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Pork on wheels
2008-09-09 19:09:00
Warren Meyer points out that the website of the proposed California high-speed rail bond says that the thing will generate 450,000 permanent jobs, which is an amazing thing when you consider that all of U.S. rail employs about half that many right now. Leaving aside your (quite correct) “principle” points, If they’re going to use THAT many people, Billy, you can pretty much figure the operating costs of the thing are going to be off the ceiling at the off.  I don’t think they’re lying abut that figure, though.  No question that I could see them going that high, given unions and government put together always equals around 75% waste of money and time. I fail to see how that’s a benefit, however. I mean… you think the taxes are high out there now? Wait. Just wait. I suspect the high speed rail will be a project most will use only once… in leaving the state. BitsBlog Tags: Unions, Railfanning, waste of money, high speed rail Rela...
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Jerry Wright back in the news
2008-09-09 18:09:00
Uh-oh… Jeremiah Wright He almost wrecked Barack Obama’s presidential dreams, and now firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker’s marriage - and her job, The Post has learned. Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had a steamy sexual affair with the controversial, racially divisive man of the cloth while she was an executive assistant at a church headed by a popular Wright protégé. When word of the unholy alliance got out, Payne’s husband dumped her, and she was canned from the plum job at Friendship-West Baptist Church, she told The Post. “I was involved with Rev. Wright, and that’s why I lost my job and why my husband divorced me,” Payne said. That from the New York Post this morning. Of course, Obama knew nothing about this one, either. BitsBlog Tags: friendship west baptist church, Jeremiah Wright, Current events, elizabeth payne, Elections Related posts Snark of the Day: Tom Maguire (0) Pat Paulson,...
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Palin and Democrat desperation, number 73 and 74
2008-09-09 16:43:00
Well, look, it doesn’t excerpt well, so I’m just going to have you go and read. Bruce at Q&O has his own take on that one. And check here at Q&O, as well, for Number 74. You can smell the desperation. In the meanwhile, we have Josh Marshall, Obama Cheerleader, with his fingers in his ears doing the NAHNAHNAHNAHNAHNAHNAHNAHNAHNAH I CAN’T HEAR YOU number. Pathetic. BitsBlog Tags: lapin, Democrat s, Sarah Palin, Democrat desperation Related posts No related posts.
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5 million in five hours for McCain… In Chicago?
2008-09-09 15:19:00
CHICAGO (CBS) ― Republican John McCain raised about $5 million in Chicago Monday night, or about $1 million for each hour he spent in Democrat Barack Obama’s home town. CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports the only glimpse of McCain the public got came as his motorcade departed. Like every Republican presidential nominee since 1984, McCain appears to regard campaigning in heavily Democratic Illinois a waste of time.   Gee, maybe not, given those numbers. That speaks to me of distatse for Obama… even in his hometown. It seems reasonable to consider the idea that the polling data we’re seeing of late seriously under-estimates how much support Obama has lost. BitsBlog Tags: CBS, BitsBlog, Obama, Republican, Mike Flannery Related posts Will the Obama lead last? (0) Oroma One (0) Nightly Ramble: Who else said “Pimped”? Where’d HillBilly get the Money? More (1) Who does Fred leaving help the most? (0) When the Democrats play dirty...
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The numbers game
2008-09-09 13:28:00
The polling trends continue. Rasmussen this monring, looks at their most recent polling in the five battleground states, and says: · McCain is trusted more than Obama in all five states. · In all five states, McCain is viewed more favorably than Obama. · Also, in all five states, Sarah Palin draws higher “Very Favorable” ratings than any other candidate. · In all states except Colorado, McCain enjoys a bigger margin among Republicans than Obama does among Democrats. In Colorado, they are even. · Economic issues are the top issue in all five states with national security matters a distant second. · The number who would not be comfortable with Obama as President is higher in every state than the number saying the same about McCain. This is consistent with national polling data showing that McCain voters are more likely than Obama supporters to be primarily voting against the other candidate. · Obama has the edge among unaffiliated voters in three states, McCain in two. Nati...
