tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31067432993958024972011-09-24T13:46:39.904-05:00Politics in Current Events and the NewsStephen Daughertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643939765716134073noreply@blogger.comBlogger1151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106743299395802497.post-70129377165982542092011-09-24T13:46:00.000-05:002011-09-24T13:46:40.071-05:00

...what does using a teleprompter to make a joke about somebody relying on one make you? It's a bit of a dogwhistle, you know, and a way to handwave the fact that when Obama gives a speech from a teleprompter, he leaves twerps like him in the dust. The Republicans are jealous because they spent the last eight years before Obama supporting a man who was bad on a teleprompter, and worse off of it

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President Obama to Pocket-Veto Bill That Might Make It Easier to Foreclose on Homes - Political Punch:Our system depends on the reliability of our transaction. Some, in the question to expedite their making money off of foreclosure sales, are cutting corners and creating a system that makes it fundamentally impossible to review and verify the validity of these proceedings.This bill would have

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O'Donnell complains of 'character assassination' - CNN.comThis is a woman whom one discredits by quoting in full detail and context.

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We're not on a 'road to serfdom' - CNN.comRepublicans are almost literally afraid of their own shadow. They wonder, if they've won all they've won, why government still grows, why the deficits and the debt grows for the country. They blame it on liberals.But they're responsible for much of that debt and spending themselves. I doubt its all truly intentional. I believe that they simply believe

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This is what a skilled communicator's notes actually look like.

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Is Bayh this much of a moron?Yes, spring a surprise retirement on the Democrats, reducing their margin, complaining about bipartisanship that the Republicans are willfully refusing to participate in, and then turn around and try to run for President.Senator Bayh? When did your brain become sufficiently damaged that you thought pulling a Palin would be good for your career?

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Obama's 'stupid' jab at Vegas - CNN.comI heard what he said. And you know what, Mr. Jillette? Lighten up. Your Oasis in the sand has built it's reputation as a land of forbidden fruits. And I'm pretty sure some people actually spend money they shouldn't actually be spending there. I know you have a pretty big stake in this, and I'm sure you earn every dollar of your money. I love your

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This is rich.Never mind that the guy was from Nigeria. Never mind if folks have already looked at these folks and found them not to be a threat.Cuz that's what we do with terrorists: we react! Makes good political hay, and terrible sense if you really think about it.We can distract ourselves with a bunch of poorly founded suspicions, or we can go after actual leads. Our choice.

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But funny anyways. ;-)

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Sarah Palin wants to friend you - CNN.comSure, it might say something that she brought social media to the Republicans. But all the social media in the world will not help somebody make friends who so casually ticks people who aren't die-hard republicans off.Sarah's problem is that when she gets close to the presidency, people start getting nervous. Barack Obama, while labelled a celebrity

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Daily Kos: State of the Nation: "'This weekend, President Obama declared a national emergency in response to thegrowing threat of swine flu. ... In response to Obama's declaration, theRepublican leaders this morning came out in support of the swine flu.'---Jimmy Kimmel"The sad thing about this joke is how close the Real Republican party is to doing exactly this. Not much difference between doing

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Quote of the Day Mother Jones: "If you find yourself chewing the memory card in your cellphone to destroy anyrecord of your misconduct, something has gone terribly wrong with yourcharacter."I agree with Kevin Drum on this one. I would venture to add, though, that SDHC cards are far more tastier than SIM Cards, though, especially with a nice Hollandaise sauce.

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GOP victory Tuesday won't erase party's problems - Yahoo! News:"'Right now there's no central Republican leader to turn to, and there's nocentral Republican message,' conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh told FoxNews on Sunday. 'The Republican message is sort of muddied. What do they standfor? Right now it's opposition to Obama.'"Really? And who's responsible for that?People like you have

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Media Confirms: Obama a Jedi Master.

