From their most recent email blast:
In a surprise ambush yesterday, liberal House Democrats unseated longtime chairman Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) from his position on the Energy and Commerce Committee and replaced him with Rep. Harry Waxman (D-Calif.). Waxman’s coup is alarming to many Democrats, who see the move as a rebuff to the seniority system [...]
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Bad news for those of us who like watching the GOP dig themselves deeper holes post election: Fred Thompson will not run for RNC chair. That probably means we won’t get the pleasure of a cornpone southern idiot who loves mugging for the camera saying the most uninspiring things as the head of a regional, [...]
The deserving fate of the modern Republican party.
The Republican Party’s image has gone from bad to worse over the past month, as only 34% of Americans in a Nov. 13-16 Gallup Poll say they have a favorable view of the party, down from 40% in mid-October. The 61% now holding an unfavorable view of the [...]
Michael Steele said Newt Gingrich was backing him, Gingrich said… not so fast. Already the song and dance man is being tripped up in his latest show.
This movie that is being pushed by right wing radio and blogs is exactly the sort of thing that will keep the conservatives and their party as a regional, minority, organization. They’ve cherry picked comments and commissioned a push poll in order to push the idea that it wasn’t a failure of conservatism and the [...]
Newt Gingrich is one of the people whose name is being bandied about as a savior of the GOP, which is pretty funny when you think about it, especially considering this is the petty yahoo whose temper tantrum was instrumental in the federal government being shut down. But that said, when the Gingrich goes around [...]
In the past, when Democrats lost Presidential elections in part from acting like GOP-lite on far too many issues, the conservative DLC would go after them for not being conservative enough. The DLC has of course tried to tout Sen. Obama’s victory as a victory for them, even though Obama is one of the most [...]
Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich running for RNC chairman? On one hand, an odious public figure whose petulance led to the shutdown of the government, on the other hand a failed lieutenant governor and failed senatorial candidate (by double digits). SWEET. I wonder if rapist Mike Tyson will endorse Steele again?
UPDATE: Pam Spaulding had similar [...]
When the histories are written about the rebirth of the Democratic party from 2001-2008 - and Lord knows there will be a lot of them - one of the key narratives will be the rise of Howard Dean from obscure governor to failed presidential candidate to triumphant party chairman. Without Dean, there is no Obama. [...]
2004 Hispanic Vote
55% Kerry 44% Bush
2008 Hispanic Vote
67% Obama 31% McCain
The GOP has alienated the fastest growing set of Americans, possibly for a generation.
Si Se Puede.
He calls Obama “chicken shit”. Of course, that’s the kind of temperament that will keep Boehner a minority leader.
In all likelihood, the Democrats will not hit 60 votes in the Senate (but come damn close, including possibly Liddy Dole’s seat). But if Sen. Obama wins, I don’t think they’ll really need to get all that way. Democrats will be at historical highs in the House and Senate, with a Democratic president. The country [...]
The republicans are quite upset that voting hours have been extended in North Carolina. Yet again, the right recoils from democracy.
National party, localized.
An email sent by Hillsborough County Republican Party chairman David Storck has some local party supporters claiming it’s racist.
The email, written by a volunteer at the party’s Temple Terrace office, was forwarded by Storck to hundreds of party members. It says, in part, “I see carloads of black Obama supporters coming from the [...]
You know that when the right cites this in polls where Sen. Obama is ahead, they’re basically gambling that racism will deliver them votes, right? It’s not about whether Sen. McCain can campaign effectively enough to win over voters. It’s just praying that enough racists vote against the black guy.
Okay.
Amen.
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted of seven corruption charges Monday in a trial that tainted the 40-year Senate career of Alaska’s political patriarch.
The verdict, coming just days before Election Day, adds further uncertainty to a closely watched Senate race. Democrats hope to seize the once reliably Republican seat as part of their bid for [...]
Woot.
The prospect of an electoral rout has unleashed a bitter bout of recriminations both within the McCain campaign and the wider conservative movement, over who is to blame and what should be done to salvage the party’s future.
Mr McCain is now facing calls for him to sacrifice his own dwindling White House hopes and focus [...]
That odor you smell, ladies and gentlemen, is the whiff of desperation emanating from the Republican party and the conservative movement. Josh Marshall has some more on the backstory.
How bad is it? This story from “The American Thinker” (I know, right?) about “signs” pointing to McCain winning is being taken seriously in the conservative blogosphere. [...]
