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Posted at 12:13pm on Jun. 19, 2008 Enviro-Leftists Accomplishing Their Goals Through Higher Gas Prices
By Shaggy Dog
An article in the Chicago Sun-Times today highlights the true agenda of the left with regards to oil prices. The article highlights the fact that:
Americans drove 30 billion fewer miles from November through April than during the same period a year before, the biggest such drop since the Iranian revolution led to gasoline supply shortages in 1979-80.
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Posted at 1:24pm on Jun. 6, 2008 Two Commercials for the McCain Campaign
By Shaggy Dog
So far, I haven't seen any campaign commercials from McCain other than personal story stuff about his very impressive life story.Unfortunately, as great as McCain's life story is, it's not going to be enough to beat the Metaphor/Messiah. McCain is going to start taking some tough shots at BHO.
Here's my take on a couple of seemingly obvious ones:
First Commercial –
/Ominous Voiceover/ Barack Obama talks about new ideas to address rising energy costs, but what is he really saying?
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Posted at 11:24am on May 8, 2008 What Would Happen if John McCain Said This?
By Shaggy Dog
Drudge has a USA Today story up this morning, quoting Hillary discussing her rationale for staying in and why she deserves the nomination:
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
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Posted at 10:56am on Apr. 25, 2008 Good Thing They Hate Each Other
By Shaggy Dog
Today in the Chicago Sun-Times, gossip columnist Michael Sneed- who has a pretty good track record with her sources and good connections with Obama's Chicago Team- quotes a “top Barack Obama supporter” expressing the view that
Obama must win the Indiana primary May 6 to maintain his momentum -- or "it becomes hard to see a winning scenario unless Obama and Hillary Clinton are on the same ticket."
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Posted at 2:14pm on Apr. 22, 2008 Bill’s Chickens Come Home to Roost
By Shaggy Dog
The 42nd President has resurfaced again to lament that Team Obama has “played the race card” against him.
From the ABC News political blog:
Clinton was talking to station WHYY about the fallout over his comparison of Obama's South Carolina primary victory with the support of black Democrats to Jesse Jackson's primary wins. Those comments were portrayed by critics as an attempt to highlight Obama's race.
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Posted at 2:31pm on Apr. 15, 2008 Bush Works Hard to Impress Catholics
By Shaggy Dog
In advance of Pope Benedict XVI’s arrival in the US, the White House has been working hard to let it be known that they are pulling out all the stops to honor him on this visit, including the unprecedented honor of picking up the Pope at Andrews AFB and hosting an East Room birthday dinner for the Pope (that he may not be able to attend).
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Posted at 2:27pm on Apr. 14, 2008 Senator McCain’s Clueless Remarks on the Economy
By Shaggy Dog
I write this as someone who favored McCain during the primary. While there remains no question whatsoever that I will vote for McCain over Hilbama, I was deeply disturbed today to read an article on Drudge today quoting McCain’s latest statements on the economy.
The relevant excerpt is:
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Posted at 2:46pm on Apr. 11, 2008 Lehman Dumps Junk at the Fed
By Shaggy Dog
The credit crunch dilemma and the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented actions to alleviate it have been well-blogged here and elsewhere on the net, but there was an interesting development noted today in the Wall Street Journal (sorry- paper edition, only $1.50, but here’s a CNBC link with an abbreviated version ).
Lehman Brothers has been struggling with liquidity issues, in part due to the $17.8BN of unsold leveraged loans on its balance sheet that it committed to and funded with the intent of selling and skimming lucrative fee income. However, when the loan markets collapsed last year, Lehman and other investment banks were stuck with at the time over $300 BN of unsold loans. It sounds like the banks have been able to get down to the $150BN range by selling at heavy discounts (10% or more) and eating the loss. But this remaining balance continues to choke banks’ balance sheets and prohibits their ability to make new loans.
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Posted at 11:08am on Mar. 29, 2008 Delusional Hollywood
By Shaggy Dog
I wish I had the link to the excellent diary from earlier in the week about the idiotic premise for the latest Iraq War movie (actually Anti-Iraq War movie) opening this weekend- "Stop-Loss."
