to block the ruling. Will he now be branded as one of those “activist judges” by the GOP?
Damn these activist judges: A federal appeals court panel on Thursday refused to let Texas Republicans replace Tom DeLay’s name on the November congressional ballot. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, who said in July that DeLay name had to stay […]
This is some great news from the Buckeye State: Democrat Ted Strickland has surged to a surprising lead of 20 percentage points in the first Dispatch Poll on Ohio’s Nov. 7 race for governor. Meanwhile, Democrat Sherrod Brown holds an 8-point edge in his bid to unseat two-term Republican Sen. Mike DeWine. Strickland’s 47-to-27 advantage […]
Just received this from the Ohio Democratic Party: “For a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mike DeWine, did an awful dumb thing by not noticing the use of doctored photos of the 911 tragedy in his campaign ad. How can we trust his judgment?” “Ohioans and Americans should be outraged that they put their […]
AWWW how sad: The fundraising organization that helped vault former Rep. Tom DeLay to Republican leadership ranks in the House and distributed election money to numerous Republicans has been fined for campaign finance violations and is shutting down. Under an agreement with the Federal Election Commission, Americans for a Republican Majority’s political action committee agreed […]
This is large big huge enormous. Looks like the old N.H. phone jamming scheme is leading to the White House more and more, as Raw Story points out: The fourth man indicted in a New Hampshire phone-jamming scheme — in which Republican operatives jammed the phone lines of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts in a 2002 Senate […]
The Texas Republicans just suffered a big defeat: The Texas Republican Party must keep Tom DeLay’s name on the November election ballot, even though the former congressman has dropped his re-election bid, a federal judge ruled Thursday. DeLay, the former House majority leader who resigned from office June 9, won the Republican primary for his […]
Here is a man that was supported by the netroots and has become victorious in the first battle: James Webb, a former Reagan administration Navy secretary who left the Republican Party over the Iraq war, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday to take on GOP Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record) in the fall. Webb […]
Bush wastes money on all kinds of shit so in order to combat that, the Republicans need to go after PBS and NPR again: House Republicans yesterday revived their efforts to slash funding for public broadcasting, as a key committee approved a $115 million reduction in the budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that […]