The Obama Apologetic’s Roger Simon speaks to a depressed RINO:
“The Republican U.S. senator sits glumly across the restaurant table.
“I don’t think we have learned much from the election in terms of what people want to see,” he says. “We have the same gridlock.”
By the “same gridlock,” he means that party hard-liners, both Democrats and [...]

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Can’t say enough amens to this!
“Two other leading lights for a troubled GOP are Govs. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. Before she became John McCain’s running mate, Mrs. Palin was best known for challenging her own state GOP to cure its spendthrift, corrupt ways. She unseated a sitting mayor in her [...]

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There is a disturbing meme among some bloggers and pundits that the GOP is in some type of crisis because of immigration or the war, but that is simply not true.
I meant to address this on the MacRanger Show yesterday but our GOP fundraising and voter registration drives have never been greater. As [...]

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AJ-Strata has dug up some interesting data that seems to vindicate Ed Goeas.
Three more polls showing that the conservative opposition is a minority.¬† The most interesting poll is CNN’s.¬† From CNN’s article:
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday showed 47 percent of Americans opposed the bill, while 30 percent supported it and 19 percent said [...]

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The Tarrance Group, run by Ed Goeas and part of the esteemed Battleground Poll (done in conjunction with Celinda Lake), has done polling on immigration, too.  And Ronald Kessler at NewsMax reports that when the american public find out the provisions, they like the bill.  77% of Republicans go for it, so do 72% of [...]

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I’d like to toss in an additional plug for Saturday’s MacRanger show.¬† Not only¬†do we get the usual¬†performance from Mac and myself, but there is also¬†an appearance by my co-blogger, discussing a bit of a bombshell that he broke on Called as Seen.
This is a particularly important show, if you want my unsolicited/free opinion.  So [...]

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Wizbang’s politics section has a piece of news on the immigration debate.¬† This non-event is big.
The short version: Lindsey Graham will not be facing a primary challenger.  This is not a small thing.  Graham has been one of the most outspoken critics of some opponents of the comprehensive bill, and has been willing to return [...]

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MacRanger wonders why the Senate - and President Bush - are going to try again. There are several reasons. Part of it is because President Bush has his dander up after five years of abuse from his “allies” on this issue. Face it, one can only take so much of being called [...]

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If the immigration bill has been killed, then the collateral damage is the coalition between conservatives and other people who are what you might call right-of-center (I do not use the term “conservative” since there seems to be an immigration litmus test that is being imposed).
Don’t believe me? Well, in addition to my vote of [...]

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It seems that Ed Morrissey is upset about the fact that the bill before the Senate has been scored as only reducing illegal immigration by 25%. Never mind that this is just an analysis from some academics/number-crunchers at CBO, which might bear as much relationship to reality as unicorns and the tooth fairy. The fact [...]

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