edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
The war within the Alameda County Republican Party is over – or is it?
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch this morning ended a nearly 18-month lawsuit by agreeing to sign an election challenge regarding the June 2008 election of seven GOP county committee members [...]
While Ben Nelson may well have saved Christmas for most Americans, Harry Reid is bound and determined to take it away from his Senate colleagues, threatening around-the-clock votes through Christamas if the GOP continues to act in the spirit of Obama’s campaign promises. You know, they don’t want [...]
As you know, OC right-wingers maintain a kind of Old Boy farm system—they spot hot young prospects (almost invariably young men) and groom ‘em, usually running ‘em through the Young Republicans for starters.GOP delay tactics slow Dems on health care votes
At least one of those “delay tactics” sounds a lot like an Obama campaign promise:
GOP Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma had sought approval to require that any amendment considered by the Senate must be offered 72 hours in advance and [...]
Whenever a mainstream conservative blogger addresses attempts by right-wing fringe groups to exclude gays from our movement, his commentary reflects the experiences Bruce and I have had with our fellow denizens of the rightosphere. Our fellow bloggers may not support state recognition of same-sex marriage or oppose the Don’t [...]
Jennifer Rubin explains the health care bill's content to you in Commentary's Blowing Up ReidCare What's left after they take out the public option and the Medicare buy-in? A GOP leadership aide put it this way: "$500 billion in Medicare cuts," [...]
With all the press he’s received, AD-70 GOP candidate Steven Choi has likelu zoomed ahead of Jerry Amante and Don [...]
Former South Bay Rep. Tom Campbell , asked about buzz that he's being urged to rethink his 2010 GOP gubernatorial run -- and enter the U.S. Senate race -- was unusually tightlipped Monday....In what’s turning out to be a self-funded showdown for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman this year has put $19.02 million into her campaign and already is airing an ad blitz to raise her name recognition.
Meanwhile, state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner had anted up [...]
Spokesman Jarrod Agen told [...]
The Obama/Democrat Party campaign folks are watching one of the most collosal collapses since – well, the GOP in 2006. With a President elected with super majorities in each house of [...] As many of our readers know, CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) is one of the premier, if not the premier, annual conservative gathering. Slated to begin on February 18, 2010, it will draw leading conservative intellectuals and activists from around the country. Among the group’s many sponsors [...]
Writing earlier today about the censoring of an anti-Olympic mural in Vancouver, site of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Glenn Reynolds quipped, “The little people shall not be allowed to get in the way.“
Sounds like he just articulated David Frum’s problem with the GOP base, you know those Republicans [...]
2010 Senate (trends)
Norton (R) 45%, [...]While David Frum frequently posts intelligent policy pieces advocating conservative reforms and regularly makes thoughtful comments lambasting big-government Democratic initiatives, all too often he buys into the liberal narrative, you know those Administration talking points, about the GOP. One such talking point is that while President Obama reached a [...]
In response to the debate in Uganda over legislation that would impose criminal penalties on gays and lesbians living in the African nation, Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director of GOProud, has called on the President to speak out:
If the President wants to start earning the Nobel Peace Prize he is [...]
California Democratic Party chair John Burton insisted Thursday that Gov. Schwarzenegger's GOP nominee for state Lieutenant Governor, Senator Abel Maldonado of Santa Maria, "won't be...
Today, there are [...]
The likelihood is growing that the Democratic legislature, in a fit of partisan pique, will turn down Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's nomination of GOP Sen. Abel Maldonado to be lieutenant governor - at least that's what the capital rumor [...]
