Posts Tagged ‘caucus’

Defining Bipartisanship

October 1st, 2008 | No Comments

In her speech to rally the troops to vote for the Rescue package, Nancy Pelosi accepted no responsibility for past actions by either herself or any member of her party.  She put the entire blame on a situation that has festered for thirty years solely on Republicans.  And, then, to top it off, gave a [...]

Crunch time, round two

January 6th, 2008 | No Comments

Lost in the debates last night, as well as the sports all over the networks, is the fact there was yet another caucus.  Mitt Romney won Wyoming.  This barely merited a blurb on Fox and not much more than that anywhere else.  Unlike Iowa, this one wasn’t close.  Romney got 67% of the vote, Thompson [...]

Iowa caucus – age matters

January 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Last night Iowa held their caucus.  This is the quickie breakdown of how the candidates did: For the Republicans: 52 got 34% 61 got 25% 65 got 13% 71 got 13% 72 got 10% The others either didn’t really run or were pretty much already out of it. For the Democrats: 46 got 38% 55 [...]

The Democrat ramifications of Iowa?

October 8th, 2007 | No Comments

We’re now starting to get into the meat of the ’08 presidential primaries.  The candidates have danced around the issue, a couple have seen the light and given up, the media have propped up and tore down a few, and everyone has tossed in their views of what will happen a little over a year [...]

Nancy Pelosi Condemns Rangel for dissing Mississippi

November 10th, 2006 | No Comments

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. [...]