It could have been: Gov. Rod Blagojevich, taking his defense to television rather than his impeachment trial, lashed out at his accusers Monday and revealed he had considered naming Oprah Winfrey to the U.S. Senate. The embattled governor told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the idea of nominating the talk show host came to him […]
A lot of people have been trying to paint Jesse Jackson Jr. as being corrupt since it was revealed he was referred to in the Blago indictment. Well it turns out Jackson had actually gone to the feds about Blago’s serious lack of ethics: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who was cited in a criminal complaint […]
The hope of 60 seats in the Senate is now dead: Relieved Republicans celebrated a resounding win in Georgia’s hard-fought U.S. Senate runoff, a victory that denied Democrats a filibuster-proof majority and cemented the state’s reputation as a GOP bastion. Sen. Saxby Chambliss trounced Democrat Jim Martin Tuesday night, winning his second term by a […]
Bill Clinton was the last Democrat to win Georgia, so it’s fitting that he heads on down there and campaigns for Jim Martin. Well that’s exactly what he is going to do: Former President Bill Clinton will headline a rally for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jim Martin on Wednesday, the candidate’s campaign announced Saturday. Clinton […]
Everyone thought the Rev. Wright situation would really hurt Obama. Well it didn’t. Instead Hillary’s lying has hurt her: As expected, one of the two major Democratic candidates saw a downturn in the latest NBC/WSJ poll, but it’s not the candidate that you think. Hillary Clinton is sporting the lowest personal ratings of the campaign. […]
We already have the primary battlegrounds changing, as states rush to move their dates up earlier. Now we got George Will saying that Republicans need to give up on Ohio in 2008: In the last 24 elections, since 1912, winners of the presidency won a plurality of the states along the Mississippi. Today the Republican […]
The AP just reported that Republican Senator Mitch McConnell is threatning to filibuster any attempts by the Democrats to block Bush’s escalation plan. This is ironic, considering what McConnell was saying in his majority days of the filibuster: Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell said yesterday that Republicans have enough votes to invoke the “nuclear option” […]
This is how loony the right is becoming, as they fear our newly elected Democratic congress: A radio talk-show entertainer whose earlier statements that he “may” have to assassinate members of Congress if the wrong people were elected Nov. 7 now has set a timetable for those killings. In a statement on his website, Hal […]
So images should be illegal, but someone actually pursuing a minor for sex shouldn’t? Millions of commercial Web sites and personal blogs would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000, if a new proposal in the U.S. Senate came into law. The legislation, […]
John Kerry has cancelled all his campaign appearences today in the wake of his botched joke: ABC news is reporting that Senator John Kerry has cancelled all appearances today – including a campaign stop in Philadelphia with Pennsylvania U.s. Senate candidate Bob Casey. President Bush and other Republicans have been demanding Kerry make an apology […]