Yay for the DMV: So, in response to Pres. Barack Obama's health care initiative, Republicans are warning that health care in America will become like the DMV or the IRS. Here's charismatic and telegenic matinee idol Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt giving the Weekly Republican Address. For busy Americans trying to read this while holding a tight tourniquet around a bleeding arm stump, here's a truncated transcript of Blunt's address: BLAH BLAH DMV BLAH BLAH IRS. The majority of Americans are currently
Oh, my god, did you hear how much money we're going to spend on socialized health care? It's going to bankrupt the nation! The Democratic Party's in chaos! Moderate "Blue Dog" Dems in the House are wavering! If Congress doesn't vote on health-care reform by the August recess, then Barack Obama's done!Talking points courtesy of the Republican National Committee.The working folks in the Missouri AFL-CIO, along with their allies and Democrats, are now providing some talking points of their own
Roy BluntRepublican National Committee chairman Michael Steele referred to Congressman Roy Blunt as crap in his crapper? At least, that's the impression after listening to conservative talker Vincent David Jericho's interview with Steele in which Jericho rips Blunt and then Steele agrees with him. Jericho: "His [Matt Blunt's] daddy [Roy] screwed around with a tobacco
lobbyist. Then slips language into the homeland security bill favorable
to the tobacco lobbyist. I mean here is a guy that has
Michael SteeleMaster plumber and Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele knows that you gotta clean out the crapper but doesn't know how to stop his verbal diarrhea. After agreeing wholesale with Springfield conservative talker Vincent David Jericho's assessment of Congressman Roy Blunt as an adulterer and that the Republican Party needs new leaders in a radio interview Friday, Steele is back tracking.The AP says Steele was just saying Republicans need to quit being so scandalou
On the weekend before a nationally-covered upstate New York
Congressional election, the Republican candidate endorsed the
Democratic candidate. This is a rarity in American politics, if not a
first.Rightbloggers played a key role in this historical achievement. Let's step back several weeks and see what happened.Once upon a time Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava was running for the 23rd Congressional District seat, which Republican John McHugh recently abandoned to serve as Obama's Secret
