Year: 2012

Armey Takes Tea Party Payout to Leave FreedomWorks

Buck Banks

$8 million

Amount Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) received as a payout to leave the conservative Tea Party group, FreedomWorks, “because of an internal split over the group’s future direction,” the AP reports. A confidential contract shows that Armey agreed in September to resign from his role as chairman of FreedomWorks in exchange for $8 million in consulting fees paid in annual $400,000 installments.

Has-Been Rocker Offers Ultimate Voter-Suppression Plan

Buck Banks

Let’s also stop the insanity by suspending the right to vote of any American who is on welfare. Once they get off welfare and are self-sustaining, they get their right to vote restored. No American on welfare should have the right to vote for tax increases on those Americans who are working and paying taxes to support them. That’s insane.

— Has-been musician Ted Nugent, who once predicted he would be dead or in jail if President Obama was re-elected, gives the Washington Times his new proposal to disenfranchise some Americans.

Nearly Half of Republicans Believe Nonexistent ACORN Stole the Election for Obama

Buck Banks

49%

Of Republican voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama, as compared to 52% that thought ACORN stole the 2008 election, a new Public Policy Polling survey shows. The survey notes that is “a modest decline, but perhaps smaller than might have been expected given that ACORN doesn’t exist anymore.”

Republicans Sink to New Low: With Former Sen. Leader Bob Dole, 89, a Disabled WWII Vet, in the Chamber, GOP Senators Vote Down U.N. Treaty on Disabled He Was There to Support

Jon Ponder
Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, 89, was wheeled onto the Senate floor yesterday by his wife, former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), to show support for the U.N. Treaty on disabilities, which Republican senators then voted down

Senate Republicans put their paranoia about the United Nations ahead of party loyalty, common sense and, especially, sanity yesterday — and insulted their former leader and their party’s 1996 presidential nominee, disabled World War II veteran Bob Dole to his face — when they voted down a U.N. treaty on disabilities Dole supports while he was on the Senate floor with them yesterday.

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