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It can’t even hold an honest internal election. The Republicans in the House got together to vote by secret ballot for a Republican leader.  The three main choices were Blunt, Boehner, and Shadegg. There were more ballots cast than members in the room.

This conservative blogger ought to visit his own website. He pens a screed against Cindy Sheehan, writing: This is a time when our country should be emanating strength and unity of purpose, where intellectual differences are debated with respect and reason. And to the right of these words?  An advertisement of Jonah Goldberg’s book: "Liberal Fascism".  Complete with a picture … Read More

I haven’t been blogging about the Alito nomination, because any hope of victory went away in the 2004 Presidential election.  We lost, so we’re getting Alito.  End of story. But there’s a lot of buzz about this online blog post from yesterday: Mister Senator… This post will be read by thousands and thousands of people… It’s directed at ONE person. … Read More

You know, I think I am pretty tolerant of Michelle Malkin, the conservative blogger-whiner who has cornered the market in "outrage".  With almost every post, as well as her book "Unhinged", Michelle is a cottage industry unto herself, pointing out every supposed rude behavior of Democrats and liberals, most of whom you have never heard of. Of course, she rarely … Read More

Some of you may have read about UCLA alumni Andrew Jones lately.  If not, here’s the skinny: A fledgling alumni group headed by a former campus Republican leader is offering students payments of up to $100 per class to provide information on instructors who are "abusive, one-sided or off-topic" in advocating political ideologies. The year-old Bruin Alumni Assn. says its … Read More

Love this: The political tactic of playing up the soldiers on the battlefield while tearing down the reputations of veterans who oppose them could eventually cost the Republicans dearly. It may be one reason that a preponderance of the Iraq war veterans who thus far have decided to run for office are doing so as Democrats. That’s James Webb, Secretary … Read More

Marginally Interesting:  Carole Keetan Strayhorn, the mother of White House spokesman Scotty McClellan, is running for Governor of Texas. Slightly More Interesting, Slightly Amusing:  Despite the fact that her son is Bush’s spokesman and the most visible face of the Republican White House, she is running as an Independent. Funny:  On her campaign form that she filed with the Texas … Read More

World O’Crap has fun with my local wingnut running for state Congress.

Local politics just got interesting for me. One of my favorite wingnut national colmnists is Nathan Tabor.  Just yesterday, I was going to mock his recent column defending intelligent design, but it was too time-consuming. Today, I learned from Sadly, No, that good ol’ Nathan lives in my district and is running for the North Carolina Senate seat for my … Read More

Not much.  Mark Schmitt observes: Roughly speaking, there have been four great showdowns over abuse of executive power in modern U.S. history. The earliest has to do with domestic surveillance by the CIA, and other ill-conceived schemes, as revealed by the 1975 Church Committee hearings. The second, closely overlapping the first, involved all the excesses of the Nixon administration, including … Read More

I have been only marginally following the debate between Matt Yglesius and The Corner Kids.  Tom Hilton summarizes: Our story so far: Jeffrey Hart writes a piece in the Wall Street Journal about the state of modern conservatism (short version: Burke good, DeLay bad–hard to argue with that) in which he makes this observation: The most recent change occurred in … Read More

Sen. Tom Delay (indicted for money laundering) on the subject of Rep. "Duke" Cunningham (pled guilty to bribery): “Duke Cunningham is a hero . . . He is an honorable man of high integrity.” Yeah.  Whatever.