With Cap and Tax and universal deathcare on the table, and an ineffective porkulus proving to be a massive failure as unemployment skyrockets, it seems voters may finally be souring to the Democrats, according to the latest set of Rasmussen polling data.
Republican candidates continue to lead on the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot as Democrats fall to their lowest level of support among voters in recent years.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 40% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 37% would choose the Democratic candidate.
Support for both parties dropped one point over the past week, with Democrats reaching their lowest level support in over two years of polling. Support for Republican candidates is just one point below its highest level over that same time period.
I am cautiously optimistic about this; voters have short memories. I can only hope this trend hangs on until the 2010 election and voters remember how badly the Democrats have been destroying the economy and endangering their freedoms.
He defeated Katon Dawson 91-77 on the sixth ballot.
Some speech highlights:
“To Americans who believe in the future of this country…to those who stand in difference with us. It’s time for something completely different. We’re gonna bring this party to every corner, to every boardroom, to every community, and we’re gonna say to every friend and foe alike, we want you to be a part of us, and to those of you who wish to obstruct…get ready to get knocked over.” - Michael Steele
“We stand proud as the conservative party of the United States.” - Michael Steele
“We will cede no ground to anyone on matters of principle.” - Michael Steele
“God bless you and God bless our party.” - Michael Steele
He can’t possibly be worse than Duncan’s disastrous reign. He just needs to get off his “let’s apologize for Katrina” bandwagon and change his gun control stance and he’ll be a pretty dang good chairman.
Time to start the rebuilding process and take back the House in 2010!
I guess it’s going to take a little longer before the GOP gets the message. Just days after getting resoundingly beat in the Presidential election because they put a moderate who “could win” as the head of the ticket, now they are offering Democrat Joe Lieberman a spot in the party.
Seriously? The problem is the party is TOO moderate, not that we don’t have enough moderates. I swear, McCain’s defeat should have been the wake up call to these fence-sitters that we aren’t going to win by running on a reaching across the aisle ticket. We need to get back to our roots.
The Republican National Committee is threatening to sue CafePress for hosting an online venue for vendors to hawk GOP-related regalia like T-shirts, stickers and portrayals of elephants.
That sounds mildly legitimate; after all, who wants the Republican elephant being misused and used against Republicans…however…
CafePress attorney Paul Alan Levy, of Public Citizen, noted Thursday that some uses of the party’s trademarks are critical of the GOP, but many are not.
“The majority of the images over which the RNC has threatened to sue reflect positive opinions about Republicans,” he said. “Several designs simply put the elephant logo on a T-shirt, so that the wearer can walk around bragging about his or her adherence to Republicanism.”
So let’s get this straight: we have an embattled Republican party that is struggling to hold onto their core supporters, much less get new ones, and they are wasting time going after copyright infringement on CafePress? On top of the resources being wasted, who gives a flying frick about a couple of misused GOP trademarks when they are being used to support you?
This is just another perfect example of how out of touch the RNC is. They should be smart enough to realize that taking down their trademarked logos from CafePress is a lot like gun control; the good people are now not going to have access to it, but the criminals (in this case, the anti-GOP people), will still get their hands on the logos and still push anti-Republican paraphernalia.
The Senate today passed a bloated, pork filled spending bill by a veto-proof 75-22 margin. The Republicans are getting stage fright and are breaking ranks in a pathetic attempt to save their worthless seats. We’re going to be seeing a lot more of this leading up to the election this fall, especially with the Obamessiah atop the ticket turning out hordes of ignorant (but newly registered!) voters.
WASHINGTON - In a stunning vote that illustrated President Bush’s diminished standing, the Senate on Thursday ignored his veto threat and added tens of billions of dollars for veterans and the unemployed to his Iraq war spending bill.
A majority of Republicans broke ranks with Bush on a veto-proof 75-22 vote while adding more than $10 billion for various other domestic programs, including heating subsidies for the poor, wildfire fighting, road and bridge repair, and health research.
Our party has forgotten where it came from and who elected them. We may as well just lose those seats in November and get Democrats in there, because half the sitting senators are voting with the Dems anyway. At least then we’d know what we’re getting, instead of a bunch of wimpy RINOs who duck and cover as soon as the going gets tough.
It’s no fun when we have Republicans who campaign under one flag and then cower like hurt puppies when the vote is actually called. Our party is losing this election one vote at at time, and they have no one to blame but themselves.
That’s it ladies and gentlemen…I am jumping ship to the winning team.
No longer will I cry out for justice for criminals; live and let live is what I say. If they want to come here against our laws, who are we to stop their personal ambitions? It would be wrong and mean for us to insist that our laws are followed when it would harm the personal expression of a foreign national.