I’ve seen some folks on the left say that they hope to see Ashley Todd, the race-baiting fabulist volunteer for the McCain campaign, seek mental help. Excuse me? She knew what she was doing. She’s done what College Republicans have often done - like affirmative action bake sales - they provoke racial discord in order [...]
The RNC has released a new web video. It is 12 minutes long. It is 12 minutes of Fred Thompson doing his “fake president” act telling us how horrible an Obama win would be.
Its the kind of situation that makes you wonder if someone paid them to take the fall.
If Sen. Obama wins, and Democrats increase their majorities in the House and Senate, will conservatives/Republicans still incessantly try to lecture those of us on the left about what “real” and “patriotic” Americans believe? I honestly thought they would tamp it down a little bit after the “thumpin’” of 2006, but they still lecture us [...]
They strike again
The head of a New Mexico Republican women’s group is being pressured to resign after calling Barack Obama a “Muslim socialist” and claiming that “Muslims are our enemies.”
Marcia Stirman is the head of the Republican Women of Otero County.
She included her criticism of Obama in a letter published Tuesday in the Alamogordo Daily [...]
That is real nice of him. I tell you, these people…
The NRCC is pulling out of hater Michele Bachman’s race, just as the DCCC pours in $1 million to the race.
I can’t imagine why donors would be upset.
>> RNC appears to shell out $150K for Palin fashion
>> A Pitbull in Valentino, Karan, Armani…
>> Sarah Palin Doesn’t Shop at Wal*mart Anymore.
The Republican party fully supports the Bull Connor/George Wallace agenda.
McCain supporters heckle early voters
Photographer Joe Eddins and I headed over to the closest one and found a steady line of voters hoping to cast ballots early. Most seemed to be Obama supporters and several had come from the rally. Nearly all the voters were black. [...]
It’s hilarious how the current desperation-based attack on Sen. Obama is how he, in concert with Reid and Pelosi, will create a left-wing socialist majority that will crush America.
First off the attack using who will be in control of congress is among the most desperate, a version of it was used in 2006 when [...]
If Sen. Obama wins, the Republicans are sure to go in civil war mode. With the Democrats, the DLC wing of the party won the first few rounds and that resulted in losses in 2002 and contributed to Sen. Kerry’s loss in 2004. The grassroots (including the netroots) pushed back and that resulted in Dean [...]
Clearly, that’s why he’s running for president.
This is your modern Republican party.
But it will be the story they tell themselves if/when they lose the election.
“There’s no evidence that any of these invalid registrations lead to any invalid votes,” said David Becker, project director of the “Make Voting Work” initiative for the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Becker should know: he was a lawyer for the Bush administration until 2005, [...]
Run against an idiot like Florida Democrat Tim Mahoney who can’t keep it in his pants. If I lived in that district, I’d maybe vote for the Republican.
This is what all those people who watch Fox News and actually believe it sound like. Brainwashed morons.
This is your modern Republican party.
“I’m afraid if he wins, the blacks will take over. He’s not a Christian! This is a Christian nation! What is our country gonna end up like?”
“When you got a negro running for president, you need a first stringer. He’s definitely a second stringer.”
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The reality begins to leak out, this time from a GOP club in California.
The latest newsletter by an Inland Republican women’s group depicts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama surrounded by a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken, prompting outrage in political circles.
The October newsletter by the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated says if [...]
It ain’t safe to be a Republican
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has decided to pull its television advertising out of Louisiana, a decision that drastically reduces the party’s chances at its lone takeover opportunity in this election cycle.
The ads, according to buy information obtained by The Fix, will end next Tuesday — two weeks before [...]
The base
Al Austin, a longtime, high-level Republican fundraiser from Tampa, today sent to his list of political contacts an e-mail containing a joke that refers to the assassination of Barack Obama.
Point, laugh, and realize that this is the future of the Republican party.
The trend continues
Sacramento County Republican leaders Tuesday took down offensive material on their official party Web site that sought to link Sen. Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden and encouraged people to ‘Waterboard Barack Obama’ – material that offended even state GOP leaders.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has pushed the party to try to broaden its [...]
Money is tight for the GOP. Tight.
The Republican National Committee, growing nervous over the prospect of Democrats’ winning a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, is considering tapping into a $5 million line of credit this week to aid an increasing number of vulnerable incumbents, top Republicans say.
With party strategists fearing a bloodbath at the polls, [...]
McCain/Palin supporters SCREAM about the socialists taking over our country!
This is the modern Republican party.
