CNN is reporting that republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will suspend his campaign today following his poor primary & caucus showings earlier this week.
This race just got more interesting…
Since they don’t really trust Sen. McCain and question his conservative credentials, religious conservatives are going to flock to Huckabee. All the ‘clarity’ that conservative pundits were spouting off about after Tuesday is out the window in my opinion… with the numbers Romney was drawing on Tues, if they flock to Huckabee, as I think they will, the races will be that much tighter and McCain’s frontrunner status may be short lived.
Another thing to consider is this; how long until Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and James Dobson (after writing all those names I need a shower) announce they’re endorsing Huckabee? Okay, maybe not a strict and proper endorsement, but more of what they have been doing; attacking/questioning McCain’s conservative credentials and offer back-handed support to Huckabee.
As always, stay tuned…
UPDATE: Rather than admit he screwed up and was a major flip-flopper, Mitt Romney took advantage of everyone listening to him (as it WILL be the last time anyone care's what he says) and criticized Senators Obama and Clinton during his speech of retreat, claiming that an electoral victory by either of them would mean “attacks on America. [...] About this, I have no doubt."
What a tool. Stay classy Mitt...
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Another one bites the dust
The Thursday ‘BushWhack’ing
One more day to Friday… more primaries are looming…
- Sen. Clinton’s campaign is starting to show some signs of financial strain. First we get word that she had to loan her campaign $5 million of her own money, then we get word that some of her campaign staff are working for no pay… this happened to Rudy Giuliani weeks ago, and we all know what happened to his campaign. (This could be big trouble for the Clinton camp… Obama is alluring to the younger crowd who may not be able to offer HUGE amounts of money, but they are willing to give what they can afford, and that can add up. Plus, he does have a few wealthy donors, so he has a nice combination… Clinton has been relying solely on wealthy, older voters and it seems that she may be hitting a wall so to speak… this is something you definitely want to keep an eye on as the campaign continues…)
- John McCain, the gop front-runner, is desperately trying to appeal to the conservative base… which is not a good idea for him as it usually backfires. Stay tuned…
- The photos that got Julie Myers, then-acting chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in hot water back in October have been released publicly…
- Clinton/Obama? Obama/Clinton? It could happen…
- Apparently the Bush(whacked) Administration isn’t just interested in destroying the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge but also in marring the beauty of the Grand Canyon as the U.S. Forest Service has approved a permit to allow a British mining company to “explore for uranium” near the Grand Canyon. (First of all – like in ANWR – it’s NOT exploring, it’s drilling. Second of all, why? In Alaska they are looking for oil so the US is not beholding to OPEC countries… but why drill for uranium in the Grand Canyon? Is there a uranium shortage I’m not aware of?)
- And have we mentioned? That Sen. Joe Lieberman (
Ir-CT) will be disqualified as a superdelegate at the Democratic convention? It’s true… Lieberman is being punished (for lack of a better word) for endorsing Sen. McCain for president and the DNC is using the ‘Zell Miller Rule’ to take away his status. (For those of you, like me, had forgotten, back in 2004, Miller, then a Democratic senator from Georgia, attacked Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) in a speech at the Republican National Convention, so the DNC created a rule that disqualifies any Democrat who crosses the aisle from being a super delegate… to Joe I say; HAH!)
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Don't mess with Helen
She’s one of the elder stateswomen of the White House press corps, having covered every president since JFK… and the Bush White House has, since day one, treated her like crap because she asks questions…
Now she’s mad as hell and isn’t going to take it anymore.
Yesterday at a speech in North Carolina, Helen Thomas sharply criticized “President” Bush and his administration, calling it “one of the most secretive in history” and adding that “this man has forgotten the poor and the sick. […] “We are hated around the world.”
You’re preaching to the choir Ms. Thomas… I, along with thousands of others, have been saying that for some time. And only now, with less than a year until his reign is over, are others FINALLY starting to see the light.
Our standing in the world has taken drastic hits since Bush was "elected" - a term I use loosely - and the next president, Democrat or [shudder] republican, will have a long road ahead of him/her to get us back to the place we were before Bush and his cronies came in and destroyed the place.
Ms. Thomas, you represent true journalists and journalism, which unfortunately is a very rare commodity in today’s media as most of your “peers” are simply stenographers and sycophants that write down what the Bush(whacked) Administration says…
We need, above all, credible journalists like you in order to keep the populace that wishes to be informed, informed.
The Wednesday ‘BushWhack’ing
The morning after… and I’m sore…
- Super Fat Tuesday was yesterday… here’s a rundown of who won what: Clinton won Arizona, Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Obama won Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota and Utah… with New Mexico still too close to call. On the republican side: McCain won Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New York and Oklahoma. Romney won Alaska, Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and Utah. Huckabee won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee and West Virginia. What does all this mean? That neither side has a true front-runner. Yes, McCain has more delegates, but with Romney and Huckabee winning some states, it shows that McCain is not loved by all on the right. And the Democrats? Well, we have two strong candidates, but somewhere down the line one of them will emerge as the front-runner we need. Stay tuned as the Dems have seven more primaries fast approaching…
- A Senate showdown on the economic stimulus package, which the media seems to have forgotten about since it was announced with much fanfare days ago, is looming. Here’s an idea – STFU and get it done…
- Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said yesterday that “Al Qaeda is gaining in strength from its refuge in Pakistan and is steadily improving its ability to recruit, train and position operatives capable of carrying out attacks inside the United States.” (What more needs to be said? Al-Qaeda was behind the 9/11 attacks… and Bush and his cronies started going after them in Afghanistan, got them on the run, then promptly changed course and invaded Iraq while ignoring the true group that carried out the attacks of 9/11, and now they’re gaining in strength and numbers. Way to go Bush… ya dumbass)
- Like he’s done with so many other things, (clean coal energy), Bush is cutting funding to something he boasted about in the SOTU. This time the victim is the Millennium Challenge Account, a program designed to not only widen our fight against AIDS but to also aid democracy in developing nations. (What. A. Tool. Is the man truly that simple and addle-minded that he doesn’t think people will notice that he crowed about the achievements and future of a program that he then cuts down to size with his budget?? The man clearly lives in his own little world and doesn’t care about anything but himself… January 20, 2009 can NOT come soon enough…
- Bush is also screwing public broadcasters with their pants on with a budget that “cut(s) in half the $400 million allocated in advance by Congress for fiscal year 2009 and cut $220 million from the $420 million already planned for 2010... nice job again Georgie boy…
- And have we mentioned? That the Iraq war is endangering the country? Sure we already had an idea that it was, but now we have someone who knows about these types of things agreeing with us… and it’s someone in Bush’s administration. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, said in prepared testimony yesterday that “U.S. forces are ’significantly stressed’ by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan” and that the “pace of ongoing operations impacts our ability to be ready to counter future threats.” (Lovely… an unjust war that, on the surface, doesn’t seem to have us safer is actually putting us more at risk. But then again this isn’t a total surprise, is it?)
