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Yesterday I talked about the news that Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, under multiple investigations, announced his decision to step down in September. I ended the post with the question “Where does Bebe Netanyahu fit into the picture?”
One day later, we know the answer to my question:

JERUSALEM (AP) — A day after Prime Minister Ehud [...]

The Democrats have had enough and are stomping their feet and demanding that ICE stop raiding businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants:

(CNSNews.com) – Immigration reform advocates, including Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, are calling for an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids at businesses that knowingly hire large numbers of illegal aliens.
The House [...]

Bay Buchanan, who has previously appeared on our Attitude Radio! show, wrote a column touting Mitt Romney as the perfect Number Two man on the John McCain ticket in November:

John McCain has five weeks to choose his Vice Presidential running mate. Typically the most a presidential candidate can hope for is a partner who [...]

I’ve pointed out Arnold Schwarzenegger’s heinousness before, but I think this graph will help illustrate the point.
Schwarzenegger lied to the voters, said he would “cut up the credit cards” of the Sacramento spenders, and then went on to become the biggest spender in the history of California.
Allow me to illustrate:

That’s right, Schwarzenegger ramped up spending [...]

Under increased scrutiny and widening investigations, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that he will step down from his office in 2 months:

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will announce on Wednesday that he will leave office in two months, Israel’s Channel Two television reported.
The report said Olmert will not run in [...]

McCain continues sucking up to those who hate him:
Republican Sen. John McCain, engaged in increasingly sharp attacks on rival Barack Obama, pledged that if elected president, he would work closely with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, praising her as an effective leader and an “inspiration to millions of Americans.”
“I respect Speaker Pelosi. I think she’s [...]

With an already skeptical conservative base concerned about John McCain’s positions like Global Warming and Illegal Immigration, a new concern has been raised about John McCain’s recent no new tax pledge, when he refused to take the idea of tax increases off the table:

Washington (AP) – Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s signal that he may [...]

I’m still not voting for McCain. But this is a lot better than any ad Bob Dole ever did. Now take a cue from the Ted Stevens disaster and unify the party against earmarks, and we’ll talk.

In September of 2005, during a fundraiser for Katrina victims, Kayne West went off the sript and made the statement that “George W. Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
Taking a page from West, Congressman James Clyburn stated that Climate Change hurts blacks more and Global Warming is now an issue of race:

Climate change is no [...]

Breaking: CNBC reports Ted Stevens indicted. No link yet.
Good riddance.
UPDATE: Justice Dept. news conference at 1:20
For those who can’t wait, McClatchy

Larry Hunter, a self-proclaimed Reagan/Kemp/Gingrich conservative, endorses Obama:
Obama promises a humbler engagement with our allies, while promising retaliation against any enemy who dares attack us. That’s what conservatism used to mean – and it’s what George W. Bush promised as a candidate.
Plus, when it comes to domestic issues, I don’t take Obama at his word. [...]

Retiring Republican US Senator Chuck Hagel, a longtime friend of John McCain, has jumped headfirst into the McCain – Obama race by defending Democrat Barack Obama against criticism from Republican John McCain:

A Republican senator from Nebraska is defending Senator Obama from criticism by the McCain campaign over his position on the Iraq war and his [...]

Sometimes an outside perspective gets it exactly right.
The Times on the silence of the media on the Edwards scandal:
The New York Times has not deigned to touch the story, although it recently ran thousands of words on a relationship between McCain and a female lobbyist, which appeared to be based more on innuendo than fact.
The [...]

Well, the taxpayers are now subprime lenders, John Edwards is not gay, and Ayman al-Kahawlik is still in Gitmo.
This thread’s for you.

Senator Jim DeMint is again one of the last defenders of conservatism and common sense in the face of a massive taxpayer bailout of the corrupt Democrat enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:
For proof of how powerful they remain, even in their straitened circumstances, look no further than Majority Leader Harry Reid’s refusal even to [...]