A Republican Gift to America

Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse. Read more

GOP Needs New Followers

I immediately realized that the McCain/Palin folks were having a little meeting….I sat down at the table next to the group just as they were starting their meeting. Read more

Conservative Buckley Backs Obama

“This campaign has changed John McCain,” Buckley wrote. “It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget ‘by the end of my first term.’ Who, really, believes that? Read more

No Press Allowed

Cowards! Ooooh, big girl with big gun is afraid of the press.  That’s red meat for the press, and you know what happens when the press smells blood. Read more

Palin on Gay Issues

I’m not shocked that John McCain chose a conservative running mate, but I am surprised that he tapped inexperienced Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Read more

Gay Loving Republicans

This morning’s New York Times has the fascinating results of a poll of the views of Republican National Convention delegates on a variety of issues. Read more