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Spinning something that can't be spun... again
Yesterday I posted about how, in the eyes of the Bush(whacked) Administration, that an up-tick in violence in Afghanistan was a good thing… and this administration's knack of spinning bad things as good. They’re doing it again...
This time it’s healthcare.
Back in 2000, the WHO ranked the US 37th in health care out of 191 countries… not soon after, “President” Bush said; “we have fabulous health care.” All fine and good, but when millions of your citizens aren’t covered, something’s amiss… and it’s not fabulous.
Fast-forward to this week and OMB Director Jim Nussle echoing Bush’s inaccurate claim while explaining Bush’s new (historical – and not in a good way) budget... that US healthcare is the “best,” saying;
“So beneficiaries, I don’t think, will see the differences. … We have the best health care in the world. And our seniors especially get great health care. And that will not be affected by this small drop in percentage increases over the next five years.”He apparently wants all of us to ignore the $200 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts over the next five years, which will make the dismal state of U.S. health care even worse… yes, that’s possible. Scary, but possible…
The way that Bush’s budget cuts Medicaid, by $18.2 billion over five years, essentially shifts costs to the states and thus will force the states to institute even bigger program cuts or tax increases to cover the expenses. So who gets screwed in the end? Well, it’s the Bush(whacked) Administration… so naturally it will be the little guy… and senior citizens, and in turn the people that care for them.
Nussle wasn’t done spinning as he continued by saying that Medicare “access and quality should not suffer at all.”
Uh-huh… why do I not believe that? And I’m not the only one, as the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) also disagrees, strongly;
“Many of the proposed cuts go well beyond the reductions that MedPAC, Congress’ expert advisory commission on Medicare payments, recommended and considers safe. […] These reductions could drive some health care providers to limit the number of Medicare patients they see or drop out of the program entirely. That, in turn, would jeopardize health care for significant numbers of people who are elderly or have serious disabilities.”
Remember that a majority of Medicare savings would be achieved by reducing the annual update in federal payments to hospitals, many of which service large numbers of the uninsured… thus creating an incredibly large lack of funds to help the uninsured…
Bush is a lame duck and it’s high time Congress starts treating him like one. They need to get it through his thick skull that he’s screwed up big time and that he needs to stop doing stupid things before he pushes the populace even further into an economic pit of darkness… the likes of which this country has not seen in a very long time.
As if his legacy is not battered enough and rife with both moral and fiscal irresponsibility, he has to pull something like this in the last act of what is a very sad presidency… and an even sadder time in the history of the United States.
The Tuesday ‘BushWhack’ing
It’s Super Fat Tuesday… as Scott and I have reminded you a couple of times today; get off your ass and go vote…
- Who will win Super Fat Tuesday? Obama? Clinton? The Democrats are in a statistical dead heat across the country… McCain? Romney? Huckabee? Stay tuned…
- Voters in 24 states head to the polls today in what is now the “biggest primary day in U.S. history” with 1,681 Democratic delegates at stake… but with the Democrat’s use of proportional representation it’s unlikely, unless there’s a rout, that a front-runner will emerge when all is said and done…
- If you’re one of those politicos that likes to stay up late and watch the results filter in, you may be up for a late night. Polls don’t close in California until 8 pm, which means folks in the Midwest and East Coast will have to stay up until 10 or 11 p.m. just to see some results… (It’s Fat Tuesday, so drink a LOT of coffee and eat a lot and you’ll be fine…)
- We all know that “President” submitted his historical (and not in a good way) budget yesterday, and as more experts peruse it, we’re starting to get more of an idea that he cares about nothing but Iraq. Case in point, his budget would slash funding for the EPA by “$330 million from fiscal 2008 to $7.1 billion.” The budget proposal also calls for an “overall decrease of almost $600 million from EPA spending” in 2007 along with the elimination of five EPA programs… (Not a surprise… Bush has long had a disdain for the environment, and I am sure the feeling is mutual… but to destruct it his much is overkill, even for him…)
- Bob Dole aint’ happy with Rush Limbaugh… and to express his ire, Dole sent a letter to Rush Limbaugh defending, but not endorsing, John McCain, whom Limbaugh has been slamming McCain for a few days now saying he’s not conservative enough to be the gop nominee. Having apparently heard enough, Dole sent off the letter in which he compares McCain's Senate record to former Sen. Jesse Helms… which I, personally, don’t see… but I, personally, love seeing conservatives argue amongst themselves, it can only help us in November… so keep it up Rush…
- And have we mentioned? That Sen. Clinton cried again… the day before a HUGE primary… though I’m sure it was just mere coincidence…
REMINDER!
If you live in one of the plethora of states holding a primary today, remember, regardless of political affiliation, to get out and
VOTE!!
Monday, February 04, 2008
A Super (Fat) Tuesday Primer: The other side
As we get closer and closer to Super Fat Tuesday, I thought it might be beneficial to go through some of the more hot-button issues and where Senator McCain and former Governors Romney and Huckabee stand on each. Yes, NO Ron Paul… this is a Ron Paul-free zone…
Iraq
McCain: voted to authorize the war but was a critic of then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's prosecution of the war and wanted to send more troops over there before Bush was told that’s what he wanted to do… also opposes any pullout timetable and can see us being over there for at least 100 years…
Romney: supported the invasion of Iraq and the prosecution of the war, including last year's “surge.” Has not advocated a timetable for withdrawal in public, lest he upset his base, but supposedly he has said in private he would like to have U.S. and Iraqi talks “timetables and milestones”… which should instantly endear him to his base… yes, that was sarcasm again…
Huckabee: says it’s all Bush’s fault that the US didn’t send enough troops to Iraq in the first place… also supported the surge (I know, you’re shocked) and doesn’t offer a timetable of any kind and would rely on commanders' recommendations on when to start withdrawing our troops… in other words, be another Dubya…
Health care
McCain: supports purchase of health insurance across state lines while giving a tax credit to increase incentives for insurance coverage.
