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I don’t find anything funny about the Sanford affair. It’s the mom in me thinking about four handsome boys on Father’s Day weekend abandoned by their stupid, selfish father, who was busy tanning with his mistress in Argentina. Heart-breaking. Yes. Nauseating. Yes. Maddening. Yes. Funny? No.
Cruel derision crude humor are to be expected of the [...]

Unlike other self-esteem-lacking wives of cheaters, Jenny Sanford shows real courage, class, and dignity in her statement to the press — and in her decision NOT to stand by her adulterous husband at his public confession.
Godspeed, Mrs. Sanford. Via McClatchy:
I would like to start by saying I love my husband and I believe I have [...]

It’s the only fitting word for a man who abandons his wife and four sons on Father’s Day weekend to indulge his “overdrive” on an Argentinian fling.
Mark Sanford: Bastard.
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If you missed Sanford’s rambling, surreal disaster of a press conference, consider yourself lucky.
He had a hell of a lot more passion and pathos for his mistress [...]

I weighed in on the Ensign affair early this morning.
Just in: Ensign will resign his GOP leadership post as head of the Republican Policy Committee.
Only one word to add to what I’ve already said:
Good.

Several Utah media outlets report tonight that GOP Gov. Jon Huntsman will step down and accept President Obama’s nomination as US ambassador to China.
Governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr. will resign and accept an appointment as ambassador to China, ABC 4 has confirmed.
A press conference has been called for Saturday morning at the White House to [...]

Senate Republicans couldn’t be bothered to stop the confirmations of so many conflict-of-interest-plagued, incompetent, rule-of-law-undermining Obama nominees from Gary Locke to Ron Sims to Eric Holder to Hillary Clinton, but they banded together today to block a deputy Interior Department choice…over a policy decision that had nothing to do with the nominee.
What the hell?
On a [...]

I’ve been seeing a lemming-like increase in hand-wringing articles about the need for a GOP “hero.”
The latest comes from McCain/Bush flack Nicolle Wallace in “The Daily Beast” — Tina Brown’s liberal salon sprinkled with acceptable, non-conservative Beltway Republicans who swallow false premises whole.
Wallace parrots the line that the Republican Party needs an “effective communicator” who [...]

Interesting development just breaking in PA GOP Senate race. Tom Ridge, favorite of socially liberal establishment Republicans, has decided not to enter the race to replace Arlen Specter. (hat tip – Andy Roth)
Details from PA2010 (click through for Ridge’s full statement):
After much speculation, former Gov. Tom Ridge today announced that he would not seek the [...]

After exploiting the death of Jack Kemp for political self-aggrandizement, is there any lower depth to which Arlen Specter could possibly sink?
Why, yes. Yes, there is. He pimped a “Specter for the Cure” website under the guise of rallying people to help lobby for increased medical research. One wrinkle: “Specter for the Cure” is actually [...]

George Will’s latest column on the sagging economy of California and the upcoming slate of massive tax-hike initiatives on the ballot only scratches the surface of what’s rotten in the formerly Golden State.
The state GOP is a basket case. The party establishment epitomizes everything that is wrong with the Republican Party nationally: Cronyism, arrogance, waste, [...]

Gag.

Jack Kemp was diagnosed with cancer in January. He died today at the age of 73. Didn’t agree with him on many core issues, but he was a GOP institution with a wonderful family.
RIP.
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Here’s a tribute from the Heritage Foundation:
Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulner tonight issued the following statement on the death of [...]

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Polls will close in a bit in New York’s 20th congressional district special election to replace Democrat Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand.
If you voted, let us know.
The race is a political inkblot — with some seeing it as a litmus test on Obama, others seeing it as a litmus test on Rush Limbaugh or [...]

The GOP “Road to Recovery.”

Dissent.

Americans for Tax Reform sent out a breaking e-mail alert this afternoon announcing that GOP Sen. Arlen Specter will oppose Big Labor’s Card Check bill. This is a huge relief. Democrats are one short of the 60 needed to move it forward.
But it’s no time to do cartwheels over Specter.
He handed the Generational Theft Act [...]

Bonus-tax boneheads.

You know what’s wrong with Meghan McCain? It’s not her weight. It’s not her voice. It’s not her looks. She’s a beautiful young girl with TV-friendly poise and natural charm. The trouble with Meghan McCain is that, like her father, she has no fixed ideological principles — conservative, liberal, or otherwise. She seems to have [...]

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Excellent idea: On the heels of the successful Senate GOP move to slow down passage of the $410 billion omni-pork bill, House GOP leader John Boehner is pushing for a freeze on government spending that would hold federal spending at current levels and strip the omnibus of all 9,000 un-scrutinized earmarks:
The top Republican [...]

Iowahawk is a national treasure.
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Related: Obama’s sorry cultists.

Who’s afraid of obstructionism?

Before we get to tax cheat Tom Daschle, let’s recall the names of the Bend Over Republicans who pooh-poohed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s tax troubles and accused critics of “thinking in small political terms.”
On the Senate Finance Committee, B.O. Republicans Mike Crapo, Orrin Hatch, John Cornyn, Olympia Snowe and John Ensign all determined that Geithner’s [...]

For those of you interested, the balloting is taking place on the Republican National Committee chairmanship.
Incumbent Mike Duncan just pulled out.
Lots of conservatives breathing a sigh of relief. But who will take over?
Hot Air is tracking. Stacy McCain is live at the RNC.
And up-to-the-second reports on Twitter. Just search #rnc or #rncchair. Or go [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of B.O. (Barack Obama/Bend Over) Republican-bashing the past few weeks. Watching the Republicans crumble on the Geithner and Holder nominations, swoon over The One’s congeniality, and display indecision over the stimulus hasn’t been easy on the stomach or the head.
But credit must be given where it is due. Today was [...]

Something’s rotten in Tennessee. A Republican cut a backroom deal with 49 Democrats to secure the statehouse speakership. Chaos ensued. I’m surprised no shoes were thrown.
Blago would be impressed:
In an extraordinary move in the opening session of the state legislature this afternoon, Republican Kent Williams won speakership of the House, beating veteran Democrat Jimmy Naifeh [...]

“He’s a very competent guy.”

Here’s a useful little shortlist of where leading GOP governors are on the stimulus bill: Click.

Bash.

Roll over: “I like Barack Obama and want to help him if I can.”

DLTDHYOTWO.