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“They’re Navy SEALS”
on May 16, 2009 in Uncategorized Joe Biden Navy SEALS politics speach Vice President Joe Biden gave a speech this weekend on a US Navy ship. Fortunately the “Mission Accomplished” banner was nowhere to be seen, however in his comments he told a story about something that Admiral Mullen, the new Chairman of...
Club for Growth Causes Republican Shrinkage
on Apr 29, 2009 in politics Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s announcement Tuesday that he is abandoning the Republican Party is the latest sign of a shift in the political wind. GOP spokesmen have been hard at work painting Specter as a political opportunist, switchi...
Why Is David Plouffe Still Asking Me For Money?
on Apr 10, 2009 in Uncategorized politics Barack Obama David Plouffe donation requests White House I got another one this morning, an email from David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s campaign manager, asking for a donation. Plouffe’s email says that it is to help overcome the negative messages of those defenders of the status quo who are calli...
Is Bacon Pork?
on Mar 13, 2009 in Barack Obama government politics Obama earmarks Democrats Congress pork bacon Republicans What's wrong with earmarks? We can make fun of studies of the sleeping habits of bears in Montana, overhead projectors in Illinois or fish waste processing plants in Mississippi but when you look at individual projects they do seem to be beneficial a...
Rush Rushes to Defend Bobby Jindal
on Feb 24, 2009 in Barack Obama politics Bobby Jindal Republican response Rush Limbaugh Well I guess people didn’t like Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s response to President Obama’s address last night to a joint session of Congress, at least that’s what I hear. People seemed to think that there was something la...
Carnival of maryland #53 Has Been Posted
on Feb 21, 2009 in blog carnival blogging This time the host is The Political Octagon, a blog with more than a slight rightward tilt. That’s OK, this is America where one blog is just as good as another, if not a darn sight better, even with one leg shorter than the other. The photo a...