Where’s the outrage?
An Iowa County Chair who is on retainer from the Romney campaign bans other candidates from speaking to his organization. That is shocking. Is that they way you want your government run?
California
Cole throws Doolittle under bus?
And, perhaps, well he should. From the Sac(ramento) Bee: But in a telephone news conference Monday, NRCC Chairman Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., indicated that the political ground has a way of shifting. "There’s a factor outside of normal politics that needs to be resolved," Cole said. "We’re keeping a close Read more…
Club for Growth slams Huckabee
For the critical week of recruiting before the Ames straw poll, The Club for Growth is attacking Mike Huckabee. They have details here. I think that this is going to hurt a lot. People who are still undecided and just show up are going to see this. And, like all Read more…
Ethics
McCain blogger conference call
McCain calls the ethics bill a "sham and a joke". "It is just the same as it was before." "There are some good things it" but "it was an opportunity because of the dissatisfaction of the American people… and I’m sorry that we have failed. … it will further contribute Read more…
Romney: Peace candidate
I have been saying for a while that Mitt Romney’s campaign wants to run away from Iraq as fast as possible. Well, he said it again, according to Green Mountain Politics. Except this time, he said that he wants to withdraw if Patreaus says that our plan is succeeding. That Read more…
Environment
Carbon tax versus cap-and-trade
Normally, I don’t go so policy-oriented on people, but I think that there is an important point to be made here. Today Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell wrote: A carbon tax or fee has been endorsed by President Bush‘s former chief economic adviser, Greg Mankiw; Nobel Prize-winning conservative Read more…
Romney, Paul, and the road to Ames
So Mitt Romney has won a number of straw polls by packing them. Reporters get the joke and have stopped covering them, but the Romney campaign knows that it can put these victories on mail pieces and ads. Normally, the question is whether the damage that occurs over the bad Read more…
Ethics
McCain and the ethics bill
Yesterday, Bob Novak said about the ethics bill: Because their leadership has not cared for this struggle from the start, Senate Republicans will likely be forced to vote for this weak bill simply because they will otherwise look like they are obstructing reform. There was however, one alternative, John McCain, Read more…
California
California splitting electoral votes too?
This would be an earthquake. Huffington Post has the story: A Republican-backed ballot proposal could split left-leaning California between the Democratic and GOP nominees, tilting the 2008 presidential election in favor of the Republicans. California awards its cache of 55 electoral votes to the statewide winner in presidential elections _ Read more…
Ethics
Ted Stevens demands corporate jet
You have got to be kidding me. Check this out: But in a closed-door lunch with fellow Republican senators yesterday, Stevens (R-Alaska) himself threatened to block the measure, objecting that the legislation’s new restrictions on lawmakers’ use of corporate jets would unfairly penalize members of Congress who live in distant Read more…