Getting used to seeing this:
“White House efforts to keep congressional Republicans united over the Iraq war suffered another major defection yesterday as Sen. Pete V. Domenici (N.M.) broke with President Bush and called for an immediate change in U.S. strategy that could end combat operations by spring.
The six-term lawmaker, party loyalist and former staunch war [...]

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McCain’s last gasps in the Presidential race, it’s all over but the speech.
“Yes, sir. I understand that you may not like Senator McCain,” a frustrated staffer says into her telephone. “But we need to show party unity tonight. I really hope you’ll come — you don’t need to bring a check with you.”
So went the [...]

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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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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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It would appear that over the last week I’ve had done a flipflop on the immigration bill. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
First, lets review. In every post as well as on the MacRanger Show I have been consistent on three points.
First and foremost that we need immigration reform, second [...]

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John McCain can be an arrogant self-righteous jerk who has a problem controlling his temper. I do not think he should get the Republican nomination for President. As I discussed earlier on this blog, supporters of comprehensive reform have reason to be at least a little upset, but that did not excuse the “F you” [...]

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Sorry for the light blogging, but I will be up and about and in the air tomorrow on the way to speaking engagments, but I wanted to weigh in thoughts on last night’s debate. By the way it was Heading Right’s inaugural debate and it went extremely well, check it out.
First, while Restate is [...]

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