Haiti is in ruins after a devastating Earthquake that affected 3 million people in the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Estimates of deaths are as high or exceeding 100,000 people. In the wake of such a tragedy, Rush Limbaugh decided to tell viewers not to donate money. Does this seem like the type of [...]
The race in NY-23 had some interesting results. To recap the situation, Doug Hoffman, running for the Conservative Party, entered the race and drew support from the typical GOP base. This resulted in the moderate Republican, Dede Scozzafava, withdrawing from the race and supporting the moderate Democrat Bill Owens who ended up winning the Congressional [...]
I’m trying to find the time to get back in to covering stories, but I saw this and had to at least provide a link. Think Progress already has a nice synoposis on why Michael Steele put his foot in his mouth when he said that President Obama wasn’t vetted because he is black. Man, [...]
Today Mike Huckabee warned the GOP that if they abandon the social conservatives they will become as “irrelevant as the Whigs”. I had to laugh at the irony, because the GOP embracing the social conservatives is exactly why the Whigs are going to become increasingly relevant. The increasing frequency of these warnings only serve to [...]
I have already mentioned the GOP’s Civil War and Rush Limbaugh is not only instigating the war but spearheading the side of the social conservatives. On Monday Rush accused Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney of “hating” Sarah Palin. He is defending her as the best candidate for the GOP. If you prefer Sarah Palin, that’s great, but by attacking prominent Republicans Rush is only alienating the social conservatives even more. Rush still believes that fiscal conservatives and social conservatives all fall under the same hat of “Republican”, or does he? What many news outlets and Republicans are afraid to say in fear of losing any social conservative audience or voters is that Rush has a stake in keeping social conservatives as the core of the Republican party. Luckily, I’m not a politician and I don’t have much of an audience, so here we go.
As anyone reading this already knows, Arlen Specter (R D, PA) bailed on the Republican party and is now a Democrat. Considering he was projected to lose the Republican primary because of his support of government bailouts, this reeks more of desperation to keep his job rather than an inspirational awakening. In his defense, he has always been a moderate Republican. However, the bold and respectable move would have been to run as an Independent rather than outright joining the Democrats.
After posting today about the Republicans pandering to the religious right, Mr. Gingrich reinforces my criticism by calling the Obama administration “anti-religious” for putting an Harry Knox, a former methodist pastor and openly gay activist, on the advisory council for faith-based initiatives. The board consists of 25 members, and Mr. Knox will be the only [...]
Newt Gingrich warned Republicans today that they may have a mutiny in 2012. I bet he’s right. The only thing he is wrong about is that it won’t be restricted to Republicans, Democrats have just as many issues! Find me an American that thinks it is OK to have an 11 trillion dollar national debt. [...]
Why the major news outlets are covering this more heavily, I don’t understand. During the months coming up to last years election, the media couldn’t stop talking about Ted Stevens and his kickbacks from the oil industry. Of course it was politicized, but rightfully so, the man broke the law. Flash forward, now the DOJ [...]