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Sanford: I Shouldn't Resign Because "God Can Use Imperfect People To Perform His Will" TPMMuckrakerThere's a range at work governor, and while it's certainly a nation or a states choice whether they accept your kind of imperfection, they don't have to tolerate things without limit. If they find your conduct objectionable enough, you're not making friends by invoking it as "imperfection" or by

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The VO Stupid Facebook Meme Of The Day: "Stupid Facebook Meme Of The DayA neat “progressive” meme is currently all the rage on Facebook. Stupid, but it sure sounds nice."That's a Right Wing Blogger's take on things. But what's he calling stupid?No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one shouldgo broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your

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#zingfailThe intensity of the stupid burned away his aging process, that's how.

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I'm not sure how well an apology fixes things like this.If you are sincerely apologetic, break ties to this kind of racism. If you really were unaware of how offensive this was, when you first saw it, then you should consider what that says about who you're listening to, who you're hanging around with.Folks on the right in general are not making good judgments as to who or what they're hanging

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Short comment, pretty simple: As far as empathy goes in law, the Republicans state that empathy eviscerates impartiality.Merriam Webster defines empathy so:the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully

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Is That a Euphemism?Among the names on the Stormy Daniels Exploratory Committee: Dick Johnson, Peter Rodman, Percy Hardwicke, and Long Min Hung. Apparently tabling measures is very popular, and everybody joins in on that intercourse.What?

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Insert Headline HereI'm just going to leave the defaults up. That's what folks at the LA Times did.The thing to keep in mind here is this: Once upon a time, you did your best to be productive and earn a profit by drumming up business well. Then came the age of the dominance of finance and speculation in the markets, and so it became more important to consistently make profits. But of course,

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Oh Noes! The Left is organizing a large organization of people do do things! It must be the Hitler Youth! Or at least a Left Wing Slush Fund.Okay, let me explain this in rather unconfused terms. The Hitler Youth was Adolf's personal youth fan club. It was created during the rise of the Nazi Party. It was paramilitary. Kids were actually trained to become Nazi soldiers.As for calling it a

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This makes Madoff's case all the more intriguing, if right. The author makes the case that Madoff's fund wasn't a Ponzi scheme, but in fact a very complex, sophisticated money laundering operation.The connection the author makes that grabs my attention is the one with the groups and individuals who own GM and Chrysler. Have to wonder what comes of this.

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Prince sends note to suicide couple's family - CNN.com:The insanity in one particular passage in this sad story speaks for itself:"Had they had the option of an assisted death in this country they maystill be alive, as their physical ability to travel would not have been afactor," said Sarah Wootton, chief executive of Dignity in Dying.Yes, if they could have killed themselves at home, they might

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This is what Rush really thinks about what he does:This is what happens when Republicans don't agree with this guy.The conservative movement is tearing itself apart over a guy who intentionally provokes an atmosphere of hostility on his program in order to attract viewers. There's a certain poetic irony in this turn of events. The GOP benefited from similar tactics to that which Limbaugh

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Former Republican Senator leading watchdog has taken a seat on the board of a subsidiary of Bank of New York Mellon. How can it be? The Republicans are fully able to sort out their conflicts of interests for the good of the country. Just look at Halliburton and Dick Cheney!Seriously, though, when are the people in that party going to shock me by not shocking me with their behavior?

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Blackwater Founder Prince Steps Down As Xe ChiefOnd I salute you, Monsieur Prince! Truly you are Xe King of Xe worldz marssehnarees! Xe Hiztory books will prais yor actsheenz!

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Oh, how horrible. Another excuse for these folks to say that they never had a truly conservative set of leaders.I'm not going to count conservatism out just yet. But I can't say I look at the morale boost these folks are looking for as the most constructive element of a recovery. It was the inability to admit defeat, or at least the lack of success, that led Republicans to this point.When are

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A video that can help the layman figure out the way we got in our current economic mess.The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

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Video - CNBC.com: "Santelli's Chicago Tea Party"Yes, yes, you people just did a bang-up job before the government came in and interfered. I hope the regulations give people like this rectal exams. Not that I'm a proponent of invasive government. I just would like to see America safe from the insane, unhinged Wall Street Free Market Freaks, who can't see past the end of their noses much less

