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O.M.F.G.
2008-09-26 05:06:00 [HTML1] Sarah Palin keeps an eye on Vladimir Putin? When Russian aircraft come into US airspace, the jets that are scrambled to intercept come from Alaska? She has nothing to do with it. Alaska borders Canada? She's defending those points as being evidence of her foreign policy experience? ...
Pigeony Postscript
2008-09-26 05:06:00 Jim Heaney at the Buffalo News' Outrages & Insights has a postscript on the shell organization set up by Responsible New York to attack Sam Hoyt during the primary. Heaney had asked Steve Pigeon who was behind "Mothers and Fathers Demanding Answers", and Pigeon claimed it would all come ...
The Joint Statement
2008-09-26 05:06:00 You'll recall that Obama called McCain early yesterday to discuss the two campaigns issuing a joint statement on the bailout. McCain eventually got around to returning Obama's call, and this is the net result of the campaigns' joint statement: Joint Statement of Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain "The ...
Class
2008-09-25 06:50:00 John McCain's urgent decision to suspend his campaign? Yeah. The McCain campaign's new urgency about the financial crisis didn't entirely clear his schedule this morning. My colleague Amie Parnes reports that he made it to his scheduled morning meeting with Lady Lynn de Rothschild, a Clinton backer who recently came ... More About: Class
Some of the Most Astonishing Video
2008-09-25 06:50:00 This isn't something that happens in America. This is something that happens in a third world dictatorship. McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to welcome questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin ("Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?") but McCain ... More About: Video
Mesi Leading Ranzenhofer in SD-61
2008-09-25 06:50:00 A Siena poll shows the following in SD-61: Mesi 40% Ranzenhofer 38% 61st SD - Erie and Genesee Counties - Michael Ranzenhofer (R) vs. Joseph Mesi (D) Mesi has a slim 40-38 percent lead over Ranzenhofer. Ranzenhofer does virtually as well among Republicans as Mesi does with Democrats. Mesi has ... More About: Leading
McCain Calls for Debate Delay, ?Suspends? Campaign
2008-09-25 00:49:00 Evidently, congress will be doing all kinds of work on Friday at 9pm that this would necessitate Senator McCain's absence from Ole Miss, where he is scheduled to debate Barack Obama on foreign policy issues. Given that McCain's focus on the economy is welcome and timely, perhaps it would ... More About: Debate , Calls , Campaign
Chris Lee Looks At March. We Look at January.
2008-09-25 00:49:00 Chris Lee released this ad today: [HTML1] The numbers cite the Heritage Foundation Webmemo #1844, which I have handily linked to here. The ultra-right-wing Heritage Foundation is the source used for this lame ad. The Webmemo used against Democratic candidate Alice Kryzan is interesting in that it is discussing congressional action ... More About: January , Chris , March
Friday: Wesley Clark Rally, Debate Watch Party
2008-09-25 00:49:00 Thanks to the Erie County Democratic Committee & Chairman Len Lenihan for getting this information to me. Even if you don't have tickets to watch Karl Rove debate (read: get pwn3d by) retired 4-star General Wesley Clark, you can attend a rally with the General on Friday at 3:30 ... More About: Watch , Party , Debate , Rally
WIC
2008-09-25 00:49:00 Please be advised that the Erie County Legislature's Health & Human Services Committee has scheduled an Informational Meeting for this coming Monday, September 29, 2008 at 9:00 A.M. The purpose of this Informational Meeting is to conduct a discussion concerning the County's W.I.C. Program and the possible closing of some W.I.C. ...
