Archive for March, 2008
March 26th, 2008
According to THIS, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is more than willing to be John McCain’s running mate.
At first blush, the idea of such a ticket has a certain political appeal: A black woman just a heartbeat away from a presidency occupied by an old guy. It supposedly steals some of the Democratic Party’s thunder, no matter whether Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton is the candidate.
On the other hand, it would be a war ticket with a capital W, which could pose a big political problem.
March 26th, 2008
Much has been made in recent weeks of a National Journal study that rates Barack Obama as the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate.
And just what, pray tell, makes Obama so liberal? Well, let’s see. Oh, yeah, he voted to require the Department of Homeland Security to check all cargo containers entering the United States for nukes and stuff. That’s one of the votes that counted as “liberal” in the study.
Then there’s his vote to establish a Senate Office of Public Integrity to handle ethics complaints against senators. Wow! The man’s an out-and-out Bolshevik.
There’s more on this matter HERE.
March 25th, 2008
Some of my fellow liberals can be pretty silly at times.
Take, for example, THIS controversy over radio ranter Rush Limbaugh having encouraged Republicans to cross over to Democratic primary elections and vote for Hillary Clinton — on the theory that she’d be easier to defeat in November or that an extended battle for the Democratic nomination would hurt the party.
Ohio is one of the states in which an untold number of Limbaugh dittoheads heeded this advice. But Ohio has a law requiring that citizens genuinely support a political party in order to vote in its primary. To change parties for a primary, a voter must pledge that he or she is affiliated with the party and “supports” its principles. Lying on the pledge is a felony, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
Some libs think that Limbaugh should be prosecuted for encouraging violations of the Ohio law.
Nonsense. I doubt that the law in question has ever faced a court challenge, and I’m sure that it could never survive one.
Come on. The statute at issue is ridiculous on its face. It would prevent affected voters from changing their minds over the course of time. Besides, who’s to say what a voter actually thinks? (Indeed, some seem not to think at all.)
Limbaugh’s an idiot, yes, but so is any lefty who thinks he should be charged with a crime for abetting violations of that patently unconstitutional law in Ohio.
UPDATE: MSNBC’s Dan Abrams (whose pseudo-populism wears thin after a short while, by the way) has JOINED THE CAMPAIGN for strict enforcement of the Ohio law.
March 25th, 2008
A new SURVEY shows that Republicans are far more likely than Democrats or independents to take a rosy view of the U.S. health system.
The cruel irony in this matter is that red states — that is, those states that are predominately Republican — generally have bigger health-care problems than blue (Democratic) states.
March 25th, 2008
The mainstream media’s favors to John McCain are now numerous enough to fill a whole BOOK.
Oh, and let’s not have it said that the media love McCain because he’s a liberal. That’s just silly. His overall voting record in the Senate is INDISPUTABLY CONSERVATIVE.
March 25th, 2008
THIS GUY says the Democrats might come up with a Gore-Obama or Gore-Clinton ticket.
March 24th, 2008
March 24th, 2008
I told you about THIS yesterday, and now the controversy is growing, as we saw THIS MORNING and then later THIS AFTERNOON.
POSTSCRIPT: It’s silly of the Clintonistas to say this was a mere slip of the tongue. It was a made-up story.
POSTSCRIPT II: A few of the blogosphere’s meanies are suggesting that this might be a photo of Hillary’s sniper:
UPDATE: There’s more HERE.
March 24th, 2008
This video, featuring former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel (Is he still running for president?), has drawn more than 2,500 comments on YouTube.
Some viewers think it’s brilliant.
March 24th, 2008
The American death toll in Iraq has reached 4,000.
A U.S. military spokesman played down the significance of the number, declaring: “No casualty is more or less significant than another…”
Yeah, to paraphrase Joseph Stalin: One death is a tragedy; 4,000 deaths is a statistic.
POSTSCRIPT: By the way, 97 percent of U.S. military deaths in Iraq have occurred since President Bush postured on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in front of a sign reading: “Mission Accomplished.”
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