From the monthly archives: June 2006
WASHINGTON – In a defeat for President Bush, Republican congressional leaders said Tuesday that broad immigration legislation is all but doomed for the year, a victim of election-year concerns in the House and conservatives’ implacable opposition to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.
Think they care about the issue or are playing politics? You judge:
“The discussion is how to put the Democrats in a box without attacking the president,” said one aide, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Senate bill sounds very reasonable, which I guess is why only half the wingnuts voted for it. Republicans don’t want [...]
Full Story... →Well, just can’t let this one slide. Tried. Failed. Russell The great and awesome front page poster ModernEsquire points out over at BSB (sorry ME!) that “Theocracy is not an article of faith” and I agree. I then come across Naugle’s lame ass attempt to both spin and hold on to this incredibly stupid comment by Blackwell.
So they are going to hold onto this? Good. We get to now show the people of Ohio how little regard these people have for the faith of others. Matt first defends the big government theme, which is dismantled over [...]
Full Story... →STRICKLAND: BLACKWELL SHOULD RESPECT THE FAITH OF ALL OHIOANS
Columbus, Ohio–Ohio gubernatorial candidate Congressman Ted Strickland today released the following statement:
Last week, Ken Blackwell was in Toledo speaking to a group of local Republicans.
The Toledo Blade reported on his speech: “Democrats, he added, ‘still believe that government is God, and God is not.’ ”
No one would argue with the latter part of that sentence, but the first part is something else. Think about it. Here is a man who’s running to lead a state of millions of people. Millions of people of faith. Millions of Democrats who [...]
Full Story... →I use the term “wingnut republican” for a reason. I think most sensible Republicans are coming to terms with the Iraq disaster. Not only that, most sensible Republicans also appear to be coming to terms with being Independent voters.
The WaPo gives us a look inside the US Embassy in Iraq:
Hours before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, the U.S. Embassy in Iraq painted a starkly different portrait of increasing danger and hardship faced by its Iraqi employees. This cable, [...]
Full Story... →Imagine the Ohio GOP saying one thing and doing another? Hard to believe, right? I’m sure you’ve all heard about the “evil outside interests” that are invading Ohio on the left. Well, not so much. Let’s separate fact from fiction, as it relates to the governor’s race. The Plain Dealer took a look and here is what they found: “Evil out-of-state money from ultra-liberal groups” is a bullshit Orwellian Republican talking point. Imagine that.
Consider this:
Blackwell, who as secretary of state oversees elections in Ohio, has raised about 25 percent of his $6.1 million from out-of-state donors, [...]
Full Story... →Wow. This Dispatch story deals mostly with Republican efforts to keep Charles Morrison off the ballot, but this line just jumped right out of the laptop:
The biggest contradiction of all is that Morrison, a self-described anti-abortion, anti-tax conservative, wouldn?t mind a Kilroy victory one bit. Republicans have raised the nation?s debt so high, he said, that he?d welcome Democratic control of Congress as a check on Bush.
That’s how bad it is for Republicans, folks. The base has eroded considerably. The party is in disarray. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Republican candidates run this scared. Paying to [...]
Full Story... →…and he’s plenty mad, folks. Some might try to dismiss him as just another “angry Democrat”. If you’re not mad about the direction your country is going in, then you just aren’t paying attention. That, or you write a GOP talking point blog. Some might try to dismiss him as “too old”. But Bob took care of that with a quickness the first time I spoke to him. “Bob, do you think age will be an issue?”, I query. “I SURE HOPE SO!”, he says. Sign me up was my very next thought. People often overuse and misuse the [...]
Full Story... →Well, we did it before, so let’s do it again! Thanks to all who helped get Stephanie to this point. I just got a note from the campaign:
I?m writing to let all of you know that it has been confirmed, Stephanie Studebaker has advanced to the final round of DFA?s Grass-roots All-Star competition. It actually appears that we came in 3rd place (out of 33 candidates nationwide) in the first round. If you hadn?t been paying attention, there were actually some very strong candidates in the first round, including Betty Sutton, Eric Massa, and others?
Full Story... →Jerome Armstrong is the latest of the Big Box Bloggers to be shamed. First we had the vitriolic Armando who was outed as a corporate lawyering shill for WalMart, now we have Jerome who apparently was a pump and dump kid back in the day. Chris at OH02 has about the best take, where he includes this quote:
some people…compare the blog boomlet they helped create for Dean to the work of online bulletin-board posters who touted dodgy Internet stocks during the boom market without disclosing that they were being paid for their words.
Which, interestingly, is precisely what [...]
Full Story... →For the last time people! SPELLCHECK! How embarassing is this? The last few frames in Deborah “De Boar” Pryce’s new ad spells her name wrong: Deboarah. Wow. What a fitting capstone to a week of shooting fish in a barrel. It really has become too easy. I hope it might become more sporting soon.
So from this point on I think we call her Deb “the boar” Pryce. Whatcha think?
Kilroy’s camp says:
?Deborah Pryce and her campaign are so ?wildly? out of touch, they don?t even know who they are anymore, or even how to spell the [...]
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Iraqi Troops Behead U.S. Soldiers
Great. Just great! You know that “Stand up so we can stand down” bullshit? Why don’t we rename it “Infiltrate so they can shoot our asses”?
The two soldiers who were kidnapped have been found to have been killed by Iraqis, not insurgents or Al Qaeda:
SAN FRANCISCO – Two California soldiers shot to death in Iraq were murdered by Iraqi civil-defense officers patrolling with them, military investigators have found.
The deaths of Army Spc. Patrick R. McCaffrey Sr. and 1st Lt. Andre D. Tyson were originally attributed to an ambush during a patrol near Balad, Iraq, on June [...]
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