Romney: supports individual state-by-state health care reform while opposes universal health care… he is a republican after all, this shouldn’t surprise you…
Huckabee: opposes universal health care as well…and doesn’t have any other thoughts about it… so there ya go…
Taxes
McCain: even though he voted against them initially, he now supports Bush’s tax cuts and wants to make them permanent.
Romney: also supports making Bush tax cuts permanent while lowering tax rates for all individuals…
Huckabee: supports replacing current income tax system with a flat tax or national sales tax system… which most economists agree would (further) fuck up the economy…
Energy
McCain: supports immediate reduction in greenhouse gases and a ban on drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Wait, what?)
Romney: supports research to identify cleaner and more efficient sources of energy (Wait, what?). Global Warming? Not so much…
Huckabee: wants a federal research and development budget that will be matched by the private sector to seek new products in alternative fuels (interesting… I mean, wait, what?)
Trade
McCain: opposes protectionism and says free trade is a way to open “closed societies” in the Middle East.
Romney: wants to renegotiate trade.
Huckabee: blames weak U.S. regulatory action for trade imbalance and imports of unsafe products from China... I would make a smart-ass comment about that, but I don't want to get in trouble...
Abortion
McCain: says Roe vs. Wade ruling should be overturned, with states allowed to make own laws on abortion (which hurts him regarding his base, but he attempts to appease them by saying that he hopes leaving it up to states would lead to the end of the procedure... (Riiiiiiiiiiiiight…)
Romney: opposes a constitutional amendment to ban abortion and, like McCain, wants to let states decide the issue.
Huckabee: he’s a preacher, do I really need to spell it out for you? Sigh… okay, he favors a constitutional amendment to totally ban abortion and says his opponents ideas of allowing states to decide is similar to the “logic of the Civil War,” when some states were free states and others were slave states… (Uh-huh… Huckabee thought this would be enough to propel him to victory, so far it’s only worked once)
Economy
McCain: proposes to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent. Would allow first-year deduction, or "expensing," of investments in equipment and technology.
Romney: wants to introduce a long-term strategy of cutting the capital gains tax to zero and making the Bush tax cuts permanent. He's waiting to unveil his short-term economic stimulus plan soon... if he waits too long, it's liable to not matter...
Huckabee: favors a "pro-growth, low-inflation policy" by the Federal Reserve and wants to preserve, and expand in ways I couldn't imagine, the Bush tax cuts... oh, he also wants to abolish the IRS and institute a national sales tax.
Education
McCain: likes parental choice of schools and school vouchers for private schools when approved by local officials. Also believes in the right of parents to choose home-schooling.
Romney: likes federal requirements for standardized tests, praises No Child Left Behind law, supports "school choice, better pay for better teachers, high standards, scholarships for the best kids." (Who does he sound like there.... oh yeah; Dubya... one more reason to NOT vote for him...)
Huckabee: thinks that states, and not DC, should be responsible for education and thus given more authority overseeing it. But he also believes that every student should take music and art courses... something that isn't very conservativey of him... (it's a word if I use it)
Immigration
McCain: supports a guest worker program but also wants to increase border security and the construction of theBerlin Wall border fence…
Romney: opposes any kind of amnesty for illegal immigrants and supports increasing border security.
Huckabee: also wants to increase border security and the construction of theBerlin Wall border fence…
Gay marriage
McCain: opposes gay marriage and maintains that states should control marriage laws.
Romney: wants a constitutional ban on gay marriage.
Huckabee: again, he’s a preacher, do I really need to spell it out for you? Sigh… okay… he opposes gay marriage.
All I have… yes, this was filled with snark, but what do you expect; I’m a Liberal…
Regardless of political affiliation, remember… VOTE TOMORROW! It’s not only your birthright, it’s a moral imperative…
McCain: voted to authorize the war but was a critic of then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's prosecution of the war and wanted to send more troops over there before Bush was told that’s what he wanted to do… also opposes any pullout timetable and can see us being over there for at least 100 years…
Romney: supported the invasion of Iraq and the prosecution of the war, including last year's “surge.” Has not advocated a timetable for withdrawal in public, lest he upset his base, but supposedly he has said in private he would like to have U.S. and Iraqi talks “timetables and milestones”… which should instantly endear him to his base… yes, that was sarcasm again…
Huckabee: says it’s all Bush’s fault that the US didn’t send enough troops to Iraq in the first place… also supported the surge (I know, you’re shocked) and doesn’t offer a timetable of any kind and would rely on commanders' recommendations on when to start withdrawing our troops… in other words, be another Dubya…
McCain: supports purchase of health insurance across state lines while giving a tax credit to increase incentives for insurance coverage.
Romney: supports individual state-by-state health care reform while opposes universal health care… he is a republican after all, this shouldn’t surprise you…
Huckabee: opposes universal health care as well…and doesn’t have any other thoughts about it… so there ya go…
McCain: even though he voted against them initially, he now supports Bush’s tax cuts and wants to make them permanent.
Romney: also supports making Bush tax cuts permanent while lowering tax rates for all individuals…
Huckabee: supports replacing current income tax system with a flat tax or national sales tax system… which most economists agree would (further) fuck up the economy…
McCain: supports immediate reduction in greenhouse gases and a ban on drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Wait, what?)
Romney: supports research to identify cleaner and more efficient sources of energy (Wait, what?). Global Warming? Not so much…
Huckabee: wants a federal research and development budget that will be matched by the private sector to seek new products in alternative fuels (interesting… I mean, wait, what?)
McCain: opposes protectionism and says free trade is a way to open “closed societies” in the Middle East.
Romney: wants to renegotiate trade.
Huckabee: blames weak U.S. regulatory action for trade imbalance and imports of unsafe products from China... I would make a smart-ass comment about that, but I don't want to get in trouble...
McCain: says Roe vs. Wade ruling should be overturned, with states allowed to make own laws on abortion (which hurts him regarding his base, but he attempts to appease them by saying that he hopes leaving it up to states would lead to the end of the procedure... (Riiiiiiiiiiiiight…)
Romney: opposes a constitutional amendment to ban abortion and, like McCain, wants to let states decide the issue.