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, RIP; Age 89
2008-08-04 05:36:00
Erica Wagner at the London Times notes the passage of one of the great voices of freedom: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Years of internal exile and suffering never daunted him. The 1962 publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was a revelation; until its publication in the Russian literary journal Novy Mir, no Soviet writer had dared tackle the subject of Stalin’s concentration camps. “Solzhenitsyn’s words burn like acid,” said The New York Times when the English translation appeared a year later. No shock that since Wagner is a literary critic at the London Times, that her obit would take on a literary angle. Perhaps  since that’s how most people know of him and his life, that’s fitting. No shock, either… (and I’m sorry, but this must be said)… that the Paper of Walter Duranty’s Record, the New York Times, should write a huge article on the subject, one that completely ignored the role they played in supporting the horrors that ...

Enlightening Islam, revisted
2008-08-04 01:03:00
Back along about the end of 2006, during a  Christmas break, I wrote an extended piece about Islam and some of the problems in the world with relation to it. I’ll post it here, because I think it’;s ideas are still of import, and particularly because it is important to the extended discussion I’m about to start. ——-Posted on December 29th, 2006 By the time most of you read this, that Bastard of Baghdad will have been executed for his crimes against humanity, and specifically his fellow Iraqis. If I was to take a cue from the mainstream news services, I would be doing wall to wall coverage of this guy’s every breath between now and 10:00 PM eastern, which is when we’re told he’s going to receive his rasins. Or, not. However; rather than dwell on the point for any length of time, perhaps it is fitting that we pay him all the attention he deserves, a which is to say none all, and rather discuss how to move the region forward. In my job, I am if noth...

Avoiding the logical conclusion
2008-08-03 17:19:00
Joyner notes Kevin Drum: It’s a pretty good bet that any law named after a child is a lousy one. He’s referencing “Sarah’s Law” here but he’s right: laws passed in the emotional wake of one very specific crime are bound to be problematic. That’s doubly true if it’s done “for the children.” I tell him: I wonder, however how many other things that can be applied to. As an example, let’s consider the anti- oil-drilling laws that popped up after a spill in California, to name but one. At some point, regardless of the original topic, the logic of unintended consequences leads us to the conclusion that governmental response invariably makes our original problem worse. What I didn’t say there, is that such a conclusion is problematic for people like Drum, who for example and by my reading, figures that all problems can be solved by governmental intervention. Drum’s conclusion here is quite logical, but I will guarantee you he will never take that thou...
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Gasoline idiocy from the left
2008-08-03 03:23:00
Michael D is miffed at Obama for suggesting that the solution for oil supply problems is to find more. Apparently to him, that’s not painful enough for us. Look, I know that there are people who are suffering because of high gas prices. I’m one of them, although I know that, like many of you, I can probably afford the prices more than a lot of people. My problem with this is that I think democrats should be solidly be on the side of finding alternative energy. Rising gas prices have made a difference. I’ve noticed a lot more people riding MARTA in Atlanta – a LOT more. I’d be willing to bet many of these people were like me, before I made a commitment to figuring out the system and how to make it work. Pain works. But toward what, I wonder? Personally, I don’t want to see gas prices come down because we’re drilling and finding more. The United States is finally getting a taste of what it’s been like in Europe and the rest of the world forever. When I first moved ...
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Bob Herbert: Bigotry in black
2008-08-02 23:26:00
Bob Herbert , New York Times, attempts to slime John McCain, only to show his true and bigoted colors: The racial fantasy factor in this presidential campaign is out of control. It was at work in that New Yorker cover that caused such a stir. (Mr. Obama in Muslim garb with the American flag burning in the fireplace.) It’s driving the idea that Barack Obama is somehow presumptuous, too arrogant, too big for his britches — a man who obviously does not know his place. Mr. Obama has to endure these grotesque insults with a smile and heroic levels of equanimity. The reason he has to do this — the sole reason — is that he is black. Well Herbert is right, half right.   The race card is bieng played but its being played by Barack Obama. From a recent BO campaign rally in Florida, as attributed by Ed Morrissey, Hot Air Protester: So my question is: In the face of the numerous attacks that are made against the African community or the black community, by the same US government that y...
