Archive for March, 2007
Posted in March 15th, 2007
One of the interesting aspects of the campaign is that people keep claiming that Obama doesn’t have a record, but even in Illinois he worked on several decent proposals for tougher ethics in state government–one which many wish would have happened is public financing of judicial elections which he got through the Senate with Republican […]
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Posted in March 15th, 2007
Aaron Chambers writes one of the best articles on the current state of the GOP I’ve seen in the new Illinois Issues. With the quote of perhaps the year: “My favorite conversation with Jack Roeser was about the second year I was governor when he came in and said, ‘We should be more like George […]
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Posted in March 14th, 2007
Kyle Sampson, Gonzalez’s Chief-of-Staff explains in an e-mail to Harriet Miers. Rove attempted to say that the replacements were sort of like finally getting around to replacing holdovers. Not true. The only case involving hold overs is the acting US Attorney in Guam in 2002. The acting US Attorney had been acting for 12 years–since […]
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Posted in March 14th, 2007
The best bit of hubris coming out of the US Attorney firings is the notion that Bill Clinton did the same thing by firing 93 US Attorneys upon taking office. Except it isn’t analogous at all and it’s an outright lie. Every administration of a different party than it’s predecessors replaces the US Attorneys and […]
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Posted in March 9th, 2007
Phil Gingrey Yesterday at the House Armed Services Committee hearing on veterans care, Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) attempted to stand out from the rest of Congress and argue that the conditions in Building 18 weren’t that bad. Instead of criticizing the cockroach infestation, he said, “I was glad to know that those cockroaches were belly […]
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Posted in March 9th, 2007
Never an administration to keep kooks out of the bureaucracy or to allow reality intrude upon programs, the Bush administration had a Phonics only moron heading up the Reading First program and they made it so the scientifically supported programs were essentially all programs from private companies. There’s a reason for this–whole language often requires […]
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Posted in March 9th, 2007
Durbin has been beating this drum for years and Obama joined him starting in 2004. The essential problem is VA Secretary Jim Nichols is a giant boob. While there is a cottage industry in trying to make jokes about government health care, the VA has been remarkable at delivering health care, the VHA Hospitals […]
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Posted in March 9th, 2007
Given we’ve been treated to some rather lame stories on Obama’s parking tickets and stock purchases, Lynn Sweet offers the best critique of the way the campaign handles fundraisers. This sort of selective release of information about even what city Obama is visiting on a certain day raises questions about the credibility of Obama’s claim […]
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Posted in March 9th, 2007
From the Sun-Times March 31, 2001 Sen. Barack Obama (D-Chicago), who voted against O’Malley’s abortion bills, predicted they would be struck down by a federal court if they became state law.“Whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal protection clause or other elements of the Constitution, we’re saying […]
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Posted in March 9th, 2007
Roger Ailes is Funny: There’s a long tradition of news organizations, national and local, sometimes together, sponsoring presidential and other candidate debates. The organizations and the panelists have been the objects of a lot of advice and even pressure as to how these debates should be conducted and what questions should be asked. This pressure […]
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Posted in March 8th, 2007
Rich points out the reverse auction for power was a system to screw consumers and he’s exactly right. I discussed some of the larger issues the other day, but the reverse auction is an essential cause of the breakdown as to why a ‘deregulated’ system failed miserably for consumers. Part of the initial energy deregulation […]
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Posted in March 7th, 2007
Actually that is to mild for this assclown I won’t link to him, but you can figure it out on Wikipedia. Sometimes we forget what politicians have to put up with in terms of their private life. In this case, I’m sure Obama wishes to track this guy down and break his neck. Yet, he’s […]
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Posted in March 7th, 2007
The Governor’s work habits are discussed by Aaron Chambers. Perhaps I mean recreational habits. Whatever: Assuming he shows up Wednesday to deliver his budget address to the Legislature, Gov. Rod Blagojevich will show his face at the Capitol. This is a far more remarkable event than it might seem. Blagojevich seldom made public appearances at […]
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Posted in March 7th, 2007
But if Daley brings the Olympics do we really think he won’t want to be around to see over them?
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Posted in March 7th, 2007
Please go vote and encourage him to do so. Consider it a support your local blogger with lots of material vote. 5,000,000 is his goal and he’s 60 percent there.
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