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Source: Kevin Drum's Blog at Mother Jones- Quote of the Day - 02.17.09What we're seeing can be a very good function, so long as we keep the information good. By this kind of small world network (you know, six degrees of separation), we can see information pass out to the public very quickly. It makes it harder to keep secrets.And easier to spread lies quickly. But then again,

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I was genuinely surprised to hear about this. I mean damn. If Hannity likes the Music, he ought to explain to his listeners what the lyrics actually mean.First verse is about a rich guy sneering at an old lady for collecting welfare. "Just for fun, he says Get a Job!"Just remember what the refrain says:That's just the way it isSome things will never changeThat's just the way it isBut don't you

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The 25 Best Conservative Movies of all time? Here's my commentary on their choices, and why this list is based on a faulty premise.1) The Lives of Others- Didn't we try something like a surveillance state under the last administration? I know Republicans like to portray these things in terms of economic regulations, or government intervention of any kind, but there's nothing particularly

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That it takes two to tango, and they're stomping on our feet.

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What I think Kos misses here is that we had to get folks on our side first.Let me put it this way: If the Republicans had gone along, we would have won, created a governing majority, and healed the wounds of division. All good for us. Well, the Republicans weren't game. They banded together, as a party and essentially proved to everybody who wasn't a Republican how recalcitrant they were.Look at

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I don't think we need to eliminate the filibuster. I think we just need to force them to be good as their word everytime. You want to filibuster? Okay. Then talk, and talk and talk. And let everybody know who you are, and why you're getting in the way. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the Senate's a refrigerator that hasn't been cleaned or emptied in a decade. It's even got its own

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Disgraced 'Blackwater' Rechristens Itself With Unpronounceable 'Xe'They should add a particular greek letter to their name both to raise unpronounceability and appropriateness.

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Digital TV conversion 'not finest hour'That's the title of this report, and unfortunately, the report misses some critical points.First, yes, it's not government's finest hour, but then, that was par for the course with the Bush Administration, which slow-rolled and postponed this time and again. What the Obama Administration is doing is correcting a mistake by the Bush Administration. But that

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Much has been made of the failures of bipartisanship in Washington, and News analysts have made a point of questioning the wisdom of Obama's approach. But was it ever his failure to begin with? The Republicans don't seem to have changed their politics to suit their new even more minor minority status. They're behaving little different than they did before the 2008 elections, when their party had

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If this doesn't drop your jaw to your computer table and your heart into your stomach, you should be checked for a pulse

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I can wear a number of hats concerning this issue. I'm diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, so I have a personal interest. I'm a science nerd, especially concerning neuroscience, so I wear the hat of somebody interested in the facts of the case. I'm also a political wonk, with a particular interest in how science translates to policy.My opinion comes down to this: we're using the science to

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Obama's featured on the cover of Mad Magazine, in what might be a realistic portrayal of how Obama's feeling on the inside.

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Somebody should tell this fellow that if Rembrandt had a brother named Murray, he'd be named Murray van Rijn.

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Who throws their shoe?

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"Why they changed it, I can't say, people just liked it better that way!"With apologies to They Might Be Giants, of course.Seems like you might be familiar with Mumbai's previous name: Good old fashioned Bombay. Can't say I blame them. I believe the former name was the product of the name given to it by Portuguese Traders. So remember, it's Mumbai, not Bombay, and it's Istanbul, not

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Just follow the link and you'll see why.

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One of the hazards of being involved in three blogs at once is that you concentrate your efforts unequally most of the time. This blog was meant to be something of an overflow blog to deal with the items too minor to be dealt with on my once daily blogs. So, if you missed me here, in that unlikely event, I'm over at Watchblog, and Daily Kos on a regular basis.Unfortunately, history passed me by

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Bill Kristol: NYT iz teh stupid!|!1!!Jon Stewart: NYT iz ur base.Pwn3d.

