Republicans Love The Flag More

Republicans love America more then Democrats. Its just science. David Catanese at POLITICO (naturally) gives us the facts:
A comprehensive review of House reelection websites by the University of Minnesota’s Smart Politics blog found that GOP incumbents are 36 percent more likely to incorporate Old Glory into the banner of their page, with nearly half of [...]

I think we can guess who’s getting voted off first

“Dancing With The Stars” announced the new contestants for their upcoming season this morning and, for some reason, former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is one of them. Just when you thought you’d heard it all. I hear DeLay has been a longtime fan of the show but still, I would have thought he [...]

Its official, the U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007. Someone should go back to the GOP primaries and collect all the quotes from the candidates saying everything was fine and dandy.

Killing my buzz

Senator Obama winning the election November 4th would/will be awesome. A great moment. But what happens after? Paul Krugman and Kevin Drum do a good job killing my buzz. Krugman first:
The crisis isn’t the only scary thing going on. Something very ugly is taking shape on the political scene: as McCain’s chances fade, the crowds [...]

Toles on the Republican Convention

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Winning over governing

UPDATE: I write all of this and then go read Ezra and he’s written what I wish I had written in the first place. Don’t bother reading what I wrote, read him and then pretend like I was going to write that too. The key bit from Ezra:

Today, McCain chose his campaign over his presidency. [...]

Its probably not great for a “pro-life” Republican Congressional candidate to have his ex-girlfriend expose the fact that he pressured her into getting an abortion seven years ago. Hypocrites.

Those silly racist Republicans. A pin is being sold at the Texas Republican convention that says “If Obama is President…will we still call it the White House?“. Should be a great campaign!

Cheney, GOP lie, McClatchy calls them on it

Ah, journalism. So refreshing to see:
Why, ask some Republicans, should the United States be thwarted from drilling in its own territory when just 50 miles off the Florida coastline the Chinese government is drilling for oil under Cuban leases?
Yet no one can prove that the Chinese are drilling anywhere off Cuba’s shoreline. The China-Cuba [...]

Bob Dole on Scott McClellan

I’ve been meaning to write something on Scott McClellan’s book and I suppose I’ll get around to it at some point but in the mean time Jonathan Martin has a copy of a pretty remarkable email former Senator Bob Dole sent to McClellan (via):

Bob Dole yesterday sent a scalding email to Scott McClellan, excoriating the [...]

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