Huckabee: he’s a preacher, do I really need to spell it out for you? Sigh… okay, he favors a constitutional amendment to totally ban abortion and says his opponents ideas of allowing states to decide is similar to the “logic of the Civil War,” when some states were free states and others were slave states… (Uh-huh… Huckabee thought this would be enough to propel him to victory, so far it’s only worked once)
McCain: proposes to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent. Would allow first-year deduction, or "expensing," of investments in equipment and technology.
Romney: wants to introduce a long-term strategy of cutting the capital gains tax to zero and making the Bush tax cuts permanent. He's waiting to unveil his short-term economic stimulus plan soon... if he waits too long, it's liable to not matter...
Huckabee: favors a "pro-growth, low-inflation policy" by the Federal Reserve and wants to preserve, and expand in ways I couldn't imagine, the Bush tax cuts... oh, he also wants to abolish the IRS and institute a national sales tax.
McCain: likes parental choice of schools and school vouchers for private schools when approved by local officials. Also believes in the right of parents to choose home-schooling.
Romney: likes federal requirements for standardized tests, praises No Child Left Behind law, supports "school choice, better pay for better teachers, high standards, scholarships for the best kids." (Who does he sound like there.... oh yeah; Dubya... one more reason to NOT vote for him...)
Huckabee: thinks that states, and not DC, should be responsible for education and thus given more authority overseeing it. But he also believes that every student should take music and art courses... something that isn't very conservativey of him... (it's a word if I use it)
McCain: supports a guest worker program but also wants to increase border security and the construction of the
Romney: opposes any kind of amnesty for illegal immigrants and supports increasing border security.
Huckabee: also wants to increase border security and the construction of the
McCain: opposes gay marriage and maintains that states should control marriage laws.
Romney: wants a constitutional ban on gay marriage.
Huckabee: again, he’s a preacher, do I really need to spell it out for you? Sigh… okay… he opposes gay marriage.
All I have… yes, this was filled with snark, but what do you expect; I’m a Liberal…
Regardless of political affiliation, remember… VOTE TOMORROW! It’s not only your birthright, it’s a moral imperative…
A Super (Fat) Tuesday Primer: The Democrats
As we get closer and closer to Super Fat Tuesday, I thought it might be beneficial to go through some of the more hot-button issues and where Senators Clinton and Obama stand on each… if you want information about the republican candidates, hold tight, I’ll be spreading that manure information out soon… then again...
Clinton: Voted to authorize the invasion of Iraq but says she wouldn't have done so if she knew then what she knows now (Uh-huh… sure, Ms. Clinton did oppose the surge, but she was in presidential candidate mode at that time… so take it as you will). Her future plans for Iraq would be to order military leaders to develop a plan that would start bringing U.S. troops home within the first 60 days of her administration, though she hasn’t committed to a withdrawal timetable and says some troops will have to remain in the country.
Obama: Opposed the war from the start along with opposing the surge. Vows that as president he would immediately begin to remove U.S. troops, bringing one or two combat brigades home per month until all troops are out of Iraq within 16 months. Like Clinton Mr. Obama would keep some troops in Iraq, primarily to protect U.S. diplomats and to fight terrorism.
Clinton: Ms. Clinton’s pet issue since she was First Lady… her plan now is somewhat similar to the one she tried to push through in the 90’s, but now favors keeping existing coverage or allow people to have access to the same private insurance options that Congress has.
Obama: wants to create a new national health plan that would allow individuals without access to affordable insurance coverage to buy coverage similar to that available to members of Congress… (wait? Isn’t that like Ms. Clinton’s?)
Clinton: supports permanently ending marriage penalty, extending the lower-income tax rates and providing a deduction for college tuition.
Obama: wants to increase the number of working parents eligible for Earned Income Tax Credits while increasing the benefit available to parents who support their children through child support payments. Unlike Clinton, Mr. Obama only wants to reduce the marriage penalty and not totally abolish it.
Clinton: Supports a $50 billion Strategic Energy Fund (paid for in part by Bush’s friends, I mean oil companies) to fund investments in various forms of alternative energy.
Obama: Supports implementing an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the level recommended by top scientists.
Clinton: Seeks to reopen NAFTA in order to strengthen enforcement of labor and environmental standards.
Obama: Also seeks to reopen NAFTA to strengthen enforcement of labor and environmental standards…
Clinton: Supports abortion rights, but adds that “pro-choice” doesn’t necessarily mean “pro-abortion.”
Obama: Supports abortion rights and urges efforts to reduce teen pregnancy.
Clinton: Proposes economic stimulus package up to $110 billion, including $40 billion in tax rebates, a $30 billion fund to help states and cities deal with housing foreclosures, a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures and a five-year interest-rate freeze on sub-prime mortgages.
Obama: Wants to use $75 billion in tax cuts and direct spending to stimulate the economy while providing an immediate $250 tax cut to workers and their families, along with an immediate, temporary $250 bonus to seniors in their Social Security checks.
Clinton: Wants Pre-Kindergarten for all 4-year-olds. She also opposes performance-based merit pay for teachers, yet favors incentives for teachers in high-need places and subjects. Originally supported No Child Left Behind but now says it has not been properly financed or run.
Obama: Would encourage, but not require, universal Pre-Kindergarten while rewarding teachers with higher salaries that wouldn’t be tied to standardized test scores. Wants to amend NCLB… but then again, who doesn’t…
Clinton: Supports the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Minors), which aims to provide a path to citizenship through military service or higher education.
Obama: Supports new employment eligibility verification system and the Citizenship Promotion Act to ensure fair immigration application fees.
Clinton: Opposes same-sex marriage, favors civil unions while saying it's a state issue.
Obama: Also opposes same-sex marriage and supports civil unions.
Hope this gives you some idea… if you want more information, I suggest you visit each candidates website
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL): www.barackobama.com
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY): www.hillaryclinton.com
And remember… VOTE TOMORROW! It’s not only your birthright, it’s a moral imperative…
Spinning something that can't be spun
Once again the unique way this administration views things is coming to the front… and by unique I mean naïve, inane, muddled…
Two reports are being released this week, one from The Atlantic Council of the United States (ACUS) and the other from Center for the Study of the Presidency (CSP), and both paint starkly negative views about Afghanistan (AKA The War that George Forgot).
Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones led the ACUS report which concludes that
“progress achieved after six years” in Afghanistan “is under serious threat. […] Make no mistake, NATO is not winning in Afghanistan,”This is not totally suprsiring as many critics have been saying that the success of ousting the Taliban and, in turn, putting al-Qaeda on the run has been ebbed by the lack of attention this adminstration has paid to that war… now it’s getting a little more attention with the release of these reports.
Though that isn’t going to stop the Bush(whacked) Administration from donning its rose-colored glasses and spinning the violence that has befell the country.
Case in point; Defense Secretary Robert Gates…
Gates is not only downplaying the upswing in violence in Afghanistan but is trying to spin the violence the administration is acknowledging as being good…
You read that right… something that most 5-year olds can distinguish between, violence is bad, no violence is good, is being spun as good by a supposed intelligent adult.
Last week Gates attempted to claim that “NATO has had a very successful year in 2007″ and that the significant increase in suicide bombings in 2007 was the “manifestations of a group that has lost in regular military terms.”I’m sorry… what? An increase in violence is a positive? Are we living in opposite land?
And what’s more, Gates wasn’t done… while he admitted that there is a “rising security issue” there, he spun that by saying that that was because the Taliban are turning to terrorism, having failed in conventional military conflict with the NATO allies…
Huh?
Maybe reading his whole comment verbatim would clear it up…
““And so we are seeing more suicide bombings, more use of (improvised explosive devices), and so on. These are actions of people whose conventional military efforts have failed,” […] The rise in violence and attacks like we saw in Kabul are manifestations of a group that has lost in regular military terms in 2007 and is turning to terrorism as a substitute for that.”Yeah, that didn’t work…
Granted, spinning an upward spike in violence as signs of progress is a common Bush(whacked) Administration tactic used in Iraq as well as Afghanistan… in fact, ThinkProgress even reminds us of some of them:
June 2007, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow described intense new levels of violence in Iraq as “signs of success.”
May 2005, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared “So suicide attacks, whether in Okinawa or in Baghdad today, are not a sign of strength. They’re a sign of desperation.”
March 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney brushed off the (insurgent) attacks as a sign of ‘desperation’ among U.S. foes…
What I see reek is more so a sign of desperation from this administration… trying to tie an increase of attacks and overall violence as any kind of success… it just doesn’t work that way, no matter what political ideologies you may have. So allow me to put this into words that even Bush could understand;
More violence… baaaaaaaaad.
Less violence… goooooooood.
Is there a way to ingrain this into the administration’s collective brain?I didn’t think so…
The Monday ‘BushWhack’ing
It’s Monday… another day, another week…
- Psst, in case you haven’t heard; tomorrow is Super Tuesday… and Fat Tuesday… so it’s Super Fat Tuesday. If you are one of the hordes that live in one of tomorrow’s primary states, and regardless of whom you are going to vote for – Democrat, republican, Green, Libertarian – just make sure YOU VOTE!
- "President” Bush introduced a $3.1 trillion budget today… a new record. Again, aren’t republicans supposed to be about fiscal discipline? Apparently he missed that memo…
- Maria Shriver endorsed Sen. Obama this past weekend, even though her husband, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a republican, endorsed Sen. McCain… think there was an abrupt conversation in the Schwarzenegger household yesterday?
- What if you held a caucus and no one cared? That’s what Mitt Romney is facing as he won Saturday’s Maine caucus and… ah who cares…
- Example of a sound-bite that can get someone in trouble if others don’t know the context; “…white women are a problem.” This was spoken by Fox “News” Bill Kristol yesterday while discussing Sen. Clinton as Veep... (I, personally, am waiting to hear how he spins this... though saying; “I’m an idiot” might be his best bet…)
- Speaking of Obama… Sen. Clinton is seeing a monstrous loss of ground to him in a national CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll as the two have pulled into a statistical dead heat on the eve of Super Fat Tuesday. And in interest of disclosure, the CNN poll is consistent with other national polls that have been taken in the last few days Gallup, Pew, ABC and CBS. The race is getting interesting, and I doubt that it’s going to be decided tomorrow, so stay tuned.
- A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that 60% of Americans “think the economy’s already in a recession” while “two-thirds doubt” that the government’s economic stimulus package will “soften the blow,” To give you a better idea of just how dire people are viewing this, 81% of those polled believe the economy is “in bad shape”… (How long have I been saying that the economy has been circling the drain??? And I got constant comments from conservative trolls arguing that I was wrong… well, who’s wrong now lemming?)
- And have we mentioned? that the September 11 commission's executive director had closer ties with the White House than previously had been disclosed? Shocking, isn’t it?
Friday, February 01, 2008
The (Over-stuffed) Weekly Rewind
As I continue to dig out from the 10 inches of snow that fell, how about a nice healthy serving of snark, courtesy of The Weekly Rewind… enjoy!
Applaud: to “President” Bush’s final (woot, woot!) State of the Union address… not for what he said – I tried to listen, but my ears started to bleed – but for the fact it was his LAST. ONE. Drinks all around!Heckle: to talking out of one’s ass. “President” Bush has been trumpeting clean coal technology as a potential solution to global warming for years, insisting back in 2006 that the US should be “spending quite a bit of money” at the federal level to come up with clean-coal technologies. Then, during Monday’s SOTU Bush said, “Let us fund new technologies that can generate coal power while capturing carbon emissions.” Less than 24 hours after his SOTU declaration, Bush’s Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman, in a meeting with lawmakers from Illinois where FutureGen was set to be installed “all but drove a stake in” the $1.5 billion project, which was going to be a clean coal plant that was touted as “the cleanest fossil fuel fired power plant in the world. (Yes sirree… nice rhetoric there Dumbya… talk it up, then tear it down. 1/20/2009…)
Applaud: to polling data that shows even those in the Bush family that aren’t involved in politics are not well liked… a recent Pew Research Center poll found that First Lady Laura Bush’s favorability rating has dropped “sharply” in recent years, corresponding well with her husband’s numbers. Why is this important? Because there was a time when Ms. Bush was “almost universally liked” with a 70% approval rating back in Aug. 2004… now that number is just above the majority, with 54% now having a favorable impression her… (When the First Lady’s numbers start plummeting, you know things are getting bad… though it does bring a smile to my face…)
Heckle: to Ralph Nader… for launching a Presidential exploratory committee earlier this week. The man who many blame for Al Gore’s 2000 loss told CNN that he's likely to get in the race if he can put the resources in place… (as I said in yesterday’s BushWhacking, someone on the Dems side needs to throw this man a bone… offer him a role in your campaign, so he can be assured that his issues are talked about and he won’t get into the race… lest we have another loss like 2000)
Applaud: to a group of Methodists that are “mounting a last-ditch effort to block” the placement of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, museum and policy institute at Southern Methodist University… (keep up the good work… the man hasn’t even left office yet and, let’s face it, was a craptacular president that doesn’t need his own library… can’t he use the back of an old Chevy stationwagon outside his ranch in Crawford?)
