Veteran Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) is expected to announce tomorrow that he will retire from the Senate in 2008, according to several informed sources, a decision that further complicates an already difficult playing field for Republicans next November.
Domenici has struggled with health problems over the last several years and has been dogged by questions about the role he may have played in the firing of U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias in Albuquerque. As a result, he had been long been rumored as a potential retirement. Domenici’s Senate office did not return a call this afternoon, but sources close to the senator say he will fly home to New Mexico tomorrow to make the announcement that he is retiring.
Gov. Fletcher is toast. [T]he best Fletcher can hope for is to avoid getting creamed at the polls, and even that doesn’t look likely.
-Michael Baranowski, political scientist, Northern Kentucky University
So Gov. Ernie Fletcher is about to be kicked to the curb. Great! Say what you will about the residents of the great state of Kentucky. One thing is for sure though… they won’t put up with crap! I’m not sure if I’m wild about the constitutional amendment proposed by Steve Beshear, democratic challenger to Fletcher, that would bring gambling to the state. But, hey, Fletcher is corrupt. Not just corrupt… he’s “in-your-face-corrupt”! (which is typical republican these days)
[A] blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into. [w]hoever pumped [McGough] full of these lies about what I said … has betrayed him.
-Rush Limbaugh, in response to a recent VoteVets.org ad
Rush really has stuck his foot deep into it this time! See what happens when your stash of Oxycontin runs low?! I sense a new wave of doctor shopping in his near future. Listen to the following audio:
Kids pull wagons full of petitions this week asking President Bush not to veto insurance legislation.
Bush followed though on his promise to veto legislation that would have doubled the number of children covered by health insurance. No surprise here. Among Bush’s concerns; it’s a step toward universal coverage. And we can’t have that!
According to presidential contender John McCain it is!
I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles … personally, I prefer someone who I know who has a solid grounding in my faith.
-John McCain, Beliefnet interview
I take it John hasn’t studied American history very much. AMERICAblog commenter, Allen, listed several examples of just how Christian-leaning our Founding Fathers truly were:
“Whenever we read the obscene stories [of the Bible], the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the Word of God.” -PAINE
“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.” -JEFFERSON
“The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.” -WASHINGTON
“As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion…has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity.” -FRANKLIN
“During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.” -MADISON
“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” -ADAMS
What would Mr. McCain have to say to the above? Somehow I doubt we’ll ever find out. What’s important in all of this is that John made valuable points with America’s Christian-right. Whether it be from lying about American history and dissing it’s founders to caging voters, from Electoral college reform to swiftboating your competitors, Republicans (you know, the party of high morals and ethics) prove time and again they’ll stop at nothing to secure the seat of the presidency.
