The big news yesterday was this “private” remark from Harry Reid, which appears on page 37 of Game Change encouragement of Obama was unequivocal. He was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a “light-skinned” African American “with […]
Evidently the Washington Moonie Times couldn’t handle Jack Murtha getting some good press yesterday, so today they fire back with a scathing editorial entitled “The Real Jack Murtha” Rep. John Murtha is thinking big thoughts. Since coming out for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq last year, he has accused Marines of murder “in cold blood” […]
Remember this when you go to the polls this November: Just two weeks after House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) pledged to pass far-reaching changes to the rules of lobbying on Capitol Hill, House Republican members pushed back hard against those proposals yesterday, charging that their leaders are overreacting to a growing corruption scandal. In […]
Seems like Tom Delay can’t get a break at all: AUSTIN, Texas – The state’s highest criminal court on Monday denied Rep. Tom DeLay’s request that the money laundering charges against him be dismissed or sent back to a lower court for an immediate trial. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied the requests with […]
In the aftermath of Katrina, President Bush appeared in New Orleans along side Mississippi Senator Trent Lott and talked about rebuilding. He even said he looked forward to the day when Lott’s house was rebuilt and he could sit on the porch with him drinking lemonade. It appears as though Lott might not feel the […]
More bad news for Republicans. This courtesy of the Associated Press Scanlon Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud By PETE YOST, Associated Press Michael Scanlon, partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was charged Friday with conspiring to defraud Indian tribes the two were representing of millions of dollars. In a one-count criminal information filed by the government, […]
More on Delay fromReuters Indicted DeLay leaves House leadership post The second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, Tom DeLay, said on Wednesday he would step aside temporarily from his leadership post following an indictment on a campaign-finance charge. A grand jury in Travis County, Texas, indicted DeLay on a single felony conspiracy charge […]