GOP Senators vs. the Transportation Security Administration
Shorter GOP : there has never been a more important time than the aftermath of a failed terrorist attack on an airplane to ensure the Transportation Security Administration doesn’t have a leader. Apparently someone told Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) that it’s bad optics to keep a hold on Errol Southers, the TSA administrator-designate, because of DeMint’s hostility to organized labor . So now they’re turning to a more legitimate basis for the hold: Southers’ inconsistent answers about the time in the late 1980s when he inappropriately accessed a federal database to spy on the man his wife cheated on him with. Southers, a former FBI agent, both alerted the Senate to his inconsistencies and called them “inadvertent.” He clearly needs to explain further. But are we to believe the GOP is actually concerned that the TSA chief might be inappropriately aggressive in violating terror suspects’ privacy? That this is something the Republicans in the Senate, who lined up behind the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance programs, ever cared about? And let’s be real: are they not going to cut some slack to a guy who abused his power one time to spy on his wife’s boyfriend? Whatever happened to the defense of marriage! Still, watch the Democrats miss an opportunity to nail the GOP for putting hostility to working Americans ahead of national security. Read the original post: GOP Senators vs. the Transportation Security Administration
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WorldNetDaily and Palin, Together At Last
I was surprised that Sarah Palin, who has twice passed on chances to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, agreed to keynote the National Tea Party Convention. Undoubtedly the Tea Party event has more to offer her financially–tickets for her speech, as I reported last month, are selling for $349 . But while CPAC is a well-established event with a filter for extremism, the Tea Party event is an unknown quantity. And right on cue, the conspiracy-minded site WorldNetDaily is joining the program , with Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah getting a plum Friday night speaking slot. To be asked to speak at the first national tea party convention is a great honor for me. I believe the tea party movement is a powerful and righteous social and political force that can help take America back from the grips of out-of-control and tyrannical central government. It’s also a personal privilege for me to be on the same bill with Gov. Sarah Palin and so many other distinguished leaders and friends such as Judge Roy Moore, Rep. Michele Bachmann and Phil Valentine. Two months ago Farah appeared on the same stage as Bachmann and other conservative House Republicans to promote WND’s “pink slip” campaign against Congress, and political reporters pretty much ignored it. And WND has sponsored CPAC in the past. But CPAC has explicitly ruled out a “birther” forum at this year’s event, and some Republican activists have called for conservatives to cut ties with the birth certificate and conspiracy-obsessed WND. And here you’ll have Sarah Palin, giving her first political speech in months, on the same stage as Joseph Farah. Read more here: WorldNetDaily and Palin, Together At Last
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Full Speed Ahead
Can GOP keep momentum in 2010? [0:02:30] … that that we could start approaching the magic number how will that tea party movement figure into all this because they — put up some of their own captives. The other — party is absolutely one … See the article here: Full Speed Ahead
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Conservative Base Stands Up to GOP in NY Race – The Washington Independent
Conservative Base Stands Up to GOP in NY Race The Washington Independent He has a few ideas, such as revisiting the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, putting the breaks on cap-and-trade legislation. … and more
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Conservative Base Stands Up to GOP in NY Race – The Washington Independent