Sounds kinda grim for the GOPers.

1976!

Instapundit.com -: "REPUBLICANS ARE SAGGING IN THE POLLS: Maybe, in part, it's because Harry Reid is doing better than Bill Frist in fighting pork?
Here's the kind of response that's getting from former GOP supporters: 'Okay, real conservatives, Republicans, and libertarians, stay home. Just...stay home in 2006. Or - what the hell - vote for a Democrat. We have to wake up the Stupid Party, before it completely merges itself into the Republicrat Statist Party.'
I think that a GOP disaster is now officially looming.
posted at 08:44 AM by Glenn Reynolds"
Predicting an election 6 months in advance is like predicting anything 6 months in advance, worthless.

What a rip off!

I don't own an Ipod. Read this before you get one yourself.
The F-Stop Blues: Replace Your Ipod Mini Battery: "You can go either of two ways to replace your Ipod battery: have Apple replace your battery for you for $99 or you can do it yourself for $29. Not one being afraid of a little diy repair, I signed up to replace it myself. I got the replacement battery through Laptops for Less for $29 that included a screwdriver and directions. "

A culture of corruption!

R.I. Democrat drops out of Senate race: "Matt Brown, Rhode Island's secretary of state, abandoned his bid Wednesday for the U.S. Senate seat occupied by Sen. Lincoln Chafee after questions surfaced over his fundraising practices."
Startin' to see a pattern here?

About time!

DeVos calls for capping sales tax on gasoline: "As gasoline prices hover around $3 a gallon, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos says it's time to cap the sales tax charged on gasoline."

High energy costs? Blame democrats!

The hypocrisy of the left astounds.
Kennedy faces fight on Cape Wind - The Boston Globe: "As record oil prices turn attention to the need for renewable fuels, momentum is building in Congress to buck Senator Edward M. Kennedy's bid to block the proposed Cape Cod wind energy project, potentially reviving efforts to construct the sprawling windmill farm in Nantucket Sound.
The chairman and the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee said yesterday that when the bill Kennedy backs that would effectively halt the wind farm comes up for a vote in the Senate, they will object on procedural grounds. They say they'll argue that a renewable energy project shouldn't be lumped in with a bill governing the Coast Guard."

A culture of corruption!

Where have we heard that phrase lately.....
Stabenow campaign corrects finance records - Boston.com: "Sen. Debbie Stabenow's campaign has corrected her campaign finance reports to show that some donations from 2002 and 2003 came from an Indian tribe then represented by now-disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, not an individual as she reported at the time."

No wonder the MSM doesn't report this!

They don't know the significance of the difference between 1 in 10 and 1 in 16. I'm not joking.
Why The Pump Isn't More Painful - Forbes.com: "According to the Bureau of Economic Affairs ( see chart here), American consumer spending on energy as a fraction of total personal consumption has declined considerably since 1980. Whereas 25 years ago, one in every ten consumer dollars was spent on energy, today it's one in every 16. In other words, what it takes to heat and cool our homes and drive to and from our jobs and vacation destinations is relatively less costly than it was then. "
Well, plus it's less of a "STORY" if they report that things are better than most think. Of course, most think things are bad because the drive by media distorts the truth every day. Bummer.....

More Duke Lacrosse abuse

Betsy's Page: "The Durham District Attorney now wants to play hardball by pressuring all the members of the team who attended the party and had a previous citation for misdemeanors such as underage drinking or public urination. They had had deferrals of their prosecution for these misdemeanors on the understanding that they had to stay out of trouble for six months or a year. Now, the DA says that, by attending a party where there was drinking going on, they have violated that requirement and can be prosecuted for the original misdemeanor. Is this really how Durham voters want the DA's office to spend its time, prosecuting these kids? Or is it payback for the defense attorney filing a motion a couple of days ago for more information on the alleged victim? Or is it the DA's way to try to twist a few arms to get some kids to flip on their teammates and start changing their stories? "
Time will tell but this is continuing to look like desperation on the part of the "candidate" DA.

CBS News?!!!!!

Amazing article coming from the Editorial Director of CBS News. Pretty good.
'We Know What's Best For You' - CBS News: "The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne this week. Dionne was arguing with a fellow liberal who wrote what the Democrats need to do is destroy today's 'radical individualism' and replace it with 'a politics of a 'common good.' That's fine, Dionne said, but we need to hear 'more about self-interest, rightly understood.'
That phrase made me cringe. It still does.
'Self-interest, rightly understood' is a fancy-pants way of saying, 'I know what is in your interest better than you do.' It is, in my view, a politically stupid and morally diseased position. Democrats, by temperament, are slightly more susceptible to it than Republicans.
I do not mean to condemn Dionne for a phrase. But I will. It reminded me of something written on the very first page of a book that lots of Democrats think is absolutely brilliant, 'What's the Matter with Kansas' by Thomas Frank.
In the third paragraph of his book, Frank writes: 'People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.' That, too, is a fancy-pants way of saying: 'I know what is in your interest better than you do.' "

Free speach liberals on campus.

