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May 12, 2011, sometime early in the morning, Ron Paul announces he’s running for President of the United States of America on Good Morning America: He’ll be running initially in the Republican Primary. He makes this announcement to the bastion of right-wing, conservative, Republican politics, George Stephanopoulos. Not sure too many hard-core Republicans were made [...]
During the presidential campaign of 2008, John McCain, the straight shooter, said he’d consider taxing health benefits in order to pay for expanding health coverage to everyone else. It was one of the deciding factors in deciding the race. Obama jumped all over McCain on the issue, and of course, promied everyone his coverage would [...]
“[Such bills] will not happen when the president has the full legislative and appropriations process in place,” Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told CNN’s “State of the Union with John King.” He argued that the White House had little choice but to support the $410 billion omnibus spending [...]
This was sent to me by a friend: While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. ‘Welcome to heaven,’ says St. Peter. ‘Before you settle in, it seems there is a [...]
“Well, my understanding is that Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large [...]
Congressman Peter King is kinda upset. A month-long advertising campaign, to be run in New York on the subway cars, aimed at promoting Islam has generated controversy with an angry lawmaker sending a letter to the authorities asking them to stop the drive…. “I have no problem with the ad itself, but I have a [...]
This has got to be the stupidest/funniest thing I’ve seen in a while: Once again, the innocent peeps of the US, primarily South Carolinians, were made aware of this very, very, bad idea by a blog, The Palmetto Scoop. The political reaction in South Carolina was fast and furious. Republican state Sen. David Thomas of [...]
Here’s the less than flattering headline: Woman says head scarf cost her seat near Obama Aref, a 25-year-old lawyer, said a member of her group was told by a volunteer that she could not invite Aref because of “a sensitive political climate.” The Obama campaign then, when confronted with the story” Obama spokesman Bill Burton [...]
DOwn the stretch of just about any major campaign, we get the same pattern. After months of touting the candidate and making them something they most likely are not, campaigns will predictably start knocking the other candidate down in order to make their own look better. Apparently this happening on the Democrat side now. The [...]
The Democrats haven’t even officially taken over the government yet, but they are already tossing out anything Republican as fast as they can. Along with that, I guess we can totally dismiss Bush’s "conservative compassionism": Its not just committees our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously, Mr. Rangel said in an interview. [...]
