The plot lines in the battle for control of the soul of the Republican Party just got thicker today with the announcement by transition chair Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) of the members of his transition team. Not only did Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) not make the cut while her competitor More…
A great piece in The Washington Times today reveals a remarkable degree of hypocrisy from some GOP critics of last year’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill.
More than a dozen Republican lawmakers, while denouncing the stimulus to the media and their constituents, privately sent letters to just one
I mentioned in my story about last night’s premiere of “Tea Party: The Documentary Film” that Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) expressed some regrets about not shouting something during the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress. After the jump, there’s video of DeMint’s remarks.
From last night’s premiere of “Tea Party: The Documentary Film,” here’s Jim Martin of the 60 Plus Association — an industry-funded group bankrolling ads to turn senior citizens against the Democratic health care reform bills — having a friendly chat with Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.). Martin on the left, Wilson More…
Last night, Dave showed that the looming hold on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is no partisan matter, with Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson (R-S.C.) and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) also supporting the procedural move by the liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). But More…
Getting into Wednesday’s Washington, D.C., premiere of “Tea Party: The Documentary Film” meant walking through a steady rain into the Ronald Reagan building, a sprawling downtown trade and convention center where the economic conservative group FreedomWorks, which helped organize a number of Tea Party protests, had rented a foyer and More…
At tonight’s reception celebrating “Tea Party: The Documentary Film,” I asked Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey about the news that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) may put a hold on the nomination of Ben Bernanke for a second term at the Federal Reserve.
“I actually respect More…
It’s one of the year’s slower news days, a perfect time for this rap from Hi Caliber. The best line, in my opinion:
The population of the march was over a million
and I have a new hero, his name is Joe Wilson.
Video after the jump.
One week after Marin Cogan wrote a spot-on profile of Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), the punchy freshman Democrat fulfilled her prediction that he would be “the first member to bring the blogosphere’s in-your-face style to Capitol Hill.” He gave a short floor speech on health care where he More…
Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.)’s Free and Strong America PAC put his speech to Values Voters online before he began speaking: the whole thing is here. But there was some back-and-forth that isn’t in that transcript.
“Candidate Obama promised not to raise taxes—’by one dime’—on people making less than More…
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