Category Archives: GOP

Right Wing News: Most And Least Desired 2008 GOP Candidates

October 26, 2007 – 7:00 pm

Head on over to Right Wing News for the results. Unsurprisingly, Ron Paul ends up coming out on the short end of the stick, both for least desired and net score. Good! Maybe this will stop the Ronulans who are supporting a candidate who takes money from a neo-Nazi from spamming so much. Na. Won’t […]

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TTLF: CNN Now Loves Huckabee

September 6, 2007 – 8:07 am

As of the time this is posted, CNN, the "world leader in news," mentions the GOP debate on the front page only in terms of "Ticker: GOP candidate on Iraq: "We broke it." That would be it. Nothing else. Gee, no bias there. And the story leads only to that confrontation between Paul and Huckabee, […]

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Bush Pushing For GOP Loss In 2008 Hard

June 16, 2007 – 8:08 am

As many pundits have mentioned, the GOP lost in 2006 because of their free-spending, big government, ignore-the-illegals ways, among others. President Bush and the shamnesty supporters are looking to increase on that loss, apparently (Washington Times) President Bush yesterday told Hispanics to step into the middle of the immigration debate and make sure senators who […]

By William Teach Also posted in GWB, Illegal Immigration 3 Comments

Boehnor Declares War

June 13, 2007 – 2:19 pm

Now, the primo question is, will he sustain it, or will it be the usual, ie, a few shots across the bow? (The Hill) House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) yesterday moved to “declare war” on the appropriations earmarks process set by House Democrats last week, vowing to use parliamentary procedures to delay and potentially […]

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AP Tries To Cover For Democrat Do-Nothingness

June 2, 2007 – 5:44 pm

I was hoping for a chance to cover this again: WASHINGTON – Under a portrait of George Washington and a sign proclaiming "A New Direction," Democratic lawmakers boasted of their accomplishments their first five months running Congress. Their press release covered two pages. Yet most people might be excused for hardly noticing, except maybe those […]

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Republicans Show Spine, Impressive. Most Impressive

May 17, 2007 – 6:12 pm

Darth Kitty is surely impressed (CNSNews.com) – Republicans claimed victory Wednesday in a flash-pan fight with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over 185-year-old House rules that allow the minority party to block legislation. Reports Thursday afternoon suggested that Pelosi would alter the "motion to commit," which allow the minority party to send legislation back to committee before […]

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Republicans Find a Spine

February 5, 2007 – 9:15 pm

Shocking, simply shocking WASHINGTON – Republicans blocked a full-fledged Senate debate overIraq on Monday, but Democrats vowed they still would find a way to force President Bush to change course in a war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 U.S. troops. "We must heed the results of the November elections and the […]

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