Archive for February, 2005
Posted in February 7th, 2005
As someone who does policy evaluation, I’m a big fan of benchmarks to determine how effective something is being implemented. Right now, the Gov Gets an F Via OneMan Perhaps one reason for a change of heart is the lack of legislative success that followed last year’s education focus, where he held up a sheaf […]
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Posted in February 7th, 2005
But amiably 😉 I playfully jabbed Jeff about his criticism of Mark Caro who had criticized Members of Congress for wagging purple thumbs at the State of the Union Speech. I pointed out one finger wagger was El Geraldo–Jerry Weller and Weller’s a bit suspect in consistency regarding democratization. But to a larger point, the […]
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Posted in February 7th, 2005
Funny, but that sounds a lot like some folks I knew in the South even though Muir says gay rights is completely different from the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Change one word and it sounds pretty silly not to compare to the two. Strangely enough, kids run into families with two mommies so showing that […]
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Posted in February 7th, 2005
From McQueary This year, Madigan announced that Gov. Rod Blagojevich wished to be invited ? to which a comedian on the Republican side of the aisle shouted, “Roll call!”
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Posted in February 7th, 2005
You know except for the talent and judgment thing. Leave it to a bunch of brainiacs to launch a company with a name like Urquhart Media, pronounced “Err-kit.” Rhymes with … nothing. The behind-the-scenes team of Dan Proft, Brian Timpone, Jeff Davis and Bill Pascoe formed a public affairs and consulting company they hope to […]
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Posted in February 7th, 2005
Rich Miller’s weekly column points out that it might be a good idea to read the law before declaring it will do something it does not.
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Posted in February 7th, 2005
Okay, that’s a media campaign right there against the Governor. Tusk was quoted in relation to Hynes cancelling the contract for vaccine as saying Hynes is “a total process guy” To which, Hynes responded appropriately: Hynes responded in an interview printed Thursday in the Springfield State Journal-Register: “To admit you’re not very good at the […]
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Posted in February 5th, 2005
Jerry Weller, or El Geraldo as others have put it, was part of the Purple Finger Caucuse the other evening. Yep, the same El Geraldo who married the daughter of one Rios Montt, former dictator and serial human rights violator in Guatemala. That daughter is a chief political ally of the General’s as well, not […]
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Posted in February 5th, 2005
It’s being reported that Dean has the public endorsements he needs tow in the race and Simon Rosenberg officially withdrew. Ryan Lizza at the New Republic writes a great article that summarizes the race. (have to be a subscriber) The strange thing is that the three candidates I was okay with were the three finalists. […]
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Posted in February 4th, 2005
Fortunately for the Bush Administration, most Americans, including his opponents, have the attention spans of gnats. If this wasn’t the case, a little bit of work and there’d be a lot of screaming about social security privatization. For those wanting to catch up, read Yglesias on the three distinct phases Yglesias then takes a crack […]
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Posted in February 4th, 2005
The most disturbing argument to date I heard on Diane Rehm the other day from David Keene of the American Conservative Union. Keene tried to argue that the money in the trust fund was a problem in paying back itself. Now, this is a significant issue of confusion for most people. The money in the […]
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Posted in February 4th, 2005
Atrios has a couple good posts for those who gloss over at the discussion of actuarial predictions, but I’ll introduce a different reason. The many economic problems created by social security privatization aren’t nearly as bad as the likely political problem created by social security privatization. No system of private accounts can guarantee the same […]
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Posted in February 4th, 2005
No, not Atlanta, but T?bilisi. He’ll be working for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) for International Affairs. He’ll be training civic leaders in the institutions and processes of democracy. NDI has done a great job in Eastern Europe and someone like Mike will be a great fit. Robin Carnahan, now Missouri’s Secretary of State, was […]
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Posted in February 4th, 2005
The Vote Fraud Investigation Obstruction case in East St. Louis continues with petty criminals who effectively run the city on most days being charged. The question should be why hasn’t the St. Clair County Prosecutor already been on top of these schemes years ago? Oh, wait, the Belleville white Dems get votes from East St. […]
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Posted in February 4th, 2005
Or I’ll close down a bridge that’s been closed for over 3 years. The Officer threatens the powers that be on minority contractors and says if you don’t listen to him, he just might shut down the McKinley Bridge if enough contracts don’t go to minority firms. The problem is identified in the last paragraph […]
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