As I’ve documented before recent Democratic wins in Virginia have been sort of a lead-up to that state going blue in the next election. Both the Governor and junior Senator are Democrats, and you’ve got to figure if Mark Warner runs for the seat it’s his to lose. Virginia Dems will likely be extra-energized to get a sweep and it will help the Democratic nominee, whoever it may be.
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Archive for August, 2007
Some good ones.
The Republican party is torn between the American people, who seek to move away from the Bush years as soon as possible, and the Republican base who is deluded beyond reason about the leadership skills of President Bush and the utility of the war in Iraq. As such, they’re floating names like Tommy Franks for a vice presidential position. Franks, you will remember, was one of the architects of the failing Iraq strategy - one of the generals who abdicated his duty and instead told the leadership what they wanted to learn to in exchange for American security and lives. The Republican party in 2008 is the same old crap we’ve had for the last 7 years. They’ve just changed the names.
Anyone surprised? I’m not.
This morning, the Washington Post has a story on how lawmakers are being “slimed in the Green Zone” when they travel to Iraq for congressional delegation trips. Reps. James Moran (D-VA), Jon Porter (R-NV), and Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) recently returned from such a trip. While there, Tauscher and Moran noticed sheets of paper that “seemed to be everywhere” in the Green Zone, “distributed to Iraqi officials, U.S. officials and uniformed military of no particular rank.”
Don’t know how you come back from that, even as a Republican.
At least these kids are much more honest than Tom Tancredo and a lot of the conservative Republicans.
It started with a simple question and ended with at least one student chanting “white power” in a classroom.
It happened Tuesday in a classroom at Holy Family High School, the Catholic school that sits at the corner of 144th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard in Broomfield.
The classroom discussion started with the question: Why do students need to learn Spanish?
According to the Archdiocese of Denver, the conversation soon became about immigration and it turned ugly.
“It became a heated discussion and some rhetoric was used that was inappropriate for the classroom,” said Jeanette DeMelo, spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Denver.
At least one e-mail sent to 9NEWS said that at least one student started a chant of “white power” and some said that all Mexicans should go back to Mexico.
By no coincidence the Univision-sponsored Spanish language debate for the GOP has been postponed and likely canceled because only one candidate had agreed to appear. This is actually the one area where Karl Rove is right. The Republican party is doing its damnedest to stand against the fastest growing demographic in America, and while things may work out for them in the short term by scaring up the conservative white vote, it is long term doom.
Why in God’s name is the public bathroom a hookup spot?
As longtime readers know I support equal rights for gays, gay marriage, etc. I just don’t get why anyone gay or straight would pick somewhere as totally ick as a bathroom.
This is an honest question.
You’ve essentially appointed Tom DeLay as the point man to go in the media today to push the idea that Democrats are more corrupt than Republicans.
The most corrupt majority leader of the US House who resigned in shame and scandal is the Republican point man for defending Republican honor.
I honestly could not have come up with that myself!
Thanks and Love,
Oliver
UPDATE: The Newshounds are similarly stupefied. Tom freaking DeLay. Up next: OJ lectures on domestic violence, while Pete Rose discusses the evils of gambling.
Not usually my thing, but I whipped up this chart of ARG’s polling in Iowa to date of the Democratic primary. Noticeable drop-off for Edwards along with forward movement for Obama and a slight drop-off for Clinton. Looks pretty up for grabs, still.
First off, FairTax was created by Tom Cruise’s wacky scientologists.
For those who never heard about it, the FairTax is a national retail sales tax that would replace the entire current federal tax system. It was originally devised by the Church of Scientology in the early 1990s as a way to get rid of the Internal Revenue Service, with which the church was then at war (at the time the IRS refused to recognize it as a legitimate religion). The Scientologists’ idea was that since almost all states have sales taxes, replacing federal taxes with the same sort of tax would allow them to collect the federal government’s revenue and thereby get rid of their hated enemy, the IRS.
The FairTax is a shell game tax hike.
Boortz and Linder contend that actual consumer prices would not rise under the NRST, but regardless, their proposed “tax-inclusive rate” is a 30 percent sales tax as most Americans understand it. But even this 30 percent number probably underestimates what Boortz and Linder’s proposal would entail. In fact, in order to meet their requirements, the effective tax rate could be as high as an astonishing 56 percent (tax-exclusive).
In order for the Washington Redskins to be successful in 2006-7 they need to score points. For the Redskins to score points, it is ideal that the following four players be as healthy as humanly possible. In order:
1. Jason Campbell (QB)
2. Clinton Portis (RB)
3. Santana Moss (WR)
4. Ladell Betts (RB)
And yet, I read this in today’s paper:
After injuring his left knee in the Washington Redskins’ second preseason game on Aug. 18, quarterback Jason Campbell is set to start tomorrow night in the team’s preseason finale at Jacksonville. Meanwhile, tailback Clinton Portis, who has missed nearly all of training camp with tendinitis in his right knee, returned for yesterday’s practice and also could play, Coach Joe Gibbs said.
