davidl on June 15th, 2007

The road to Shamnesty may have just gotten a lot tougher.  From the Rocky Mountain News

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives this morning voted to withhold federal emergency services funding for “sanctuary cities” that protect

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Eric Florack on June 15th, 2007

Comments by Republican senators on Thursday suggested that they were feeling the heat from conservative critics of the bill, who object to provisions offering legal status. The Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who supports the bill, said: “Talk radio

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Eric Florack on June 13th, 2007

John Hawkins over at Right Wing News, has posted a not very surprising “temperature check” for June:

1) Are you pleased that the Senate immigration bill did not pass?

Yes: 49 — 96%
No: 2 — 4%

2) Do you

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Eric Florack on June 12th, 2007

Norm Levy in the LA TIMES reports that…

…Just 27% of Americans now approve of the way Congress is doing its job, the poll found, down from 36% in January, when Democrats assumed control of the House and the Senate.

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John Dowd represented Sen. John McCain in his darkest hour, the “Keating Five” scandal. He supported McCain the first time he ran for president in 2000 and signed up to be a major fundraiser for him in this year’s presidential

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davidl on June 6th, 2007

Frank Luntz says the big winner from the republcan debate was Mitt Romney.  Allahpundit has the video.  The big loser: Wolf Blitzer.

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Eric Florack on June 5th, 2007

Our friend Don Surber notes the number of stories showing up about the Republican front runners and their supposedly ‘trophy’ wives.

My Tennessee bureau is all upset by it, but Margery Eagan’s column in the Boston Herald was a hoot:

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Eric Florack on May 30th, 2007

Word is out from several sources that Fred Thompson, is going to be announcing to enter the presidential race over the Fourth of July holiday.  Most notable among the links is the Politico :

Thompson’s formal announcement is planned for

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davidl on May 23rd, 2007

Elisabeth HasselbackBBIV goes to Elisabeth Hasselbeck, View.  Hasselbeck takes on the windbag, Rosie, “Toyko” O’Donnell and has O’Donnell playing the fat lesbian card.

Howie, Jawa Report:

I can’t even begin to describe how much I enjoyed seeing Rosie backed into

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davidl on May 21st, 2007

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Or could it be that Mitt Romney killed this deal on Tuesday night when he said the McCain-Kennedy bill would do to immigration what the McCain-Feingold bill did to campaign financing.

Don Surber, on the Kennedy-McCain Shamesty bill.  

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davidl on May 20th, 2007

fred-thompson.jpgBy now Fred Thompson’s thirty-eight second video response to Michael Moore, which we blogged on Tuesday, is famous.  What may be even more impressive than the video itself is the process, or  better yet, the lack of process behind it.

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davidl on May 17th, 2007

Ron Paul

Andrew the Excitable, a.k.a Andrew Sullivan, has breathlessly proclaimed that following Paul’s debate debacle, that Paul has “elevated” the debates..

Meanwhile back the land of the sane, John Hawkins, Right Wing News,  douses Sullly in sanity:

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davidl on May 16th, 2007

…. and the winner is Fox.

The Sister is right.  Fox coverage was better, much better.  Stephen Spruiell, NRO-Media Blog,has a montage of first questions from the NBC debate and then from the Fox debate.  The contrast is dramatic

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Eric Florack on May 16th, 2007

If nothing else, the debate revealed Ron Paul is a blithering idiot.

 Have you ever read the reasons they attacked us? They attack us because we’ve been over there; we’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years..

In that one line

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davidl on May 16th, 2007

While Bit was playing like Ben Franklin, and I was sleeping, Sister Toldjah bloggged the debate, with video clips.   The Sister’s clear winner, Fox.    The clear loser, Ron Paul.   Kudos to Mitt Romney and Rudy Guiliani.  I am still in

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