Tagged: GOP

Ken’s Update June 2009

Wanted to give you all an update on what I’m doing this summer, since I’ve not been blogging as heavily as I’d like. Confirmation. My third novel in the Mike Adams series has hit...

Wanted: Principled Centrists for Minority Party

Ross Douthat has the right idea. A lot of what passes for “centrist” ideas in Washington is self-serving Senators in both parties splitting the difference between two competing sides and declaring victory in their...

Specter Switches Parties

President Obama is “thrilled” to have Specter on the Democratic side of the aisle, a breaking new development occuring on this, the President’s 100th day in office. Specter, a Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, was...

GOP: The Party of No Ideas

That’s supposed to be a flow chart of the GOP’s alternative budget plan. I’m not kidding. But it looks more like a wanna-be metaphorical molecule or something. They used to be obstructionist zombies chanting...

GOP Increasingly Irrelevant… Willingly?

At this rate, the GOP just might be reduced to a novelty in a political gift shop or a history textbook instead of being an active political party! Consider this: 1) Long-time Republican Sen....

GOP: “Our Earmarks Are Different”

The hypocrisy level reached new heights this week with the debate over the left-over budget bill from last year. Senator McCain launched an anti-earmark effort, trying to delete over 8500 pet projects that cost...

Shelby the Hypocritical Conspiracy Theorist

The latest in recycled GOP talking points is the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama isn’t really an American citizen, all evidence to the contrary. Senator Shelby recently joined discredited right-wing nut Alan Keyes in...

I Support It, But Only After Voting Against It

Florida Republican John Mica praised the stimulus bill’s “recognition that high-speed rail should be part of America’s future.” Alaska’s incorrigible Don Young “won a victory for the Alaska Native contracting program and other Alaska...