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NRSC Gets Joe-mentum

If it walks like a Republican and talks like a Republican, then Republicans are going to use it to their benefit:

“Senator Lieberman should be commended today for sticking with his principles and standing against efforts by Democrat leaders in Washington to ram through a controversial and massive government health care bill,” says NRSC spokesman Colin Reed in a statement aimed at Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.)–a liberal in a red state who has shown no sign of bucking the public option, but faces a (somewhat remote) re-election threat if Gov. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) runs next year. “The question many in Washington and in North Dakota are waiting to have answered, however, is where do Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad stand? Will they stand with Harry Reid and his partisan government-run health care bill or will they stand with North Dakota taxpayers who are already facing an unimaginable federal debt? Both Senators have had more than enough time to study this issue and understand its consequences on North Dakota taxpayers – it’s time they made their position clear as Senator Lieberman did today.”

The NRSC is sending more or less the same statement to reporters in Louisiana, Nebraska, Florida, and Indiana.

10/28/09 2:20 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: healthcare, Joe Lieberman, NRSC, public option

Mount Obama Born Yesterday in Antigua

• Two former Blackwater employees have given sworn statements accusing founder Erik Prince of murdering whistleblowers to cover up an investigation into the security contractor. (The Nation)
• A couple of Russian submarines have come to reenact the part of The Hunt for Red October that takes place off our east coast. (Reuters)
• Your NRSC knew about John Ensign’s affair a year ago but they didn’t tell the rest of us, those jerks. (Las Vegas Sun)
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in as President of Iran yesterday admist a crisis that we just stopped caring about weeks ago because Michael Jackson died. (AFP)
• What did you give Barack Obama for his birthday yesterday? Because the tiny island nation of Antigua gave him a mountain. (AP)
• President Obama made birthday cupcakes for America’s most beloved journalistic institution, Helen Thomas. What, no mountain? (CNN Political Ticker)

8/5/09 9:42 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: Barack Obama, Blackwater, Erik Prince, Helen Thomas, Iran, John Ensign, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, NRSC, Russa

A Stimulating Conversation

• Jon Kyl went on TV today to demand an end Obama Socialism, aka the Stimulus, so Obama said “OK, Jon” and sent his Cabinet to take back Arizona’s stimulus money. What a bad ass. But then Republican Gov. Jan Brewer pointed out that Arizona, collectively, could really use the cash, and all of this made the state’s other John (heh), McCain, very angry. (Daily Kos)
• Awww, did meany Chris Dodd make the widdle lobbyists cry, by saying mean things about them? Don’t worry, lobbyists, the NRSC is there to cheer you  up because they love you soooooo much. (Party Time)
• Ugh, now everyone has to line up at the DMV again to get their new socialist ID number tattoo driver’s license, because apparently George W. Bush even screwed those up. (MSNBC First Read)
• Was that Al Franken in the Senate Judiciary Chairman’s chair? Who does this humorous clown, the distinguished gentleman from Minnesota, think he is? (CNN Political Ticker)
• Silly Hillterns,* just because the Democratic Party has all the colored folks in it does not make it the minority party. You don’t have to be a Republican to swim at the Valley Club pool, yet. (Spotted: DC Summer Interns)

* That’s “Hill interns,” for the uninitiated.

(P.S. I offer no apologies for the horrible, horrible pun in the title of this post.)

7/15/09 8:58 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: Al Franken, Arizona, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, driver's license, John McCain, Jon Kyl, lobbyists, NRSC, racism, stimulus