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see Sarah Palin pictures

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see Sarah Palin pictures

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see Sarah Palin pictures

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see Sarah Palin pictures(h/t) to Pundit Kitchen

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Relax, please. Take your time. You've done quite enough to help us, thank you very much.

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AKA, the crap that got us into this whole mess in the first place.

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I think this is like the skinny kid with glasses cold-cocking the bully when he pokes his fingers into the nerd's chest one too many times.Meanwhile, the McCain campaign is in full-on flail mode.

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There is more to law than mere letters on a page. Bush has some nerve making a statement like this, given his habit of making signing statements where he announces his intention to ignore what's written in the law.The truth is, there are larger purposes to the law, its interpretation, and its enforcement. Judges should be allowed the flexibility to determine the best way of interpreting the

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Don't get me wrong, I'm not on this guy's side. But let's not delude ourselves: throwing a puppy over a cliff is probably neither the worst thing he's ever done, nor is it likely to be the worst abuse inflicted on an animal in this war or any other.To be honest, I don't see what reason, besides negative publicity, this guy's getting kicked out. Under most circumstances, I would think this might

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Gas Prices are so bad that even the world's most profitable oil company doesnt' make enough money selling it to justify remaining in the gas station business.

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You know you're in deep S@*! when you know the answer to the question "What if we gave a fundraiser and nobody came?"

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This could be going somewhere.

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I watched the following clip in amazement:I have a theory that often ideas get their facts worn off as people use them and overuse them. People simply grab on to convenient pop culture moments and pop off. Munich has become the Right Wing's convenient handle for alleging that the left will talk the country into further danger, rather than act to head off danger.But like others have pointed out,

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Here's a link to my thoughts on the media reaction, the transcript, and video of the interview.

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The question is, after she's done wiping out the disloyal, freezing out the interest groups who betrayed her, who's left to elect her in November? This is less like The Godfather, and more like Scarface, even if it works out for her. Unfortunately for her, just about everybody recognizes that whatever she says about Barack Obama's electability, she's kneecapped herself with major

Stephen Daughertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643939765716134073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106743299395802497.post-46486936271754495552008-04-23T11:39:00.004-05:002008-04-23T11:43:54.842-05:00

For the Republicans, you know you're in deep s*** when the Democrats beat you in Mississippi.Should we call it Mississ-hippy now? Damn dirty hippy Southern States.

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Read this for yourself.This is the nightmare our government's become.

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I will have serious reservations about backing the Clintons in future contests because of this one. This article in the New York Times isn't what pushed me over the edge, I think their behavior over the past few weeks has been more the cause of that.I'm really sick of politicians who define loyalty one way, towards themselves, but don't give back. It would be easier for the Clintons to keep

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...This is freaking Hilarious. (John Edwards doing The Word on The Colbert Report, for the click through challenged)I want a jet-ski, too.

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...RIVULETS.Turns out nobody's bitter about Obama saying they were bitter, and even some really are bitter. Except they're not. Excuse me, I've got a headache.

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Yes sir, brush that dirt off.

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Further asskicking commences!

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I went off walking the dogs after seeing this with a sense of hope I've rarely had in the last few years. I have rarely seen a candidate I've support so quickly and powerfully demolish that kind of attack, and so elegantly.I hope to do my part to get as many people to see this as possible. The "bitter" controversy needs to be shot down as quickly as possible. It's good to have a candidate who

Stephen Daughertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643939765716134073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106743299395802497.post-81117829993379107762008-04-11T13:41:00.004-05:002008-04-19T11:52:32.113-05:00

Found a video in this comment on DailyKos that should interest you all out there.Word is, Barack Obama has refused to do this Pennsylvania, just like he refused to do it in South Carolina. In fact, that was the news in this Kos Diary.This is one more reason why I like Obama. It takes a lot of balls to refuse to kowtow to the system, to not play the machine game.

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A bottle of tequila, shared between the political director of the McCain Campaign, and an eager young media student who can't wait to try out his new video effects program. (original link to article where I found this.)Hey, I'm not judging, I've been there. Only I've never put out anything this... original. Yeah. That's the word for it.

