The current political polls are all over the map, making it very difficult to do anything more than make an educated guess as to the outcome of next week’s Iowa Caucuses. Go ahead. Play “political analyst” - explain ‘em to all of us.
New Iowa Poll: Hillary Pulling Ahead of Pack
I thought that Hillary Clinton and Obama were basically tied in Iowa — with Obama with a bit of an edge. Then I saw a poll suggesting Edwards was surging and might take the prize. A new poll, however, shows Hillary Clinton with a “stunning [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Iowa Caucuses
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Maybe Ron Paul has had a change of heart, a revelation that what he said 15 years ago could come back to haunt him. Why this hasn’t been thrown back in his face more forcibly, I don’t know.
The Overt Racist in the GOP Field
…. Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the “criminal justice system,” I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal [....]
Oh, that’s just the beginning. Follow the links to read it all. I’m sure a Ron Paul supporter will hit the comments and try to explain it all. Please, feel free to do so!
Tags: 2008 Election, Ron Paul, Racism
Categories: 2008 Election
We simply aren’t happy with what we’re seeing in Washington. The country’s not headed in the direction most Americans seem to want. That’s why we have elections. Quite frankly, Americans are beyond “unhappy” and are all the way to “angry”. Angry voters are emotional voters. Get it?
Does The Country Love Liberals?
I keep seeing the same analysis. Americans are unhappy with the status quo and hence the surprise showings of candidates such as Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul. They’re sick of detached, elitist, power-hungry candidates whose personal agenda is something other than genuine concern for people and clear and honest principles… …The bad news for Republicans is that [...]
Tags: 2008 Election
Categories: 2008 Election
Especially when you can “misplace” millions in guns, etc. and still keep the contract. Isn’t that, honestly, a very nice gig?
$28 Million in Missing Contractor-Used Cars, Guns and Radios
A September 2007 State Department report, obtained by TPMmuckraker, found that contractors DynCorp and Blackwater can’t account for $28.4 million in U.S. government-issued property in Afghanistan, including armored cars, guns and radios. The report, prepared by the State Department inspector-general’s office, hits the department for [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Blackwater, DynCorp
Categories: Blackwater · Bush Administration
It’s been known that the President’s job performance rating among Americans has been dismally low for some time. Now, it’s tanking even among military families. They’re not buying his Iraq War campaign any longer. But, will the Bush Administration listen? Not likely? Should polls help determine administration decisions?
55 Percent:
Number of “close family members of U.S. troops” who “disapprove of President Bush’s job performance,” according to a USA Today analysis of recent polls. A December LA Times/Bloomberg poll also found that just 36 percent of active-duty military, veterans, and their families believe “it was worth going to war in Iraq,” compared to a 2004 [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Iraq
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
Everybody does them at the end of the year - Top Ten Lists. Juan Cole is, in my estimation, one of the best analysts of the Middle East. He is President of the Global Americana Institute and seems to know the real meaning of events there; analysis that frequently flies in the face of the talking points we hear from Washington. With that in mind, consider this a “keeper” post that should provide you with much fodder for discussions at parties this holiday season..
Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2007
10. Myth: The US public no longer sees Iraq as a central issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. “In a recent ABC News/ Washington Post poll, Iraq and the economy were virtually tied among voters nationally, with nearly a quarter of voters in each case saying it was their number one issue. The economy had [...]
Tags: Iraq
Categories: Iraq War
Literally. In the hunt for Iowa pheasants. Did my fair share of walking those corn rows as a young man, scaring up birds. We didn’t use dogs, though, preferring to retrieve the birds ourselves. Of course, I also deferred to more hard-core hunters who would go out on the coldest of days. I liked it better when the temp was above freezing!
Huck Shoots To Kill In Iowa
Mike Huckabee, in the midst of a push to show his steely resolve in the face of direct attacks from former frontrunner Mitt Romney, polished up his gun and set off into the snowy fields of Iowa for an old-fashioned pheasant hunt. On a trip rich with metaphorical potential, Huckabee donned a blaze orange vest and [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Huckabee
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee
The President will continue to tell you it’s doing pretty well, thank you. Living in a surreal anti-world, perhaps it is. A local blog noted that there were more than eight pages of foreclosures in the paper on Christmas Day. EIGHT PAGES in a very small font. And retailers? Well..
Bush Economy is One Big Lump of Coal for Retailers
I thought Republicans were supposed to be good for business. “A surge in spending over the weekend may not have been enough to rescue Target, Sears Holdings and Macy’s from the slowest holiday spending season in five years.” A five year low! Why on Earth would [...]
Now, let’s back away from the holiday focus, and look at the big picture. A word of caution - this analysis ain’t pretty. Not at all…
The Credit Warhead About to Detonate?
Happy Winter Solstice, y’all. And now, to make sure your holiday is so rich with DOOM-grade terror, let’s again remember that 2008 may look like far worse than 1929 ever did [...]
Tags: Economy, Christmas Shopping
Categories: Economy
December 26, 2007 · 1 Comment
Is the Huckabee campaign fixin’ to go down in Kamikaze flames?
Final Pre-Iowa Meet The Press: Huckabee and Obama
For weeks Mike Huckabee has avoided Tim Russert while touring the Sunday-morning talk-show circuit. NBC’s Washington bureau chief has lobbied hard to get Huckabee on Meet the Press, but Huckabee has shied away from Russert’s withering Q&A. Until now. Huckabee is going live on the show this Sunday (as is Barack Obama), four days before the Iowa caucuses. His comments with Russert will likely be [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Huckabee, Obama
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee · Obama
Who’s responsible? Our favorite gun-slinger, Dick Cheney. Proof, positive, that the VP still has a lot of power. At least, in certain areas.
Cheney at Work
Before EPA administrator Stephen Johnson rejected California’s application to impose greenhouse-gas regulations beyond federal requirements, auto executives appealed directly to Dick Cheney. Sure enough, Johnson delayed his decision until after the VP had talked to the execs: “On multiple occasions in October and November, Cheney and White House staff members met with industry executives, including the [...]
Tags: Cheney, Environment, California
Categories: Bush Administration · Environment
Time flies.
Christmas In Iraq
U.S. troops just spent their fifth Christmas in Iraq since the war began in 2003. But it’s easy to forget the troops have actually now been there for 18 consecutive Christmases. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the event that kicked off two wars and the no fly zones, occurred in August 1990. It has been so long since [...]
Tags: Iraq
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
And, because we are “dog people”, rather than “cat people”.
Categories: Uncategorized
Christmas is past. Over. Done. Fini. Almost. Around our place, we have one family get-together to celebrate this evening. Then, life returns to normal. Maybe. It seems the entire world is taking extra time off this week. There was no traffic going in to work today and nothing on the return trip home. We’ll kind of slowly try to get back into our usual routing of passing along links to information we find intriguing. We’ll begin with a good analysis of a New York Times story that made the front page today.
Do Clinton’s First Lady Years Count?
Hillary Clinton offers voters a very compelling pitch about her years of service in public life, which invariably leads to poll results showing her with large leads over her competitors on the issue of experience. But part of this, of course, includes her eight years as First Lady, which historically has been far more of [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