The movie was produced by MTV films and apparently heavily promoted by MTV to the teen and young adult target markets, and therefore was expected to outperform the other GWOT/Iraq War Hollywood tripe ("Redacted," "Rendition," "Lions for Lambs").
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Posted at 12:12pm on Mar. 14, 2008 Hillary's One Angle to Play
By Shaggy Dog
There has been much analysis about how Hillary can’t win the pledged delegate count or the popular vote count in the Democratic primary, and therefore there’s no objective basis for her to argue that the Super Delegates should tip the election in her favor.
Her sole claim seems to be that she has one more “big states.” That’s a claim that I have snickered at thus far, but she may ultimately be able to spin it in a manner that actually gives her a leg to stand on.
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Posted at 1:29am on Jan. 21, 2008 Top 10 worst political speeches of all time
By Shaggy Dog
Rick Moran posted a very interesting blog about the best political speeches in American History, which generated much discussion.
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/rick_moran/2008/jan/19/the_top_ten_politic...
I thought it would be worth exploring the flip side of the coin- the ten worst speechs or political statements (since worst speeches are inherently tuned out and therefore less memorable). I also included one non-American one on my list, for reasons that will be obvious.
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Posted at 5:49pm on Jan. 20, 2008 Stop Barack, You're Killing Me
By Shaggy Dog
I know Obama is at heart a committed socialist, a surrendercrat on Iraq, and as pro-abortion as anyone who has ever run for the Presidency.
But I'll be d***ed if the guy doesn't know how to push my buttons.
First the clip of him speaking very graciously about Reagan's presidency (even if subsequently somewhat hedged on).
Now he says he calls out Bill Clinton for making statements that are "not factually accurate" (in other words calls Clinton a liar).
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Posted at 2:42pm on Nov. 30, 2007 Subprime Bailout in the Works?
By Shaggy Dog
Mbecker908 recently wrote an excellent blog on the looming glut of Subprime loans with interest rate adjustments resetting in the next year. I won’t attempt to rehash except to say that the obvious conclusion from the story, and particularly the chart, is that the situation will be getting very bad in the next year with overextended subprime borrowers unable to refinance in an environment of declining home values and reduced credit market liquidity, and therefore stuck with substantial step-ups in monthly interest rate payments that they likely will be unable to afford.
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Posted at 6:05pm on Nov. 16, 2007 What’s wrong with the World War II Memorial
By Shaggy Dog
This may be old news to those of you that live in or frequent the DC area. But I had the opportunity to visit Washington DC on business earlier this week. It was a lovely day, almost 70 degrees, and I had scheduled my flight to allow time for some brief sight seeing before my meeting. I decided the easiest (and cheapest) way to go was just take a long walk around the Mall, see the Washington Monument, the White House, the US Capitol, the Supreme Court building, and the Jefferson Memorial. I had last been to DC 12 years ago, and I got a real charge and a great sense of pride from seeing those national monuments and the seat of our government first hand.
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Posted at 11:26pm on Nov. 6, 2007 Impeach Cheney! [Updated and bumped.]
By Shaggy Dog
[OK, one last note. Remember the price of failure:]
[There's also this, which is much tamer. Both pics found in Fark. - Moe Lane]
Promoted from blogs. Shaddeg, you magnificent bast*rd. - Moe Lane
Today, Republican members in the House blocked the efforts of the Democratic “leadership” to kill a Dennis Kucinich sponsored resolution to impeach Vice President Cheney. (Linked via Drudge). As a result this Republican manuevering, the House will proceed with a vote on his impeachment.
According to Kucinich, Cheney is guilty of “deception” with regards to the Iraq War and “belligerent actions” with regards to Iran.
Apparently Rep. John Shaddeg (R-AZ)came up with the idea of throwing Republican votes in favor of bringing the measure in order to embarrass Pelosi & Co. by 1) letting the American people actually see the unvarnished nuttiness of the House Democrat back-benchers and 2) forcing Pelosi to then have to (presumably) go on record voting against the impeachment of Vice President Cheney and deal with the ensuing wrath of the nutroots.
I say three cheers for Rep. Shaddeg. If we can do more of this type of thing- holding the Democratic leadership accountable for the lunacy of their base, we will have a good shot of regaining a majority vote from the American people in 2008.
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