Year: 2006

Last night, I was having a discussion with a friend of mine about illegal immigration and he asked a question that you’re going to hear from more people as time goes on. That question was: if illegal immigration is such a big issue, why are Republicans in the House taking such a beating this year […]

As an experiment, I thought it might be fun to shorten Cindy Sheehan’s latest column, cut it down from 1340 to 169 words. …puppet government of Iraq…Vietnam…Nixon’s “Vietnamization” program….warmonger Kissinger…even though my own son was killed in Iraq…death-drums pounding for Iran…Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia……War Machine…busy laundering the blood…National Bank of Lost Hopes and Dreams…Robert McNamara….BushCo…My […]

On Thursday of this week, I’m planning to do a list of the best Republican campaign commercials of 2006 and I’m hoping that I can get some suggestions in the comments section to make sure that I don’t miss any great ads. All the ads do need to be videos (no radio spots will be […]

“The gavel of the speaker of the House is in the hands of special interests, and now it will be in the hands of America’s children.” — Nancy Pelosi

With polls showing Republicans could lose control of Congress after the November elections, Capitol Hill physicians have been swamped with Democrats reporting symptoms of optimism, a condition almost unknown among their people. Eli Lilly, the maker of the anti-depressant drug Prozac, annouced today that sales in the Washington D.C. region have plunged in the weeks […]

Foreign Bush Admin. Won’t Shift Iraq Strategy Don’t Panic, Iraq Tells U.S. And UK Senior U.S. Government Officials And Military Officers Have Suggested That Iraqi Insurgents Are Trying To Influence The U.S. Midterm Elections China Not Optimistic About Resuming Six-Party Talks N Korea Food Shortages ‘Critical’ Somalia Stand-Off Worsens Domestic Fence Bill Heads To White […]

Last night, I learned that Chris Bowers over at MyDD has been organizing a Googlebomb campaign for the 2006 election. Now normally, I think Googlebombs are kind of dumb. One of the most famous Googlebombs involved making George Bush’s name come up under the words “miserable failure.” My reaction to that was, “Cute, but so […]

It’s time to reevaluate the Senate races again for next to last time before the election. The higher the rating is, the greater the chance is that the seat might change parties. Dark Horse Races: (These are real long shot races) 15) Mark Kennedy (R) vs. Amy Klobuchar (D) (Dem Seat) 14) Maria Cantwell* (D) […]

The Democratic Party is running an online, matching pledge drive. Basically, you put in an amount you’d like to give and then once someone else agrees to match it, you both give at the same time. Granted, it’s kind of a Mickey Mouse idea. I mean you’ll only give $25 if someone else writes into […]

Here’s an email I received this week-end: not sure if you’re having a Q&A this friday, but here’s a question for you: in the 2004 elections, was anybody predicting that the GOP would pick up seats in Congress (as well as win the White House)? there seems to be alot of doom-and-gloom on the right […]

You want to see the sort of Islamic extremism that Muslims are exposed to in the Middle-East regularly? Well, then check out a few excerpt from an article in the New York Sun on Bridges TV: One religious figure who appeared October 3 said Muslims have a duty to change America and to increase their […]

“An average of 112 cars a day have been torched across France so far this year and there have been 15 attacks a day on police and emergency services. Nearly 3,000 police officers have been injured in clashes this year. Officers have been badly injured in four ambushes in the Paris outskirts since September. Some […]

Foreign U.S. To Hand Iraq A New Timetable On Security Role (Free New York Times Reg Req) A Senior U.S. Diplomat, Alberto Fernandez, Said The United States Had Shown “Arrogance” And “Stupidity” In Iraq (He Should Be Immediately Fired) U.S. Sees Deadliest Month Of ’06 In Iraq Britain: Police In Manchester Have Been Told Not […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, consider this an open thread, enjoy the links below, and have a great week-end! Rightroots: Keep The Money Rolling In And Help Save Congress The Hotsoup Conservative Forum Powerspoint Myers Briggs Clone Personality Test (I’m An ENTJ) Blue Crab Boulevard Riehl World View Blog Juice Calculator Video: In A […]

