Month: September 2015
Where Would Congress Be Without Louie Gohmert?
Last week, I announced to the world if the House and Senate will treat Iran — the Iran treaty as a treaty, I will not run for my congressional seat again. It’s the only thing that I have left that our leadership wants beside my integrity.
— Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), in an email to Glenn Beck.
‘What Happened to the Republican Party?’
The Grand Old Party?once moderate and even magnanimous?has fallen into a prison of its own making when it comes to presidential politics. Republicans may be having a heyday in the Congress but their prospects for the 2016 presidential election aren’t great?and won’t improve unless and until they break out of their intellectual and ideological straightjackets and start speaking to where the American public lives: geographically, culturally, and politically.
— From the just published “What Happened to the Republican Party?” by John K. White
Dean Draws Parallels to Sanders
People like Bernie are always attractive, as I was. They speak truth to power. The problem with candidates like that — and like me — is that as you get closer to election time, you’re more careful about how your vote’s going to be used. You’re going to tend to want to see somebody who you think looks presidential as the nominee of your party. That’s one of the things that sank me.
— Howard Dean, in an interview with the Washington Post.
Landrieu to Give Leftover Campaign Money to Former Senate Colleagues
$150,000
Amount former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has left in her campaign fund, which she plans to use to help former Senate colleagues run for re-election, the Shreveport Times reports. Landrieu said she also will contribute some leftover campaign money to Republicans: “I’m not opposed to helping one or two of my Republican friends that have helped Louisiana — if they ask. They haven’t asked yet.”
Pledging Clinton Allegiance
Hillary Clinton has stepped on a dangerous ledge,
As bettors on her primary win start to hedge.
In order to attend
Her event in Cleveland,
Millennials first had to sign a loyalty pledge.
Why the Silence about Donald Trump’s Mob Ties?
It is the most under-reported story of the summer, and the mystery is why. Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, is well known to have had ties to notorious crime figures like Paul “Big Paul” Castellano, head of the Gambino crime family, Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, boss of the Genovese mob, and others of their ilk in New York City, Philadelphia and New Jersey.
