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Is that how the saying goes? God, country, family, party and partisan politics? I looked around the Internet and nowhere could I find party and partisan politics in the equation that describes the priorities or responsibilities of elected officials. Therefore I will personally opt instead for God, country, family, party and partisan politics! Period! But that's just me. I don't work in Washington and therefore I can have any priorities that suits my conscience. The people who we send to Washington on the other hand will speechify endlessly about their supposed priorities. They will tell you that it's about the...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will meet with Senate Democrats at the White House Tuesday to press for action at a make-or-break moment for his health care overhaul. All 60 members of the Democratic caucus have been invited, according to three Democratic officials. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement was not yet public.

As the Congress hurdles itself to putting a Health Care legislation on the desk of the the POTUS, American voters are once again telling the Democratic party that they would prefer a different approach to using that money. According the the latest Rasmussen study, 54% rate middle class tax cuts as the priority over more health care spending, 33% prefer spending on heath care.

Here are the news stories, editorials, and videos that conservatives dugg yesterday, Thursday, August 20, 2009. Please take a moment to digg these articles at Digg.com, then get back over here! What is Digg? And why should I care?

Security Before Politics (Obama Crossed the Red Line, Publication of CIA Memos) By Porter J. Goss Saturday, April 25, 2009 Since leaving my post as CIA director almost three years ago, I have remained largely silent on the public stage. I am speaking out now because I feel our government has crossed the red line between properly protecting our national security and trying to gain partisan political advantage. We can't have a secret intelligence service if we keep giving away all the secrets. Americans have to decide now. A disturbing epidemic of amnesia seems to be plaguing my former colleagues...

From an e-mail sent overnight by Anchorage attorney Kevin Clarkson: Five Alaska Legislators, Rep. Wes Keller, Rep. Mike Kelly, Rep. Bob Lynn, Sen. Fred Dyson, and Sen. Tom Wagoner, will file suit in state superior court in Anchorage tomorrow morning (9/16/08) at 9:00 am (Superior courthouse 4th Avenue) against Sen. French, Sen. Kim Elton, Stephen Branchflower and the Alaska Legislative Council in order to halt the investigation of Governor Sarah Palin and others because the investigators have lost the appearance of impartiality required under the Alaska Constitution. The Legislators will ask for declaratory and injunctive relief in the investigation, stating...

California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is blocking the nomination of former Republican Congressman James Rogan to the federal bench, due largely to Rogan’s leading role in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Rogan served in the U.S. House from 1997 to 2001, and due to his background as a prosecutor, was selected as one of 13 House managers for the impeachment trial. “U.S. Rep. Rogan was one of the most enthusiastic backers of impeachment — he thought President Clinton had committed high crimes and misdemeanors,” Boxer’s spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz said.

Last week I wrote an essay analyzing the legacy of Karl Rove. My argument was that one of Mr. Rove's biggest problems--and indeed a major failure of this White House--was the failure to do all that could be down to control his and his boss' image. I received more than a few emails in response to the essay. Many of them echoed the thoughts of this emailer: I'm in direct disagreement with your attempt to present Karl Rove as a normal guy. Rove has a serious lack of ethics. He doesn't have sense of right or wrong as much as...

Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson signed on with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign yesterday, saying "it's entirely possible" his ex-spy wife will hit the trail with her, too. Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was outed as a covert CIA operations officer by President Bush's advisers in 2003 as they sought to discredit her Iraq war critic husband. She's writing a memoir due in the fall. "I would expect her to be engaged [politically] probably after the book tour," Wilson told the Daily News after Clinton announced his endorsement. Wilson said his wife shunned politics during her two decades as a covert spy. But...

In Washington these days, even a simple act to honor a veteran can fall victim to partisan rancor. Consider the case of Raymond G. "Jerry" Murphy, a Marine Corps officer during the Korean War who was awarded the Medal of Honor for courageously rescuing many of his fellow Marines one night in February 1953. He was also the recipient of a Silver Star and a Purple Heart. To honor Mr. Murphy, who died just last month, New Mexico congressmen and senators want to rename the Department of Veterans' Affairs Medical Center in Albuquerque after him. This seems a fair, fitting...