Anti-Coke protesters logic falls flat: "One student began the rally by announcing the group's intent to silence Coke's representatives. He told everyone that when the time came for the representatives to speak in their defense at the meeting inside, he would signal for all to scream and holler.
'You can't speak here,' he yelled. 'It's our school and we'll tell you when to speak.' "
Same old thuggish tactics from the left, this time at UCLA.

Railroad!

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Law or Lynch Law?: "A lineup should include not only people suspected of a crime but also other people, so that it tests whether the accuser or witness can tell the difference, and is therefore credible. But the stripper who claimed to have been raped by members of the Duke lacrosse team was presented with a lineup consisting exclusively of photographs of members of the lacrosse team."
I hadn't read or heard about this anywhere else. Wonder why.
Read it all.

Porky gets one day reprieve.

Seaboard pork plant to close for immigration rally: "Seaboard Corp. said it will close its Guymon, Oklahoma, pork plant on Monday to allow workers to attend rallies planned for that day in support of immigration reform, the company said.
The plant has a daily hog slaughter capacity of about 16,000 head, the company said.
On Tuesday, Cargill Inc. said its five beef plants and two hog plants will be closed on Monday for the rallies."
I'm wonderin' just what kind of "immigration reform" they're talkin' about. Is that the new code word for "amnesty for illegals"?

Holy post office, Batman!

Tom McMahon: Another Great Idea: The Jayne Mansfield 44-Cent Stamp
"But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"

Bush's fault!

Stock Market News and Investment Information Reuters.com: "WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - New orders for U.S.-made durable goods surged a much larger-than-expected 6.1 percent in March on hefty aircraft, computer, and manufacturing orders, a government report showed on Wednesday".
Yeah, but gas is expensive! We gotta blame someone! ..... don't we? ..... that's what Perky Katie suggests.....

We're doomed!

Nuclear industry promotes new reactors The San Diego Union-Tribune: "The nuclear industry has hired Christie Whitman, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, the environmental organization, to lead a public relations campaign for new reactors. "
Doesn't this stuff cause cancer in cell phones?
And yeah, I gotta boycott the oil companies.... and with global warming destroying the world, can't we all just get along.......
Dang, gotta get to the mall. See ya!

We're doomed!

The "Mother Earth" greenies must like this kind of "Earth Revenge" stuff. The sooner us humans are gone the better....
Man is killed by hole in home - sacbee.com: "A 27-year-old man was killed Friday night when he was sucked into a 10-foot-deep hole that opened up suddenly in a two-story home in rural Alta, Placer County sheriff's deputies said Saturday.
The victim's body remained in the hole Saturday night"

RINO alert!

News Forum Home Page: "More Americans would be forced to pay taxes subsidizing broadband service in ''unserved'' locales, and cities would be free to go into the Wi-Fi business under an upcoming U.S. Senate bill. Later this week, Sen. Gordon Smith, an Oregon Republican, "
Watch your wallets! Wild RINOs in the Senate!

Oil Company Profits

Oil Company Profits: "An industry-wide study in the late 1990s showed that oil industry profits amounted to an estimated 7.3
cents on each gallon sold.1 More recently, ConocoPhillips reported that during the third quarter of 2005 earnings from its U.S. refining and marketing operations amounted to 9 cents per gallon. This compares with a national average retail price of $2.60 per gallon during the third quarter, the period of highest gasoline prices in 2005."

Hate's always easier to sell than logic

Democratic demagoguery won't cut gas prices: "One thing you can always count on, as soon as the price of a gallon of gasoline nears $3, Democrats will start demagoguing."
Let's see. The folks who vote against oil exploration, against new refineries, against nuclear power, against coal, for more gas taxes, for more enviro-looney additives, for ethanol-idiocy all blame Georgie? Oh, yeah, they vote against hydro power and wind power too.

Recruited from prison?

Mlive.com's Printer-Friendly Page: "When Smith was appointed director shortly after he was released from state prison in February 2004, he said he'd take the festival to the 'next level.' "
Maybe we ought to take a look see at who hired this crook?