There really isn't any question that House GOPs will continue in the minority in the upcoming 111th Congress. But wouldn't you expect them to make a token effort to support their party's Presidential nominee? Or would they rather see a Democratic President elected, so that they can return to what they do best -- not governing, but obstructing?
It sure looks that way when you look at House GOP contributions to John McCain's campaign:
Only 21 House Republicans have given to McCain from their personal campaign accounts since he became the presumptive GOP nominee four and a half months ago, according to an analysis of House fundraising reports made public Wednesday.
In addition, eleven House Republicans who did not give from their personal campaign accounts this year contributed from their leadership political action committees (PACs), according to fundraising reports covering the election cycle through the end of May.
Digby has been saying for some time that the GOP is excited about returning to their default mode: obstructing. We saw them in fine fettle yesterday when Congressman Jerrold Nadler tried to run a subcommittee meeting and actually ask Dougie Feith some questions.
But House GOPs must also be relishing a change of management at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue:
Several of the highest-ranking Republicans in the House have yet to give to McCain. Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Republican Conference Chairman Adam Putnam (Fla.) have not given anything, according to the most recent fundraising report
Much easier to pretend to be the big bully on the block when there's a Democratic President, right, lads? Especially when the GOP candidate doesn't have anything to say about the fact that less than 20% of the House GOP caucus has supported him financially:
Aides to McCain’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Too busy clarifying Old Lord McCain's statements on gay adoption, sending more troops to Afghanistan, and foreign assistance for Czechoslovakia, no doubt.
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Morning Teddy.
I’d like to see the Republicans so marginalized they couldn’t get a quorum at a Three Card Monte game.
Hmmm- 538 has the electoral college race tightening. These goopers may not get their wish- they’d have an old stupid gooper in the White House.
The story of McCain’s popularity has been grossly exaggerated….but may prove true when the voting machines display their selection for POTUS.
Morning, Teddy. No one likes to put money on a dead horse. Those Repubs know very well that McC is going to lose so why bother.
of course the fawning media sez ABSOLUTELY NUTTIN honey
This race is still razor close and the serious campaiging hasn’t started yet. Still anybody’s ballgame
Hey Teddy, you forgot “dissing the USSR”. hahaha.
thanks for the insight on lack of fundraising. But who needs contributions when you have a sugah mama?
Digg people, Digg!
That’s my take as well. I have Howard Dean’s cheshire cat grin and comment in my head: “we’re just getting started”. So I guess they’re keeping their powder dry until oct/nov. timeframe?
This race is Obama’s to lose. All he has to do is run on a slogan of “Want more of the same? Vote John McCain.” That said, Obama is doing what he can to lose. I know he has already lost my vote.
Dugg!
I’ll vote for one or the other. If Obama keeps pissing me off I’ll vote for McBush and cross my fingers on the supreme court. I think that the next prez will be a one termer and if McBush fucks up the White House- which he is bound to do- it might improve the chances for a better candididate to take it for the dems in 2012.
hey pw–mccain is on cspan 3 right now–his naacp speech, no his ncaa tennis speech where he hits the ball all over the place…..
BIG OT-happy happy joy joy-how do i know he’s on cspan 3????????
cuz THE CABLE GUYS JUST LEFT!!!!! and i have roadrunner!!!! and cable!!!!! i can’t believe how fast it is!!!!
omg, omg, i can do youtubes and itunes!!!!! and talk on the phone at the same time for free all over ohio!!!!
and look at more links faster on fdl!!!!!! hell, half the time i couldn’t look at any of them!!!!
and be able to find and post more links!!!!
for only 25 bucks more than i was payin’ for dialup and my telco bill….bye bye verizon!!!!! and that was a hard one, cuz my local internet company i loved, and had a sweet deal, paid for a year.
i’m gonna be snoopy dancin’ for a few days here……for sure…….no, more than a few days….wow.
only thing is, i have to keep fdl from loading all of the way cuz it crashes my browser—now, i hafta catch it quicker……that’s ok, it won’t be as traumatic to bring up all of my windows now with roadrunner……with dial up it could take a half hour or moore.
anyone know why it does that? ever since two fdl upgrades ago.
well, had to check and see if it worked, it did, thanks for letting me brag…….can’t tell ya how good it felt to have conyers coming out of my tv, then sheila, then, oh, mc–well, i get to hear the drivel first-hand now. and then signing on in two seconds……wow.
don’t know what to do first……find a movie, watch a show, order itunes, watch youtubes i’ve been saving from pups and other friends for the past two years, oh my………pary time, excellent!!!!!!!!
Hey, for something completely refreshing, check out St. Louis’ reception of McCain’s peeps on C&L. Not to pull you off FDL (y’all come right back) but do check out the video up right now. Awkward!
As for Nadler, he noted that the parliamentary inquiries that were being made were not, in fact, parliamentary inquiries. In his place, I would have ruled them out of order and gone on to criticize the Republicans for obstruction which I could only assume was because they wished to hid and cover up the misdeeds and failures of this Administration. But that’s just me.
well, the bloom is off the rose, but he’s still sooooo much saner than the alternative. Isn’t that sad? To choose between sanity and the rubber room?
I had a hell of a time loading FDL or anyother site that had a Youtube video on the front page for a long time, it would take over twenty minutes to load, on Broadband!
Until I upgraded Firefox.
Now, no troubles.
Me likey that.