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Zulu, Sitemeter and Honeysuckle
2008-08-02 21:47:00
Bit wasn’t the only one wrestling with problems this morning. Ended up watching Zulu last night.  Good movie.  I’d seen the movie before.  So I wasn’t going to watch the whole movie   Needless to say, I got caught up in the movie and watched the whole thing.   I believe the movie is the best work both Stanley Baker and Richard Burton did.   I am great fan of Burton’s voice, just not his acting.  Bottom line, dead Zulus everywhere. Got back on the computer after the flick and ran smack into the Sitemeter problems   I think the BitsBlog’s technical staff, to wit Eric, did a outstanding job recovering.  Bottom line, dead blogs everywhere, both last night and into this morning. Some might consider it as form of company punishement, but I like to do trail maintence.   This morning’s mission was “alien invasive species removal”, in the form of  Bush Honeysuckle.   With Honeysuckle you have to get the base of the problem...

Oops… Sitemeter, we have a problem
2008-08-02 20:59:00
Little Green Footballs is on the ball, here, having noticed about half of blogdom is missing… if, that is you’re using IE7… saying about 7pm EDT: I’ve confirmed that there’s some kind of problem on the Internet, that only seems to affect users of the Internet Explorer 7 web browser. Attempting to browse to many sites results in an ‘Operation Aborted’ error. No information about the problem elsewhere yet … stay tuned. UPDATE at 8/1/08 7:20:27 pm: It appears to be related to Sitemeter.com — browsing to their web site with Internet Explorer 7 produces the error too. I have to tell you, I’m  A little annoyed to say the least. It looks like what has happened, is that Sitemeter has decided to go chaging it’s code, saying just day before yesterday on it’s blog: For those of you who currently use the SiteMeter Icon that displays the total visitors to your site we wanted to let you know about some forthcoming changes to this feature. Fo...
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Theme update
2008-08-02 18:36:00
OK, I’ve got it lots closer than it was. The links are working better, though there’s some inconstancy in the way it handles some of the rollovers in some of the sidebar links; I’m looking into that.  The rollovers on the top menu use a nice little shaded GIF for a background. I’ve re-written the thing so all rollovers use the same graphic.  You’ll see what I mean. A little constancy.  The rest of the stuff is pretty minor. Because the ads I run in the sidebars are somewhat wider than the width this theme originally provided me, I had to play with them a bit… the right sidebar is a little wider than the left one.. about 20 pix or so. That allows for better picture handling inline. I’ve also modified the blockquotes a bit. Here’s a block quote. Here’s a nested blockquote. Here’s a double-nested blockquote I’ve widened the field of the body by quite a bit, to allow for the larger text. The theme is now optimal for...
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Mrs. Pelosi’s lights are off
2008-08-02 12:52:00
Attributed to Mrs. Pelosi by Jimmie, Sundries Shack: “The House is in adjournment. The lights are off, the mikes are off…They can talk all they want. We’re just doing what we normally do.” Even BO is calling the price of gasoline an “economic emergency.”   Mrs. Pelosi:  Normal isn’t nearly good enough. Aside to BO:  Evidently you have never heard of China. Hat tip:  Michelle Technorati Tags:: BO, China, Jimmie, Mrs. Pelosi BitsBlog Tags: BitsBlog, Idiots, Economics, Jimmie, Mrs. Pelosi Related posts Rudd win in Australia (1) Would you say that Mrs. Pelosi likes abortion? (0) Where’s the money coming from? (0) WHAT ‘Broken alliences”? (Another question the press isn’t asking) (0) Thomas Sowell on the price of oil (0) The price of food, and what drives it (0) The flipping cat (1) The chink in the armor (0) The Book of Nancy (0) COOLING (Wednesday, February 27, 2008)">The AGW hoax… and now, the next cris...
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New look
2008-08-02 06:28:00
As you see, we have a new theme going. This is the one I’ve been doing some work on. We were forced to put it up tonight to provide a fast recovery from a failure over at SiteMeter. Putting this theme up was the fastest way I could think of to get things working again quickly. THe site was partially down at 11pm, when I found out about it.  I put the new theme up (Sans the call to Sitemeter) and since then, I’ve spent perhaps an hour and a half touching up the CSS and making it a bit more readable. There’s still a few issues I have to touch up… particularly the way the CSS handles links… and I’m not fully happy with the block quotes, either, but this will get us by for the night. Let us know what you think of the new look. BitsBlog Tags: Blogging, BitsBlog Related posts No related posts.

