Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Lots of funny stuff happened last weekend before the off-year elections, and seldom does anything happen by chance.
Reacting to media reports that Nancy Pelosi “secretly” dispatched a top lieutenant to meet with Dede Scozzafava before the Assemblywoman’s shocking endorsement of Bill Owens, Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long called for a Federal Election Commission investigation of [...]
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
While perusing through the news this morning, I stumbled upon this: “As GOP celebrates wins, internal ideological battles remain”
With that, let me share with you a response to a fundraising email to the MassGOP party RINO chair. I was cc’d this from a good friend in my home state, where I divorced myself from the [...]
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
The excuse is as we’re in this 24-hour news cycle, stories are cranked out quickly and sometimes fact-check and verification is the casual. This is one of those moments and I relayed that incorrect information on to you.
At 10:15AM ET during America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel, co-host Martha MacCallum reported that in a gaggle [...]
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
President Obama (via Anita Dunn and David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs) issued his definition of objective journalism. The assessment was that Fox News was to be shunned as they are an arm of the Republican Party. If that’s the case, one would think the media would be very careful to distance themselves from politicians so [...]
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
If these words didn’t come out of the mouth of our present Speaker Of The House, I would have thought them to be from a rejected Saturday Night Live script.
On Tuesday night’s election results…
From our perspective, we won last night. We had one race that we were engaged in, it was in northern New York, [...]
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
We don’t look at either of the gubernatorial races or the congressional race as something that portends a lot for our legislative efforts going forward or our political prospects in 2010.
— Robert Gibbs, White House spokesman
“We” may not be looking… but we are.
Virginia governor’s race called for Republican Bob McDonnell
CNN Exit poll: Obama not a [...]
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
“Vote conservative,” says the announcer in a new 60-second, RNC-sponsored radio ad in New York’s 23rd District. Now that GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava has left the race, the national Republican campaign committees are pushing Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman.
So, the Republican Party is now talking the good game after years of publicly ostracizing conservatives. The question [...]
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