They continue to just make stuff up. Take note, sir, there actually IS a poll of the American people. And there is NOT 99% in agreement…
GOPer: 99% of Americans Would Support Waterboarding
It’s not even a close call, says Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX). If you’ve got a terrorist, and he has information that could save thousands of Americans lives, waterboarding is a no-brainer: “99% of the American people” would support such a [...]
Tags: Mukasey, Torture, Waterboarding
Categories: Torture · Waterboarding
Didn’t expect much more, but it’s still disheartening.
Mukasey won’t pursue waterboarding inquiry.
In a congressional hearing today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) asked Attorney General Mike Mukasey whether he plans to “investigate whether U.S. interrogators broke the law when waterboarding al-Qaida detainees the years after 9/11.” Mukasey declined: “Are you ready to start a criminal investigation into whether this confirmed use of waterboarding by [...]
Tags: Mukasey, Torture, Waterboarding
Categories: Bush Administration · Torture · Waterboarding
The blogosphere is busy trying to figure out the Clinton’s finances. Initial reports are far from flattering.
Hillary’s $5 Million Dump (Truck)
Now that’s what one might call a heckuva coincidence. A handful of weeks ago, Bill Clinton disentangles his investment partnership with billionaire Ron Burkle, producing an estimated $20 million windfall. And now we learn that the suddenly flush Clintons are loaning Hillary’s campaign $5 million from their joint assets to bridge it through a funding [...]
Tags: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Wow. Tough talk from a group of Vietnam Vets. They’re publically dissing McCain for his performance as a pilot.
The Flying McStain: Just Unlucky, Or A Really Rotten Pilot?
He “lost” five aircraft. No, really. Seems, even then, he was a big supporter of the the “war bidness,” personally accounting for 5 wrecked, crashed, or shot-down jet fighters. No, really. “Navy pilot John Sidney McCain III should have never been allowed to graduate from the U.S. Navy flight school. He was a below average student and a lousy pilot. Had his father and [...]
Tags: John McCain
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain · Military
Hey, folks. Over here! It’s just us in little old Arkansas. You know, the place that got whumped by mother nature this week. Us and a bunch of our friends and neighbors to the east. Don’t forget about us! We’re just a bit worried because of, you know, your past performance.
All Eyes on FEMA After Tornadoes
Even before the federal reinforcements arrived, a Democratic senator was warning FEMA to do better than past disasters [...]
I just realized that the first damage reports were not very far northeast of Arkansas Nuclear One – our big nuclear power facility. If all of the destruction had started just a few miles southwest of where it did…oh, my.
Categories: Bush Administration · FEMA · Tornado
This is looking really ugly. And I’m surprised that McCain is okay with it. There will be some unhappy moderate Republicans.
Since that surge is working so well, I guess we’re just going to have to keep surging. Forever. According to The Hill: “This year’s battle over Iraq war funding officially kicked off Wednesday as Defense Secretary Robert Gates reluctantly offered a price tag for the first time: [...]
Tags: Budget
Categories: Bush Administration
Ah, ya just gotta love him. Such a class act.
Cheney: ‘You’re damn right’ I’d attack Iraq again.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) today — where one presenter said the C should stand for his last name — Vice President Dick Cheney “offered an aggressive, unwavering defense of the Bush administration.” Saying President Bush “made the right decisions for the right reasons,” Cheney declared “Would I support those same decisions [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
Once again, a negative report on the environment is held up by the Bush Administration. Please note that this one has information that could be bad news for 9 million Americans.
The Center for Public Integrity reports today that “for more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states” because of “alarming information” about “elevated infant mortality and cancer rates” potentially threatening “more than nine million” Americans. [...]
Categories: Environment
Tagged: Environmental Report, Great Lakes
It may be up to Howard Dean to avoid this. And, if he has to get the candidates together to decide who’s going to get the nod, I’d love to listen in during THAT meeting! Or else, this is what we face..
