They don’t get it.
That’s not news, of course. JUST how much it’s not news is telling, but one has to take a moment to appreciate just how clueless that it’s possible to be, and still occupy a responsible position in civil society. Irresponsibly, of course.
Listen to this Bizarro World version of an error, a [...]
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Two days after the Bail Out Bill failed in the House, the Senate plans to vote on the “$700 billion bank rescue plan,” on Wednesday evening. The Senate Bill “adds new provisions – including raising the FDIC insurance cap to $250,000 from $100,000 – and will be attached to an existing revenue bill that the [...]
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CNN reports today that Barack Obama’s campaign said “that the details of a potentially contentious roll call had finally been hammered out after weeks of discussion with aides to Hillary Clinton.”
The New York senator’s supporters had successfully pressed for her name to be placed in nomination in Denver, and party leaders had feared that the [...]
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Darrell pegged it below, Hillary Clinton’s speech tonight was “amazing.” I was working late and missed it. But, I’ve just finished watching and in a word, it was awesome.
Hillary introduced herself a “proud mother,” a “proud Democrat,” a “proud American” and a “proud supporter of Barack Obama.”
“Whether you voted for me, or voted for Barack, the [...]
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Filed under: DNC, Democrats, Election '08, In The News, Obama-Biden 08, Pamela Leavey, Politics, Presidential Election, Presidential Primaries, Sen. Hillary Clinton
It’s been a while since I did a late night thread… so here goes…
John Daniello, the chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party on Obama – Biden: “Seeing them together now, they’re a natural team,” he said. “I think they’re going to do well.”
Florida and Michigan delgates to be seated with full voting rights: Dems give [...]
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[UPDATE!!] The headline and initial story below are inaccurate. There is another accurate update below
At the same event in Zanesville, Ohio where Senator Obama called for an increase in funding for ‘faith-based initiatives’, he also refused to fist bump a young supporter when that boy stuck his fist out for recognition.
CNN reports:
Is Obama ditching his [...]
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The national average gas price for a gallon of “regular unleaded rose 1.7 cents to $4.005, according the daily measure on the AAA’s Web site.
That surpassed the previous record of $3.989 set Thursday.
The milestone was expected after a surge in crude oil prices added more than $16 to a barrel of oil over the last [...]
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Filed under: Big Oil, California, Consumers, Economic News, Economy, Gas Prices, In The News, Los Angeles, Pamela Leavey, SoCal
The reactions are pouring in on the news of Senator Kennedy’s diagnosis that he has a malignant brain tumor. CNN reports that “Senate Democrats and Republicans were having their weekly closed policy lunches in the Capitol when the news broke.”
When Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, told his Democratic colleagues about Kennedy, there was “stunned silence,” [...]
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CNN reports that a recently conducted poll has found that support for the war in Iraq is at an all time low:
n the latest CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll released Tuesday, 69 percent of those polled believe things are going badly in Iraq. Seventeen percent think the situation is improving.
Thirty percent of Americans polled say they [...]
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June 7th, 2006 may become a day to remember in Iraq’s bitter fight for stability. After years of hunting, military forces were able to pinpoint the location of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda terrorist leader of the Iraqi insurgency for the past three years. According to US Gen George Casey, the 39 year old Jordanian was killed in a targeted airstrike at 6:15 pm.
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