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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

Just for the fun of it, here are the TV shows I’ve got my Tivo set to record regularly: Blade: The Series: Incredible first season! CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: I can’t get into the other CSI shows for some reason. Dog the Bounty Hunter: I just started watching this. So far, so good. Family Guy: […]

Elections Survey USA: Steele 46% vs. Cardin 46% McCaskill Campaign Implicated In ACORN Voter Fraud Scandal DNC Takes Out Loan For DSCC George Allen Press Release: Daily Kos Gives Webb Over $130,000 In Tainted Money. Webb Joins Forces With Liberal Blog That Gloats About Contractors Mutilated In Iraq Mike Tyson Campaigns For Michael Steele (Ugh) […]

Whether the GOP holds onto Congress or not, it’s clear that there needs to be some changes in the way that they’re conducting business. That may mean some changes in leadership. It may mean instituting more party discipline so that members who sell out the base on key issues pay a bigger price for it. […]

Originally, ABC PAC told us that the 15th of October was the last day that they could guarantee that they could get the money that Rightroots raised out to the candidates we’ve been supporting. Well, last night, they informed us that has changed and that money contributed to the candidates can make a difference right […]

Okay, I admit it. As the election approaches, I am feeling a creepy sense of paranoia. My right brain reads the newspapers, studies the polls and thinks we are looking at a blow-out next month–Dems conquer at last. My left brain hoots in derision. Get real, sucker. …When I heard the news flash that a […]

From an email I received a few minutes ago: “John, I know this is not Q&A Friday, but I have a question I would like your opinion on. What happens to the Dems if they don’t win either house of congress or just pick up one in November? A lot of analysis has been poured […]

Would you like to see what the average liberal today believes, live and in living color? Then head on over to The Smirking Chimp, a wildly popular, mainstream liberal weblog. So, what sort of “mainstream” ideas does this “mainstream” liberal blog promote? Well, what you’re going to read below are some quotations from articles on […]

Outing specialist Mike Rogers has “outed” Senator Larry Craig as a closet homosexual. And he promises more to come. The Democrats want to make this an election about gay sex. And people say the Republicans deserve to lose? UPDATE: Craig denies the allegations. UPDATE x2: I truly believe this sort of tactic is going to […]

Well, at least somebody seems confident about the GOP chances: White House political strategist Karl Rove yesterday confidently predicted that the Republican Party would hold the House and the Senate in next month’s elections, dismissing fallout from the sex scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley. At a luncheon with editors and reporters at The Washington […]

There has been a lot of back and forth among conservative bloggers about whether the Republicans deserve to win this year and perhaps it would even be a salutary lesson for the Republicans to lose their majority. The thinking goes something like this: the GOP have lost their focus on conservative principles and become just […]

Unfortunately, my DSL was out last night and there were other issues beyond my control that fouled my schedule up horribly. Since that was the case, this is going to be one of those rare days that doesn’t feature any daily news. Sorry about that. It should be back up and running normally tomorrow.

About 5 weeks ago, I put together a list of The GOP’s Top 18 Pick-Up Opportunities In The House For 2006. At the time, I noted that the list of truly vulnerable Democrats was fairly small. Unfortunately, the reverse isn’t true. There are a plethora of good Democratic pick-up opportunities and here’s a run-down of […]

Back in September, I did a piece on some of the N-Bombs and bizarre sexual content in three of James Webb’s books, which to me, seemed to be pretty relevant. After all, the WAPO has been trying to make the fact that George Allen said the word, “Macaca,” which about 3 people had ever heard […]

Here’s an email that I received last night that expresses sentiments that I’ve heard from more than one person: “John, With all respect I think that the position you are taking on the pre-emptive republican defeat this fall is based on pure garbage… Are you seriously buying into poll results and what the media is […]

The GOP does have at least two cards left to play in the closing weeks of the election. The first is their vaunted, “Get Out The Vote,” program. The second is their significant cash advantage over the Democrats. How big is it? Here are some details from the WAPO: “Despite a rush of campaign donations […]

(Yesterday), Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at a rally for the 101st Airborne Division. Here’s an important part of the speech everyone ought to read: The terrorists know they cannot beat us in a stand-up fight. They never have. The only way they can win is if we lose our nerve and abandon our mission. […]

Domestic Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid Has Been Using Campaign Donations Instead Of His Personal Money To Pay Christmas Bonuses For The Support Staff At The Ritz-Carlton Where He Lives In An Upscale Condominium. Federal Election Law Bars Candidates From Converting Political Donations For Personal Use Harry Reid Decides to Amend Ethics Reports Lynne Stewart […]

You know, the left has gotten so bizarre, so over-the-top, that it’s almost impossible to parody them. Liberals talking about how much they hate Christians? It’s a regular thing. Calling Bush Hitler? It’s passe. Declaring that Republicans are evil fascists? It’s old hat. Are we at that point now with liberals calling for a Civil […]

As you may have heard, Air America is going down the tubes: “So can the progressive radio network Air America recover from Friday’s bankruptcy filing, at which it detailed $41 million in losses since March 2004, $20.2 million in debts and just $4.3 million in assets? AA says yes, and it isn’t alone. “I think […]

On the one hand, this is another one of those stories about the private lives of political activists — and stories like this are better left unreported. However, this news is going to be all over the place by the end of the day, so there’s no point in ignoring it. All I can say […]

When Rightroots went live on August 1 of this year, no one had really done anything like this before on the right side of the blogosphere and the conventional wisdom was that conservative blogs simply couldn’t raise money. So, truth be told, I was thinking that if we were able to raise $100,000 to $125,000 […]