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Here's how I think McCain gains his credibility. He publically arranges to do something substantially different from the party line, or makes some statement critical about a policy, and then makes sure the media covers it as if he's what he says he is.The rest of the time, he does the standard things. The trick is to have those moderate, bipartisan things (or things that seem that way) be the

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...too fast or not fast enough. The real problem here is that regardless of what we've been doing, we've had no real control over the situation in Iraq, which right now seems to be worsening.Last year, we benefited from the cooperation of the Sunnis, and the cooperation of the al-Sadr in reaching a ceasefire. The way things are arranged, though, even with the numbers of soldiers we had at the

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I'll tell you what the problems with holding a Superdelegate convention before the real one to decide who gets them are:1) It won't prevent a nasty public fight, it will likely just relocate it.2) It would have all the elitist charm, if it's results went a certain way of somebody trying to appeal to the superdelegates at the convention.3) Mathematically, we already have a decent standard on hand:

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Is that if they're being this reckless with letting Bill out to do damage, they are really desperate.Bill's problem is that he's not merely a loose cannon on deck, but essentially a second captain on a ship that should only have one. Ideally, he should have have remained in the background, because he's hardly the kind to stay on the bench and let Hillary shine for herself.

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I know the Indiana senator's just trying to back his candidate, but it's a little too early to start calling these states for Hillary in the General Election.Here's how it breaks down: she's a long shot in the general election if she can't unite her party behind her. No matter what the poll results say now, they will say something else entirely eight months from now.Senator Clinton has a chance

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According to Mark Penn, Bill Richardson has joined the ranks of the insignificant.Mark Penn. Being paid millions of dollars by Clinton and worth every penny of it......to Obama.

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McCain is the only Senator, much less presidential candidate, to get an incomplete on a recent survey about Middle Class Responsiveness.Stroke patient Tim Johnson, debilitated from serving until September of last year, showed up to vote, good or bad, fifty percent more of the time.

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There needs to be some confrontation, I think, so Obama has a chance to shine once again, and Hillary has the chance to announce that's she's returned to her senses and has ditched the advisors who are sinking the Clinton's popularity.

Stephen Daughertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643939765716134073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106743299395802497.post-69706725640538438652008-03-08T13:10:00.006-06:002008-03-08T13:33:14.209-06:00

...They'll dance because of that crazy Casssbaah Sooooound!Seriously, folks, the racism and fearmongering doesn't get any more obvious than this.This ranks right up there with concerns that electing Kennedy would put America under the control of the pope.

Stephen Daughertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643939765716134073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106743299395802497.post-42544852077104136532008-03-07T22:07:00.005-06:002008-03-07T22:14:31.401-06:00

She goes around, talks with people, gets people organized, makes strong statements on moral matters.So says the Chicago Tribune. Which means the only real thing she has on Obama is a couple of years in the Senate. And he has six years on her in elected office.Experience might count, if you have it, and have learned properly from it. Otherwise, all experience is a collection of bad habits made

Stephen Daughertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643939765716134073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106743299395802497.post-10347753964922112962008-03-07T18:25:00.003-06:002008-03-07T18:37:26.792-06:00

*Just not their education.ThisDudesArmy tells us about the brilliant reasoning faculties of the college-educated Defense Department, who in their infinite wisdom have decided it's a bad idea to back an updated GI Bill to reward those who will put their life on the line for their country, since folks might leave after one tour to attend college.Well, gee, that shouldn't be their problem. You

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...because otherwise, I don't know how you can say this after your campaign has done this, otherwise.More to the point, what Powers said actually makes some kind of sense. You want somebody in the loop when they're hashing out the details of the plan. You could make claims taking certain words out of context, of course, if you were inclined to do that, but as a whole she's saying that the

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If both states are willing to do new elections in order to leave the illegitimate first tries behind, but neither is willing or able to pay for it, then I have a suggestion.We've seen both candidates raise massive amounts of money to fund their presidential efforts. We've proven that this can be done within a matter of weeks.So here's what we do: we set up a fund for these primaries, and both

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Not only does Atrios' entry at Eschaton contain the funniest snark I've read all day, it also contains the most astute economic analysis of the matter I've seen in a long time.Now where's that pony?

