By: The_Gadfly (Diary)  |  July 29th at 07:30 PM  | 

There has been much good discussion elsewhere on RedState about the state of the various votes, arm twisting, machinations, and probable outcomes of the current “negotiations” between Tea Party conservative Republicans, the Republican Leadership, Senate Democrats, and the Pretender President. It would be redundant for me to discus them here, and frankly I doubt I could add anything to what has already been written. But | Read More »

By: The_Gadfly (Diary)  |  September 11th at 04:11 PM  | 

So it seems that one of the Washington, DC offices of ACORN was not one of the offices where “this film crew tried to pull this sham at other offices and failed.” This morning on BigGovernment.com O’Keefe sprung his next surprise on ACORN. Having successfully gotten advice on how to start an international child prostitution ring from the Baltimore office, they move to DC and | Read More »

By: The_Gadfly (Diary)  |  September 10th at 10:43 AM  | 

This interesting headline comes to us by way of Andrew Breitbart who started BigGovernment.com today. The lead story on the site is by an enterprising young film student named James O’Keefe, whom he describes as “Morley Safer meets Sacha Baron Cohen.”  Mr. O’Keefe partnered with an actress and went to visit an ACORN housing assistance office in Baltimore, MD. Mr. O’Keefe plays the roll of | Read More »

By: The_Gadfly (Diary)  |  September 9th at 05:34 PM  | 

[9/10/09 10:46 AM corrected, spelling of last name] Update: Beck is reporting Cloture passed with 63 votes in favor. So who are we sending the electronic stink bombs to? They haven’t voted yet, so if you’ve got a Senator that can be moved, CALL NOW!

By: The_Gadfly (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 01:16 PM  | 

When I am upset and passionate, well it hurts when a gadfly bites. And I have generally been very upset with what I regard as the general and ubiquitous incompetence shown by most of the National Republican Campaign Committees. You’ll note the new modifier: “most.” At the Red State gathering in Atlanta Georgia this past weekend just by chance I happened to sit at the | Read More »

By: The_Gadfly (Diary)  |  July 29th at 04:19 PM  | 

* where x is some number between 20 million and 100 million depending on whose research you quote. I use to work in IT for a government contracting company that specializes in working government contracts related to healthcare in their IT department. On Monday afternoon July 27, 2009 I, along with 9 other coworkers got canned/laid off/riffed/whatever you want to call it. The bottom line | Read More »