It’s not going away.
Brian Ross has done it again. This is a KEY line: News organizations have found “Rezko-linked contributions that are more than double what the campaign has publicly acknowledged…” Be sure to watch Nightline tonight: … “We have returned any money that we know was associated to Mr. Rezko,” Obama told Diane Sawyer on Wednesday morning [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
Tagged: Rezko
Don’t anyone ever try to tell me that my state of Arkansas is “backwards” and “behind the times”. New Hampshire has locked up those terms and may not give them up for a long time. This is appalling. Storing ballots in broken down cardboard boxes! The opportunity for something nefarious is obvious.
Behold the “chain of custody” for the ballots in New Hampshire’s ongoing Election Contest hand counts. The man seen in the still frame below, on the right, is NH Sec. of State Bill Gardner… The above video clips were recorded and compiled by election watchdogs [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Electronic Voting Machines
I’ve probably used that phrase (The Gloves Come Off) before. And, likely, in similar situations, when the Democrats seem poised to do what the electorate expected of them on election day. The question is: will the Dems hang in there, this time. The track record is not good.
State of the Union Sparring Signals Early End to Bipartisanship
Democratic leaders in Congress changed course Friday from the bipartisanship that has characterized efforts to stimulate the economy, outlining a legislative agenda that challenges President Bush and other Republicans on a broad front [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Congress
Categories: Bush Administration · Congress
It’s the domino effect.
Who will prop up the bond insurers during the meltdown?
Who needs regulation and oversight anyway? Surely there are billions of extra cash just laying around to bail out this next group, right? If these cowboys weren’t dragging us all down, it would be easier to let them lose so much money, but because of their own failures, we’re all having to pay the price for [...]
Tags: Economy, Home Sales
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
They’re writing him off for the Presidency, but locking him in for Number Two. Surprised? Concerned?
Mike Huckabee: Everyone’s First Choice for VP on the GOP Ticket
…If Romney or McCain or Giuliani were to win the GOP nomination, the name that would come in first on most of those lists is Mike Huckabee. Some in the Republican camp are pushing Chuck Hagel as a partner for Romney if he wins the nod — and [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Huckabee
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee
Last night’s debate wasn’t very exciting, so good quotes are limited. This will have to suffice…
Huckabee: Iraq’s WMD Were Hidden Like ‘Easter Eggs’ And Then Moved To Jordan
During the Republican presidential debate last night, Mike Huckabee suggested that Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction, but that they were moved prior to the war. In making this observation, Huckabee compared Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to an Easter egg hunt: Everybody can look back and say, oh well we didn’t find the weapons. [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Debate, Huckabee
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee
Maybe his memory is just failing…
Last night during the latest in the never-ending series of GOP primary debates, which was truly the most unfathomably, yawn-inducingly dull affair yet (transcript: “I’ve done this and this and that and my record blah blah,” repeat ad infinitum), Tim Russert asked John McCain to address having said he needs to be educated about the economy, which Russert quoted as: [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Debate, John McCain
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain
In the event this becomes a campaign issue (and it should NOT), consider yourself warned.
A pretty impressive piece of research surfaced on the Today Show this morning: An undated picture of the Clintons and Tony Rezko [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Rezko
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Excellent work. Reminded me of how much I’d forgotten about the system.
Delegates, superdelegates, and brokered conventions … oh my
The likelihood that the race for the Democratic presidential nomination will not be wrapped up before the convention seems, at least to me, remote. It could happen, and it’d be kind of fun to watch if it did happen, but a brokered convention probably isn’t in the cards. That said, given the competitive nature of the [...]
Tags: Conventions, Brokered Convention
Categories: 2008 Election
Here’s your Friday Night Funny. At least some of you will find it worthy of a grin. Some of you may take offense. Sorry.
Wherein I Announce My Candidacy for President
After watching the Republican debate last night (okay, only parts of it, really, really tiny parts), I soon realized that I was at least as capable as any of the current GOP candidates. In fact, all things considered, I’m probably smarter than all of them — combined (and that statement alone more than adequately establishes the arrogance required to run for Leader of the Used to be Free World). So why shouldn’t I run for President? But not as a Democrat obviously. The Democratic candidates actually have some brains and [...]
Tags: Democrats, Republicans
Categories: 2008 Election · Democrats · Republicans
The Tax Rebate plan. Is the devil in the details, or the lack thereof?
Economic Stimulus or Political Bailout?
House Democratic and Republican leaders reached tentative agreement on a “stimulus package” yesterday, and President Bush quickly endorsed it. So the question before the American people is whether any package that has the agreement of the President and Republican leadership worth doing? Or is this really a package designed merely to boost Congress’ and Bush’s dysmal approval ratings? [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Tax Rebates, Taxes
Categories: Bush Administration · Taxes
For those who believe newspaper endorsements are important, this is a big one.
The N.Y. Times Endorses Hillary Clinton
The editorial board of the N.Y. Times has endorsed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primaries today, noting that the “early primaries produced two powerful main contenders: Hillary Clinton, the brilliant if at times harsh-sounding senator from New York; and Barack Obama, the incandescent if still undefined senator from Illinois.” The endorsement takes an interesting look at the [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Hmmm. See what you think. Very strange…
Was that a whisper in Romney’s Ear?
What’s a debate without a little blogging fun? During the GOP Presidential Debate on MSNBC, a very curious thing happened during a Tim Russert question to Mitt Romney. You can hear what seemed like an on air-whispered answer directed at Romney in some fashion that I can’t determine–to a Reagan question about Social Security. It’s [...]
UPDATE: Lots of talk that the “whisper” did come from an earpiece in Romney’s ear.
Romney’s (or is it Russert’s?) debate cheating may finally force this [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Romney
Categories: 2008 Election · Romney
Again. We’ve made it through another one. Traversed the days, done the work and even slept a bit. Not as much as needed, but a bit. Enjoy your weekend.
And, enjoy this story. As one blogger noted, it’s the Keystone Cops, IRS-style. Our ultra-efficient government, in action. Or not.
Why am I not surprised that the Bush Administration’s IRS isn’t going to be able to process these much-vaunted “stimulus”* checks in time to make a difference? “The checks will be in the mail — eventually. But President Bush’s plan to send payments to 117 million households to stimulate the economy would impose [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Taxes
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