Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Their reporters are ashamed, so why aren't they?
Yesterday, I noticed these very strange first two
paragraphs of a Politico story:
The liberal blogosphere was abuzz Friday with
news that a friend of Sarah and Todd Palin had tried to seal his
divorce records.
Surely, the Netroots speculated, that friend must be the
unnamed business partner whom ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Today, the a twist of fate delivered a great softball to John McCain. Jack Abramoff was sentenced to 4 years in prison. What do the speechwriters add to the speech?
"I brought change to Washington. I exposed the corrupt Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. I helped put a figure of the Washington ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
I just sat down with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell today. I asked him what the message coming out of the very short conclusion of Congressional action this fall. The key thing is that there will be two actions. The Democrats will abdicate their responsibility to pass appropriations bill and ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
NYT: We don't need no stinking balance
Today's New York Times has a story about Sarah Palin's critics
in Alaska. These are the "facts" that they use in the story:
They quote the guy she beat for Mayor of Wasilia.
They quote a Democratic city council member who says that Palin
did something but doesn't ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Barack Obama's first statement on Sarah Palin attacked her on a number of issues, including energy:
Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies -- that's not the change we need, it's just more of the ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
I have been floating around the GOP Convention pre-events and talking to people about Sarah Palin. At the meeting of the Convention's Rules Committee meeting, I have heard that women on the committee and female staff were so excited and moved that they literally started crying. The amount of energy ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
I learned two things from watching Sarah Palin.
First she is a hockey mom. That plpays in New Hampshire, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
Second, her husband is a member of the Steelworkers' union. That plays in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
There are lots of things that you can say about Tim Pawlenty. My sense is that he represents the future of the Republican Party in many ways. This is, in many ways, the hypothesis of the Sams Club Republicans.
More broadly, we can see Tim Pawlenty as more of a populist ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
CQ's Craig Crawford thought this about Hillary Clinton's speech last night:
Many of Clinton's supportive words seemed almost tacked on as an after thought. Several times Clinton listed various things she believed in, and then almost parenthetically noted that these were her reasons for backing Obama. In other words, she's for Obama because he ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I don't get it. Some outside group runs a weird, false ad linking Barack Obama to Bill Ayers. And Obama responds. But maybe they are so afraid of becoming John Kerry that they overdid it. And not just a little.
First, the substance of the ad is a problem. It attacks ...
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