Heckle: to breaking barriers that shouldn’t be broken. “President” Bush’s 2009 budget will total “more than $3 trillion”, marking the first time that barrier has ever been broken and will cause big increases in federal budget deficits, to about $400 billion for both fiscal 2008 and fiscal 2009.” It’s fun to note though that republican Bush’s “trail of deficits and debt” will “sharply constrain his successor… a Democrat… explain to me how republicans are about fiscal discipline…
Applaud: to “President” Bush (bear with me a moment) for finally admitting to what we’ve all believed these past seven years… that he lives inside a “bubble” but that “life’s pretty comfortable” in said bubble… wow, I don’t think I would have admitted that if I were the president…
Heckle: to startling news… a new report by the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves found that the U.S. military “isn’t ready for a catastrophic attack on the country”, which should be pause enough, but the report continued and added that National Guard forces don’t have the equipment or training they need for the job and that 88% of Army National Guard units are not combat-ready… and yet this administration still wants to attack Iran before they leave office…
Applaud: to the FBI for opening an investigation into 14 companies related to the subprime mortgage crisis… the 14 were picked due to possible “accounting fraud, securitization of loans and insider trading” due to “allegations of fraud in various stages of the mortgage process” from these companies that allegedly “bundled the loans into securities to the banks that ended up holding them.” (the applaud is half-hearted… as it’s one thing to investigate, it’s another thing totally to do something after the investigatio…)
Heckle: to further draining America’s standing in the world… this time by antagonization. Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s sent Germany an “unusually stern” letter that demanded combat troops, helicopters and paratroopers… Germany refused. (Who the hell does Gates think he is??? Demanding another country send troops into a war?? Give me a fucking break… what a tool…)
Applaud: to Choate Rosemary Hall Headmaster Edward Shanahan who, under intense pressure from students, canceled Karl Rove’s scheduled commencement address at this years commencement ceremony this year.
Heckle: to scary-ass possibilities… earlier this week on Fox “News”, Geraldo Rivera asked Bob Novak who McCain would pick as his running mate if he were to win the gop nomination… Novak responded by saying; “the most interesting running mate I’ve heard is Condoleezza Rice,” (Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo)
Applaud? Heckle? You Decide: to news that I have mixed feelings about… on one hand it shows that people don’t give a rat’s ass about Bush… but on the other it shows what I, and a few others, have been saying for a while – the media is undermining our society as most people would rather hear the latest about Britney or Lindsay than about politics. Case in point, a Pew Research Center study released this week reported: When asked to name the person they had heard the most about in the news lately, 24% of the public named Obama and 23% named Clinton… and a week that saw him propose an economic stimulus plan, a scant 5% named George Bush as the person they had heard the most about. About twice as many (11%) named Hollywood actor Heath Ledger, who died last week.
Heckle: to alarming news, though it does carry more proof that this administration has failed in the war on terror... the Bush(whacked) Administration is seeking to “re-energize its terrorism-fighting war efforts” in Afghanistan while at the same time “refocusing on Pakistan” where a regenerating al-Qaeda is posing fresh threats.” (Here we go again… al-Qaeda was based in Afghanistan… we attacked the country and had them and the Taliban on the run… then we pull the majority of our resources from there and toss them over to Iraq to make up for Papa Bush’s errors… and now it’s coming to bite them on the ass… problem is, with less than a year until Bush leaves office, the bite won’t come until the new president takes office… way to go George… ya putz…)
Applaud: to the head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel Scott Bloch. Last week he wrote a letter to AG Mukasey in which he claimed that the Justice Department had repeatedly “impeded” his investigation of the politicization of the department under Alberto Gonzales by “refusing to share documents and provide answers to written questions.” (I am shocked, shocked to find gambling in this establishment…)
Heckle: to US automakers for lobbying to convince states that a proposal by California to cut tailpipe emissions sharply to fight global warming could further depress the struggling U.S. industry… which gives one reason as to why the Bush(whacked) Administration blocked the initiative…
Applaud: to the four republican presidential candidates (bear with me again) who, at this week’s debate, all appeared to express support for California in its battle with the EPA… (wow… republicans doing something in support of the environment? Quick, someone call hell to see if they’ve frozen over…)
Heckle: to saccharine-coated crap… after delivering his (FINAL!) SOTU Monday night, an unidentified republican congresswoman blurted out, “You make me proud to be an American!” (Sigh… I don’t even know where to begin…)
Heckle: to news that makes me cringe… Defense Department Inspector General Claude Kicklighter told Congress yesterday that weapons the U.S. provided to Iraqi security forces may still end up in the hands of terrorists, insurgents and criminals…
Applaud: to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY). Back in November he voted to confirm Attorney General nominee Mike Mukasey. Earlier this week Mukasey was appearing in front of the Senate and was avoiding any talk of waterboarding. Naturally Schumer said he was “disappointed” in the attorney general’s responses, but the best line came after that, when the good Senator said; “I thought there was a hope, not large, that you just might rise to the occasion. So I’m not surprised with your testimony, but I remain disappointed.”