I’m also upset about taxes; I don’t think the government is taking enough of my money. After all, I really need them to watch over me and hold my hand as I move through life. How can they do that if we don’t give them enough money?
Speaking of money…I’ve just about had enough of businesses making money. How dare they embrace a capitalist society and make a profit through hard work and innovation! It’s wrong to penalize everyday citizens just because because they haven’t had the chance to found a company like Microsoft! I think we need to evenly distribute all the money these bloodthirsty, greedy companies earn every quarter to everyone in America, just to even things out.
Of course, first we have to make sure we put a cap on their profit margins. If they earn more than the government says they can, it’s time to cut them back! No more of this silly “work hard” stuff; those who have worked hard just did it so they can share it with everyone else!
The Right’s foreign policy doesn’t make sense either. Why are we not sitting across the table from the evil dictators of the world trying to understand their feelings? Maybe their dictator-ness is just a by-product of how they were raised! We can’t judge people on their backgrounds! We need to give everyone a fair chance, no matter how many innocents they have killed or how many rights they have trampled on.
Al Qaeda is really just misunderstood; we need to have a little afternoon of tea with Osama bin Laden, explain our side of the story, and I’m sure he’ll be reasonable enough to call off his jihad. After all, they are only trying to kill us all because we are not the same religion as he is; that can’t be THAT big of a deal, can it?
In the spirit of good faith, I agree wholeheartedly with the Democrats on disarming America. If we mothball all our weapons, dump our nukes in the ocean and throw our rifles at the feet of the extremists bent on trying to kill us, I’m sure they’ll be so moved by our gesture of solidarity that they’ll drop their sticks of dynamite, climb out of their caves and shake our hands, ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity for the entire world.
Question: “What are your thoughts about < insert topic here >?”
Rudy Guiliani: “When I was mayor of New York, I did a lot of important things. You know that right? Do you? And you, do you know? Ok good. Remember: important things, mayor of New York. What was the question?”
Tom Tancredo: “We need to enforce the border! That will solve the problem! Deport the illegals! The border! Illegals! The border!”
John McCain: “My colleagues believe I am wasting my time with you, but I believe you wish to do the right thing. We understand you have been contacted by a certain…individual, a man who calls himself “Obama.” Now, whatever you may think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most unqualified presidential candidate alive. Get it? It’s a joke! It’s a movie line, but I changed it so it’s about Obama! Funny, huh? Hahaha. I think it’s funny.”
Ron Paul: “Our policies have failed, Bush has failed, our people have failed, the war has failed. Air has failed; why are we still breathing air? It’s the Bush Administration’s fault. We can’t go it alone. You can’t go it alone! Air is bad for you, you know. Under my tenure, I will abolish air, because it has failed. Hey you whippersnappers, get off my lawn! We have failed, I have failed, you have failed. Our foreign policy, our foreign policy, our foreign policy…I’m sorry, that’s an exercise my therapist tells me to do when my Alzheimer’s kicks in, you have to repeat things three times, three times, three times. We have failed! Where’s Bin Laden! I want to surrender to him, cause we’ve failed! We’re done; let’s be a subsidy of Al Qaeda! It’s over! We’ve failed! September 11 was an inside job, but they failed! Wait, no, they didn’t, but we did. Or they failed and we didn’t? I just…FAIL! YOU! FAIL!”
Duncan Hunter: “I call on Ron Paul to rescind his comments, or I’ll show him how Reagan era Republicans handle things. Oh, yeah? Bring it on old man; I got miles of double-layered fencing installed on the border, and it reduced illegal alien interceptions in my district by 93%. You think I can’t kick your sorry ass all over this stage? Well, you’re wrong. Oh, and let’s bomb Syria, Pakistan, Iran, China, North Korea and Turkey. After that, we’ll take down Libya and the UAE, followed by Turkmenistan, France, Germany and possibly Massachusetts. After we annex Canada and sink Mexico into the ocean to keep the South Americans from getting up here, we need to mine the oceans, put missiles on the moon and shoot down all those Russian satellites. Did I mention we’re bombing Russia? Well we are.”
Fred Thompson: “Uh. Uhhh. Uhh. Well. Uhh. Well. In 2008. Uhh. As President…well. Uhh. Well.”
Mike Huckabee: “We really don’t need all this aggression at each other; I’m not going to stoop to these shallow personal attacks. We need to save that aggression for the godless Mormons like Mitt Romney and devil worshipping Democrats like Hillary Clinton. They are the real enemies here. But we don’t need the personal attacks.”
Sam Brownback: “I’m against the surge in the Iraq for the surge against the surge for the surge Iraq Bush policy against but I’m for Iraq I’m Catholic but against and for and against and Iraq and I am dropping out now bye thanks.”
