Archive for April, 2007
Posted in April 30th, 2007
Tim Hundsdorfer is a former Illinois House staffer and a political scientist. More than that, he’s just a great guy with a family. He is also pretty sick and could use some help. I’ll join Rich in asking you to donate a few dollars to Tim as a personal favor. Donate here I may try […]
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Posted in April 16th, 2007
I’m on vacation in Minnesota so posting is somewhat sporadic. Brad Cole has a new A-1 out. Contributed By Amount Received By Description Vendor Name Illinois Republican Party $1,378.31 3/30/2007 5A Citizens for Cole Payroll Siemer, Jayme Illinois Republican Party $1,529.72 3/30/2007 5A Citizens for Cole Payroll Sorenson, Paul Illinois Republican Party $409.83 3/30/2007 5A […]
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Posted in April 13th, 2007
Katie Couric She does zombie lies.
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Posted in April 13th, 2007
Apparently back-ups aren’t used at the White House. I have no idea if Perino knows this is one of the dumbest things ever said in a briefing or if she really is that clueless, but c’mon. No one believes the White House e-mail system isn’t backed up especially in a transition to a new e-mail […]
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
Added Wonkish and taxtales (Doug Kane) to the blog roll. Take a look at both, they have some excellent discussion of tax issues that doesn’t revolve around the simplistic taxes bad.
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
Petey LaBarbera is really going beyond parody Satan’s Talking Points? Human Rights Campaign’s Harry Knox Promotes Ultimate ‘Big Lie’ in MSNBC Debate with CWA’s Matt Barber Cross posted at Illinois Reason
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
I’m just enjoying posting Rahm stuff that really hard core netrooters will agree with so they have to sit there and be pissed that they agree with Rahm: To: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Majority Whip James Clyburn, Caucus Vice Chairman John Larson From: House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel Date: April 11, […]
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
Hysterical–executive privilege extends to the Republican National Committee. The documents led to demands from Democrats for testimony from Mr. Rove and others; the White House agreed only to off-the-record interviews, and Democrats responded by threatening subpoenas. Now that Democrats are also demanding access to the political e-mail, the White House took steps on Thursday to […]
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
One so amazingly conservative that the conservative Alabama Supreme Court (engineered by Rove) immediately removed the monument upon Moore’s suspension before he was removed from his position permanently. Bill Pryor, a controversial judicial nominee by the Bush administration, agreed Moore had to go because he was disobeying the rule of law. Apparently the rule of […]
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
Everything becomes clear now [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/UgOOu3ha-ks” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/9rFKOarA1n8″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/xU86QmhFwwM” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Reload and if you only see code, the player should show up eventually.
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
I’ve added a small list of cycling blogs–the one I visit the most is Trust but Verify that covers the daily details in the Landis doping allegations. He’s also been nice enough to link here when I discuss the case. I’ve been following the entire pro tour this year far more and so you’ll probably […]
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
While the below will probably get me ridiculed as Rich was during the bus tour, I actually came to that conclusion before I spoke with Doug Kane and Becky Carroll. I had a talk to discuss it with them scheduled and went to do my homework and came away with the general conclusion that this […]
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
I’ve been critical of the GRT proposal in the past and I will still argue it’s regressive. The problem is pointed out quite succinctly by Speaker Madigan Before we finish the budget in May or June, Illinois is going to need a tax increase,” Madigan said. “You’ve heard it many, many times — we […]
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
The Dark Prince: Hayden was brought into the CIA as an intelligence professional when President Bush fired Porter Goss, who had retired from Congress to go to Langley at the president’s request. Goss thought he had a mandate to clean up an agency whose senior officials delivered private anti-Bush briefings during the 2004 campaign. The […]
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