Quick Friday Note
Just like the writers at Red State, we too have a day job, and have to make a living for our family, so here are a couple of interesting links.
First, Hugh Hewitt has two great articles. The first is, A house on fire. Here is a part:
“Whether this was a blunder or a plan to recover from a blunder, we won’t know for years. Mr. McCain at first said he would “listen to the leadership” regarding judicial nomination procedure, only to suddenly, on an apparent impulse, declare to Chris Matthews that he would vote against ending the disfigured filibuster. The backlash against him was immediate and intense. Perhaps he thought he could undo the damage to his carefully planned political rehabilitation with a bold “compromise.” The result seems just the opposite. Not only is his political house on fire, so too is that of South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham and Ohio’s Mike DeWine.”
The second is, Non-Nuclear Fallout. Here is a portion:
“The National Republican Senatorial Committee finds itself receiving returned fundraising appeals with “not a dime more” scrawled on their letters. The brainchild of blogger Ed Morrissey, “not a dime more” conveys the refusal to send money to an organization pledged to the reelection efforts of Chaffee and Maine’s Olympia Snowe. Of course cutting off the NRSC hurts all incumbents, but principled senators like Pennsylvania’s Rick Santorum and Missouri’s Jim Talent can go directly to donors via the web. It’s the weak horses that like to fundraise as a field.”
Finally this article from National Review Online with this title, Chafee’s Choices, He’s begging to be dumped.
I agree with the principle of Captain Ed above. Not one dime more should be sent to the NRSC, until Senate Republicans have been reminded of who it is that funds their campaigns.
October 11th, 2005 at 2:53 pm
[…] Some might say that we are grandstanding, or are trying to be a smart aleck, such is not the case. We are simply trying to prove the point we made here, here, and here. […]