National Politics
OMG. LOL! H/T to The Anchoress. Read her whole post, too. Not to sound like a broken record, but: …It could be that a great many voters have taken a good look at the fundamentalists on the religious right and the fundamentalists on the political left and made up their own minds about which pose…
On the recent Republican party behavior: I fight to restore the pride and principles of our party. We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us. We lost the trust of the American people when some Republicans gave in to the temptations of corruption. We lost their trust when rather than reform…
I wish I could find an old political cartoon I recall from the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearing days which showed Ted Kennedy as the plantation master talking about how blacks weren’t allowed off the left-wing plantation. Well, today’s plantation masters are left-wing feminists like Gloria Steinem. Catch the irony here: Roughly a decade ago,…
Along the way, Sarah Palin asked what the difference was between a pit bull and a hockey mom: Lipstick. Ahem, after listening to her speech, ladies and gentlemen, I’m betting she is plenty tough enough and most surely ready for primetime. Some excerpts: On her experience as a public servant: “I had the privilege of…
This is just too much, coming from a man who drove me to vote for an opponent who is now the second most liberal Senator in Congress: As a matter of campaign politics, Chafee challenged the conventional wisdom that Palin’s selection will rouse GOP conservatives who had not been enthusiastic about McCain. He said Palin…
Why the ferocious reaction by both the Left and the MSM to the Palin nomination? The conventional wisdom is that it is sexism, a variation on what Hillary experienced during the Democratic primaries. That is certainly part of the explanation. When have you ever heard male candidates, such as Obama, asked about how they will…
Beginning at 16:36 in this video of her speech today when she accepted John McCain’s selection of her as his Vice Presidential partner, Sarah Palin said these words: …I signed major ethics reforms…And I championed reform to end the abuses of earmarked spending. In fact, I told Congress: Thanks, but no thanks, to that Bridge-to-Nowhere.…
Whatever the party, I can’t believe that anybody is interested — much less enjoys — these speeches. Everything promised. Posture. Posing. Some standby lines and historical references. Black-and-white arguments and vague solutions. One characteristic that I notice again and again with Barack Obama is his method of adding that flavor of bipartisan “change” to the…
A comment from Tom W, last week, raises an interesting question (emphasis added): Of course “Linc” is now being widely (hailed) in the MSM regarding involvement with “Republicans for Obama.” Gotta love the irony, since McCain came here to campaign for Chafee to try to save his RINO bacon. This is what happens when the…
A couple years ago, I posted about the RI delegation’s rankings in the Congressional Power Rankings. Welp, I forgot about it last year, but this being an election year, why not see how the boys are doing?