1-leading republican pundit ann coulter called senator john edwards a ‘faggot’.
2-leading republican pundit newt gingrich said that new orleans residents(african-americans)were too lazy and dumb to get out of the way of the hurricane(without mentioning that the warning for the hurricane, katrina, started about 12 hours, at night, before it hit and there’s only one bridge really leaving n.o).
3-congressional hearings began into the bush sponsored dismissal of federal judges with whom the bush administration disagreed.
4-it’s been 2001 days since 9-11 and still no sign of bin laden. also, $800 billion dollars of u.s taxpayers money has been spent in iraq and afghanistan, with no sign of improvement in either country.
5-the president of iran met with the leader of saudi arabia, ostensibly to decide on how best to cut up the middle east. glad that our $800 billion dollars and 40,000 dead and wounded troops are helping our avowed enemies to decide how the middle east should be chopped up…
6-senator strom thurmond’s ancestors owned al sharpton’s slave ancestors.
7-rudy giulanni, a pro-choice, pro gun-control, pro gay-rights, twice divorced former mayor of nyc emerged as the leading republican candidate for president. his closest competitor is mitt romney, who has publicly supported gay-rights and abortion-rights and gun-control.
8-president bush admitted that he doesn’t have any other plans for iraq apart from maintaining the status quo. the ‘status quo’ i resulting in 5,000 wounded or dead iraqi citizens or u.s soldiers every week.
ok, that’s it.
i guess i’m not so surprised that the mood at cpac was described as ‘fatalistic’, ‘moribund’, and
‘profoundly disillusioned’.
what do republicans stand for again? seriously, does anyone know?
moby