flickr.com/photos/7305404@N06Led by Senator John McCain, whose obsession with earmarks knows no bounds, Republicans legislators are still raising a stink about that $1.7 million earmark for pig odor research in Iowa. Some lawmakers, a number of whom have gone repeatedly to the trough themselves, can barely contain their glee as they denounce it as a prime example of pork.In Iowa, though, where 20 million pigs out-number humans by a margin of 8 to 1, the proposal -- all part of th
flickr.com/photos/amanda kay riley It is hardly breaking news to note that Republicans here and across the country have been shedding their party like a chrysalis for quite some time now. But what is extraordinary is the sheer volume of the desertion.
A new Gallup Poll shows that the precipitious decline in people who identify themselves as Republicans is shrinking among nearly every demographic group -- churchgoers, moderates, married people, older white voters, college graduate
During a flight leg in April, [campaign press secretary Robert] Gibbs tried to have a heart-to-heart with Obama. "Are you having any fun at all?" he asked him.
"None," Obama flatly replied.
"Do you see any way we can make it more fun?" Gibbs replied.
"No."
So writes President Obama's former campaign manager, David Plouffe, of the joyless dog days that often infuse an arduous campaign, as was the 21-month ordeal that commenced long before the first snowflakes fell in Io
