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The Ron Paul quarters of the GOP are buzzing about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) speech to this past weekend’s state party convention — a combative performance in which he took on conservative activists and Paul supporters. One heckler yelled out: “You’re a hypocrite!” Graham snapped back: “I’m a winner, pal!” When Paul supporters started to [...]

The Arkansas governor-cum-TV host’s poem “Fancy Nancy” gets at how rote the Republican calls for the Speaker of the House to step down are becoming. Huckabee calls for Pelosi to “resign and get out of here.”
If forced to believe whether the CIA and her colleagues in Congress are lying;
Or it’s Speaker Pelosi whose credibility and [...]

The former Speaker of the House goes the Karl Rove route and gets a weekly column in a conservative editorial shop, at the Washington Examiner.

“I am excited and pleased to be joining The Examiner, which is among the bright new stars of American journalism,” Gingrich said. “This is one of the most unique and crucial [...]

The conservative GOP leader from Arizona blurts out that “Rush Limbaugh is a television personality.” The journalistic ballet, of switching on Limbaugh’s show at noon and seeing whether he reacts, goes on.
It would still be a surprise if Limbaugh takes this bait. While he brought numerous members of Congress to their knees in the first [...]

I just talked to Frank Llewellyn, the national director of the Democratic Socialists of America, who was understandably nonplussed by the Republican National Committee’s “Democrat Socialist Party” resolution.
“It’s objectionable,” said Llewellyn, “because they’re giving socialism a bad name by associating it with the Democrats, who are the second-most capitalist party in the world. The election [...]

Yes, according to one famous conservative Christian.
The Associated Press asks prominent evangelicals and leaders of the religious right if Jesus would condone torture. Some evangelicals say every life is sacred and torture is not peaceful and therefore incongruent with Christian teachings. But religious right leader Gary Bauer says that while Jesus wouldn’t torture, he would [...]

Roger Simon confirms that the Republican National Committee will vote on, and probably pass, “a resolution rebranding Democrats as the ‘Democrat Socialist Party,’” even though weakened RNC Chairman Michael Steele has warned it “will accomplish little than to give the media and our opponents the opportunity to mischaracterize Republicans.”
In a totally unrelated development, Richard Posner [...]

Josh Kraushaar reports that the National Republican Senatorial Committee will go back on its word from last week and endorse Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) when he announces his bid for the U.S. Senate. It’s one of several Senate races where the party has drafted or is trying to draft a moderate Republican to shove aside [...]

In an article in the new issue of Time, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) is quoted saying that “Marginal tax rates are the lowest they’ve been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts. [...] The people’s desires have changed, but we’re still stuck in our old issue set.”
Grover Norquist, the president of [...]

I’m pretty sure he’s hinted at this before, but Time magazine gets the, uh, scoop:
Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he’s so outraged by GOP overspending, he’s quitting the party — and he’s the bull’s-eye of its target audience.
Wurzelbacher has become a spokesman for a pro-Fair Tax (replacing the income tax [...]