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But could Texas have that Swing?Do wop do wop do wop do wwwwooooop!Burnt Orange Report is reporting that poll results indicate that Obama might be within striking distance of winning Texas this next election.

Stephen Daughertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643939765716134073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106743299395802497.post-89832198692566728852008-03-06T08:14:00.002-06:002008-03-06T08:18:33.536-06:00

...one is advised not to be within the radius of the blast when it goes off.This is further evidence of how disorganized and ill-informed this campaign is.If she tries to push this point in a debate, It will be all too easy for the Obama to say, "according to these reports, your own campaign was making such assurances as you described."Don't throw razor boomerangs without padded gloves.

Stephen Daughertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643939765716134073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106743299395802497.post-40648275528184170822008-03-04T13:54:00.001-06:002008-03-04T13:56:20.965-06:00

But the timer on the oven says she's close to being done.

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I would like somebody in the Bush White House to explain to me how we can be spending the most money for our military since WWII, and yet still be losing the war we're currently fighting. A big defense budget doesn't add up to success.We're paying mostly to outsource things we could do more cheaply, and do better internally. We're paying mostly to run an unsuccessful war into the ground, rather

Stephen Daughertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643939765716134073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106743299395802497.post-73066368030500092212008-01-31T21:06:00.000-06:002008-01-31T21:14:30.510-06:00

...Rosa Parks.I mean, first there was George Allen's Macaca, and now...There's Michael Savage's Machete.

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I give you the story of how we got Zarqawi without raising a hand against one Iraqi prisoner.Work smarter, not harder.

Stephen Daughertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643939765716134073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106743299395802497.post-10156008850913927362008-01-30T20:56:00.000-06:002008-01-30T21:03:13.307-06:00

Romney and McCain are hacking each other to pieces trying to make the other candidate look like they're a quitter, a yellow, white flag waving coward who wants to tell the enemy everything we're doing by giving ourselves a timetable for leaving.Or, put another way, the Republicans are fighting to see which one of them can, with the most conviction, tell the American people they're wrong and

Stephen Daughertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643939765716134073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106743299395802497.post-52885324525044687612008-01-14T20:06:00.001-06:002008-01-14T20:10:11.047-06:00

But I was sort of counting on them getting it right.Spencer Ackerman's saying it got screwed up. I know the Bush Adminstration likes to talk about milestones reached, but it helps if you're not celebrating empty victories, such as loophole-laden laws that might lead to even greater disenfranchisement.Repeat after me: results matter.

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Apparently, Bush has decided to ignore another inconvenient truth.Fortunately, this one only has the potential to embroil the Middle East in near-perpetual warfare, not cook the planet on HI.Do any of these people get that provoking needless conflict will make defending Israel more difficult than plain Diplomacy will? So many people out there think of war as being the Gordian knot strategy

Stephen Daughertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643939765716134073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106743299395802497.post-51001415512539612182008-01-13T13:56:00.000-06:002008-01-13T14:22:57.135-06:00

I kind of shake my head at calling Jonah Goldberg "the doughy pantsload", but I've already had the privilege of taking shots at his previous pronouncement on his fascism.Well, I think he just robbed a bakery, because this takes the cake.Mussolini got labelled a fascist because he supported WWI.Just one problem: Mussolini WAS the original Fascist. He founded the party that gave the 20th century

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Let's try the new catchphrase in the war: Iraqi Solutions. Which more or less amounts to saying, we're not going to force policy changes on unwilling Iraqis, we're just going to let them sort out things for themselves.Naturally, it should beg the question: if we're going to let them sort out things for themselves, why are we keeping tens of thousands of soldiers in Iraq? Oh, that's right, so

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