For more than a week, Sen. Sherrod Brown and his staff tried to get his name attached as a co-sponsor to a Republican health care amendment. Nine times his staff members contacted the office of GOP senators and nine times they came away without any answer.
So today, Brown, [...]
The former No. 2 in Hamilton County's Republican Party has been hired as the Cincinnati lobbyist for Rock Ohio Ventures LLC, the entity created to spend $500 million for downtown gambling casinos in Cleveland and Cincinnati. He landed the job Nov. 18, not long after finishing counting votes at [...]
The Democratic Governor’s Association has listed Ohio as one of the five states in it’s new “GOP Accountability Project”. The program is aimed at taking on Republican’s who have supported the bad policies that has left our nation in such a fragile state.
Of course, John Kasich was an executive [...]
GOP Quickly Goes to War 
Well, provided you're into zombie humor.The national Republicans today assailed Democratic Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner for what they described as her inflammatory and baseless attacks against General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Jennifer Brunner should immediately apologize not only to General McChrystal, but to all American troops, for her inflammatory [...]
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: A party both united and divided
The Republican rank and file is largely in sync with GOP lawmakers in their staunch opposition to efforts by President Obama and Democrats to enact major health-care legislation, but a new Washington Post poll also [...]
Martha Stewart
Home “How To” Diva
Ms. Stewart should stick to her magazine, TV show(s) and business endeavors while staying out of public discourse on such things as Sarah Palin, former GOP VP candidate and Alaska governor. If Ms. Stewart would like us to discuss her conviction for lying to federal agents [...]
The so-called purity test is a 10-point checklist -- a suicide pact, really -- of alleged Republican positions. Anyone hoping to play on Team GOP would have to sign off on eight of the 10 -- through [...]
I implore Senators Carey, Goodman & Niehaus (along with two yet to be named/outed GOP State Senators) to NOT go along with Strickland and Budish's plan to increase taxes on already overtaxed Ohioans.
Please give Former Senator Mike DeWine a call and ask him [...]
Just in case your GOP relatives want to lecture you about the socialist politics of the "DumocRATS" and the failure of our Marxist Messiah Obama over the Thanksgiving Holiday.
The Maryland Millionaire Count, Tax Scams, and Train Wrecks
In a capitalist system, investors make [...]
Martha C. Moore, a Republican icon in Ohio and 35-year member of the GOP National Committee, has died at the age of 91.
She died yesterday morning -- 11 days after her birthday -- at an assisted-living facility in Columbus and will be buried [...]
The most rigidly conservatives members of the Republican National Committee are circulating a proposal to establish a purity test for the party's candidates.
If adopted, the party would withhold money from any contender who disagreed with conservative principles on more than two of 10 essential issues identified by [...]
This post is by my extremely liberal friend Goose.
While the GOP continues to kick sand in the face of the Obama administration and Congress for passing a failed stimulus bill (Politics 101: Why would you/they do anything else?), some independent and conservative economists are now trumping the success of the stimulus [...]Ohios Republican members of Congress wrote a letter to Gov. Ted Strickland last week encouraging him to create an independent, bipartisan board to monitor the states use of federal stimulus dollars, but the governor called the letter a political document.
The letter, signed by House Minority Leader John [...]
