This is how bad things are for the lower-than-whale-dung GOP. The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll spells bad news for the GOP next month — public approval of the Republican Party is at an alltime low. Charlie Cook now says that 50 GOP seats are in jeopardy. Dick Morris says the GOP base is heading out the door and … Read More
Armey Vs. Dobson
Dick Armey, former House Majority Leader from 1995-2003) is a conservative and a Christian. He was one of the architects of the "Republican Revolution" of the 1990s, in which Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of Congress, and the chief author of the Republican Contract with America. And he’s had it with James Dobson and the Christian Conservative … Read More
This Foley-Hastert-gate Thing Is Just Getting Weird Now
So what a second. House speaker Dennis Hastert has met this morning with an evangelical leader who knew al-Qaeda’s Abu Musab al-Zarqawi “when he was nobody”? An evangelical leader who has counselled Saddam Hussein, Muammar al-Khaddafi, Slobodan Milosevic, Liberia’s Charles Taylor, and Tom Delay? And they discussed whether or not Hastert should resign? UPDATE: Weirder and weirder. The evangelical that … Read More
Greenwald On The Foley Scandal
Gleen Greenwald makes the convincing argument that the Foley Folly is the most powerful scandal to come out against the GOP because it finally finally finally exposes the GOP playbook (used in Iraq, Katrina, etc.) to the public for what it is: In that regard, this scandal is like the CliffsNotes version of a more complicated treatise on how the … Read More
GOP Losing Christian Right
Wow. That title felt really good to type. But it’s true. The evangelical base that Karl and Ken have worked so hard to feed and care for is deserting the Republican party: A nationwide poll of 1,500 registered voters released yesterday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that 57 percent of white evangelicals are inclined to vote for Republican … Read More
Polls Show GOP Hurt
Wall Street journal/NBC poll: The survey shows that by 41%-18%, Americans say recent news developments have made them less favorable toward continued Republican control of Congress; by 34%-23% they called themselves more favorably inclined toward Democratic control. It also shows a decline in Mr. Bush’s job approval rating to 39% from 42% earlier this month. Even more problematic for Republicans’ … Read More
The GOP Implosion
John Cole: Wiser folks have said this already, but it is worth reiterating, but the reason this is so damaging to the Republican party is that it resonates with people, pure and simple. There are a lot of facts to this case we don’t know, and the Republicans and the spinmeisters are going to do their level best to muddy … Read More
Dems Soft On Child Predators?
The New York Times notes how the NRCC has run ads this cycle hitting Democratic challengers on being soft on child predators. All I can say is "Huh"?: House Speaker Dennis Hastert has asked the Justice Department to investigate how lawmakers handled allegations that Rep. Mark Foley exchanged sexually explicit messages with teenage congressional pages. The move comes after Democrats … Read More
The Ten Commandments As The Basis Of Our Law?
Rep. Katherine Harris, the Republican who oversaw the Florida Presidential elections in 2000, and who is now seeking office herself (and failing badly): Asked whether the U.S. should be a secular country, Harris said: "I think that our laws, I mean, I look at how the law originated, even from Moses, the 10 Commandments. And I don’t believe, that uh … Read More
Conservatives Having Bad Times
Data point: According to WaPo, conservatives feel Bush is AWOL on foreign policy. Data point: As posted earlier, the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage fails to pass the House. Data point: Meanwhile, the darling of the conservative christian movement, Ralph Reed, loses to a virtual unknown in Georgia. Data point: It’s generally agreed that Bush’s expected veto of embryonic stem … Read More
To My Gay Friends In Guilford County
There’s a wanker in your midst. This is from the blog of Marcus Kindley, Chairman of the Guilford County Republican Party: We now say that homosexuality is ok. That it is natural. Yes it is as natural as pedophilia. If it were natural then we wouldn’t be having a conversation about it, because there would be no procreation. It really … Read More
Birthdays
Celebrating his 60th birthday, the President of the United States: George Bush. Celebrating their 14th birthday, the Mary-Kate and Ashley of the neo-Nazi movement: Prussian Blue. [Okay, the girls’ birthday was last week, but they blogged about it today]
The “American Values” Agenda
Here’s the "American Values" Agenda being pushed by the GOP (from the website of Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL)): Pledge Protection Act (HR 2389; Akin)Summary: Protects the Pledge of Allegiance from attacks by activist federal judges seeking to rule it unconstitutional. Freedom to Display the American Flag Act (HR 42; Bartlett)Summary: Ensures an individual has the right to … Read More
Yet Another Republican Consultant Pedophile
It’s bizarre how many Republican activists are accused of things like this: EDINBURG — A young girl featured in a controversial television ad during the 2000 presidential campaign testified this week that the man who developed the commercial molested her for years and forced her to watch pornography and use sex toys. The girl, now 15, told jurors Carey Lee … Read More
What’s Right With Kansas
The red evolution-hating state is witnessing a major defection: The former chairman of the Kansas Republican Party jumped ship in a big way Tuesday, switching his affiliation to Democrat amid speculation that he would become Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ running mate.