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Posted at 10:46pm on Jul. 9, 2008 My VP Prediction = McCain picks Giuliani -[UPDATED]
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Here is how I got there. Recently there is a shakeup in the McCain camp, and Steve Schmidt is selected to take over the day-to-day campaign operations. His first hire in his new capacity is Rudy's campaign manager, Mike DuHaime. ABC covered the news here. Also I watched both Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani on Hannity and Colmes. The cool one who did not have to think too hard before he spoke was definitely Rudy.
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Posted at 9:04pm on Jul. 1, 2008 These Sourpusses Are Making Me Sick
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Sen. Harry Reid
Chris SatulloPhiladelphia Inquirer columnist
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Posted at 9:50pm on Jun. 28, 2008 Barack was only 8 & John who was only 9 says Don't Be Flippant about it
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Posted at 2:19pm on Jun. 22, 2008 We don't want nobody that nobody sent
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Associate Justice John Paul Stevens spoke at an ABA Thurgood Marshall Awards Dinner honoring Abner Mikva. Part of his speech included this anecdote about how politics works in Chicago.
One evening in 1948 Abner Mikva walked into the office of the Democratic Ward Committeeman and told him that he wanted to do volunteer work for Adlai Stevenson and Paul Douglas. The Committeeman took the cigar out of his mouth, glared at Abner and asked: "Who sent you?" When Ab said, "Nobody sent me", he put the cigar back in his mouth and said: "We don't want nobody that nobody sent."
That attitude exists today as much as it did in 1948, and as much as it did in 1994 when Barack made the key move in his early career. He was named Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a $50 million grant program to funnel money into reform efforts at Chicago schools. It turns out that the architect of the Annenberg Challenge was Bill Ayers, who designed the grant proposal and sheparded it to success.
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Posted at 10:50am on Jun. 21, 2008 House Is Spanking the Monkey as Gas Prices Climb!
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I just caught this little gem from Club for Growth about a vote that was taken June 18, 2008 on a bill to spend $5 million dollars to prevent the interstate sale of monkeys. The bill passed 302-96. One of the 'Nay' votes came from Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT-02) who had this to say
Maybe we should actually spend more time with human primate energy issues, rather than the non-human primate non-issue.
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Posted at 10:56pm on Jun. 19, 2008 2 Freshman House Ds From Fla. Ripe For Defeat
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Promoted from the diaries by Neil Stevens...
U.S. Reps. Ron Klein (left) and Tim Mahoney (right) join Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. for 'Let's go Communist' bill to be introduced by Rahm Emanuel, Maurice Hinchey, Ed Markey, and Nick Rahall as co-sponsors. This is what Maurice Hinchley said on the House floor June 19, 2008:
We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.
On Ron Klein's website he writes:
I am working to pass legislation
that gives the oil companies an ultimatum: “Drill It or Lose It.”
On Tim Mahoney's website he writes the following:
The Responsible Federal Oil and Gas Lease Act of 2008 employs a "use it or lose it" tactic that will compel oil and gas companies to either produce or give up the federal onshore and offshore leases they are stockpiling by barring the companies from obtaining any more leases unless they can demonstrate that they are producing oil and gas, or are diligently developing the leases they already hold.
Read on...
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Posted at 1:13pm on Jun. 15, 2008 Obama’s ‘Dreams from His Father’ = My Worst Nightmares
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Let me start by saying ‘Happy Father’s Day’ before I go right into main points of the title of this blog. Some of us have been blessed with being born into a family with a good father and mother together raising us. I was so blessed. My mother passed away in 1979 when I was 27, and my father passed away 10 years later when I was 38. I miss them both dearly today. Some are not so lucky, ie Sen. Obama and SC Justice Thomas. A big difference is that a 35 year old Obama writes proudly in a memoir book about the father who was never there for him as a child while an older Clarence writes proudly in his memoir book about a grandfather who was there for him as a child. On a 60 Minutes interview, I don’t recall his exact words, Clarence had nothing good to say about his father.
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Posted at 8:29pm on Jun. 14, 2008 Flag Day - open thread
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The United States flag today. The 50th star was added on July 4, 1960 for Hawaii, which entered the Union on August 21, 1959.
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Posted at 6:38am on Jun. 5, 2008 John McCain Needs Bobby Jindal's Report On What the Big Easy Really Exposes
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So last night I am listening to a speech by Sen. John McCain in Kenner, La, and I get bummed out when I hear him say this in his speech.
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Posted at 11:36pm on May 29, 2008 I want to believe as he does!
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A scene from the movie, Braveheart. Robert the Bruce, a Scottish nobleman, is despondent over betraying his friend William Wallace, who is waging a brilliant campaign against English tyranny.