The Republican Youth Majority has rolled out the new website (this is not breaking news, it happened months ago, I’m just slow to notice). Here’s their ‘blog, which they apparently couldn’t be bothered to spring the fifteen bucks or whatever to secure their own domain name for.

There isn’t much interesting there, and it seems like there’s actually less information than the old website had, which is saying something. One thing to watch out for is the specter of RYM campus chapters popping up at a school near you. Probably unnecessary though. It reminds me of the old joke:

Q: What do you call liberal College Republicans?
A: The E-Board.

In any case, I call for a crashing of one of their happy hours in the near future.

Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) has decided to back Mike Pence for Minority Leader, which is going to do a lot to quell concerns from the immigration folks.

h/t Red State

Joe T, feel free to comment on how important having Chafee in the Senate with an R next to his name was after reading this:

PROVIDENCE, R.I. –Two days after losing a bid for a second term in an election seen as a referendum on President Bush and the Republican Party, Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he was unsure whether he’d remain a Republican.

“I haven’t made any decisions. I just haven’t even thought about where my place is,” Chafee said at a news conference Thursday when asked whether he would stick with the Republican Party or switch to be an independent or Democrat.

When asked if his comments meant he thought he might not belong in the Republican Party, he replied: “That’s fair.”

Chafee, 53, is the most liberal Republican in the Senate and was the sole Senate Republican to vote against the war in Iraq. That was not enough to save his seat against the winner, Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, who shared many of Chafee’s views but was a member of the dominant party in a state where Democrats far outnumber Republicans.

When asked whether he felt that his loss may have helped the country by switching control of power in Congress, he replied: “To be honest, yes.”

So… does anybody want to debate me on the fact that had Chafee won, he would’ve pulled a Jeffords and joined the other two independents caucasing with the Dems in the Senate, thus giving them the majority that he feels they deserve?

Joe T, have at it buddy. I’m waiting to see how much you’re going to make me laugh. How does crow taste, by the way?

H/T to Redstate.

Allen is conceding right now. The Democrats officially have control of both chambers of Congress.

Sheeple noun

1.) One who receives daily brain downloads from the Bush administration. See also: Bushie, Party Whore. Antonyms: Conservative.

Here’s a history lesson for everyone who accuses us of breaking Ronald Reagan’s supposedly sacred 11th Commandment.

Action item number one is to call your Republican Congressman ASAP. Fill up their answering machines, piss ‘em off by making the phones ring off the hook. If you’ve volunteered for them in the past, or given money, then that’s all the better. If it’s someone like Peter Roskam who hasn’t taken office yet then call his campaign office. We simply have to demand that they support Mike Pence for minority leader, and they will have to listen. The last thing that we need is more of Boehner or Phil English or any of those clowns.

Contact information for members of Congress is easily available here.

I’m absolutely the last person to toot my own horn…but check out this post from a year and a half ago. Wow. I might have been a little bit pessimistic, and I predicted similar losses in 2002 and 2004, but whatever. I’ve been similarly down on things for the past month, but I didn’t want to be accused of being unpatriotic by talking down the president or anything like that, or heaven forbid that our activism hurt some RINO’s chances for reelection and we hear holy hell from the Republican Wizard’s out there. Well, now the election is over and that BS can stop.

First of all, I literally don’t care that the Republicans lost power last night. Sure, when I look at it at an individual level, candidate by candidate, it’s a bit different. For all of their faults Senators Dewine and Santorum were pro-life warriors, and at heart decent men. It’s possible that Sherrod Brown will be beatable in 2012, but I believe Bob Casey Jr. will be in the Senate for thirty years. Jim Talent sold out needlessly on embryonic stem cells, which ironically cost him the election and ensured the legalization of government-funded harvesting of cloned embryos. Conrad Burns and George Allen were fools, either corrupt or inept, and honestly deserved to lose. I hope that this puts an end to Allen’s presidential ambitions, but some things know no bounds. I imagine that someone will whisper in his ear that all is well, and the establishment will still try and run him in 2008. Lincoln Chafee is at least an affable man, a truly amiable dunce. As far as I’m concerned, the one Senator coming up in 2008 that needs a stiff primary challenge is none other than Liddy Dole for wasting so much money to keep him in the club.

We learned a lot about the Republican leadership from this election. The deafening sound of silence on judicial nominations was the most notable, I personally would have bought hours of air-time, looping Nancy Pelosi’s “Almost as if God has spoken” comment on the Kelo decision over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again and again and again and again. Do you think a single home-owner, a single small business owner, even a small business attorney would vote for a Democrat once they heard that? You want to tell me that Democrat plans to steal citizens’ homes to build strip malls doesn’t poll well? Ahh, but the GOP is bought by the same people, and they want the same sweet deals for their contributers and themselves, so we had better play nice.

Getting Mike Pence elected Minority Leader is now the number one mission of conservative activists in America. If he loses his bid, and make no mistake that President Bush and his cronies in the House will stop at nothing to prevent it, then our mission becomes to get him the Republican nomination for President in 2008. The stakes are too high to go with any of this two-bit tribe of go-along to get-along governors and senators that have come forward. Winning with almost any of them is no better than losing. They can blame conservatives all they want for costing the Republicans this election, but the truth is that their actions have nearly cost us our future.