It Tastes Like Candy
***First was the 'ruckus' then the 'fracas' now we have the 'brawl'...Ain't Springfield grand???
***State Sens. Radogno, Rutherford and Righter walk into a McDonald's...sounds like a bad joke...But, in fact, the Triple R Club was sitting down to discuss the future of the GOP in IL. Maybe they could've invited the IL GOP Chair, Andy McKenna OR IL GOP Committeeman Pat Brady OR IL GOP Committeewoman Demitra Demonte OR IL House GOP Leader Tom Cross OR IL GOP County Chairmen Chair Randy Pollard.
***Once, again, liberal columnists decry partisanship and demand that The Obama get rid of partisanship as Job One. Of course, Cokie & Steve Roberts' vision of partisanship is standing in front of giant Democratic spending programs that The Obama called for during the campaign. Why isn't that partisanship? Oh, that's right, only Republicans are partisan...
***The Rev. Jesse Jackson gets in on how the GOP should just roll over and let The Obama do whatever he pleases. He even points to a 'poll' that indicates voters want Republicans to vote for Obama plans even if they disagree: And they want that choice to be respected. In an election eve poll by the Campaign for America's Future with Democracy Corps, voters were asked if they wanted Republicans to give Obama the benefit of the doubt and help pass his program, or if they should oppose the program since it was headed in the wrong direction. By a stunning 75-21, they wanted Republicans to cooperate.
The group cited was formed by James Carville and Stanley Greenberg - both Clinton people. They actually have the gall to refer to their group as 'non-partisan'. And, Jackson wants us to believe that respondents said that even if a legislator disapproves of a policy of The Obama, they should still vote for it. Does he actually believe that voters said they would be comfortable with Congresspersons abandoning their principles in order to give The Obama a pass?
***Why are people so afraid of money in politics? And, why do academics, in particular, always seek ways to curtail free speech? In the Trib today another law professor from UC Law wants to limit money in campaigns.
How about this, Professor, we mandate that every single donation be reported within 24 hours with all lawful information included? If that were the case, thousands and thousands of dollars collected by both candidates would've been stricken because they came from unknown sources like untraceable, single use credit cards that won't be accounted for for months and months. Make it transparent. Expose the bundlers. Make public each contributors employer and hold campaigns to attest within 24 hours. If they can't get it done, the money can't be deposited. Hell, I'd even throw in a 48 hour escrow period in order to check on all of the info but the known or unknown info has to be published w/in 24.
***The country stays pretty much in the middle but the parties seem hell-bent on racing to the fringes...David Brooks in NYT.
***Why won't Al Gore just shut up? Now he says The Obama has to "begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis."
***You go Minnesota...Who says IL or FL are the most corrupt voting states in the nation? You crunchies can take the mantle. There are WAAAAAYYYYYY more votes for Franken out there - KEEP LOOKING!
***Kelm & Kirk on Air and on Twitter.
***State Sens. Radogno, Rutherford and Righter walk into a McDonald's...sounds like a bad joke...But, in fact, the Triple R Club was sitting down to discuss the future of the GOP in IL. Maybe they could've invited the IL GOP Chair, Andy McKenna OR IL GOP Committeeman Pat Brady OR IL GOP Committeewoman Demitra Demonte OR IL House GOP Leader Tom Cross OR IL GOP County Chairmen Chair Randy Pollard.
***Once, again, liberal columnists decry partisanship and demand that The Obama get rid of partisanship as Job One. Of course, Cokie & Steve Roberts' vision of partisanship is standing in front of giant Democratic spending programs that The Obama called for during the campaign. Why isn't that partisanship? Oh, that's right, only Republicans are partisan...
***The Rev. Jesse Jackson gets in on how the GOP should just roll over and let The Obama do whatever he pleases. He even points to a 'poll' that indicates voters want Republicans to vote for Obama plans even if they disagree: And they want that choice to be respected. In an election eve poll by the Campaign for America's Future with Democracy Corps, voters were asked if they wanted Republicans to give Obama the benefit of the doubt and help pass his program, or if they should oppose the program since it was headed in the wrong direction. By a stunning 75-21, they wanted Republicans to cooperate.
The group cited was formed by James Carville and Stanley Greenberg - both Clinton people. They actually have the gall to refer to their group as 'non-partisan'. And, Jackson wants us to believe that respondents said that even if a legislator disapproves of a policy of The Obama, they should still vote for it. Does he actually believe that voters said they would be comfortable with Congresspersons abandoning their principles in order to give The Obama a pass?
***Why are people so afraid of money in politics? And, why do academics, in particular, always seek ways to curtail free speech? In the Trib today another law professor from UC Law wants to limit money in campaigns.
How about this, Professor, we mandate that every single donation be reported within 24 hours with all lawful information included? If that were the case, thousands and thousands of dollars collected by both candidates would've been stricken because they came from unknown sources like untraceable, single use credit cards that won't be accounted for for months and months. Make it transparent. Expose the bundlers. Make public each contributors employer and hold campaigns to attest within 24 hours. If they can't get it done, the money can't be deposited. Hell, I'd even throw in a 48 hour escrow period in order to check on all of the info but the known or unknown info has to be published w/in 24.
***The country stays pretty much in the middle but the parties seem hell-bent on racing to the fringes...David Brooks in NYT.
***Why won't Al Gore just shut up? Now he says The Obama has to "begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis."
***You go Minnesota...Who says IL or FL are the most corrupt voting states in the nation? You crunchies can take the mantle. There are WAAAAAYYYYYY more votes for Franken out there - KEEP LOOKING!
***Kelm & Kirk on Air and on Twitter.
There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.
Reply to this
Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.
Reply to this