August 30, 2008 – 6:37 pm
All sorts of analysis has been made of the pick of Sarah Palin. The Politico gets close with their 6 things the Palin pick says about McCain. But, really, everything is secondary to one simple concept: McCain understood that the base would be ignited, would be thrilled, would be pumped up, excited, engrossed, and fired up […]
August 30, 2008 – 8:31 am
Woah! This was highly unexpected, but, perhaps the folks at the Grey Lady decided that their support of feminism and equal rights was more important than electing Democrats. Sarah Heath Palin, an Outsider Who Charms Her father shot the grizzly bear whose hide is now draped over the sofa in her office. She, too, hunts […]
August 21, 2008 – 9:17 am
Refuting the liberal’s meme that American just doesn’t have that much oil, so we should all sit in the dark quite a bit of the time when it is cloudy and/or the wind is not blowing. And that we should all become corn farmers (CNS News) Let’s start with some sense of the oil resources […]
August 18, 2008 – 8:56 am
Good to know The Senate Republicans who are trying to force Congress to lift restrictions on offshore drilling say they have 38 senators backing their efforts to force a showdown over the critical campaign issue of energy prices — one that could shut down the government. Democratic leaders in Congress want to extend the moratorium […]
August 12, 2008 – 8:03 am
That is what The Hill is reporting as a possibility House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday night dropped her staunch opposition to a vote on offshore oil drilling in the House. Republicans, reacting to high gas prices, have demanded a vote on additional oil exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf, where drilling is currently blocked […]
August 6, 2008 – 9:41 am
But, folks will certainly not get the idea behind it In a legislative update sent to GOP members and staff on Tuesday, Republican House Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.) accused “Beijing George” Bush of throwing House Republicans “under the bone-dry bus” on his way to the Olympics in China. House GOP leaders last week […]
August 4, 2008 – 3:25 pm
Starting with The Carpetbagger Report Atrios asked this morning, “Does anyone understand why Obama suggesting that people keep their tires properly inflated is some sort of hilarious gaffe?†Yes, those of us NOT in the Reality Based Community Asylum do understand. Not that the RBC will get it, but, Barry is suggesting that properly inflated […]
August 4, 2008 – 7:48 am
From John Boehner’s webpage House Republicans will be back on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives again Monday to continue the unprecedented protest that began last Friday, when dozens of Republicans joined hundreds of American citizens on the House floor to protest Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) decision to send Congress home for the […]
August 1, 2008 – 4:18 pm
I caught this one myself through an email from a friend of mine in New Joisey (I’m originally from there, I’m allowed to write it that way. Exit 98), but, I think John Hawkins at Right Wing News puts it perfectly Yesterday, the fine folks over at Americans for Prosperity alerted me to the fact […]
June 9, 2008 – 9:24 am
CNS News “The United States has an opportunity to help increase the supply of oil on the market,” thereby easing gasoline prices for hard-working Americans,” President Bush said on Monday. He reminded Congress that he has proposed opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Continental Shelf to domestic oil drilling — something that would […]