Heckle: to Gen. David Petraeus…sure I could say because we can, but it’s more so his call for an operational “pause” in withdrawals… Petraeus will be testifying before Congress in April and he wants to stop withdrawing US troops from Iraq… despite Defense Secretary Robert Gates and top military officers saying they would “like to see continued withdrawals throughout this year.” Naturally Bush is following his lapdog, he had to replace Tony Blair, and has indicated he will likely be guided by Petraeus’s views… big surprise there. I agree, and always have, that withdrawing all our troops at once would be more detrimental than anything else, but a continued withdrawal would not only safe countless US lives, but could very well smack the collective head of Iraqi leaders (a term I use loosely) to get their act together… but the chances of that happening are as good as the chances of Bush garnering above 30% approvals before he leaves office…)
This week’s conservative tool of the week is Bill “want to rub me with a loofa” O’Reilly for his pathetic treatment and statements about US veterans. Earlier this month, O’Reilly challenged John Edwards for saying that there are 200,000 homeless vets in the US and claimed that there aren’t “many” homeless veterans in the country, he then pledged to take any homeless vets under his wing when he said; “If you know where’s a veteran, sleeping under a bridge, you call me immediately, and we will make sure that man does not do it.” Yesterday a plethora of homeless veterans answered O’Reilly’s challenge, staging a protest outside his office and offering up a petition, that contained 17,000 signatures, that demanded O'Reilly apologize on the air for his statements that there are no homeless vets…
Not surprisingly, O’Reilly was scared to meet them himself so, well, I’ll allow the New York Daily News tell you the rest of the story;
Conservative Tool of the Week…
All I have, take ‘em as you will…
Applaud: to “President” Bush’s final (woot, woot!) State of the Union address… not for what he said – I tried to listen, but my ears started to bleed – but for the fact it was his LAST. ONE. Drinks all around!Heckle: to talking out of one’s ass. “President” Bush has been trumpeting clean coal technology as a potential solution to global warming for years, insisting back in 2006 that the US should be “spending quite a bit of money” at the federal level to come up with clean-coal technologies. Then, during Monday’s SOTU Bush said, “Let us fund new technologies that can generate coal power while capturing carbon emissions.” Less than 24 hours after his SOTU declaration, Bush’s Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman, in a meeting with lawmakers from Illinois where FutureGen was set to be installed “all but drove a stake in” the $1.5 billion project, which was going to be a clean coal plant that was touted as “the cleanest fossil fuel fired power plant in the world. (Yes sirree… nice rhetoric there Dumbya… talk it up, then tear it down. 1/20/2009…)
Applaud: to polling data that shows even those in the Bush family that aren’t involved in politics are not well liked… a recent Pew Research Center poll found that First Lady Laura Bush’s favorability rating has dropped “sharply” in recent years, corresponding well with her husband’s numbers. Why is this important? Because there was a time when Ms. Bush was “almost universally liked” with a 70% approval rating back in Aug. 2004… now that number is just above the majority, with 54% now having a favorable impression her… (When the First Lady’s numbers start plummeting, you know things are getting bad… though it does bring a smile to my face…)
Heckle: to Ralph Nader… for launching a Presidential exploratory committee earlier this week. The man who many blame for Al Gore’s 2000 loss told CNN that he's likely to get in the race if he can put the resources in place… (as I said in yesterday’s BushWhacking, someone on the Dems side needs to throw this man a bone… offer him a role in your campaign, so he can be assured that his issues are talked about and he won’t get into the race… lest we have another loss like 2000)
Applaud: to a group of Methodists that are “mounting a last-ditch effort to block” the placement of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, museum and policy institute at Southern Methodist University… (keep up the good work… the man hasn’t even left office yet and, let’s face it, was a craptacular president that doesn’t need his own library… can’t he use the back of an old Chevy stationwagon outside his ranch in Crawford?)
Heckle: to breaking barriers that shouldn’t be broken. “President” Bush’s 2009 budget will total “more than $3 trillion”, marking the first time that barrier has ever been broken and will cause big increases in federal budget deficits, to about $400 billion for both fiscal 2008 and fiscal 2009.” It’s fun to note though that republican Bush’s “trail of deficits and debt” will “sharply constrain his successor… a Democrat… explain to me how republicans are about fiscal discipline…
Applaud: to “President” Bush (bear with me a moment) for finally admitting to what we’ve all believed these past seven years… that he lives inside a “bubble” but that “life’s pretty comfortable” in said bubble… wow, I don’t think I would have admitted that if I were the president…
Heckle: to startling news… a new report by the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves found that the U.S. military “isn’t ready for a catastrophic attack on the country”, which should be pause enough, but the report continued and added that National Guard forces don’t have the equipment or training they need for the job and that 88% of Army National Guard units are not combat-ready… and yet this administration still wants to attack Iran before they leave office…
Applaud: to the FBI for opening an investigation into 14 companies related to the subprime mortgage crisis… the 14 were picked due to possible “accounting fraud, securitization of loans and insider trading” due to “allegations of fraud in various stages of the mortgage process” from these companies that allegedly “bundled the loans into securities to the banks that ended up holding them.” (the applaud is half-hearted… as it’s one thing to investigate, it’s another thing totally to do something after the investigatio…)
Heckle: to further draining America’s standing in the world… this time by antagonization. Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s sent Germany an “unusually stern” letter that demanded combat troops, helicopters and paratroopers… Germany refused. (Who the hell does Gates think he is??? Demanding another country send troops into a war?? Give me a fucking break… what a tool…)
Applaud: to Choate Rosemary Hall Headmaster Edward Shanahan who, under intense pressure from students, canceled Karl Rove’s scheduled commencement address at this years commencement ceremony this year.
Heckle: to scary-ass possibilities… earlier this week on Fox “News”, Geraldo Rivera asked Bob Novak who McCain would pick as his running mate if he were to win the gop nomination… Novak responded by saying; “the most interesting running mate I’ve heard is Condoleezza Rice,” (Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo)
Applaud? Heckle? You Decide: to news that I have mixed feelings about… on one hand it shows that people don’t give a rat’s ass about Bush… but on the other it shows what I, and a few others, have been saying for a while – the media is undermining our society as most people would rather hear the latest about Britney or Lindsay than about politics. Case in point, a Pew Research Center study released this week reported: When asked to name the person they had heard the most about in the news lately, 24% of the public named Obama and 23% named Clinton… and a week that saw him propose an economic stimulus plan, a scant 5% named George Bush as the person they had heard the most about. About twice as many (11%) named Hollywood actor Heath Ledger, who died last week.
