Category Archives: GOP

House GOP To Continue Floor Protest Today

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 […]

Drilling: The Election Issue Of All Election Issues

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 […]

President Bush: Get Drilling!

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 […]

Why Aren’t We Drilling?

CNS News points out the difference between Republicans and Democrats Members of Congress interviewed by Cybercast News Service on Thursday were split on what to do about huge amounts of oil within U.S. territory that remains untapped because of U.S. laws and regulations. A report released by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) […]

Beer Monday Linkfest: GOP’s “The Change You Deserve”

Happy Monday! Time to get busy, impress the bosses, shift a few paradigms. How ’bout a beer?   I will wait till later to decide whether to raise a stein, or whether the these folks have been raising too many House Republican leaders, facing a potentially disastrous election this fall, will introduce a campaign message today in […]

NY Times Now Sees Obama As Liability For Ticket

Ok, ok, the headline is actually “GOP Now Sees Obama As Liability For Ticket,” but, sheesh, how did this possibly make it in to the NY Times? I have a little theory that the editor get drunk big time on Friday nights, so the actual reporters are free to write actual journalistic articles, as I […]

More GOP Attack Ads Out There

LA Times As they promote their candidates and try to pave the way for GOP victories this year, Republicans have begun making their case to voters in advertisements featuring a new star: Barack Obama. In North Carolina, a TV ad shows Obama’s former pastor making racially charged comments. An Internet ad attacks a Pennsylvania congressman […]

Local Raleigh TV Station Wimps On NC GOP Ad

I’ll remember this for when it is McCain vs. the Obamessiah for the general election, and see if WRAL rejects any of the hard left commercials (of course, to be honest, about the only time I turn on any of the networks around here – WRAL is cBS – is when I watch Lost, which […]

NC GOP Tells RNC To Piss Off

Glad to see someone in the Republican Party growing a set (via Sister Toldjah and Memeorandum) Per the RNC, the national leadership of the Republican Party has been in contact this morning with the North Carolina GOP, urging them to refrain from running the “Extreme” ad. The party says that the content of the anti-Obama […]

Condi Mocks Mookie

And this has really pissed of the usual subjects (check Memeorandum) BAGHDAD —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers. Rice, in the Iraqi capital to […]

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