I get alot of my state news from a key operative for the Ohio Republican Party. He shares his insight with people in monthly emails. Having read his latest, I feel compelled to share and offer reax to his offerings this time. The operative's words are in italics, my reax are not. Ohio's Races in 201...

Two big ones in a row. First from the gaffmeister himself, Joe Biden. You can almost forgive him, because he has a long history of just saying wacky shit, but he is an official spokesman of our Dear Leader, so BHO should be keeping a leash on him. Biden falsely claimed that Louisiana is loosing jobs...

Apparently, he’s going to be part of quite the throng. Via Red County and Dave Evans for Congress comes this WaPo report: Hurry, hurry, hurry. Congress will begin its 2009 travel season in earnest this weekend with two spectacular codels — trips for House congressional delegations —...

We have delved the eldrich horror of the Democratic culture of corruption and discovered the deep and dark secret behind the attempted emasculation of Sen. Judd Gregg (RINO-NH, 72%), once incoming, now outgoing Secretary-designate of Commerce. Sen. Gregg has finally seen the light, realized what's c...

Pete Sessions is a a Representative from Texas. Waco. Maybe that explains it. He’s also Chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee. The other day he likened the House resistance to the stimulus plan to Taliban insurgency. I’m thinking there are no lessons one wants to learn...

Err... perhaps not (emphases mine) Unlike hundreds of other cities, however, Daley said Chicago won't make its list public. "Yes, we do, we have our list, we've been talking to people. We did not put that out publicly because once you start putting it out publicly, you know, the newspapers, the medi...

Listen carefully to what she says. In case you missed it, here is the money quote: "Every month we do not have an economic recovery package, 500 million Americans lose their jobs." Let us review the total population of the United States of America: 305 million The math here isn't hard. It's flat out...

"I am not a crook!" Senator Chris Dodd released the details of his Countrywide mortgages. In a statement released with it he said that he would refinance the loans. But, please, pay no attention to this fact: "Jackie and Chris have "decided to refinance (their) homes", which seems unremarkable, give...

The storied erstwhile, now-unemployed Governor of Illinois Rod "Blago" Blagojevich is now out of the Governor's mansion in Springfield, so what is to become of him? Personally, I think he'll be the Tonya Harding of politics . He'll serve some light time, ...after which he'll make the morning talk sh...

The Governor is removed. Long live the Governor. The votes in the State Senate today were both unanimous (59-0) both to remove Blago and also to prohibit him from running for public office in the state of Illinois for the rest of his life. The vote in the House for the impeachment last month was 117...