Richard Viguerie, a Virginia-based conservative activist, says opposing the Wall Street financial package can put conservatives in control of Congress in 2010.
Opposing the bill being considered today by the House, Viguerie says, will help conservative candidates overtake both Republicans and Democrats who vote fin favor of it.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingirch (R-Ga.) has put put a light hearted video announcing a YouTube contest for his group American Solutions.
The contest challenges supporters to make a video demonstrating the groups "drill here, drill now, pay nothing" slogan. The winner of the contest will get a year of free gas.
The video starts with Gingrich catching one of his interns watching YouTube at work and later shows the intern doing the same to the former House Speaker.
Americans United for Change has long opposed many of President Bush's policies, but this year it's found a new way to say it--with a 28-ton bus.
The group today launched its Bush Legacy Bus, a rolling museum dedicated to the "worst policy failures" of the Bush administration. The bus will travel the country for the next five months, stopping in 150 cities and bearing a simple message: that Bush's policies have wreaked havoc on America.
The bus features interactive exhibits on the Iraq war, the economy, and healthcare. A screen displays images of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, with captions that criticize the government's response. A chart entitled "not just Bush's war" traces Iraq war support to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas). The floor shows a timeline of events in the Bush presidency.
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Liberal interest group Americans United for Change says it is almost finished constructing a tour bus dedicated to "the devastating impact" President Bush has left on the U.S.
The bus will feature interactive exhibits on the legacy of Bush's policies on healthcare, the economy, energy, and the War in Iraq.
The group says it will take the Bush Legacy Bus on a tour across the country. Its more illustrious stops will include the Democratic National Convention, the Republican National Convention, and offices of senators and congressmen who have supported Bush's policies.
The bus will be unveiled at a cookout sponsored by the AFL-CIO June 24. The cookout will be held across from the White House in downtown Washington, DC, in front of the AFL-CIO's office.
Americans United for Change president Bad Woodhouse explains the bus in this video:
After presidential candidates have bashed lobbyists for much of the '08 race, the American League of Lobbyists (ALL) is appealing to candidates to treat them with more respect, The Hill's Jim Snyder reports (see the story here).
ALL President Brian Pallasch said today that both Barack Obama and John McCain were hypocritical to attack lobbyists, as both candidates have worked with them and know the value of their input.
Pallasch said lobbyists are frustrated with candidates' insinuations that lobbying work is evil and/or inappropriate.
Charlton Heston, the Academy Award-winning actor and gun rights activist, died Saturday at the age of 84.
Heston first made a name for himself in Hollywood, playing the lead role in legendary films "Ben-Hur" and "The Ten Commandments." Though he actively supported Democratic presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson as a young actor, he veered right and championed conservative causes as he grew older.
He served as president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003. He was at an NRA convention when he gave his most famous political speech, one in which he held a gun over his head and challenged his critics with five words, "from my cold, dead hands."
Watch the speech below, and read his family's statement regarding his death after the jump.
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