Tag: Republicans

  • McCain & the Republicans

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  • Palin’s understated brilliance

    I know all of us are holding our breath for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to wow America all over again during her vice-presidential debate with Delaware’s Sen. Joe Biden Thursday night. One newspaper has called Mrs. Palin’s debating skills “formidable.” The New York Times says she’s a confident debater. In fact, the Obama campaign, calling…

  • Bush Fails–again

    Drinking. Again? John Aravosis of AmericaBlog reports: We now find out that the Republican party cut ads, and sent them to TV stations around the country, opposing the bailout bill even BEFORE Pelosi spoke before the vote yesterday. The Republican National Committee, the official “party,” was planning on the bill passing, and then was going…

  • Say hi, Vlad

    HuffPo Wanda Sykes > SYKES: Well, you know, I watched the convention. you know, watching the Democratic Convention, it felt like America. You know, it looked like America. It was hopeful and it was positive and, you know, everybody holding hands. And then I watched the Republican Convention. It was like watching a meeting in…

  • Sorry, Senator.

    No, Sen. McCain, the election will not be suspended just because circumstances do not currently favor your ascension to the presidency. One way or another, Republican misrule must end. John McCain cannot postpone the inevitable. If he has any idea how the nation should navigate these treacherous economic waters, he should propose them. One thing…

  • John, the tool

    McCain Embraces Regulation After Many Years of Opposition By Michael D. Shear, Washington Post Staff Writer, Wednesday, September 17, 2008; A01 A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries, helping to sweep aside a thicket of rules established over decades in favor of a less restricted financial…

  • Republican strategy-Always lie

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  • Give ’em Hell, Harry

    In this speech 60 years ago almost to the date, President Harry S. Truman spoke to an audience of over 80,000 persons and a nationwide radio audience. Truman’s definition of the values of Democrats compared to that of Republicans, spoken so long ago, could easily describe the two parties today. Truman’s indictment of Republicans are…

  • We should all be Republicans!

    Alright, calm down. Let me rephrase. It just should not be possible that Republicans stand any ghost in heck of a chance of winning any office on Nov. 4, let alone the presidency of the United States. Yet, here they are and here we are. Sen. John McCain is buoyant, ascendant, barnstorming the nation, Alaska…

  • Republicans in Minnesota, a revisit

    My friend, Chiara, sent me this note on Thursday, the final day of the Republican National Convention. I managed to miss the note and I’m offering it now for your consideration. Last night, my sister-in-law, Joyce, a nurse, mother of three, and grandmother of many, wrote to a number of us in the family to…