“When I asked Gore Vidal at dinner why the White House seemed so serene and at ease about the vote, he replied that, this time around, the Bush-Cheney henchmen could simply call on martial law. He glumly noted that we are so far down the road toward totalitarianism that, even if Democrats do win back […]

Yesterday, I was thrilled to get an opportunity to interview syndicated radio host and columnist, Larry Elder. What follows below is an edited transcript of our conversation. Read and enjoy! John Hawkins: Despite being lavished with favorable attention from the mainstream media, Air America just went bankrupt. Now, you’re a successful talk radio host, you’re […]

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Yesterday, I did a phone mini-interview with Bob Corker, the GOP candidate for the Senate in Tennessee. Corker’s race against Harold Ford is incredibly important because if the Democrats are going to take over the Senate, it looks like they’re going to have to beat Bob Corker to do it. So, with the election just […]

Unfortunately, pollsters haven’t been doing a good job of polling seats where the GOP has an opportunity to pick up seats. So, I’ve been scouring the polling data, making phone calls to campaigns, talking to contacts, I’ve come up with, at least for the moment, our top 6 pick-up opportunities in the House. The links […]

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Earlier today, as I was perusing the The Smirking Chimp, I ran across an ad for a company called CarryaBigSticker and I thought you might enjoy seeing a few of the stickers that apparently appeal to a liberal audience. Enjoy, read it and weep, you know, whatever does it for you:

The Wall Street Journal points to this release from the Republican Study Committee in the House of actual bills that House Democrats have proposed in this past Congress. Here are a few of those proposals that might interest people. Gas Stamp Act (McDermott, D-WA)—H.R. 3712. Creates billions of dollars in gas stamps each year for […]

Foreign Report: N. Korean Leader Regrets Test Iran’s Ahmadinejad: Israel ‘Cannot Survive’ OPEC Cuts Oil Production By 1.2m Barrels Domestic NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll: Only 16 Percent Of Respondents Approve Of The Job Congress Is Doing, The Lowest Level Since 1992 Dow Tops 12,000 House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra Has Suspended A Democratic Staff […]

You hear a lot of people saying that you can’t trust the polls and that they’re always slanted against the GOP. That’s actually not true. Rather than go into a long, detailed breakdown on polling data, let me give you some short and simple tips on how to actually get meaning out of the poll […]

Over at the most popular liberal blog on earth, The Daily Kos, diarist radio waves has a bold prediction: that Chimpy McBushHitler will actually cancel the election (These guys just keep getting crazier and crazier as time goes on): “Many of us have by now made the Bush/Hitler comparison. Most of us are good and […]

Over the next few days, you’re probably going to hear people talking about Hot Soup, a brand new website with a lot of high profile members. Well, they recruited me to participate in the project, which has other people involved — like Ed Gillespie, Lance Armstrong, Donna Brazile, Mary Matalin, & John McCain, Berkeley Breathed, […]

From ABC: George Stephanopoulos: “You’ve used some pretty tough rhetoric. You said this election is ‘a choice between Republicans and Democrats who want to wave the white flag of surrender in the war on terror.’ Can you name a Democrat who wants to ‘wave the white flag of surrender’?” President George W. Bush, referring to […]

Now that it has become apparent that the GOP is in a real dogfight to hold onto Congress, a lot of Republicans who had tuned out before are starting to wonder where their campaign contributions can have the greatest impact. Well, let’s think about that. Governors’ races and Senate races tend to be big money […]

For the last few months, whether you’re talking about Republicans or Democrats, politicians in competitive races have fallen into one of two camps: politicians who are tough on illegal immigration and politicians who are pretending to be tough on illegal immigration. Since that’s the case, it would seem to be a no-brainer to trumpet the […]

“Every movie needs a villain. Towel-heads and rednecks — of which I am one. If you write that word, please say that. I mean, I don’t use that pejoratively, I use it defensively. Towel-heads and rednecks became the easy villains in so many movies out there.” — James Webb