Attorney General Jay Nixon's gubernatorial campaign asked Ameren Corp. for political donations after Nixon launched a criminal probe into the utility, according to an Ameren executive. But the executive said the request was routine and had nothing to do with Nixon's role as prosecutor in the case. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday quoted Ameren Vice President Richard Mark saying Nixon's campaign asked Ameren lobbyists to donate money to four democratic campaign committees after Nixon became special prosecutor over the Taum Sauk reservoir collapse. Mark told the newspaper that Nixon's campaign staff approached the utility's governmental affairs staff last spring...

It's election season, and so it's natural that the American political discussion is slavishly dedicated to random partisan foibles. Nancy Pelosi's wobbly resistance to her carnal desire to impeach President Bush as prospective Speaker of the House, the unsightly erosion of the Republicans' tacit claim of moral superiority by the decidedly unwholesome behavior of one of their congressmen, dual glittering examples of government corruption (Tom DeLay and William Jefferson), and Hillary Clinton's politically aggrandizing strategms are all the hot topics in blogs, magazines and books.

The Democrat-backed resolution citing "no confidence" in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is mostly motivated by: Rumsfeld's performancePartisan politics

AUSTIN - A federal judge hearing a ballot dispute Monday involving former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay said he thinks that DeLay withdrew from the November election, indicating potential trouble for Republicans who want to name a replacement candidate. "He is not going to participate in the election and he withdrew," said U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, who did not issue an official ruling after a daylong trial regarding DeLay's status as the GOP nominee for the 22nd Congressional District. Jim Bopp, a lawyer for the Republican Party of Texas, disagreed, telling Sparks "there's been no withdrawal." Bopp said that instead,...

It was late 2000 -- early 2001. To protect her identity, let's call her Tereza. Tereza was never a friend---just a work acquaintance. We argued about politics quite regularly at work (lots of down-time in the particular industry we were in at the time). But the arguments were always civil, for one overriding reason----Tereza is a really really really nice person. Seriously, she is calm, sweet, understanding---a lovely and pleasant demeanor. And she was wrong on just about everything she espoused in those arguments. Not just wrong on little details either---her positions themselves, as well-meaning and pleasantly expressed as they...

While listening to the news this evening I had a sobering personal question that had me stunned, and set back, 'about political backstabing. Tom Delay is being accused of taking a trip on Lobby money, "yes we know". But, what we know is not what I am looking for. What truely concerns me is, If a lobby group member "Single Member sponsoring (A) lobby group" knowingly violates the law by tossing in their CC to pay for a trip for a said member of the Government through A lobby group. Without said Government official's knowledge, Can't thee lobby group be...

On two propositions most good-hearted civic-minded people agree: It is good to have centrist politics, and it is good to have high turnout in elections. But what if it should turn out that the two are in fundamental conflict? For that is what political history, here and abroad, suggests. Consider the 2004 election in the United States. George W. Bush, his opponents contended, with some justice, governed as anything but a centrist. Installed in office with a bare majority of the Electoral College, he pushed successfully for massive tax cuts, for conservative positions on cultural issues, for military action not...

Frist finger on ‘nuclear’ button By Alexander Bolton Senate Republican leaders are considering rewriting the chamber’s rules to limit what they call Democratic obstructionism that has slowed the pace of work in the Senate to a trickle. In particular, Republicans want to eliminate the ability of Democrats to filibuster consideration of the president’s executive and judicial-branch nominees, as well as bar filibusters that block the naming of conferees prior to House and Senate negotiations. To do so, Senate GOP leaders are considering resorting to what they call the “constitutional option” and what Democrats deride as the “nuclear option” because they...

The roots of political gridlock in Washington and of the hyper-partisanship dividing "Red" and "Blue" America came into view on successive days at the end of April. [snip]Specter was barely able to survive. He is a tenacious campaigner and not to be underestimated in November. But the trend lines of history are working against him. As the polarization continues in both parties, moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats have become endangered species.