Tag: GOP

Republican Short-Sightedness

Filed in National by on May 26, 2010 9 Comments

This was obvious to everyone but the GOP. Today, a new NBC/MSNBC/Telemundo poll shows a similar trend at the national level, where “Latinos, once a semi-swing group of voters, now have swung overwhelmingly for President Obama and the Democratic Party, and younger Hispanics are moving to the Democrats in even greater numbers.” For example, 68% […]

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God Wants Glenn Urquhart to Win

Filed in National by on May 11, 2010 18 Comments

I guess because his first name starts with the letter “G” too, or something. But Bill Colley speaking for God is not the story. The story is that WGMD talkshow host and blogger Bill Colley apparently is now a bought and paid for shill for the Glenn Urquhart campaign.

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Democrats To Get All Vincent Van Gogh About Earmarks

Filed in National by on March 10, 2010 2 Comments
Democrats To Get All Vincent Van Gogh About Earmarks

Ethically speaking it hasn’t been a great year for Democrats in Washington, but with the ouster of Massa and other corrections of mis-steps, Congressional Democrats are continuing down the path of ethics reform. One item ripe for massive reform are earmarks. House Democrat leaders are actively working on ways to reform —even temporarily halt — […]

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Silly Democrats, Tricks Are For GOPers

Filed in National by on October 27, 2009 3 Comments
Silly Democrats, Tricks Are For GOPers

In Connecticut where it is more rare to meet a Republican than in Delaware, the CT GOP is up to their Lee Atwater in dirty tricks, reports the Hartford Advocate. The Democrats lead the Republicans in the state House, 114-27, and the state Senate, 24-12, thought it would be a good idea to create Twitter […]

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Only Angry White Men Need Apply

Filed in National by on October 12, 2009 9 Comments

The Los Angeles Times has an article about a recent poll of California politics and opened with this  sentence: Republicans had to look for a very long time at last week’s Field Poll of California voters to find something remotely uplifting as they ponder the 2010 state elections. A few paragraphs into the article comes […]

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Question of the Early Morning

Filed in National by on June 10, 2009 55 Comments

I don’t think that it is right to judge all Republicans based on the violent actions of scores of talk-radio drunk, wacko, Republican gun enthusiast, but where is the tipping point? When does it become okay to judge Republicans based on the actions of the conservative movement’s most passionate and engaged members?

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