When Condi knifed Rummy or how the Sec. of State disposed of the Sec. of Defense (and Cheney) From the perspective of GOP leaders like Newt Gingrich>, the White House completely botched the Rumsfeld departure. The President also lied to the media> about Rumsfeld shortly before the election. Been wondering what finally made it happen […]
Christian Right Agenda In Shambles After GOP Defeat …But it has been a tough year: The scandals have come one after another for the political party he and others in the Christian right consider theirs: Reps. Randy Cunningham (R-Calif.), who pleaded guilty to bribery last November; Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), who pleaded guilty to corruption […]
Drapes of Wrath This will be known as the year macho politics failed — mainly because it was macho politics by marshmallow men. Voters were sick of phony swaggering, blustering and bellicosity, absent competency and accountability. They were ready to trade in the deadbeat Daddy party for the sheltering Mommy party. … Men who had […]
Dobson: GOP abandoned us Republican setbacks blamed on ignoring agenda of "values voters" Focus on the Family founder James Dobson on Thursday blamed Republicans’ crushing defeat on abandoning "values voters" and predicted the GOP would stumble further if it charts a more moderate course. A panel of conservatives on Dobson’s national radio program also lambasted […]
George W. Bush Richard Cheney Karl Rove Gone are Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Richard Armitage, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, John Bolton. Gone are Tom Delay, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Mark Foley, Jack Abramoff. We’re down to just three, George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, and Karl Rove. Right now, it appears that […]
Ann Coulter Rush Limbaugh Bill O’Reilly I know there are lots of people who listen to them every day, but it seems like their message is superfluous. If the Democratic victory succeeds in bringing the Iraq War to any kind of resolution, either directly or by tempering Bush’s non-policies, and if there are even the […]
The Architect Speaks "The profile of corruption in the exit polls was bigger than I’d expected," Rove tells TIME. "Abramoff, lobbying, Foley and Haggard [the disgraced evangelical leader] added to the general distaste that people have for all things Washington, and it just reached critical mass." … And he does not believe his data let […]
The Christian Right is involved in a spin game of their own. They’re after those Republicans this time. The Republicans just weren’t strong enough on the "values voters" issues: Abortion [killing unborn babies], Gay Marriage [destroying God’s something-or-other], Stem Cell Research [Cloning]. And, by the way, they think there are a lot of homosexuals in […]
I thought that if the Democrats won, I wouldn’t have anything left to say. I’m not a political pundit, not even very "political." I’m just a person who woke up two years ago with the feeling that my country of sixty plus years was disappearing in a cloud of primitive religion misinterpretation, misguided destructive militarism, […]
James Dobson and his cohorts have an amazing program today. Here’s how it is from their point of view. The American People are registering disapproval of the direction of the country. What does that mean? Iraq? No! It means that the Republican Party hasn’t been strong enough in pushing the "values" issues. We’re not upset […]