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I love Snopes.com. No telling what you’ll find there. Humor, movies, sports, paranormal, extra-terrestrial, politics, you name it, it’s there. One of today’s stories involve an opinion piece written by Charley Reese in 1985. Politicians, as I have often said, are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. [...]
A lot was made of Arlen Specter’s jumping ship and declaring he was a Democrat. His logic was the Republican Party left him. A lot of people, including myself, figured a deal had been struck between Specter and the Democrat leadership, which at this time would be Obama and Reid. Sure enough, both came out [...]
Stuart Rothenberg over at Real Clear Politics ponders Chris Dodd’s future. He points out a lot of issues that have created a PR nightmare for Dodd. ( My favorite personally was Dodd moving his family to Iowa. I’ll bet people in Connecticut consider someone who ditched them for Iowa not election-worthy. ) Rothenberg rifles a [...]
Daniel Mongiardo has announced he is running against incumbant Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning. Now, Bunning’s been considered vulnerable since a little before the Iron Age. He keeps making goofy comments. For some reason, he just keeps winning. Mongiardo is on a roll. He lost to Steve Beshear in the primary, but teamed up as his [...]
Yesterday Harry Reid stated that if the Senate did not pass the economic stimulus plan the stock market would crash on Friday. Funny thing happened today ( Friday ). Barring a major sell-off, the market is UP 200 points so far on the news that the Senate did NOT pass the stimulus package. You think [...]
People are already judging the Republicans based on what has transpired in the last week or so. James Joyner, who I admire a lot, has written an excellent piece over at Outside the Beltway. The problem he addresses is the issue of the Republicans being either obstructionist, or perceived as obstructionist, by not supporting some [...]
That just makes me wonder how much he paid for it. ( February 17, 2009 update: apparently $10,000 ) Burris’s contention is there is nothing in the law that states that a governor can not be tainted in order to appoint a Senator. However, what Burris is ignoring is what the rest of the world [...]
That’s the teaser on CNN. Here’s some of the meat: A Democratic point man on the budget, Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, blasted the administration for its “reckless fiscal policies,” blaming the president’s tax cuts for driving the government into deficit and saying Bush “will be remembered as the most fiscally irresponsible president in [...]
Apparently smarting from polls that put his Senate leadership in the single digits, Harry Reid decided to fight back starting with this letter to The Hill Blog: When our country is in crisis, Congress must be ready to take immediate action. Democrats in Congress have tried to take action again and again. We have proposed [...]
Barack Obama’s having a rough week. First, he did the very odd thing of stating very publicly he liked President Bush’s Faith Based Initiative so much he wanted to expand it. That drew the ire of the Reverend Jesse Jackson: “See, Barack’s been talking down to black people on this faith-based—,” Jackson says during a [...]