The Wall Street Journal points to a wonderful scenario for political junkies but a “nightmare” for Democrats: “The party’s bigwigs, rather than its voters, may end up choosing the presidential nominee.” If neither Sen. Barack Obama nor [...]
More on the math:
The Washington Post’s Paul Kane: “We’ve done a bad job of explaining this, but it is now basically mathematically impossible for either Clinton or Obama to win the nomination through the regular voting process (meaning the super-delegates decide this one, baby!). “Here’s the math. There are [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Brokered Convention
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
I was waiting for the first round of semi-critical stories about the Obama campaign. After all the fund-raising revelations, somebody was going to start digging…
If you’ve been waiting for the inevitable press backlash against Barack Obama, this piece from Jack Tapper might be a harbinger: “Obama supporter Kathleen Geier writes that she’s “getting increasingly weirded out by some of Obama’s supporters….Describing various [...]
Tags: Barack Obama
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
Well, almost in the mail.
The House and Senate overwhelmingly passed a $151 billion stimulus package this afternoon, by votes of 380-34 and 81-16, respectively. The bill will provide tax rebates to more than 110 million Americans; the Senate version added senior citizens and disabled veterans to the list of those receiving rebates on the original House bill. The legislation will likely receive a similar warm reception at [...]
Categories: Congress · Economy · Taxes
Tagged: Tax Rebate
Try and make sense out of this. Just try.
Saudi Arabia Police Jail American Female For….
Sitting at the same table with a male co-worker at a Starbucks!!: “A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia’s religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh, according to a [...]
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Woman Arrested
Categories: Middle East
How can she go from “frontrunner” to “out of cash” so quickly? This really goes a long way to explain why our political system now makes it impossible for a normal citizen to successfully run for office. It now takes millions and millions of dollars. That’s not the way it was supposed to be.
Hillary Clinton’s unexpected (and inconvenient) money troubles
After a rally in Manhattan on Tuesday night, Terry McAuliffe, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, was asked about the state of the candidate’s finances. “Look, if there’s one thing Hillary Clinton doesn’t have to worry about, it’s money,” McAuliffe said. At the time, that certainly made sense. Clinton raised over $100 million in 2007, outpacing every candidate [...]
And, the more comments like this we see, the tougher it’s going to be for Clinton to generate the excitement that leads to donations…
3 Reasons Why Obama Is Better Positioned To Win The Nomination Than Clinton
Pundits, prognosticators and polls aside, there are three extremely good reasons why Barack Obama is better poised to capture the Democratic nomination than Hillary Clinton is. I’ll outline why that’s the case in the next 629 words. 3. It’s All (Or Largely) About The Benjamins. Simply put, Barack is rolling in the dough. He’s got the most efficient [...]
UPDATE: Apparently, donors don’t mirror my concerns. She’s doing pretty good..
Apparently, the Clinton campaign set a target of raising $3M online within 72 hours of the closing of polls on Super Tuesday. According to the campaign, they far excedded that goal within 24 hours and have raised almost $4M already – partly due to a significant upsurge in new donors. They claim this is their largest single-day online fundraising in [...]
And, in case you were wondering, here’s Where the money went.
Hillary Clinton spent more than $77 million on her campaign in 2007, and her campaign said she had about $25 million in early January to spend in [...]
UPDATE: Yup, she’s doing just fine.
Tags: Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Quite simply put, this is stupidity at its worst. There was, obviously, no attempt made to ensure this debacle didn’t happen. And, somebody should have figured it would happen.
Filling in the Ovals on LA County’s Super Tuesday ‘Double Bubble’ Debacle
We believe we’ve can now pull this issue up out of the weeds a bit, after more than 24 hours of trying to make sense of what the Los Angeles County Registrar’s office has been describing to the media as “real clear”. What’s clear, is that the only thing that’s clear [...]
Categories: Electronic Voting Machines
I’ll confess. I’ve not been a good community blogger this week. Being under the weather didn’t help, but I wasn’t THAT sick. I really should have done more about the horrible tornadoes that ravaged our state, and those just off to the east. Others, however, are filling in. Thanks. A million.
