Tag Archive 'policy'

Sarah Palin to be McCain’s VP?

Posted by Moonage on 29 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race

Due to not really being terribly glued to the tv over this election, I gotta admit I have been fairly clueless to guessing VP picks.  The media throws so many names out so fast, then criticizes the names they threw out themselves, and then writes off the names they threw out themselves.  So, the whole [...]

The economy and the 2008 election

Posted by Moonage on 15 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Polls

“We’ve been down this road before. It’s the road that George Bush has taken for the last eight years,” Obama said.
And:
“The Bush economy is like a trap door — Too many people are one pink slip away, one missed mortgage payment away, one medical diagnosis away from falling through and losing everything,” Clinton said Thursday [...]

Immediate expectations from the 2006 elections

Posted by Moonage on 09 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: National Politics

A lot of people are reading things into this week’s elections. Some people claimed these elections are nothing but a national referendum on Bush and/or the Republicans. As such, I posted my “anticipated results” from the elections a few days ago. I’m still sticking with those “predictions” post-election. Now, here’s what [...]

My 2006 election day prediction

Posted by Moonage on 07 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Politics

I am basing this not on polls, because polls are just as often wrong as they are right.  I am basing this on things that matter, that are really happening.  The stock market has moved up strongly today.  Wall Street LOVES a useless split House.  When there’s no chance of significant legislation being produced for [...]

ACLU endorses the Patriot Act?

Posted by Moonage on 30 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: National Politics

Well, not exactly.  But they did drop a lawsuit against it citing "improvements to the law".  Here’s the ONLY part that was changed that appease the ACLU:
The lawsuit, filed in July 2003 on behalf of the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, Mich., and five other nonprofit groups, was the first legal challenge to Section [...]