And "oddly jumbled address," says SusanG at Kos, but the president slammed Republican obstructionists who are attempting to block a vote on the bill and called for an "up or down vote" on health care reform. The Republicans loved calling for "up or down votes" back when the GOP [...]
Yesterday I published a press release from the fellow (Mike Mathisen) who is challenging Tax-bob Jenson in the Republican primary.
Then Jeff Mapes followed up on that press release by making his...
Stay tuned to NWR today as a new name is percolating in the Oregon Republican gubernatorial race.
Details and new poll within the hour.
UPDATE: The developing new about a potential bid by Mark...
[...] This could end up being a pretty good donnybrook in eastern Oregon. Where a fiscal conservative is going pretty hard after a pro-tax Republican (Jensen)
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Republican/~4/uweipmJ70c4" [...] The Idaho Republican Party has put out a news release saying it plans to file a complaint with the IRS against Keith Allred for the Dec. 10 letter he emailed out to members of his citizen advocacy group, The Common Interest, informing them that he was going to run for [...]
Erstwhile congressional wannabe Larry Grant (pictured) caused a hubbub when he told Rocky Barker that he could win the 1st District nomination as a Republican by cobbling together a coalition of moderate Republicans and disenchanted Democrats. Grant quickly backtracked and said he was joking when the observation caught [...]
Jon was too shy to name names, but the “well-known Republican personality” rumored to be weighing a run to replace Rep. Brian Baird in WA-03 is none other than crazy-conservative talk host Lars Larson.
That would certainly make the race, um, interesting.
UPDATE:
Did Larson just deny the rumor in the [...]
As we get into the Holiday season and news tends to slow down and be a little lighter I thought it might be a good time to run a quick online poll on the Republican gubernatorial primary. So if you...
That winter, the cop killer in the woolen jacket gunned down his first two patrolmen near Broadway and Republican on Capitol Hill. Police scoured the city for “the man in the mackinaw.” A couple of cops spotted him downtown at Second and Cherry. They shouted at him to stop. He [...]
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Money: The U.S. Senate's $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill will move to a full vote today after a 60-34 vote to halt a Republican filibuster.
Victory: Voters in Houston elect an openly gay woman as mayor.
Finally: U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley denounces Uganda's proposed [...]
Trish Gannon: Perfect opening for something I've been wondering about for the last few days. When I meet someone who's obviously intelligent, I'm not able to predict with any certainty whether they classify themselves as a Republican or a Democrat. But when I meet someone who's obviously ignorant [...]
Americans' intensity of religious belief is a strong predictor of whether they call themselves Republicans or Democrats, a new analysis from Gallup shows. Republicans who identify themselves as "highly religious" outnumber Democrats 49% to 37%, according to the analysis of more than 29,000 people polled last month. Meanwhile, 56%' [...]
…although I never noticed the difference. SC Republican Jim DeMint... “We need to stop looking at the tea parties as separate from the Republican party.”I guess noisy, willfully ignorant obstructionists all look the same to me.Republican Congresswoman from Spokane, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, cosponsored a bill to make certain types of punishment and restraint illegal in schools.
She says in her piece on CNN.com, "It's difficult to believe, but there are no federal laws" [...]
Eleven months before crucial midterm elections, a national poll indicates that the public is divided over whether the country would be better off with Democrats or Republicans controlling Congress. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday, 40 percent of people questioned say the U.S. would be better off [...]
Public Policy Polling says Mike Huckabee remains the GOP's strongest 2012 challenger...
As he has in all of these polls, Mike Huckabee comes the closest to Obama. He now trails only 46-45, improved from 49-44 in November. Huckabee does the best of the Republican hopefuls with independents, trailing just 49-41. [...]
