McCain campaign: Obama was right on financing
Fri Jul 11, 2008 at 10:26:29 AM PDT
In a story on The Hill (tip of the hat to electoral-vote.com), the McCain campaign has essentially admitted that Barack Obama was right in his rationale to opt out of public financing.
Obama, as you recall, said that the system was broken and the Republicans masters at gaming the broken system. McCain campaign chairman Rick Davis confirms that fact:
CA-04: Doolittle still believes in WMDs
Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 08:32:31 PM PDT
"The weapons that we all believed were there, based on the intelligence, were not there." - White House press secretary
Scott McClellan, January 2005
"Our coalition has not found WMD stockpiles in Iraq [...] the flaws in the intelligence are plain enough in hindsight [...]" - Vice President Dick Cheney, November 2005
"I still believe they will find the WMD." - Rep. John Doolittle, yesterday
Yes, John Doolittle continues to swim against the current of reality, fly in the face of facts, and...well...there should be a third metaphor here, really, but I can't think of one. But you know these things work better in threes.
Please help Charlie Brown rid us of this guy. Even Bush and Cheney have spat out this flavor of koolaid - California does not need a representative who's still happily guzzling it down!
Specter smooches the pig
Thu Feb 16, 2006 at 12:35:44 PM PDT
Every now and then, I decide I have some shred of respect left for Sen. Arlen Specter. And then he comes out with something like
this:
Some senators who support the measure agreed that the latest deal involved marginal changes.
"When Senator Feingold says that, he happens to be right," said Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa. "Sometimes cosmetics will make a beauty out of the beast and provide enough cover for senators to change their votes."
Dorks for Angelides
Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 03:23:58 PM PDT
In a poll thread two days ago, SoCalLiberal had
this to say:
Angelides being a dork may actually help him, there's this new tv/movie craze of having loveable dork characters. From Seth Cohen to Napoleon Dynamite, audiences can't seem to get enough. It sounds stupid (and I guess it is) but it may actually help Angelides.
Yesterday, Angelides continued his pursuit of the dork vote by filing his official paperwork on Valentine's Day:
Doolittle says "Investigate me"
Mon Jan 30, 2006 at 11:05:43 AM PDT
Rep. John Doolittle (CA-04) has been linked to Jack Abramoff and his clients. Just how linked? From an
AP story:
Doolittle accepted at least $14,000 in campaign money from Abramoff from 1999 to 2001, records show, and initially failed to report a 1999 fundraiser in Abramoff's sky box, as required.
He took tens of thousands of dollars more from Abramoff's tribal clients, including $5,000 in 2004 from the Sac & Fox tribe, also known as the Meskwaki.
Alito: Not such a textualist, after all
Fri Nov 11, 2005 at 10:31:13 AM PDT
So Samuel Alito is supposed to be a "textualist", right? Who views the constitution strictly as a "text", not a "living document"?
His own promises to the Senate Judiciary Committee, however, apparently are living documents. What he wrote in his Senate questionnaire in 1990 (according to Newsday, which had the most complete version of the quote that I could find)was:
I would, however, disqualify myself from any cases involving the Vanguard companies, the brokerage firm of Smith Barney or the First Federal Savings & Loan of Rochester, N.Y.
Today, however, he says:
As my service continued, I realized that I had been unduly restrictive on my 1990 questionnaire [...]
