McCain's Gain Is Kyl's Loss (1)
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Earlier this week I posted speculative take on the political factors that may have come into play in the apparent appointment of Gov. Napolitano to be DHS Secretary. Leaving aside the substantive reasont to appoint her to the post, the basic political issue is that by bringing her to DHS, the most likely challenger to John McCain in 2010 is now out of the equation, giving him a much easier path to re-election. (The governer ...
Fun with Lieberman: Should He Stay or Should He Go?: Joe (1)
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Fun with Lieberman: Should He Stay or Should He Go?:Joe Lieberman is a horrible little man-cunt who allowed the loss of his party's nomination for Senate back in 2006 to drive him into shit-flinging insanity. A conservative Democrat in the past, he became a crazed hawk who would, if it was human, encourage Israel to fuck his ass again and again while demanding we bomb deeper into the Stone Age anyone who would dare slander ...
Plastic Cup and Toothpick Speakers Take Lo-Fi to New Heights [Applesque Accessories] (14)
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These "CupSpeakers" from designer Dmitry Zagga are MacGyverific. With nothing more than a large disposable drinking cup, a couple of toothpicks, and the included iPod earbuds, Zagga has constructed a sleek, cheap, and easy speaker system for his iPod. He claims the volume increase is "significant," and his photography makes this self-aware DIY project look like something straight out of a Steve Jobs PowerPoint. The toothpicks hold the cups together, and a small hole at ...
Freak Show: Behind the Clinton for Secretary of State Rumors (1)
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By Al Giordano The speculation over Senator Hillary Clinton as a possible Secretary of State in the Obama administration did not begin - as many are reporting - with Andrea Mitchell's report yesterday on NBC, based, she said, on "two Obama advisors." (Obama has more than 700 titled advisors on foreign policy alone. There's good reason why they received a memo that instructed "do not under any circumstances speak to the press." You can't shoot ...
Dartmouth Study: Minnesota Undervotes Should Favor Franken (3)
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Dartmouth professors Michael Herron, Jonathan Chipman and Jeffrey Lewis have put together a terrific study of the recount situation in Minnesota. They suggest that -- while many African-American voters in the Minneapolis area may have skipped the senate race intentionally -- the majority of unintentional undervotes that will be counted during the recount process are also liable to favor Franken.We show using a combination of precinct voting returns from the 2006 and 2008 General Elections ...
Veteran's Day: All You Need to Know in Two Pictures: That's (5)
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Veteran's Day: All You Need to Know in Two Pictures:That's Vice President Dick Cheney, looking as if the burden of bringing scorching, oozing hell to wherever his despoiling foot deigns to step is finally beginning to wear on him. He was visiting the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday to honor the dead, thousands of which he himself is responsible for as clearly as if he had walked up to each one ...
An Army of Whistleblowers Waiting in the Wings? (5)
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They're waiting... Imagine for a moment that you are a career employee of the federal government in a law enforcement or intelligence gathering agency. You embarked upon this career because you wanted to do something for your country, your fellow Americans. You and your family have gone through intrusive background checks, your friends and neighbors and past employers and teachers all got interviewed, there are limits on the kinds of activities, including business activities your ...
Why 2010 Won't Be Like 1994 (2)
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As president-elect Barack Obama begins to hash out their agenda, Republicans are predicting Democratic overreach and pointing back to the example of 1994. But 2010 isn't 1994. Consider: Bill Clinton had no experience working with the House and Senate; he had to learn on the job and made some early mistakes in this regard. Obama, on the other hand, has a working knowledge of the legislative process, and has a whole host of allies within ...
Mugshot Hall of Fame (1)
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You can't make this shiz up! Hailey, Idaho's Lori Brutsche-Ely faces several charges for her crazy Halloween night antics. According to reports, an intoxicated Lori battered a security guard, took off her clothes in the Mint Bar (which happens to be owned by Bruce Willis), punched two officers, bit a deputy AND after they finally got her into the drunk tank, she set off a police station's sprinklers. This all happened in one night! We're ...
Giving Lieberman a pass? (1)
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I've also heard from a Senate staffer that Obama has sent word that he wants Lieberman in the caucus. Now to be clear, the word isn't "let Lieberman chair Homeland Security", it's "keep him around". The logic is pretty obvious -- it allows Obama to look like he's not vindictive. (Kind of funny for a guy who just chose Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.) Why should Lieberman lose his committee?: Lieberman has been ...
Joe The Plumber (1)
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Here’s hoping he joins Darva Conger, Sanjaya, and William Hung in the circular file of history.
Whistling Past Bubba (12)
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Although it's natural to compare Barack Obama's map against that of the losing Democratic efforts in 2000 and 2004, perhaps the more interesting comparison is with 1992, as Bill Clinton won both the popular vote and the Electoral College by similar margins to Obama:The Democrats seem to be on the verge of quarantining the Republicans to a few, relatively electorally dry areas. As compared with 1992, there has been a net swing of at least ...
Dodd tries to blame Obama in effort to save Lieberman (2)
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Talk about sleazy.Democratic Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), who until only moments ago the Netroots used to think of as their hero (how quickly things change), just came out and defended Joe Lieberman. Oh, and Dodd didn't just do that. Dodd tried to wring the entire Lieberman fiasco around Obama's neck.Now that's sleazy.Dodd knows that Obama wants the first months of his adminsitration, understandably, to focus on the economy. It's kind of the most pressing issue ...
Kerry is the No Drama Option for Secretary of State (1)
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By Al Giordano The three big-name candidates mentioned for Obama's potential Secretary of State are New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and Indiana Senator Richard Lugar. (You can probably ignore the right-wing efforts to put peter-principle hacks like Rand Beers and Richard Holbrooke on the short list: Obama's going to need someone with a pre-existing high profile because the appointment is also about sending a message to the rest of the world, ...
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I think he convinced me.
I'd Treat DC as a Crime Scene (1)
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I want to be clear that I do not expect, or even want, Barack Obama to govern as I would govern. However, if I were president-elect, I would be planning quite an operation on inauguration day. As soon as I was sworn in, I would demand that Robert Mueller submit his resignation. Then I would instruct the FBI to lock down FBI Headquarters, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency offices, the executive suites at the CIA, ...
The Case Against Lieberman (3)
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(You can sign a letter to the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee asking them to relieve Joe Lieberman of his gavel here) I realize it's often tough to objectively evaluate a friend and colleague, especially when you are members of the most exclusive club in the world. When you see them all the time in the Senate cloakroom, laugh at their jokes, and nudge them to stay awake during Joe Biden's oratory you can ...
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Greenwald pwns Joe in record time.
