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GOP pushes hard for environment and drilling for energy independence
By Manu Raju– The Hill
Senate Republicans aim to undercut Democrats’ claim to be the environmentally conscious party by combining their own conservation message with a longstanding push for more oil drilling.
The shift, to call for increased energy production and less oil […]
Obama invades Dixie
By Hastings Wyman
Southern Political Report
June 25, 2008 — When the Obama campaign launched its first television ads in 18 key states across the country, four of them were in the South — Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. With a combined total of 70 electoral votes, were these four states to desert the solid (Republican) […]
Failed Policy: Supreme Court Rejects ‘Death’ for Rape of a Child
What do you know!– It was a 5-4 decision. Kind of predictable don’t you think? Nonetheless, the Supreme Court (namely the 5 liberal judges) in all its infamous wisdom decided that Louisiana’s law allowing the death penalty to be imposed against such offenders violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Tell that to […]
25Jun2008 | Loozianajay | 1 comment | Continued
GOP worried over the Barr ‘factor’
From the Associated Press
ATLANTA — A fiery former GOP congressman who gained national prominence for doggedly pursuing impeachment of President Clinton has some Republicans worried he’ll play spoiler in a tight presidential contest.
Bob Barr’s Libertarian Party bid for the White House is the longest of long shots, but political experts say he may be able […]
Closely watched U.S. Senate election in Louisiana not looking good for GOP
Many Republicans saw a chance to gain a Senate seat in Louisiana against incumbent Democrat Senator, Mary Landrieu. There was talk that Landrieu was in a serious political fight with about a 50% chance she would lose her re-election bid. However, this poll can’t be very encouraging to the state GOP and others around the […]
22Jun2008 | Loozianajay | 0 comments | Continued
Fred Thomspon to play key role in selecting judges for McCain administration
Human Events is all over the case.
In a McCain administration, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson would play a dominant role in selecting Supreme Court nominees and other judicial appointments, sources close to the McCain campaign and to Thompson tell us.And why is Fred suddenly everywhere? These sources say that the agreement between McCain and Thompson […]
Can McCain Make Obama the ‘Kerry’ of 08?
by Mosheh Oinounou
In a memo released Friday, McCain Campaign Senior Adviser Steve Schmidt paints Barack Obama as a flip-flopper to end a week that started with the campaign using some of it’s strongest language to date to cast the Democrat as weak on terror and believer in a “September 10th mentality.”“As we scrutinize Barack […]
Obama flip-flops on FISA ‘Compromise’
Obama’s earlier statement
I strongly oppose retroactive immunity in the FISA bill…. No one should get a free pass to violate the basic civil liberties of the American people - not the President of the United States, and not the telecommunications companies that fell in line with his warrantless surveillance program. [My favorite part here —–> […]
How to hit Obama
By Robert Novak – Chicago Sun-Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Leaders of Sen. John McCain’s campaign are looking toward “527s” as their principal means of attacking Sen. Barack Obama because they have been given a green light by McCain.”I can’t be a referee of every spot run on television,” McCain told the Boston Herald in an interview published […]
When people who demand tolerance are intolerant
Love makes you do strange things… When a gay couple is denied a marriage ceremony on religious grounds - a pavilion in this case– by a Methodist church, they do what any hypocritical intolerant belligerent does, they sue, bully and threaten.
The pavilion in question is an open-air building with long benches looking out to the […]
Democrats: ‘If it worked for Hugo then why not for us’
Tell me why these pillow-Communist were elected to power in 2006? The anti-capitalist, anti-Bush Democrats are going to show you just how anti they really are by thunder! By emulating their statist idols, Hugo Chavez and Josef Stalin, they wish to erase the American capitalist way, and furthermore, the sane and proven way that has enabled thriving […]
19Jun2008 | Loozianajay | 2 comments | Continued
If only promises could be as good as plans
Obama vs Obama — under the microscope. Take Notes
By Ralph Peters New York Post
June 19, 2008 — NAME-BRAND journalists have let Barack Obama make any claim he chooses about Iraq, Afghanistan or coping with terrorism without pinning him down for details.
Yet many of his comments and positions seem stunningly naive about national security. Given that […]
Obama’s other Muslim problem
Two Muslim women at Barack Obama’s rally in Detroit on Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women’s headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.
The campaign has apologized to the women, both Obama supporters who said they felt betrayed by their treatment at the […]
Republican PAC concentrates on ‘true conservative’ candidates
Senator DeMint (R-SC) is heading up a PAC that is focused on returning the GOP back to its conservative roots and back to the interest of conservatives in America. The ACU has rated Senator DeMint as one of the very best serving the Senate. He has been a great leader on illegal-immigration and wasteful spending […]
18Jun2008 | Loozianajay | 0 comments | ContinuedMcCain says lift ban on coastal drilling
John McCain open to drilling offshore, not in Arctic Refuge–By Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times
18Jun2008 | Loozianajay | 0 comments | Continued