Help out your fellow Americans
…While the so-called president is offering prayers instead of real, concrete help (because God forbid Blackwater should sacrifice a few dollars to Americans whose homes have been destroyed, it’s up to the rest of us to prove that what Barack Obama said in 2004 was right — that we are not red states and blue states, that we are all Americans, and while we may [...]
Tags: Tornado
I could understand one cable being cut. Maybe two. But, we’re now up to FIVE! I’m thinking this is more than just a coincidence, considering the darn things are at the bottom of the ocean!
Fifth Middle East Undersea Internet Cable Reportedly Cut
We momentarily interrupt our Election Meltdown ‘08 coverage to quickly point out that a total of five large undersea Internet cables, leading to various areas of the Middle East, have now reportedly been “cut.” The Khaleej Times reports that “An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been [...]
What about the other four? Ship’s anchor cut Gulf Internet cable
Tags: Internet Cable Cut
Categories: Internet
I’ve long been a bit baffled by conflicting reports on the Canadian healthcare system. Some say it’s absolutely wonderful. Others say it’s a nightmare. Since we seem to be moving closer to some type of national healthcare system, I found the information below to be fascinating. And helpful. The Canadian way doesn’t seem to be all that bad…
Good Read: 10 Myths About Canadian Health Care, Busted If you haven’t seen it yet, “Sicko” can be viewed online at google video. I’ve been watching it again (I must be a masochist.) From what I have been reading lately, it appears that Hillary hatred started when her husband put her in charge of healthcare and it scared the hell out of the neocons who were deadset against it. Affordable [...]
Tags: Health Care
Categories: Health Care
Huckabee says he’s hanging in there . Romney, not so much.
Mitt Romney abandoned his flailing campaign for the GOP nom today, telling a supportive audience at the CPAC convention that he and his fellow conservatives must withstand cultural attacks from the left, cut income and corporate taxes, and put unions in their place. It was technically an exit speech, but it sounded more like he was debuting his pitch to be the Republicans’ pick in 2012. And during and after Romney spoke, the crowd routinely booed references to [...]
Mitt’s not getting “attaboys” for that speech..
…Romney is a no-count loser and a mental lightweight, so we probably shouldn’t read too much into his words — McCain and the Republican Party no longer have [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, John McCain, Romney
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain · Romney
Well, I’m back among the living. Somewhat. Struggled back to work today, challenged to keep the fingers connected to the brain so I could make the keyboard work. Not that tonight is much better, but we’ll muddle through.
Let’s take a look at the latest Iraq report card. Here’s a hint: it ain’t a pretty picture. At least from this point of view, it’s not.
Iraq’s political situation continues to be a disaster. All our troops are there to keep things as stable as they can so Iraq’s government can get itself together . . . but the government simply isn’t doing so. A year after President Bush set out his benchmarks for Iraq, using them to justify a massive increase in troops and a prolonged U.S. presence, the Center for American Progress reports that [...]
Oh, if that one doesn’t pump your blood pressure high enough, THIS one really got to me…
Your tax dollars at work: Secret Service motorcade for Darth’s dog
I can’t wait for these “conservative” leeches to leave office. Dick Cheney couldn’t call a yellow cab for the dog, or get Lynne to drop off the pooch, no – he procured 2 limos and Secret Service protection to take his Lab to the vet for a routine visit. (NBC): “A motorcade caused its expected commotion [...]
Tags: Iraq
Categories: Iraq War
The democratic contest is getting rough. Not that politics shouldn’t be that way, but..
I am not dedicated to bashing Obama because I am a political sadist bent on torturing and disparaging a deserving, ambitious man. But if he wants to be President he needs to be fully vetted. We have suffered through one amicable goof for the past seven years and cannot afford another mistake. Unfortunately, Hillary [...]
Tags: 2008 Elections, Hillary Clinton, Obama
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
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