By Jimmie on Jan 9, 2009 in The Economy and Your Money, The Republican Minority | 1 Comment
You would have thought that the Republican leadership might have learned a thing or two about spending bazillions of our dollars from their embarassing defeats of the last election.
Nope. They didn’t learn a damned thing.
Right now, GOP leaders in the House and Senate aren’t set to fight the Democratic pork-filled, already-failed stimulus bill. They’ve already [...]
By Jimmie on Jan 8, 2009 in Conservativism, The Economy and Your Money, The Republican Minority | 0 Comments
Remember that Tom Coburn man-crush I mentioned yesterday? Well, I’m not the only one. He also has the graphic of Coburn I really wanted to use yesterday, except it didn’t exist until he created it. Darn him.
Duane says that Coburn should be the Senate Majority Leader right now. That’s really hard to argue after what [...]
By Jimmie on Jan 7, 2009 in Conservativism, The Economy and Your Money, The Republican Minority | 1 Comment
I’m not ashamed to say that I have an enormous man-crush on Senator Tom Coburn. When you read how he laid the lumber to Harry Reid and the Democratic leadership, maybe you’ll get a little puppy love for him, too.
The decision by Senate leaders to kick off the new Congress with an earmark-laden omnibus lands [...]
By Jimmie on Jan 6, 2009 in President Barack Obama, The Economy and Your Money, The Republican Minority | 0 Comments
President-Elect Obama is ready to drop the Powerball of Pork he’s calling a stimulus package onto Congress for passage, but first, he has to try to woo Republicans to his side or it won’t pass.
First, let me stipulate that no matter how big the stimulus package is, it won’t work. It didn’t work when [...]
By Jimmie on Jan 6, 2009 in Conservativism, The Republican Minority | 0 Comments
The RNC did something yesterday that neither party has ever done before - held a debate for the candidates running for Chairman. Normally, the President picks who heads his party and the committee members go along with it (a practice which should end for Republicans, I believe) but when a party isn’t in power, there’s [...]
By Jimmie on Jan 2, 2009 in The Republican Minority | 6 Comments
I really don’t get the Republican Party. Party folks have spent well over a week rending their clothes and covering themselves in ashes over RNC chair candidate Chip Saltsman. Saltsman, I’m sure you’ve heard, sent out a CD with a bunch of songs on it. One of them was a parody song made popular on [...]
By Jimmie on Dec 3, 2008 in The Good Old US of A, The Republican Minority | 0 Comments
There were some big doings in Georgia last night. Saxby Chambliss whipped his Democratic opponent Jim Martin to retain his Senate seat in a runoff election. On Election Day, Martin came within 3 percent of Chambliss, necessitating the runoff. Yesterday, the result wasn’t even close.
The big question in Punditland is going to be: what does [...]
By Jimmie on Nov 27, 2008 in Conservativism, The Republican Minority | 1 Comment
Some of the RNC old guard are not very happy that Michael Steele is crashing their party. He’s an outsider, see, and not a paid in full member of the Republican National Committee. Worse, he’s one of those “rock stars” that give the stuffed shirts and yellow bellies inside the party a case of the [...]
