Fred Thompson & The Felon

8:05 pm EST May 31st, 2007 | Uncategorized | 25 Comments

Somehow I think Hollywood actor Fred Thompson’s friendship with convicted felon Scooter Libby is gonna be under some scrutiny now that he’s more or less in the field.

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Barack Obama Is Not Getting It

7:52 pm EST May 31st, 2007 | News | 10 Comments

This is troubling.

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The day after he unveiled his “Plan for a Healthy America,” Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois said substantial health care reform would only come if “we build a movement around the country for change.”

Um, senator, you are that movement. Now is the time. You don’t start out small and go big as you get more legit. In fact, the historical pattern is exactly the opposite. One most start out from an audacious position. (via)

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Nixonland

7:23 pm EST May 31st, 2007 | News | 7 Comments

George Bush goes crazy and starts raving like Dick Nixon.

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RNC Fires Phone Staffers After Donor Dropoff

6:12 pm EST May 31st, 2007 | Republicans | 3 Comments

It is delicious.

The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors’ rebellion over President Bush’s immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Friday in The Washington Times.

Faced with an estimated 40 percent fall-off in small-donor contributions and aging phone-bank equipment that the RNC said would cost too much to update, Anne Hathaway, the committee’s chief of staff, summoned the solicitations staff last week and told them they were out of work, effective immediately, the fired staffers told The Times.

 

GOP Bigot Eruption: John McCain

5:04 pm EST May 31st, 2007 | Uncategorized | 10 Comments

John McCain agrees with Bill O’Reilly that we need to preserve the “white, male power structure”.

I am still scratching my head over why more blacks and other minorities don’t vote Republican.

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New York Is Democratic Country

4:45 pm EST May 31st, 2007 | News | 13 Comments

The chances of a Republican winning there are like Democratic chances in Alaska.

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Rachel Marsden Kicked Off Fox News’ RedEye

3:24 pm EST May 31st, 2007 | Media | 5 Comments

A show nobody watches loses a crazy person.

We hear that Fox News’s Red Eye eye-candy neo-con Canadian trouble-girl Rachel Marsden—you remember her from her days of ALLEGED stalking in Canada—was just taken by security guards out of the Fox News studios and out of the News Corp. building.

 

Christina Aguilera: On Team Hillary

1:38 pm EST May 31st, 2007 | Uncategorized | 25 Comments

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The worlds of politics and sexy celebrity women continue to collide, now with Christina Aguilera on Senator Clinton’s team.

Elsewhere in Beverly Hills, pop star Christina Aguilera and actor Mike Meyers attended Clinton’s late-evening fundraiser at the mansion of director Brett Ratner and supermarket mogul Ron Burkle. Aguilera and Meyers were two of at least two dozen celebrities expected to make an early commitment to Clinton. .

Barack Obama: Halle Berry, Jessica Biel
Hillary Clinton: Christina Aguilera
Democrats: Jessica Alba

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No Silver Bullet

4:57 am EST May 31st, 2007 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

These ads may have kept Mitt Romney out of the senate, but eight years later Shannon O’Brien ran virtually identical ads and got beaten by Romney for the governorship in the same state. Partially because O’Brien was a weak candidate, but also because Romney had the "Olympic turnaround" (something of an embellishment) to tout and negate largely the effect of these ads about Ampad. It’s an arrow in a campaign vs. Romney, but not the dagger in his political heart.

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Republicans: Stay The Course, Stay In Iraq Forever

12:18 am EST May 31st, 2007 | News | 33 Comments

George Bush is never going to back down on this issue, it’s too much for his ego ever to admit a mistake or misstep. If Americans have to stay in Iraq forever, so be it.

President Bush envisions a long-term U.S. troop presence in Iraq similar to the one in South Korea where American forces have helped keep an uneasy peace for more than 50 years, the White House said Wednesday.

There’s also the attempt to play off our occupation of Iraq as the same as continued U.S. presence at the South Korean border, Europe, etc. But in none of those situations is there the clear and present daily danger of getting blown up. Sure, there’s always the chance Kim Jong-Il will try something, but there aren’t 150,000 troops as sitting ducks to get picked off by insurgents, Sunni militants, Shia militants, or plugged in the back by a member of the Iraqi army or police.

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