The 4th Congressional District met and reorganized August 31 at the Pettis County Courthouse

Meet your new 4th Congressional District officers: Penelope Quigg, chair (Cole County); Dean Dohrman, treasurer (Pettis County); Lorri Wykhoff, secretary (Dade County); and Russell Kruse, vice chair (Lafayette County).

Repost from Daily Mail Blog: "Prince Charming (Obama) turned out to be a frog!"

Ohio Public Policy Polling: Bush 50, Obama 42!
Read the full story from the dailymail.com here: "Voters there say they'd rather have George W. Bush in the White House right now than Barack Obama."

Gotta watch this: More Old Spice for Blunt! Watch, Believe, Volunteer!

Repost from Kraske: "Look out, folks. Big wave may be a coming"--Republicans need 39 seats to take back the house

Steve Kraske of primebuzz.kcstar.com writes:

"The ground is beginning to shake, and this isn’t the New Madrid fault finally giving up the ghost.

A political year that began with a pro-GOP tinge is looking redder by the day. A “wave” election cycle favoring the Republicans now appears to have the potential to turn into a tsunami.

Signs of that possibility continue to proliferate, and they only begin with recent public poll numbers in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race from Rasmussen Reports..."

Read more here.

More from Kraske: .."The much-discussed enthusiasm gap? It’s real. Gallup found that 46 percent of Republicans were “very enthusiastic” about voting this year. Among Democrats, it’s just 23 percent.

For months, Democrats have been saying that things were going to get better.

Well, folks, they’re not."

To reach Steve Kraske, call 816-234-4312 or send e-mail to skraske@kcstar.com.

Obama's failed stimulus program cost more than the Iraq war--Washington Examiner

Back from Iraq
By: Nate Beeler
Examiner Cartoonist

Read more at The Washington Examiner:

By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
08/23/10 11:32 AM EDT

"Expect to hear a lot about how much the Iraq war cost in the days ahead from Democrats worried about voter wrath against their unprecedented spending excesses...

Just some handy facts to recall during coming weeks as Obama and his congressional Democratic buddies get more desperate to put the blame for their spending policies on Bush and the war in Iraq..."

For another story on this subject, from Randall Hoven in the American Thinker, go here.