Interesting Numbers
2008-09-25 00:49:00 From an ABC/WaPo poll out last night or this morning: Just 9 percent of those surveyed rated the economy as good or excellent, the first time that number has been in single digits since the days just before the 1992 election. Just 14 percent said the country is heading in ... More About: Interesting , Numbers
Business Experience. Running Government Like a Business. Business. Busine
2008-09-24 04:09:00 There is a businessman who is running for congress in NY-26 who wants to run government like a business in as businesslike a fashion as a businessman might experience when running a regular business. Business . Businessman Chris Lee's businesslike website has recent press releases posted to it, and the ... More About: Government , Running , Experience
The Great Lakes Compact
2008-09-24 04:09:00 The states and provinces bordering the Great Lakes , which represent a full 20% of the fresh water on the Earth's surface, negotiated an interstate compact to ensure that this resource cannot be diverted for use outside the watershed area. Both houses of Congress have given their nod, and President ... More About: Compact , Great Lakes
The Online 100
2008-09-24 04:09:00 I suppose I ought to plug the fact that I've been selected as one of the "Online 100" at Politics Home. The PoliticsHome Online 100 Panel consists of the 100 leading online voices in the United States. Each day until November 4th, the ?Online100? panel will answer 5 strategic ...
Deep Thought 2
2008-09-24 04:09:00 When Joe Biden mangles Depression-era history when speaking to the press, at least he's speaking to the press. More About: Thought , Deep
Obama?s Remarks Today on the Bailout (Emphases Mine)
2008-09-24 04:09:00 Yesterday, the President said that Congress should pass his proposal to ease the crisis on Wall Street without significant changes or improvements. Now, there are many to blame for causing the current crisis, starting with the speculators who gamed the system and the regulators who looked the other ... More About: Today , Obama , Mine , Bailout
Deep Thought
2008-09-24 04:09:00 Carly Fiorina did not have the experience to run a major company. More About: Thought , Deep
Epic Fail
2008-09-24 04:09:00 Does this use of "Fail" mean it has jumped the ol' shark? More About: Epic
That Lipstick Joke - It was Great
2008-09-23 22:08:00 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is in New York today to meet with a handful of world leaders and foreign policy experts like Henry Kissinger at the UN. But all is not going as smoothly as she'd like. One might chalk it up to the fact that she's been ... More About: Joke , Lipstick , Great
Debate Watch Party this Friday
2008-09-23 22:08:00 All are welcome. More About: Watch , Party , Debate , Friday
Maybe this is for realz?
2008-09-23 22:08:00 Dear Mr. American, Good day and compliments. I am HENRI PAULSON, the Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America, and the personal financial adviser to GEORGE W. BUSH (the eldest son of the former dictator of America, GENERAL GEORGE HUSSEIN WALKER BUSH). This letter will definitely come to you as ...
I?m Sorry
2008-09-23 22:08:00 This ad, being run by Republican congressman Tom Feeley in FL-24: [HTML2] Reminded me oh-so-much of our own Tom Reynolds: [HTML1]
Buy My Sh*tpile, Henry
2008-09-23 16:07:00 Snark + Internet + financial OMGCHAOS!@##! = funny. ...submit bad assets you'd like the government to take off your hands. And remember, when estimating the value of your 1997 limited edition Hanson single CD "MMMbop", it's not what you can sell these items for that matters, it's what you ... More About: Henry
Chris Rock to Bill Clinton
2008-09-23 16:07:00 This unembeddable video that Gawker has up is priceless and very worth watching. More About: Bill Clinton , Rock , Chris , Clinton , Bill
Kryzan Addresses the Fiscal Fail
2008-09-23 16:07:00 Democratic candidate for Congress from NY-26 yesterday released her call to restore fiscal checks and balances, taking direct aim at the policies and fundamental ideology of the Republican Party over the past (at least) 7 years: We don't need oil lobbyists writing our energy policy, insurance companies making our medical ... More About: Fiscal
Always Watching
2008-09-23 16:07:00 In trying to shame the Congress into pushing through unvetted and unchanged the proposals put forth by the Treasury and Fed chairs, President Bush said, The whole world is watching. Firstly, since when did Bush care what the rest of the world thought, said, or watched? Secondly, the whole world has ... More About: Watching
Chris Lee & China
More articles from this author:2008-09-23 16:07:00 The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is running the following ad locally: [HTML1] It's playing off what used to be the Jack Davis appeal to the district - that the Chinese tookarjobz. Personally, I think it's safe to say that playing to the district's fear and anxiety about trade and ... More About: China , Chris 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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