He lost my enthusiasm with the FISA vote. But I will vote for him, because I think to do otherwise will help put McCain in the WH, and I won’t do that no matter what.
In all honesty, I suspect that the lack of congressional donations to McCain may have more to do with the fact that the RNC has told them it’s focusing on the presidential race and they’re on their own with the lackluster fundraising from the NRCC and NRSC. Even the ones in safe seats probably think they can get more mileage from helping their fellow senators and congressmen survive than from being a small fish in McCain’s campaign.
Good for you dmac! We went high-speed two years ago and it’s still like a dream come true.
In the House, the ability of the GOP to obstruct is minimal. In that body, the most votes wins. Period. There is no filibuster, no weird tricks of rule-mancy to totally cock-up proceedings.
The Senate is another thing. One asshole, if it is a GOPer, can totally derail the Democrats (with Reid in “charge”) while when the situation is reversed, there is virtually nothing a Dem can do to derail the GOP.
Funny how that works.
GOP hold (to Reid), good as gold. Dem hold (to Reid)…what hold?
Oh man. You have to download the GIMP. I’m so glad you got hispeed!
Busted, what FF do you have now? FF3?
Now it’s FF3, the last upgrade cured my problem before #3 came out.
I wish you or rwcole were running. I’m disgusted with Obama and all the democrats who prefer carrying Rethug water to making their own way with (just a little bit of) truth and enlightened reasoning.
Repub Senator Pat Roberts said last week that there are no “safe” Repub seats this year. I thought that was very encouraging.
Headline at MSNBC “Bush sewage plant makes ballot”
I presume that’s about the effort to name a sewage treatment plant after Clusterfuck (it’s a video so I don’t want to wait to watch the damned thing).
That’s a HAPPY story.
Obama’s been working hard to narrow the differences between McBush and himself. He has succeeded. I now see no serious differences.
Here’s the linky to Meet Me in St. Louis funfest with cindybots. Really, it’s da bom.
It’s so fly on the wall and the context is genius. Anheuser Busch just sold to a Belgium brewer InBev and McCain is in town for a fundraiser at the Belgium ambassador’s house in the town that is HQ for AB. Too effin stewpid. bwahhahahahah!
A sewage treatment plant named after a turd, how fitting.
It’s tough getting things, at least good things, done in the Senate when both the Majority and Minority leaders are Republicans.
Don’t know if Clusterfuck is WORTHY of having the WHOLE treatment plant named after him- maybe just half. Name the other half after Saint Ronnie.
I truly am sorry that you see no differences between the two candidates. I never thought Obama was particularly progressive in any of his positions but even with his moves to “the center,” he still offers better positions than McSame.
And remember this, McSame has declared that Scalia/Thomas/Alito/Roberts are the types of judges he likes and wants more of at all levels. Combine that with the propensity so many of the Dems in the Senate have of pretty much unquestioning acceptance of whomever the President sends up for these positions, I just don’t think we can afford to turn the entire judiciary over to the Federalist Society.
As always, YMMV.
Yep, it’s in SF and they got over 12,000 signatures (they needed only 7000 or so). The group responsible got the idea while talking over a few beers. Bush wasn’t there to share that brewdog with ‘em.
Just the #2 half…
As my departed aunt would say- “Obama is big talk little do”. He has never done much for me. I’d rather see all meat and no puff pastry.
thanks everyone for the congrats and tips!!
man, this is hecka-fast!!! h/t cartman.
thanks margot for the link, will check it out.
i figured out where to go first after dillyin’ around.
www.wolfgangsvault.com
hands down. first pick. hmmmm. got it.
loading the who ’68 fillmore. thought that would be fitting….ain’t no cure for the summertime bluuuuuues. yes there is.
cable still on mccain, yes, i have built-in eye bleach, comes with viewing cspan for years since it started, was away for a while, i now have my old friend back……
they’re playing anchor’s aweigh at the convention after mccain took questions while he went around shaking hands, yes, they are actually playing that……..what cheese……..
McBush deserves the Anchors….too bad he hasn’t done anything SINCE getting shot down. His best years were forty years ago.
Dan Rather referred to Obama as Osama Bin Laden on teevee today- and no one opened their mouth about it…Oops!
Not a biggie. For the media, they are the same.
McBush is an old man scared of his own mortality. He’s sold his soul to the Neocons to buy a little presidential immortality. There’s no meat, bone, soul left in him only a hollow space where they pour in all their corruption. Why else do you think he’s flip flopped on everything.
It appears that McBush can no longer even remember the names of european countries or the grossest details of who is fighting whom in Iraq…
The fucker’s fried- perfect gooper president.
Greetings all. While Adam Putnam has not given any money to John McCain, he has dished out nearly half a million to other Congressional Republicans. He did this before he found out that he would be challenged this year. Since I entered the race, Opie hasn’t doled out anymore of his own warchest.
You can check out my campaign at www.teamtudor.org I’m a retired Navy Master Chief, the senior enlisted rank, and I’m a real-deal progressive. In other words, I have a progressive heart with conservative credentials, plus I’m not a Blue Dog or a Republican-Lite candidate. I’m the type of “good” Democrat that scares the bejesus out of the Republicans. What I don’t have, though, is Opie’s millions. You can help me by going to www.teamtudor.org and contributing.
Take a few minutes and give me a look — we can beat the third-ranking Republican in the House. We just need your help.
Warm regards, Doug Tudor
Democratic Nominee, FL-12