Dissing your own handpicked vice-presidential candidate on national TV has probably never been done before. Which is probably why John “Maverick” McCain thought it was a good idea for him to rectify that omission. In a rare two-fer, he (and Baby Sarah, too, to be honest) combined that with some kind of all-time whining [...]
The choice: riding off into the economic rainbow versus The Second Great Depression.
So what did our vaunted country-first House Republicans do yesterday? Voted 2-to-1 for The Second Great Depression.
And you know why? Because Nancy Pelosi hurt their widdle feelings by making what they are trying very hard to pretend was a destructively partisan [...]
In the real estate business, it might be all about “location, location, location” but in the blame-game version of presidential politics, it’s all about timing.
You can’t be a credible candidate for president if you don’t know the rules about when to fix the blame. Apparently, you don’t do it Monday afternoons at 5 p.m., [...]
Josh Marshall, late last night:
When Bob Dole lost to Bill Clinton in 1996, if anything it enhanced his reputation and popularity. His reputation, what people thought of him, wasn’t wrecked or even damaged by the campaign. The future seems quite different for McCain if he loses this election.
Not particularly profound (neither this passage nor the [...]
There’s no doubt that New Mexico senator Pete Domenici has the marquee role in the joint report of the Justice Department Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility on the the U.S. attorney firing scandal:
Domenici is mentioned 201 times throughout the 392-page report for his involvement in the firing of former U.S. attorney David [...]
USA Today:
Space freighter successfully ends mission by burning up
An automated space freighter ended its six-month mission to the International Space Station as planned today by burning itself up over the South Pacific east of New Zealand.
People are apparently wondering why Honest John doesn’t suspend his campaign and ride to the rescue all over again (seeing as how we still have a crisis, and he cannot, by his own heartfelt admission, “carry on a campaign as though this dangerous situation had not occurred, or as though a solution were at hand, [...]
“So, you lookin’ for a little grace, Lester? Some charity?”
So Lester is Wall Street, Mike is Congressional Dems/Bush/Paulson, and Gramma is apparently the House GOP. I’m having trouble figuring out who the hookers and the dog are supposed to be.
I desperately need to find a set of red long johns (nullus?) to go [...]
Never seen nor heard the like before. The bailout bill failed in the House, 228 to 205 (due to Republican opposition).
The Congress has just voted down the proposed bipartisan bailout package. 95 Democrats and 133 Republicans rejected the plan. The vote failed in part because the Republican leadership failed to deliver the 70-100 [...]
John McCain today in Columbus, OH:
My friends, if we continue this surge under this great general, we will come home – and our troops will come home – with victory and honor. And not in defeat.
The great general, of course, is David Petraeus.
Surely one of his many friends could have told John — or [...]
