AZNetroots - Front Page (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Bob Lord who is challenging Republican incumbent John Shadegg in CD-3, shows us how to take it to the Republitards when they start chanting: "Drill now! Drill Here!". This appeared as an editorial in the print edition of the Arizona Republic today, but somehow didn't make it to their website. Bob Lord is showing the kind of fighting spirit that too many Dems have lacked recently. Stop by his website...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
The Republican Party Energy Plan For handsomely bribed Big Oil shills and congressional circus clowns like James Inhofe (R-OK- $1,076,573), Michael McCaul (R-TX- $107,934), Mike Pence (R-IN- $150,950), John Culberson (R-TX- $301,961), Eric Cantor (R-CA- $159,250), and John Shadegg (R-AZ- $119,495) the response to the energy crisis may be to dress up like Indians at the Boston Tea Party and wave an...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Unconvincing Quote of the Week "The market is responding to the fact that we are here talking." - Arizona Rep. John Shadegg (R) , crediting the House GOP protest for a drop in the trading price of oil. The Week in Brief - Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis, TN beat back an opponent who accused him of supporting the Klan and hating Jesus. (For all of the attention this campaign got, he won by 60...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Ahh, the wingnutosphere's favorite wingnut, John Shadegg, is wasting campaign time by playing make-believe Congress in Washington D.C. The Republican takeover of the out-of-session U.S. House will continue into the foreseeable future, said U.S. Rep. John Shadegg (R-Phoenix) Wednesday. "We're going to keep it going as long as we can," Shadegg told PolitickerAZ.com. Shadegg, the most senior Republican...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Paris Hilton is treating John McCain like a... a... a... dumb blonde! And to think I made fun of her and her mother a few days ago. She sounds smarter than Eric Cantor, John Shadegg and Mike Pence combined. Not sure about that VP choice of hers though. H/T: Perez : See Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad and more funny videos on FunnyOrDie.com See more funny videos at Funny or Die Paris Hilton is ready...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Many people have pointed out that John Shadegg, (R-AZ- $119,495), Tom Cole (R-OK- $277,050), John Culberson (R-TX- $301,961), Lamar Smith (R-TX- $342,897), Mike Pence (R-IN- $150,950) and some of the other Republiclowns who are back in Washington howling at the moon over the gas prices their own policies have driven sky high, have been getting paid by the hour by their johns at Big Oil. I wouldn't...
Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
The following is a media release from the Boston Tea Party: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE POC Thomas L. Knapp media@bostontea.us BTP CHAIR TO SHADEGG: YOU’RE CONFUSED Cyberspace—“How many of you remember the Boston Tea Party? This is the Boston Tea Party!” US Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ) said Friday while leading a Republican protest against Congress’s summer recess. But members of the Boston [...]
Random Musings (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Ahhh...the greatest joy of even-numbered years - the ill-thought out campaign press release just begging to be shredded by wiseass bloggers like me (even though in this case, it's an 'official' press release)... As mentioned in the post immediately prior to this one, John Shadegg (R - Calgon Take Me Away ) and many of his cronies in the Republican caucus took to the floor of the House to protest the...
California Conservative (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic brethren adjourned the House for the next 5 weeks. The bad news for them is that Republicans refused to leave, causing a major media opportunity to highlight Ms. Pelosi’s Politburo mentality. Here’s Rep. John Shadegg’s quote on Ms. Pelosi’s strongarm tactics: “The speaker wouldn’t let us have the five-minute speeches because [...]
American Pundit (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Update X2: According to Politico, Republicans were able to temporarily use the House’s public address system. How? Er, Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ) hacked the system: Also, Republicans can thank Shadegg for turning on the microphones the first time. Apparently, the fiesty Arizona conservative started typing random codes into the chamber’s public address system and accidentally typed [...]
Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
The 2008 Conservative Leadership Conference (CLC) has announced that Constitution Party presidential nominee Chuck Baldwin will be a speaker at its annual conference, to be held in Las Vegas this September. Other speakers will include Grover Norquist, Alan Keyes, and Rep. John Shadegg (R-Arizona).
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
File this under "most blindly presumptuous statement of the cycle". Rep. John Shadegg, currently facing the most difficult race of his political career against Orange to Blue candidate Bob Lord , is looking past this fall's elections to Arizona's Senate race in 2010. You know, for the seat which John McCain currently holds. U.S. Rep. John Shadegg (R-Phoenix) is making no bones about it: He has his...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
So first, Republican Congressman John Shadegg announced his retirement in February, telling reporters that life in the minority is a real bummer: "I've just reached the conclusion I'd like to do something else with my life other than be in the minority in the U.S. House of Representatives." Desperate GOPers immediately begged Shadegg to unretire, and within days, he changed his mind and decides to...
Random Musings (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
As if his retire/unretire two-step in February didn't make it clear to the voters of CD3 that he's no longer interested in working for them, John Shadegg took the opportunity in a Wednesday interview with PolitickerAZ to reinforce the point. From the interview - WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. John Shadegg (R-Phoenix) is making no bones about it: He has his eye on John McCain’s U.S. Senate seat. “I see my...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Democrat Bob Lord's congressional campaign says it has raised more than $1 million, a figure Lord contends is 10 times more than any other opponent of Congressman John Shadegg has raised.