“It’s now clear that John McCain would rather launch angry, personal attacks than talk about the economy or defend his risky bailout scheme that hands over billions in taxpayer dollars to the same irresponsible Wall Street banks and lenders that got [...]
This is the other side, folks.
The RNC starts running ads for McCain in Florida and North Carolina (both states that went for Bush), as well as trying to snag that wildcard electoral vote in Maine (that won’t matter).
De-fense! De-fense!
McCain: Ayers! Chicago Politician! Black Guy!
When America goes through adversity they need a steady hand at the helm. Part of the reason we’re on such shaky ground is that we are being led by the least popular president since polling began.
Any more of this and there won’t be an America to bail out.
John McCain’s campaign is just George Wallace in this century.
Republicans on economics.
The top congressional budget analyst says pension plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months.
Peter Orszag told a House panel on Tuesday that the losses are likely to force many workers to hold off on major purchases and delay their retirements.
Yes… Yes… Give In To The Dark Side…
Sarah Palin’s been unleashed.
In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving [...]
Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick.
‘And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,” she continued.
‘Boooo!’ the crowd repeated.
‘Kill him!’ proposed one man in the audience.
Palin went on to say that ‘Obama held [...]
Last week Republicans in Florida had a special meeting to discuss McCain’s eroding support there. Then Michigan Republicans wailed about McCain retreating there. Now in Virginia, Republicans are facing the very real chance that they too will lose.
Since this election season began, I’ve believed that Virginia will go Democratic. Thanks to us Marylanders moving in [...]
Another story about the consequences of the sort of deregulation and lack of oversight championed for years by the conservative movement and people like Sen. McCain.
After 55 minutes of discussion, which can now be heard on the Web sites of the agency and The Times, the chairman, William H. Donaldson, a veteran Wall Street executive, [...]
The Republican party is just trying out the latest version of the Southern Strategy.
First of all, even if Fannie and Freddie were the most awful companies in the history of the planet, its books chock-a-block with non-performing loans, none of the financial contagion—none of it—would have happened had not greedy financial institutions invented the risky [...]
Count the embarrassing Rep. Michelle Bachman among the con Republicans trying to push the line that Wall Street’s failure is because of poor minorities. Give me a break.
That’s the Republican strategy to deflect the blame from the Bush administration being asleep at the wheel on the economic crisis.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Bush Inauguration: 10,587.59
Second Bush Inauguration: 10,471.47
Today: 10,609
Net change: +21.41
Clinton Inauguration: 3,241.95
Second Clinton Inauguration: 6,843.87
End of Clinton presidency: 10,587.59
Net change: +7,345.64
Historical
Bush I Inauguration: 2,235.36
End of Bush I presidency: 3,241.95
Reagan Inauguration: 950.69
Second Reagan Inauguration: 1,227.36
End of Reagan presidency: 2,235.36
Carter Inauguration: 1,029.12
End of Carter presidency: 950.69
Ford assumes presidency: 814.12
End of Ford presidency: 1,029.12
The Republican party is holding a rally for minorities.
The Republican party is holding a rally for minorities… in Virginia.
The Republican party is holding a rally for minorities in Virginia… hosted by George “Macaca” Allen.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
They’re predicting 1,000 attendees and while past performance is no indicator of future growth, this does not bode well for this “outreach”:
Two [...]
Yes, we need to multiply the existing rot times 10,000. More of the same.
Sarah Palin fits right in with the other corrupt Washington Republicans.
Travel records from the governor’s office show that the state has spent at least $31,800 on dozens of airline tickets for the family, and more for meals and hotels.
Records show the family has traveled with Palin for events such as the Alaska Federation of Natives [...]
When you set yourself up as the maverickest maverick of ethics, you better hope you are squeaky clean. Along with her lies about the bridge to nowhere, looks like Palin took money from Alaskans she didn’t need.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 [...]
That is how the propaganda show interview with Sarah Palin is shaping up. Of course, this is the school of journalism Gibson is now associating himself with:
Prepare for pattycake, folks.
UPDATE: August discusses the technical impossibilities involved.
Of course, we know the problem is that Adam LaDuca got caught in public. Behind closed doors this is what they say.
The leader of a statewide group of college Republicans has been forced to resign after posting racially insensitive comments about Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on the Internet.
Adam LaDuca, 21, the former executive director [...]
At least in the primetime speeches anybody notice that the GOP seems to have forgotten all about the killer issue that was supposed to revive the party? That is, immigration? Or perhaps they decided the bleeding among hispanic voters was getting out of control. My guess is thats a genie they can’t put back in [...]