Heckle: to alarming news, though it does carry more proof that this administration has failed in the war on terror... the Bush(whacked) Administration is seeking to “re-energize its terrorism-fighting war efforts” in Afghanistan while at the same time “refocusing on Pakistan” where a regenerating al-Qaeda is posing fresh threats.” (Here we go again… al-Qaeda was based in Afghanistan… we attacked the country and had them and the Taliban on the run… then we pull the majority of our resources from there and toss them over to Iraq to make up for Papa Bush’s errors… and now it’s coming to bite them on the ass… problem is, with less than a year until Bush leaves office, the bite won’t come until the new president takes office… way to go George… ya putz…)
Applaud: to the head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel Scott Bloch. Last week he wrote a letter to AG Mukasey in which he claimed that the Justice Department had repeatedly “impeded” his investigation of the politicization of the department under Alberto Gonzales by “refusing to share documents and provide answers to written questions.” (I am shocked, shocked to find gambling in this establishment…)
Heckle: to US automakers for lobbying to convince states that a proposal by California to cut tailpipe emissions sharply to fight global warming could further depress the struggling U.S. industry… which gives one reason as to why the Bush(whacked) Administration blocked the initiative…
Applaud: to the four republican presidential candidates (bear with me again) who, at this week’s debate, all appeared to express support for California in its battle with the EPA… (wow… republicans doing something in support of the environment? Quick, someone call hell to see if they’ve frozen over…)
Heckle: to saccharine-coated crap… after delivering his (FINAL!) SOTU Monday night, an unidentified republican congresswoman blurted out, “You make me proud to be an American!” (Sigh… I don’t even know where to begin…)
Heckle: to news that makes me cringe… Defense Department Inspector General Claude Kicklighter told Congress yesterday that weapons the U.S. provided to Iraqi security forces may still end up in the hands of terrorists, insurgents and criminals…
Applaud: to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY). Back in November he voted to confirm Attorney General nominee Mike Mukasey. Earlier this week Mukasey was appearing in front of the Senate and was avoiding any talk of waterboarding. Naturally Schumer said he was “disappointed” in the attorney general’s responses, but the best line came after that, when the good Senator said; “I thought there was a hope, not large, that you just might rise to the occasion. So I’m not surprised with your testimony, but I remain disappointed.”
Heckle: to Gen. David Petraeus…sure I could say because we can, but it’s more so his call for an operational “pause” in withdrawals… Petraeus will be testifying before Congress in April and he wants to stop withdrawing US troops from Iraq… despite Defense Secretary Robert Gates and top military officers saying they would “like to see continued withdrawals throughout this year.” Naturally Bush is following his lapdog, he had to replace Tony Blair, and has indicated he will likely be guided by Petraeus’s views… big surprise there. I agree, and always have, that withdrawing all our troops at once would be more detrimental than anything else, but a continued withdrawal would not only safe countless US lives, but could very well smack the collective head of Iraqi leaders (a term I use loosely) to get their act together… but the chances of that happening are as good as the chances of Bush garnering above 30% approvals before he leaves office…)
This week’s conservative tool of the week is Bill “want to rub me with a loofa” O’Reilly for his pathetic treatment and statements about US veterans. Earlier this month, O’Reilly challenged John Edwards for saying that there are 200,000 homeless vets in the US and claimed that there aren’t “many” homeless veterans in the country, he then pledged to take any homeless vets under his wing when he said; “If you know where’s a veteran, sleeping under a bridge, you call me immediately, and we will make sure that man does not do it.” Yesterday a plethora of homeless veterans answered O’Reilly’s challenge, staging a protest outside his office and offering up a petition, that contained 17,000 signatures, that demanded O'Reilly apologize on the air for his statements that there are no homeless vets…
Not surprisingly, O’Reilly was scared to meet them himself so, well, I’ll allow the New York Daily News tell you the rest of the story;
While O'Reilly wouldn't face the vets on the streets, their plight also escaped smarmy O'Reilly producer Jesse Waters, who wore Gucci loafers and a goofy smirk as he asked the vets if they had heard the comments firsthand, and then chided them about not traveling to Dallas to confront Mark Cuban about the depiction of G.I.s in his film ‘Redacted.’ “We're here to talk about Bill and his comments” one vet said, holding his ground. Waters' cohort, who refused to give his name, said, "I'm completely unfazed by this," as he stared into his BlackBerry.Nice way to show appreciation for the people that risked their lives so you could be the asshat that you are Bill… and for that you, and your staff for that matter, are this week’s
Conservative Tool of the Week…
All I have, take ‘em as you will…
The Friday Presidential Race ‘BushWhack’ing
A quick run-down of the week that was in the presidential race...
- Democratic candidate John Edwards dropped out of the race this week… as did republican candidate Rudy Giuliani…
- Senators Obama and Clinton held their final debate before Super Tuesday, and it was a much more cordial affair than the previous ones… with each complimenting each other and focusing their vitriol onto the republicans… where it should be. This can only help each candidate, so next Tuesday should be a rollicking good time…
- The four remaining republican candidates held their final debate before Super Tuesday this past Wednesday, and while it was essentially a battle twixt Romney and McCain, Paul and Huckabee still got some swipes in. Next Tuesday will probably knock at least one of them out, so stay tuned…
- McCain won the endorsement this past week of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger…
- Mike Huckabee said earlier this week that he, inexplicably, still believes that there were WMD’s in Iraq…
- Obama won the endorsement of Sen. Ted Kenney and Caroline Kennedy… and Hulk Hogan… oookayyyyyyy
- The next president has a mighty-large task ahead of him or her; a new AP/Yahoo poll found that Americans have a “decidedly dour view” of how things are going in the country and carry “great expectations” for the next president’s ability to get things done. All the candidates should take full notice of this news and do their best to answer the call…
- The gloves are coming off on the gop side as Romney has accused McCain of adopting Nixon-like tactics… ouch, that’s harsh... but most-likely true...
- Sen. McCain promised more wars earlier this week…
- While letting front-runner label inflate his head to Dubya-ian proportions, McCain is about to go on the offensive with ad buys in 20 states…
- The Romney campaign announced that they have raised over $27 million… but 18 of that was loaned by Mitt Romney himself to the campaign in what can be viewed as a desperate attempt to catch McCain…
- Obama raised a staggering $32 million in January…
- A just-released study from the National Journal indicates that Sen. Obama was the most liberal senator in 2007, with Sen. Clinton was the 16th most-Liberal…
- And have we mentioned? That Ralph Nader launched an exploratory committee earlier this week to look into another White House run? Nader, who many blame Al Gore’s 2000 loss on told CNN that he's likely to get in the race if he can put the resources in place. (Sigh... can someone on the Dems side throw this man a bone?? Offer him a role in your campaign, so he can be assured that his issues are talked about. Now some might be asking why offer it to one man...well, this one man, while not TOTALLY responsible for Gore's loss, didn't help it. The man is serious about this and can not be ignored, lest we have another loss like 2000...)
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