Blogger, Sitemeter, crash
2008-08-02 05:20:00
The hero of the day is Deby, Apples of Gold: Blogger Problem PLEASE read If you have sitemeter and us Internet Explorer, they are not working together and will not allow you to get into your blog. What it also means that I cannot read any blogs with sitemeters on them. THIS is a HUGE problem in blogspot land right now. What you do is: go to blogspot.com log in get to your dashboard then layouts remove sitemeter…. THAT is the only reason my blog is working tonight…. hope this helps some of you Thanks Deby. BitsBlog Tags: BitsBlog, Blogging Related posts No related posts.
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Gee, thanks, Sitemeter
2008-08-02 05:19:00
A short while ago, my cell phone’s alert went off.  It was DavdL, whose mailnote to me had been forwarded by my mail server to the phone, as I programmed it to do some months ago. figuring if a site emergency came up, I’d know. Tonight was such a night. Sitemeter, apparently, has made some kind of unannounced change in their scripting.  The site was resolving on Foxpro, but not on any version of IE that I have working here.  Or perhaps IE pushed a security update? Nah… Not on a Friday.  To get the site working, I had to switch to the theme I’ve been working on. It was the fastest way I could think of to take Sitemeter down. The theme isn’t  done yet, but it’ll get us by. Come to think of it, May as well make this a positive thing, get some good out of their screwup…I’d like you to comment, readers, and let me know what you think of this theme. It’s going to take some polishing up, but see if you like the basic layout, and ...

BO declares an emergency, Mrs. Pelosi’s takes a vacation
2008-08-02 00:11:00
Does anybody, aside from the media, listen to Barack Obama? Evidently not. The price of gasoline is over four dollars a gallon. So BO declares an economic emergency , and in response Mrs. Pelosi , and her entire caucus, go on vacation, John Bresnahan, Politico Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House, turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices. Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders opposed the motion to adjourn the House, arguing that Pelosi’s refusal to schedule a vote allowing offshore drilling is hurting the American economy. They have refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed at 11:23 a.m., and they are busy bashing Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for leaving town for the August recess Call your representative and tell him to get back to Washington and get to doing the peoples’ work.  This is no time for a vacation.   Or is it?...
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Nightly Ramble: Suicide; Diet; The Obama Droop; Congress’ ban on oil
2008-08-01 22:06:00
It’s August, already? Where the hell did July go?   2/3rds of the summer is gone and I’m just getting started on the stuff I wanted to do this year. Honorable Mention at OTB’s caption Contest. I gotta admit, that one was easy. I’m sure a man of his stature will not notice this, but I offer a BBCT and a hearty “Well done” to Rush Limbaugh for his 20 years on the air. Michelle notes this one too. Still no news on the cause of death for Frederick W. Hutchins, the aid to Democrat Jim Webb. I should think it would take less time than this if the case was a clear cut suicide.  I remain skeptical. Speaking of suicide, we now see Bruce Ivins took the shortcut out of the playing field last night. He’s the one the FBI figured out was behind all the Anthrax stuff post-9/11, after they stopped chasing Steven Hatfill. I guess when it comes to diet, there’s two sides to every story. Ya gotta wonder what motivates some folks, though. So, there&rsq...
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Insanity?
2008-08-01 19:00:00
One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing expecting a different result. This article by Joel Kotkin presents the data showing the urban cores going more and more for the democrats since 1960. He points out the corresponding demographic trends that underly that move. Namely the increased poverty and racial segregation of urban communities. The fact that the urban centers are a done deal for the democrats is not news. But the article did make me start wondering about the vote plantations the democrats run in the urban centers. One view of the world is to look at the urban centers, see the poverty and segregation and wonder what new government program can be done to change that. The fact that those government programs have tended to lock the urban centers in generational poverty has never persuaded the central government planning types from believing in the next government program. Another view of the world is to wonder why people would purposely choose to surrender th...
