Now that Sarah Palin is done playing celebrity (hopefully), she gets to go back to work in Alaska and face some big problems: Palin’s state budget proposal is due in a month, with plummeting oil prices slashing Alaska’s revenues by billions of dollars. The 1,700-mile natural gas pipeline she bragged about on the campaign trail […]
This Tuesday is when Senate Democrats will vote on Lieberman’s fate, and that vote will be by secret ballot: Senate Democrats will decide by secret ballot Tuesday whether to take away Sen. Joe Lieberman‘s chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee — a post from which he oversees U.S. security issues, as well […]
That’s what the media wants everyone to think and all they have talked about for days on end. Of course they are ignoring another fight that maybe brewing, this one at the GOP convention: Two Nevada delegations are packing their bags for the Republican National Convention Sept. 1, and if the latest party ruling stands, […]
So McCain is trying to compare Obama to a celebrity? The Smirking Chimp brings up what everyone seems to be ignoring: Oh really? Where was John McCain to decry celebrity status when Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California as a Republican? Where was John McCain when pop icon Sonny Bono, and actors Noble Willingham, […]
TPM gives us this interesting news: Now this is just sad. Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has long led the conservative forces of his state, has been denied his customary position as a voting delegate to the Republican National Convention — and it’s being done by an even more conservative bunch. The Iowa […]
You end up getting burned: The man picked by the John McCain campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention resigned Saturday after a report that his lobbying firm used to represent the military regime in Myanmar. We will just file this under the GOP chapter of “profit trumping life”.
Today’s New York Times has obtained documents showing the NYPD spied upon people who were planning to protest the 2004 GOP Convention: For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of […]
On July 28, 2003, just a few weeks after Rove had the now infamous phone call with Matt Cooper confirming Valerie Plame worked for the CIA, the 55th biennial College Republican National Convention was underway. Two weeks after Novak’s Time magazine article hit the newsstands and people realized they were reading something they shouldn’t be […]
Imagine if our enemy was closer than you think – Your next door neighbor, or the person who sits across from you in the office. It could even be your doctor and local grocer. This would frighten the hell out of anyone around here. Now, what if that enemy was you? Yes – you could […]