Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Even as the Republicans try to shift focus to what they see as the Democrats’ loss of political capital, the ruptures in the GOP just won’t disappear. Now, Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C., has brought the spotlight back to the party’s warring factions. In an interview with the Greenville News , Inglis said the famed Reagan coalition of social and fiscal conservatives is “running on...
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
(CNN) – A Republican congressman with a reputation for frustrating members of his own party is now saying he's exasperated with the "hard right" element of the GOP. South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis, who is facing a primary challenge from four Republicans, told the Greenville News on Thursday that the Reagan coalition of social conservatives, fiscal [...]
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Sessions raises money much of his money from K Street whores but... Everyday we're hearing about the GOP being ripped apart by its own internal fight-to-the-death between naive, hate-driven teabaggers, who have been weaned on entirely too much Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Lou Dobbs, and practical Republican politicians who just want to do well in their careers. Fox and Hate Talk radio...
Undeniable Liberalism (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Armey meets with … heh heh: dick meats … The teabagger bible of harassment -- “Artificially Inflate Your Numbers, Be Disruptive Early And Often, and Try To Rattle Him, Not Have An Intelligent Debate” -- will be used to purge the republican party of its more moderate politicians, replacing them with vicious, knuckledragging cletuses. [T]he next step of Armey’s agenda...
WTF Is It Now?? (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Armey meets with … heh heh: dick meats … The teabagger bible of harassment -- “Artificially Inflate Your Numbers, Be Disruptive Early And Often, and Try To Rattle Him, Not Have An Intelligent Debate” -- will be used to purge the republican party of its more moderate politicians, replacing them with vicious, knuckledragging cletuses. [T]he next step of Armey’s agenda...
Daisy's Dead Air (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Both photos of Bob Inglis were taken by me at the Town Hall Meeting in Travelers Rest, SC, August 18th. I met Congressman Bob Inglis yesterday! Yes, I strode right up to him as he was lunching in my place of employment. A woman in the restroom had remarked, rather bemused, Bob Inglis is sitting out there. I peeped out and lo and behold, there he was. I walked right up and introduced myself as a campaign...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Serves you right for choosing him over me, Lois! AK-AL : Don Young (R-inc): $117K raised; $129K CoH CA-03 : Ami Bera : $335K raised; $586K CoH (updated from earlier estimate ) CT-Sen : Chris Dodd (D-inc): $900K raised (note: Dodd missed a month due to surgery for prostate cancer) Tom Foley (R): $280K raised; > $1m CoH Rob Simmons (R): $970K raised; ~$1.1m CoH FL-24 : Suzanne Kosmas (D-inc): >...
CQ (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The question of whether Rep. Bob Inglis will face a serious primary challenge next year could intensify after Federal Election Commission reports are filed later this week.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) today honored three Members of Congress from South Carolina as Taxpayer Heroes in its 2008 Congressional Ratings; Gresham Barrett with 87 percent, Bob Inglis with 85 percent, and Joe Wilson with 85 percent. The average for the entire House was 35 percent, which makes their achievements that much more impressive....
Patriot Room (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Photo Credit: Oddsock Democrats aren't the only ones worried about the 2010 midterms. Conservatives have been watching RINO's from on high and don't like what they have seen. Cross-hairs have been brought to bear. From CQ Politics The passions of conservative activists could be reshaping the Republican Party and complicating some 2010 re-election campaigns. . . . Republican pollster Whit Ayres said...
Library Grape (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
So I guess not everyone in the conservative movement is completely insane : In early August, Rep. Bob Inglis (R) of South Carolina, who isn't exactly a moderate, encouraged his constituents to " turn the TV off " and stop listening to Glenn Beck. The audience booed the conservative congressman relentlessly. A week later, David Frum, a conservative pundit and former Bush speechwriter, suggested...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
BECK FACES BACKLASH -- FROM THE RIGHT.... As right-wing media personality Glenn Beck has grown in influence, conservative criticism has been, at best, muted. In early August, Rep. Bob Inglis (R) of South Carolina, who isn't exactly a moderate, encouraged...
Minor Ripper (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
I encourage all readers of this to click on this link and listen to the audio NPR story. It encapsulates what is going on with the Republican party these days. Wild-eyed, gun toting, largely racist, mostly Southern, members of the party are driving it into national electoral oblivion by trying to rid it of even its' most remotely 'moderate' members--including this Bob Inglis of South Carolina... Inglis--who...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
GOP radio host and unprosecuted child molester Mark Foley (R-FL) told Florida's Conservative Republican Alliance at a fundraiser for Marco Rubio (also attended by Limbaugh) that he would like to "use my experience and my voice to help others, to rally for economic sanity, to bring about real reforms on a local, state and even national level" and he doesn't rule out running for office again....
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The so-called “tea party” movement has spawned a host of primary challengers for House Republicans, pressuring them to stay far to the right, CQ Politics reports. “I’ve got four primary challengers, and all of them hope to capitalize on the tea parties,” complains Bob Inglis of South Carolina, who has...
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