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The Republican National Committee has released this character assassination video that targets Hillary Clinton just moments after the results were called for the Democratic presidential contender in the New Hampshire primary. It's just the latest ... two-thirds of Democrats polled (65 percent) said they were "angry" with the Bush administration. And almost half of Republicans, (49 percent) said they were angry or dissatisfied with the Bush administration," reports CNN. Will the strong emotions of ...

Politico reports. Chairman Michael Steele has said that this "will accomplish little than to give the media and our opponents the opportunity to mischaracterize Republicans," but the answer to that is - per Politico - "Who cares?"

... me are "the last line of defense against the liberal agenda". Finally, I learned that Tom Cole and the National Republican Congressional Committee needed my help. At the end of the message, the staff person asked me if I had any questions. ... as the opportunity was, I had to come clean. I confessed that by no stretch of the imagination could I be characterized as a supporter of Republican political causes. I asked how they selected my name in the first place. She sidestepped that last question but ...

... mechanism for high-risk catastrophes that no single private insurer can cover by itself for fear of bankruptcy." The establishment of National Catastrophe Fund, the party says, would "allow states to deal comprehensively with the economic dislocation of natural disasters." The ... , but the idea failed to gain support in the Senate. As reported here, the Republican ticket thus far has opposed the creation of a National Catastrophe Fund. A link to the Democratic National Committee platform is here.

"This book tour has only reinforced the tabloid aspects of her profile, wasted a platform to add substance, driven deeper the schisms in the Republican party and sucked the oxygen out of the room for anyone else to emerge. So, God bless." They're entitled to their spin. The question is whether it makes them look worse and whether local reporters lap up what they've been spoonfed. At the link is a list of 22 Sarah Palin "lies," such as "Palin Implies She Is The Only One To Get Questions On Her ...

Said campaign finance expert Kenneth Gross about that $150,ooo the Republican National Committee spent on clothes and accessories for Sarah Palin. Had the purchases been made ... minute. "It looks like nobody with a political antenna was working on this," said Ed Rollins, a Republican political consultant who ran President Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign ... he wasn't the first guy Healy and Luo phoned up to get an Republican mouthing the quote they wanted. And that's the only on-the-record, negative ...

... , like most of the trademark abuses previously discussed on this blog, such as here and here, but from the Republican National Committee, which has threatened to sue CafePress.com because its users are selling t-shirts, stickers and other items ... its body. Relying on these trademarks, the RNC has been trying to suppress the use of the initials or an elephant to refer to Republicans generally, such as in the images that appear above and on the left. Symbols and initials often provide a popular way ...

The Tortellini Report offered a bit of irony today as it reported that the Republican National Committee has chosen a former trial lawyer as its chairman. Remember that ugly little presidential campaign that disparagingly used the trial lawyer against Senator Edwards? The RNC's New Ambulance Chaser The Republican National Committee, which has worked hard to make trial lawyer a dirty word, just chose an ambulance chaser as its chairman. Oh sure, he's also a Cuban senator from ...

The invocation and benediction at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday (full schedule) were both offered by retired military personnel. The invocation was by Rev. Dr. Robert G. Certain, Chaplain Col., U.S. Air ... . U.S. Air Force (ret.) Flax is an alternate delegate to the convention from Alabama. (Montgomery Advertiser). The benediction was introduced by Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. "Mike" Duncan. Also on Tuesday night's program was music by Christian singer-songwriter ...

... has settled a lawsuit and received an apology from Sen. John McCain and the Republican Party over use of his song "Running on Empty" during last year's ... would benefit other artists. Browne sued McCain and the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Republican Party last year over use of "Running on Empty" in ... after Browne complained, said the statement, attributed to McCain and the state and national parties. "We apologize that a portion of the Jackson Browne song 'Running on Empty' was used ...