All Posts Tagged With: "Republicans"
Berkeley Mayor Unrepentant on Marines:
“We Don’t Want Them Here”
By Michelle Malkin
I am posting the full article by Michelle:
I wrote about Move America Forward’s new ads pressuring the Berkeley City Council on its anti-Marines stance here. Joe Wierzbicki of MAF sends along this local news report from NBC 11 in the Bay Area. Watch it to see Mayor Tom Bates [...]
Republicans Backtracking on Earmark Reform
House Republicans pick pork-loving Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.)
Townhall
By Robert Bluey
Just when it appeared House Republicans had turned the corner on earmark reform, party leaders did the unthinkable. They picked pork-loving Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) for the vacant seat on the Appropriations Committee, bypassing conservatives such as Reps. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.). In [...]
Teachers In New York Get Big Gift From GOP
Deal Struck in N.Y. Senate
New York Sun
By JACOB GERSHMAN
Two weeks after the state’s largest teachers union gave Senate Republicans a boost by endorsing their candidate in a critical special election race, Republican lawmakers fast-tracked a bill that would allow New York City teachers to retire with full benefits five years sooner than they can now.
The [...]
Dem Leaders Shower Pork On Freshmen
Democratic leaders have sent tens of millions of dollars to freshman lawmakers’ districts
The Hill
By Alexander Bolton
Rep. Phil Hare (D), a freshman from western Illinois. He received $92.2 million worth of earmarks, almost the same amount as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), according to the TCS analysis. The group compiled a database of every earmark passed [...]
Berkeley: No Apology For Marines Stance
Berkeley: No Apology
KPIX tv
BERKELEY (BCN) ― Members of the anti-war group Code Pink applauded the Berkeley City Council early Wednesday when it ended a marathon meeting by refusing to apologize for a vote two weeks ago that said members of a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office downtown are “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.”
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John Bolton Endorses John McCain
An Endorsement Worth Having
REDSTATE
ARLINGTON, VA — U.S. Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign today announced that former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton has endorsed John McCain for president. Ambassador Bolton issued the following statement on his endorsement:
“John McCain was very active and supportive during my confirmation hearings to be the U.S. Ambassador to [...]
Colin Powell, Will He Endorse Barack Obama?
Colin Powell may vote Democrat
Yahoo News
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former US secretary of state Colin Powell said Sunday he was weighing his options in the 2008 White House race, hinting he may cross party lines and vote against the Republican nominee.
“I will vote for the candidate I think can do the best job in America. Whether [...]
11Feb2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
The Republican Reformation
Are Talk Radio Host’s Done Tearing Down Republican Nominees?
New York Times
By Ross Douthat
HAVING spent the better part of three months attacking Mike Huckabee and John McCain as crypto-liberals who would destroy the Reagan coalition, the pundits, talk-radio stars and professional activists who make up the establishment of the conservative movement had to grit their teeth [...]
Huckabee win called in Kansas
Huckabee win’s
USA Today
by Sergio Non
Fox News has called the Kansas GOP caucus for former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. He took 61% of the vote even though national front-runner Sen. John McCain was endorsed by Kansas’ conservative stalwart, Sen. Sam Brownback, himself an ex-candidate for the presidential nomination.
3:46 p.m. update: The Associated Press confirms that [...]
