NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF: Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said of passage of the $555 billion omnibus spending budget, “We are very proud of this bill.” No wonder his party is in the minority.
Entertainer Pamela Anderson filed for divorce last week, just two months after getting hitched in a quickie Las Vegas wedding. But remember, it’s GAYS who are destroying marriage in this country.
THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE
Striking Hollywood writers are threatening to kill off this year’s Academy Awards program. We can only hope.
SURGING RETREAT
At the beginning of this year President Bush ordered a “surge” of additional troops to Iraq to clamp down on the bad guys. In September the commanding general overseeing war operations in Iraq told Congress the surge was working.
The President immediately declared “mission accomplished” (in so many words) and ordered a phased withdrawal of the additional troops which were responsible for turning around the battlefield situation - a decision which didn’t make a lick of sense to this non-general civilian. After all, when something works, don’t fix it.
On Monday, Maj. Gen. Joseph Fils, the top commander in Baghdad, warned against withdrawing troops from the war theater too fast. “It’s clear that pulling out too quickly, before the Iraqis are truly able to take over these areas independently, would be very risky and there are some areas in the city where, at this point, it would fail,” Gen. Fils warned.
Will the president listen this time?
MCCAIN’S GAIN
The media is desperately trying to resurrect the corpse of John McCain’s presidential campaign by fawning all over the “significance” of the endorsement of Sen. Joe Lieberman. When the big news of your Republican primary campaign is an endorsement by Al Gore’s former running mate, somehow I don’t see that as a positive development among GOP primary voters.
However, I’ve been saying for years that an independent McCain/Lieberman ticket has the potential in a general election to blow up the two major parties - if they can figure out a way to get on enough ballots and win 270 electoral votes in the general election. Which is highly improbable. But it’d sure be interesting.
NOT STUCK ON HUCK
In two separate interviews, GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson eviscerates fellow GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on one issue after another, concluding that the former Arkansas governor “is not a conservative.” This kind of gloves-off campaigning might be resulting in what Thompson supporters are calling “Fredmentum,” at it’s building at just the right time. Catch these two short video clips HERE from our friends over at Hot Air.
IF YOU HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE YOU’RE TOUGH…
“Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Monday he was tough on crime as Arkansas’ governor, rejecting a new television ad by rival Mitt Romney that implied he was soft. The new spot, airing in Iowa, where Huckabee has knocked Romney out of first place in the polls, says Romney never pardoned a criminal when he was governor of Massachusetts. The ad goes on to quote from a recent Associated Press report that said Huckabee issued 1,033 pardons and commutations during his more than 10 years as Arkansas governor.”
- Associated Press, 12/18/07
HUCK DUCKS
“For a candidate who once desperately craved media coverage, Mike Huckabee is now playing hard to get. In the final two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Mr. Huckabee will make plenty of down-home appearances at schools and civic centers, but he will avoid major TV interviews that could sharply question his record as Arkansas governor or his shifting stands on issues.”
- John Fund, Political Diary, 12/18/07
THE REAL THING
“[Ron Paul] is the real thing in a world of fakes and frauds. And in a primary campaign where the very future of conservatism is at stake, that cannot be ignored. In fact, it demands support.”
- Blogger Andrew Sullivan
MONEY BOMB HITS TARGET
About a month ago, GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul made history when his campaign raised over $4 million - in what was called a “money bomb” - via online donations in one day, the record for a non-presidential nominee. On Sunday, Paul repeated the feat, setting the all-time record for ANY candidate by hauling in over $6 million in one day on the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. If Paul can convert and multiply those donors into voters next month, he might just give the front-runners a lot more heartburn than they were expecting.
ANYBODY BUT HILL
“The Popular Press looks at the five major candidates in the Republican Presidential race being within 10-or-so percentage points of one another as evidence that Republican voters don’t like any of them. How about this as an alternative theory: ANY of the five will be acceptable to the overwhelming percentage of Republican voters in a race for President against Hillary.”
- Rich Galen, Mullings.com, 12/19/07
Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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