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Daily Dope
2008-07-27 14:00:00
  John R. Bolton, in the Los Angeles Times: First, urging greater U.S.-European cooperation, Obama said, “The burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together.” Having earlier proclaimed himself “a fellow citizen of the world” with his German hosts, Obama explained that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Europe proved “that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.” Perhaps Obama needs a remedial course in Cold War history, but the Berlin Wall most certainly did not come down because “the world stood as one.” The wall fell because of a decades-long, existential struggle against one of the greatest totalitarian ideologies mankind has ever faced No Ameriican president did more to end the Cold War than the Gipper, and the Euros didn’t think much of Reagan. Technorati Tags:: Berlin Wall, Europe, John R. Bolton, U.S. BitsBlog Tags: Europe, U.S., Berlin Wall, Barrack Obama, John...
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Oil Math
2008-07-27 12:06:00
Dirty Harry Reid, and his eco-freak friends, don’t like oil and they don’t like us producing our own oil.   Dirty Harry would have us conserve out way out of current mess.  James Hamilton, Econobrowser, has posted a  long, detailed article with plenty of graphs, exploring the recent and possible future price of oil.   We simply can not conserve our way out of oil driven economic woes.   Conservation will not lower the price of oil.  The bottom like is the more oil we conserve, the more oil China uses.   Conservation is squeezing money out of our economy to fuel China,  Read what James has to say here. But don’t forget, while you’re doing these calculations, you’ll need to meet Chinese demand for 2009, and 2010, and 2011…. Which, if you project the current trend and tried to satisfy entirely by cuts in U.S. consumption, would have us down to consuming zero barrels of oil in the United States in about 17 years. On the other hand, increa...
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Why is the left blocking US energy independence?
2008-07-27 03:41:00
Why does the left block US energy development? The answer is their value system is different from the mainstream of the country. But the left’s blocking energy development costs all of us. Case in point. Do you know how much oil shale is in the US? Eight times as much as the Saudi Arabia reserves. 2118 Billion barrels vs 267 billion for the Saudis. But the democrats block its development. Nuclear power? The democrats have been blocking the building of nuclear power plants for over 30 years. Offshore drilling, ANWR drilling? The left don’t even want to debate it. Wind power? The left blocks that. Just ask Ted Kennedy what he thinks about wind power. Though in the thoroughly conservative Texas, we are developing the country’s largest wind power project. So as you pay more at the pump, realize that you are paying extra to support the liberal’s values. Of course if you don’t like paying the extra, you can vote republican and throw the democratic bums o...
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Daily Dope
2008-07-26 14:00:00
Courtesy James Lewis, American Thinker: For Barack and Michelle Obama, the biggest blind spot is Ego Tripping — the temptations of boastful grandiosity. It’s Obama’s need to be seen as Jesus Christ Superstar. They have to “remake the world,” “stop the rise of the oceans,” “we are the change we’ve been waiting for.” The Obamas keep getting drawn into that blind spot, even when it’s not smart politically. Arrogance is their Achilles’ heel. At Jesus Christ performed miracles, rather than merely promised them. Technorati Tags:: James Lewis, Jesus Christ, Michelle Obama BitsBlog Tags: BitsBlog, Barrack Obama, James Lewis, Jesus Christ, Michelle Obama Related posts Update on That Michelle Obama Video (0) The moo of a black cow (1) The Gospel according to Howard Dean (5) The balance act (0) Still no tape from Larry Johnson, but we do have a decent measurement of how bad things are for the Democrat Party...
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Nightly Ramble: A first place; Iran; Obama’s German speech; More
2008-07-25 22:07:00
I managed to catch a first place this week at OTB’s Caption Contest. for the last week or so, we’ve brought up John Edwards and his scandal. Kaus has been watching this for a while too, all credit to him. He says the LA TIMES is burying the story. Gee, why would they do THAT, do you suppose? It appears Iran is having some problems with opposition… physical opposition… to it’s activities. It’s all very hush hush, but stuff is now starting to slip out. All very encouraging. McCain is making some serious gains in battleground states. Also very encouraging. Mona Charen is someone I need to pay more attention to. Here’s one of her columns… Will someone please explain to me why anyone with a pair of braincells to rub together will try and put forward the idea that there is any moral equivalence between the “Palastinians’ and the western world, including Israel?   Look, I’m going to catch some flack for this, I know, b...
