Good topic to leave you with during the overnight hours and during the day tomorrow. Comments are open.
Assuming he doesn’t quickly endorse one candidate or the other, who does Edwards’ exit help? There are some number crunching arguments that it helps Hillary — with the three candidates to split delegates in states where [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Edwards · Obama
Hmmm. Don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like this before. It’ll be interesting to see if viewers will actively choose MSNBC’s discussions after the debates or just lazily stick with CNN, where the debates are airing.
MSNBC to air post CNN-Debate Countdown…
MSNBC announced that Keith Olbermann will be hosing a special 10pm edition of Countdown following the Republican debate on CNN… Keith Olbermann will anchor a special edition of “Countdown” Thursday, Jan. 31, 10-11 p.m. ET. The special live “Countdown” airs after the Democratic candidates debate in Los Angeles. “After you watch it there, come and understand it [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Television
We blogged before about this happening…on the East Coast. Now, we’re hearing the same kind of horrible reports from California. Likely, you can find instances almost anywhere. As a pet lover, it turns my stomach.
Owners Ditch Pets After Houses Foreclose
The house was ravaged — its floors ripped, walls busted and lights smashed by owners who trashed their home before a bank foreclosed on it. Hidden in the wreckage was an abandoned member of the family: a starving pit bull. The dog found by workers was too far gone to save — another example of how pets are becoming the newest victims of the nation’s mortgage crisis as homeowners leave animals behind when they can no longer afford their property. Pets “are getting dumped all over,” said Traci Jennings, president of [...]
Tags: Foreclosures, Pets
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
I looked through our local paper this morning, not surprised to see no coverage. But, you’d think the big names in the industry would do their job. Sadly, no.
Major papers ignore Bush’s Iraq signing statement.
On Monday, President Bush issued a signing statement on the National Defense Authorization Act. Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post rips the lack of media news stories on Bush’s neglect of the Constitution: “Looking for a news story about all this in your morning paper? You won’t find one in The Washington Post, the [...]
Tags: Signing Statements
Categories: Bush Administration
Here we go, another round of allegations that American troops did the unthinkable.
Army Investigating Allegations That US Troops Killed Iraqi Detainees
U.S. Army officials are investigating allegations that American soldiers killed several detainees after they were captured on a battlefield in southwest Baghdad last year, officials said Tuesday. Military officials said the incident under review took place about [...]
Tags: Army
Categories: Military
Not making nice.
Bush to charge Congress $200 per copy of his budget
In a move it says is aimed at saving money and trees, the Bush administration plans to charge lawmakers $200 for copies of this year’s federal budget. Democrats and Republicans alike groaned about the decision, telling The Hill that [...]
Tags: Federal Budget
Categories: Bush Administration
Our once-solid American Economy is in trouble. It seems to be crumbling more each and every day…
Fasten your seatbelts. Economic growth is tanking and inflation is spiking:Gross domestic product rose at a seasonally adjusted 0.6% annual rate October through December, the Commerce Department said Wednesday in the first estimate of fourth-quarter GDP. Aside from [...]
Categories: Economy
Now that John McCain has settled into what many consider the presumptive nominee position, reporters are looking more closely at him. And, they’re asking some tough questions.
McCain and the ‘presidential temperament’ question
If Dems are planning to start crafting campaign narratives surrounding John McCain, I might recommend an obvious one: the senator appears to have temperament issues. Investor’s Business Daily, a conservative economic publication, asks this week, “Can McCain Control His Temper?” John McCain claims his temper is not an issue. “I don’t think I would [...]
Tags: John McCain
Categories: McCain
Absolutely horrifying.
A shocking video from the Human Society about how cows, whose meat is used in America’s school lunch program in 36 states, are allegedly being treated by a leading cattle slaughterhouse in California. In an effort to get sickly-looking cows to stand up for inspection by the FDA, the slaughterhouse allegedly shoots water up cows’ noses, uses a forklift to shove the animals, jabs them in [...]
Tags: Slaughterhouse, Animal Torture
Categories: Torture
It took some prodding from Ted Kennedy, but we did get a pretty good quote out of today’s torture testimony…
Mukasey On Waterboarding: ‘I Would Feel That It Was’ Torture ‘If It Were Done To Me’
In today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey whether waterboarding is torture. “Would waterboarding be torture if it were done to you?” “I would feel that it was,” said Mukasey. He then continued to dodge the question on whether the procedure is illegal by going on a tangent [...]
Tags: Torture, Waterboarding, Mukasey
Categories: Torture · Waterboarding
Let’s really jump ahead for a moment, shall we?
Who Should Clinton Or Obama Choose As VP?
Just to lighten things up a bit, let’s start a pointless irrelevant thread — who should Obama or Edwards pick as their VPs? I am on record that Clinton has no real choice here - Barack Obama would almost have to be her VP choice, and yes, he would accept it. For Obama, [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
Oh, my. Smackdown!
Michael Gerson has the thankless task of defending George W. Bush as a compassionate conservative who doesn’t get credit for all the good things he’s done. “Watching the speech, I recalled meeting Gov. Bush of Texas in the spring of 1999, before he was a declared candidate. He talked with rushed intensity about being a “different kind of Republican,” dedicated to racial healing and helping the poor and determined to provide moral leadership as a contrast and corrective to the Clinton years. Because [...]
Tags: George W. Bush
Categories: George W. Bush
Yes, Indeed. He won in Florida. But John McCain isn’t a favorite among many.
I’m not saying anything here that we don’t already know, but the Florida exit polls confirm that John McCain has a big problem. As expected, he does well among independents and moderates, but also as expected, he does [...]
Anxiety overcomes conservatives as McCain solidifies frontrunner status
Last night, not too long after John McCain was declared the winner of Florida’s Republican primary, National Review’s Michael Graham wrote an item called, “It’s all over.” Assuming there is no shocking revelation or health issue, the GOP nomination is over. Conservatives need to start practicing the phrase “Nominee presumptive John McCa….” Sorry, I can’t say it. [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, John McCain
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain
It’s all downhill to the weekend! And we begin tonight with politics. Surprised? Hah!
First of all, the Democrats as a party scored big in Florida. Turnout was huge among Democrats — just truly impressive in a state that knew that it was being neglected by Democratic campaigners for [...]
And, Edwards and Giuliani both dropped out. The numbers dwindle.
Tags: 2008 Election, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani
Categories: 2008 Election · Edwards · Giuliani
Great lesson in political thought processes.
I read a lot of far-right blogs for one of my other gigs, and it occurs to me once in a while that most readers of progressive blogs probably don’t have a good sense of how the “other side” thinks. How do they perceive the same events that we see? How do they endorse ideas [...]
Tags: Blogging
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