There is no need for the starting QB and RB to play in today’s game. The game means nothing. There is no upside to playing them and exposing them to even the possibility of harm. The first game that counts is 10 (!) days away. In addition to me hating the preseason, did you know that God hates it too? You’re a very religious man Coach Gibbs, so you can’t have thought it was a coincidence that last Saturday’s game versus the Ravens was interrupted by a thunderstorm by accident?
That was a sign: The Lord Hateth The Preseason.
What should be done is for the four aforementioned players to be sealed in protective Nerf-like spheres and locked away from the world until the night of the 8th. It’s the right thing to do. Don’t play them.
Please.
Elle McPherson was back there. And yet, some things haven’t changed. Kudos to her.
(The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue just ain’t the same anymore, and I don’t know if it’s the Internet that ruined it or that the current crop of “supermodels” just aren’t as “Super” as ’90s staples like Cindy Crawford, although I’m pro-Bundchen and Ambrossio - both of them need a hearty steak dinner every night for a month though)
From the conservative blog, The Cable Game:
And on CNN, one sees, routinely, all manner of jabs at Bush: John King, for example, saying that George W. Bush’s popularity was “in the dumps.” Excuse me, but that’s bias.
That’s actually not bias, but reporting. President Bush has an average approval rating of 32.4%. By any objective measure of political approval, a 32.4% approval rating is “in the dumps”. Saying otherwise could at best be charitably characterized as b.s. but it’s certainly not “bias” and especially not a liberal one.
Here are some actual instances of misinformation from CNN’s John King, but conservatives have defined down “bias” to include anyone who doesn’t kiss the butt of the Republican party.
I determined this using science.
The Iraq policy is still failing, but the administration just wants to spin it. As usual.
Congressional auditors have determined that the Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out by lawmakers to assess President Bush’s Iraq war strategy, The Associated Press has learned.
The Government Accountability Office, or GAO, will report that at least 13 of the 18 benchmarks to measure the surge of U.S. troops to Iraq are unfulfilled ahead of a Sept. 15 deadline for Bush to give a detailed accounting of the situation eight months after he announced the policy, according to three officials familiar with the matter.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the report has not been made public, also said the administration is preparing a case to play down its findings, arguing that Congress ordered the GAO to use unfair, “all or nothing” standards when compiling the document.
Compassionate conservatives strike again.
George W. Bush, one of the worst presidents ever and the architect of American failure in Iraq is going to ask the Congress for a $50 Billion blank check.
President Bush plans to ask Congress next month for up to $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, a White House official said yesterday, a move that appears to reflect increasing administration confidence that it can fend off congressional calls for a rapid drawdown of U.S. forces.
The request — which would come on top of about $460 billion in the fiscal 2008 defense budget and $147 billion in a pending supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — is expected to be announced after congressional hearings scheduled for mid-September featuring the two top U.S. officials in Iraq. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker will assess the state of the war and the effect of the new strategy the U.S. military has pursued this year.
The request is being prepared now in the belief that Congress will be unlikely to balk so soon after hearing the two officials argue that there are promising developments in Iraq but that they need more time to solidify the progress they have made, a congressional aide said.
The Democratic congress has achieved mediocre ratings not because they’ve passed good legislation on the minimum wage, stem cell research, ethics reform and the like but because they have capitulated time and time and time again to the President on the seminal issue of our time. Iraq is a giant suck hole pulling in billions of dollars, thousands of lives, and the security of a nation. This commander in chief is a miserable failure and there is absolutely no sense of any sort in continuing to give him rope with which to hang the American military and public.
The Congress needs to show the American people that it stands for the principles for which it earned its majority or it will sacrifice its morality.
This is all part of the Republican strategy with the White House authored "Petraeus" report containing more of the same swill we have heard for over four years now about "victory" being right around the corner.
Patrick writes.
Using the outers’ logic, it is now legitimate to throw this time-hallowed tradition out the window, and for conservative Christians to inject their personal moral and theological views into their voting decisions, and in deciding who gets to continue in public office. Is that the road they really want to go down?
Go down the road? The religious right not only built the road of imposing personal morality and theological views on everybody, but they paved it and put in a multi-lane express highway. There is no Republican party without Christianist theocrats like Falwell, Dobson, Perkins and their acolytes like Bush, Ashcroft, and beyond. Patrick has followed politics for a long time, he knows the history of the conservative movement up and down, but then he simply discards that in order to make an untrue point.
A love note from TPM Media.
Does anyone remember when con commenters here on this very blog were bitching at TPM and the rest of us on the left for talking about this Alberto Gonzalez nothingburger story ?
Yeah.
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