Tag Archives: GOP

McHenry: We don’t care about doing the right thing. We care about WINNING!

(h/t Shakesville)A quote from GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry.  Yes, they truly are the party of the people.  If ‘party of the people’ means ‘party that only cares about its own stranglehold on power and has little or no desire to help anyone but itself’.On the plus side, if we can get more GOP folks to [...]

Begala hits the nail on the head of crazy the GOP calls a plan

I don’t actually like Begala much, though I do find him pleasant enough.Anyhow, this is sort of what I’ve been saying for a while, and points out the flaw in the GOPs stance here.No matter how much money corporations and businesses have, they aren’t going to expand in an economy where no one can afford [...]

Obama isn’t following the promise of bipartisanship

Which, from GOP-speak, translates to giving in to every demand.  After nearly a decade (or more) of not caring at all about what the Democrats think and/or want, after two terms of GW and just storming through any legislation they want, I hardly think the GOP would know bipartisanship if it came and bit them [...]

Gingrich: Palin would be good if she had a clue

From the Examiner
Newt Gingrich quote from the Examiner.
This may be the greatest backhanded compliment ever.
“If Sarah Palin seeks out a group of respectable policy advisors
and spends time staking out a group of policy positions, she will be
very formidable,” the Republican said.  But, he cautioned, “then she
wouldn’t be the same Sarah Palin.”
Translation: She’d be a strong [...]