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Obama dumps injured vets.
2008-07-25 17:51:00
Captain Ed: NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube get the skinny on the abrupt cancellation of Barack Obama ’s visit to Landstuhl and Ramstein yesterday.  The campaign tried to excuse it by claiming that it wouldn’t be appropriate to visit while on a campaign-funded portion of his trip, but that wasn’t the real problem.  When Obama found out he couldn’t use the visit as a photo op, he canceled: One military official who was working on the Obama visit said because political candidates are prohibited from using military installations as campaign backdrops, Obama’s representatives were told, “he could only bring two or three of his Senate staff member, no campaign officials or workers.” In addition, “Obama could not bring any media. Only military photographers would be permitted to record Obama’s visit.” The official said “We didn’t know why” the request to visit the wounded troops was withdrawn. “He (Obama) was more than welcome. We were all ready for...
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Bumper Snicker of the Day
2008-07-25 17:32:00
Courtesy of the Tennessee Republican Party.  Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin. BitsBlog Tags: Enviro-Nazis, Democrats, Economics, Energy Related posts No related posts.
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Daily Dope
2008-07-25 14:00:00
From Alexander Marquardt: (CNN) – Responding to an Israeli reporter’s question Wednesday on his commitment to protect the Jewish state, Barack Obama pointed to a bill “we passed” in the U.S. Senate Banking Committee that tightens sanctions and authorizes divestment from Iran. “My committee,” he called it. Except that he isn’t a member of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Mrs. Clinton must be very fustrated having lost to this idiot. Technorati Tags:: Alexander Marquardt, iran, Mrs. Clinton, U.S. Senate BitsBlog Tags: Elections, U.S. Senate, Mrs. Clinton, Alexander Marquardt, Democrats Related posts The American people already know the negatives of Hillary Clinton. (3) Snark of the Day: Mario Cuomo (1) Sadly for Mrs. Clinton Bitch is not synonym for Strong (0) Mrs. Clinton’s dog and pony show (0) Mrs. Clinton makes her stand (0) Jimmy Carter to Meet With Hamas Leader in Syria? (1) Heads of state and international perceptions (...
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Der Speech
2008-07-25 04:09:00
As always, Professor Althouse is elequent: I guess we’re not supposed to think about how Obama wanted and still wants to give up on the Iraq war. Surely, if he’d been there in 1948, he would have said the Berlin airlift is hopeless. He thought the surge was hopeless. As alway, Ace is not: Are you somehow implying that Captain Bullshit says one thing and does another? With respect to this, Jake Tapper: Shortly after 6 pm Central time — just a few hours after Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, gave his speech in Berlin, which his campaign insisted was not political — his campaign manager, David Plouffe, sent out a fundraising solicitation using the speech to raise campaign cash. BO credits the Berliners for keeping hope during the dark days of the Berlin Air Lift.  Personally, I’d credit the United States Air Force. Technorati Tags:: Berlin, BO, Captain Bullshit, David Plouffe, Illinois, Iraq, Jake Tapper, Professor Althouse BitsBlog Tags: BO, Iraq, P...
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Is Obama’s tax and spend plan just playing to his base?
2008-07-24 23:21:00
There is an interesting poll out that confirms this is a center-right nation at least in terms of fiscal responsibility in government. Conducted in late June, the poll surveyed 800 voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.46%. Likely voters were asked the following question: “All things being equal, for whom would you be more likely to vote for the U.S. Congress: 1) A candidate who wants to cut overall federal spending, even if that includes cutting some money that would come to your district or 2) A candidate who wants to increase overall spending on federal programs, as long as more federal spending and projects come to your district?” The results were unambiguous. Fifty-four percent of general election voters chose the frugal candidate, compared with only 29% who chose the profligate candidate. Republicans overwhelming favor less federal spending, 72% to 17%, with independents close behind at 61%. Only Democrats prefer more federal spending, but only by a p...
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