I been reading through a lot of reactions to Arlen Specter’s party switch yesterday, and one quote stuck out at me: The Republican Party was founded as a party of individual rights and individual initiative. It led the fight to end slavery, give women the right to vote, expand national parks and break up corporate […]
A long term Republican endorses Barack Obama, makes a speech at the DNC convention last night and the media turns a deaf ear. Amazing isn’t it? That’s exactly what happened when Jim Leach gave a very good speech explaining why he is endorsing Obama and why his party has gone astray. Here is the video: […]
Lincoln Chaffee and former White House intelligence adviser, Rita Hauser, have joined with Jim Leach to form “Republicans for Obama“. Let the spin cycle start on this new group. You can bet the wingnuts are already throwing all these Republicans under the bus. Of course when we chastise Lieberman for his support of Republicans, we […]
That would be former congressman, Republican Jim Leach from Iowa. Many might try to blow this off, but here is part of Leach’s resume: Interim director of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow […]
From Political Affairs: Congressman Jim Leach (R, Iowa) has informed Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D, California) that he will co-sponsor her Resolution of Inquiry into Bush Administration communications with the U.K. about Iraq at the time of the Downing Street Memos. Leach is the first Republican member of Congress to publicly support a demand for an […]