Thus, the Republican Party was on its way to being, basically, the anti-abortion party.
It comes pre-loaded with satellite navigation - apparently the next killer application for mobile - so there will be no excuses for getting lost on the way to the in-laws' Christmas party.
On the way there, I started to wonder if the party was still on.
At the same time, cable operators have been unable on their own to attract much in the way of third-party developers that might drag them into the Internet age.
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However, UUP deputy leader Danny Kennedy, referring to an incident in the deputy first minister's office on Monday, said that when his party wanted to discuss the way forward, instead they were "shown the way out".
Some reports had said the travelling party were on their way to a ski trip in the Alps but it has now emerged they were en-route to Lloret de Mar in Spain.
Shortly after the November elections, Republicans en masse began to acknowledge that the party had lost its way on the issue of fiscal discipline during the Bush administration.
In our system the winning party is the party that does better than anticipated, or, to put it another way, the party that causes the most embarrassment to commentators who insist on covering political campaigns by predicting results that everyone's going to know on election night anyway.
And consider this as you fill up on your way to a Super Bowl party this weekend: The oil and gas analyst Stephen Schork notes that while gasoline prices may seem high, they haven't risen nearly as fast as tickets to the big game.
MPs were given a free vote on the bill, meaning they were not ordered to vote a particular way by party whips.
Accusations of inappropriate behaviour against former Lib Dem executive Lord Rennard have emerged, causing the party to launch investigations into what went on and the way it handled the issue.
Scottish Labour MSP James Kelly, who is also a co-convener of the cross party group on fairtrade, said the debate was an excellent way to start the fairtrade fortnight.
On one side of the issue, Republicans and tea party activists argue that a key way to trim out-of-control state government spending and deficits is by targeting collective bargaining rights.
And if American Jews want to leave the party, well, they shouldn't slam the door on their way out.
On the way out of the party, we were given a small figure of a grizzly bear in which to hide a stick of antiperspirant.
Collectively, the parliamentary Conservative Party had decided on a flight to competence and nothing was going to get in its way.
Currently that list includes PCs with 1.2GHz processors or higher (no Atom powered netbooks invited to this party) and iOS devices, although an app for Android is apparently on the way.
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Will Nick Clegg use his party conference to update voters on the policy or could there be another "sorry" on the way?
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