Who am I to question Robert Novak?
And, wait, didn't he announce his immediate retirement due to health reasons recently?
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
She Detests Earmarks
HATES THEM SHE DOES
PAUL, Minn. (AP) John McCain touts his running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, as a force in his battle against earmarks and entrenched power brokers.
But under her leadership, Alaska has asked the federal government for almost $300 per person in requests for pet projects this year. That's more than any other state received, per person, from Congress and runs counter to the image the GOP ticket is pushing.
SUPERTRAIN
Now with extra internets.
Redline Communications Group Inc. ("Redline") (TSX and AIM: RDL), a leading provider of WiMAX and broadband wireless infrastructure products, today announced that Utah Transit Authority (UTA) has selected Redline's RedACCESS AN80i broadband wireless platform to provide passengers with free Wi-Fi access aboard UTA's new high speed commuter train.
Redline's AN80i point to multipoint products were deployed on 12 double-decker trains on the new 40 mile (64 km) FrontRunner commuter rail between Ogden City and Salt Lake City in Utah. The RedACCESS system was installed along the tracks at 0.5 to 2.5 mile intervals. The track-side units communicate with on-board units connected to Wi-Fi access points on each train. As the train passes along the 40 mile corridor, connections from one access point to another are handed off, providing passengers seamless high speed connectivity.
Abortion
Maybe I'm wrong, but my memory of Democratic politicians is that they approach the abortion issue with euphemisms and hints (choice! judges!) and do their best to shun the word itself.
“Let me tell you: If Roe vs. Wade is overturned, the lives and health of women will be put at risk. That's why this election is so important,” says the nurse-practitioner who narrates Obama’s ad. “John McCain's out of touch with women today. McCain wants to take away our right to choose. That's what women need to understand. That's how high the stakes are.”
An announcer then claims that “as president, John McCain will make abortion illegal,” before playing an exchange on "Meet the Press" in which McCain told moderator Tim Russert that he favors “a constitutional amendment to ban all abortions.”
“We can't let John McCain take away our right to choose. We can't let him take us back,” says the ad.
Creep thread
Now they admit it.
Of course, it's only Democrats that are ever guilty of "partisanship".
Feh.
Signed,
Not Atrios
Of course, it's only Democrats that are ever guilty of "partisanship".
Feh.
Signed,
Not Atrios
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Name One
AP's Tom Raum:
Email and ask, politely, for him to name and quote a single liberal suggesting any such thing.
traum@ap.org
Many liberals are belittling the choice, suggesting that as a mother of five children — including an infant with Down syndrome — she has neither the time nor the experience to become vice president.
Email and ask, politely, for him to name and quote a single liberal suggesting any such thing.
traum@ap.org
Is He Still Talking?
IT HURTS ME
...a good window into the Villager brain was provided by Margaret Carlson when she did an "exit interview" of Thompson when he left the Senate. Here are the questions she asked, responses omitted.
...a good window into the Villager brain was provided by Margaret Carlson when she did an "exit interview" of Thompson when he left the Senate. Here are the questions she asked, responses omitted.
CARLSON: Senator Thompson, let me ask you the sad question first. Why are you leaving us?
CARLSON: And you didn't even -- you didn't even run on term limits, and you just went into the sunset.
CARLSON: What's the tipping point in a Washington scandal?
CARLSON: Many of us in the press and many of your colleagues thought you would run for president. Your good friend, John McCain, did. You never did. Why not? And will you ever?
CARLSON: Friendship's never stopped any ambitions in Washington.
CARLSON: You were too tall...
CARLSON: Now, who are you going to miss in the Senate?
CARLSON: You can have a club.
CARLSON: Any Democrats?
CARLSON: I hold the record for watching "Law and Order," reruns in particular!
CARLSON: So I know that...
CARLSON: I've been -- I've caught a few of the ones that you're now in. Are the writers accommodating a loquacious ex-senator?
CARLSON: And you would filibuster anyway.
CARLSON: Well, now that you're in that life, you're kind of a Hollywood actor, maybe your foreign policy views will be taken seriously.
Are you and Sean Penn -- are you going to join...
CARLSON: Oh. Are you going to join Sean Penn in Baghdad?
"Angry Left"
Uh, George, maybe you've missed it but we're actually having quite the party these days.
The Enquirer Rules Their World
Their rules, not mine.
- Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its new issue. Palin planned for the wedding to take place right after the Republican National Convention and then she was going to announce the pregnancy. But Bristol, 17, refused to go along with the plan and that sparked a mother-daughter showdown over the failed coverup.
They Are Family
According to MSNBC, the Palin kids were told their Ohio trip was to celebrate an anniversary. In the dark about the Veep announcement.
I try not to tell people how to parent their kids, but last night I said to Mrs. Atrios something along the lines of, "I don't know what goes on in their family, but at the very least if I had a pregnant teen daughter and I was asked to be a VP candidate I'd sit down with her and make sure that was ok."
I try not to tell people how to parent their kids, but last night I said to Mrs. Atrios something along the lines of, "I don't know what goes on in their family, but at the very least if I had a pregnant teen daughter and I was asked to be a VP candidate I'd sit down with her and make sure that was ok."
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