It looks like Ralph Reeds past dealings with Abramoff are really taking a toll on his run for lieutenant Governor in Georgia: Twenty-one Republican state senators on Friday called for Ralph Reed to withdraw from the contest for lieutenant governor, declaring that his ties to Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff could jeopardize the re-election of Gov. […]
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 […]
Hmm does this really shock anyone? From this morning’s New York Times: The Bush administration is rebuffing requests from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for its classified legal opinions on President Bush’s domestic spying program, setting up a confrontation in advance of a hearing scheduled for next week, administration and Congressional officials said Wednesday. […]
It looks like the Patriot Act gets another one month extension. This is getting very tiresome. Why not just pass a three or six month extension so time can be spent debating the actual act and not just these extensions. Republicans just love to play politics and they are with the very thing they coin […]
It looks like the Patriot Act gets another one month extension. This is getting very tiresome. Why not just pass a three or six month extension so time can be spent debating the actual act and not just these extensions. Republicans just love to play politics and they are with the very thing they coin […]
Remember how horrible it was that the President of the United States lied under oath to congress? My how times have changed. Now it seems perjury is the norm for Washington. It first became evident when Scooter Libby was indicted for the same crime last fall. Republicans quickly took to the airwaves dismissing the charges […]
A prelude to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s questioning of Gonzalez A study shows that Republicans are more likely to be racists The second phase of the pre-war intelligence report is being stalled. Why won’t the media report thefacts on new polls. Chris has released his fourth installment of his polling project. Matthew’s thinks the warrantless […]
It is not only Democrats, the Press and 76% of Americans who think the White House should come clean on Abramoff. Republican lawmakers are also included in that bunch now: Republican lawmakers urged President George W. Bush on Sunday to release records of White House contacts with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the center of a […]
‘Bring New Orleans Back’ Commissioner’s Campaign Contributions: 94% Went to Republicans The MYDD polling project releases1 and2 The administration is unable to keep America safe. NSA Hits and Myths by The Heretik Primaries are around the corner –does AccuPoll have problems? As always. Political and other conversation over atPolitical Nutshell
American Prospect commissioned a non-partisan research firm to investigate the allegations that Abramoff gave money to Democrats also. Their findings: in total, the donations of Abramoff’s tribal clients to Democrats dropped by nine percent after they hired him, while their donations to Republicans more than doubled, increasing by 135 percent after they signed him up; […]