Archive for January, 2007
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A few couple bits of news in the wonderful world of party infighting. First, from the Republicans:
The week after the Republicans were handed a series of devastating election defeats, the White House announced that Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) would take over as RNC chair. If recent history held, there was no appeal in the process […]
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
So Barack Obama has announced that he’s going to announce whether or not he wants to run for President. Commence with the excessive media infatuation, the giant cult of personality and the increasingly strained attempts to subliminally equate him in the American mind with Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and possibly the Green Goblin.
That isn’t […]
Monday, January 15th, 2007
Spazeboy reports that a law is being considered that would democratize Senate vacancies in Connecticut.
This strikes me as a good idea, and not just for political reasons. Certainly it could make the CT Senate delegation more Democratic in the future, but that’s really a side issue - I really don’t foresee either Lieberman or Dodd […]
George W. Bush: Timecop
Monday, January 15th, 2007In the small subgenre of speculative fiction known as alternative history, arguably the supreme master is Harry Turtledove. Unfortunately, our president is a far inferior writer of alternative history.
Take for example a couple excerpts from his recent 60 minutes interview. First there’s the one where be brilliant sums up alternate universe America’s concerns regarding the […]
Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Speaking of Lieberman, if you’re wondering what the newly untethered “independent” looks like, it looks like this.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, the only Democrat to endorse President Bush’s new plan for Iraq, has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its handling of the Hurricane […]
Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Escalation is a disaster in every single possible way. It’s a tactical disaster, it would inevitably be a massive, senseless waste of human life, and even on the home front it’s a political disaster. That last one we can be thankful for, because hopefully it means that the Democrats will be able to prevent it.
Numbers? […]
Catastrofuck, Part Deux
Friday, January 12th, 2007I disregarded the part in Bush’s speech a couple nights ago about Syria and Iran, because it seemed to me like pretty much the same tough-guy posturing that the administration has always done in regards to those two countries. There’s been buzz before about gearing up for war with Iran, but I’ve always figured that […]
Friday, January 12th, 2007
I’ll start with a bit of good news today - as I predicted yesterday, it looks like there might be enough votes to overturn a potential filibuster of the legislation blocking escalation. Even Republicans who don’t want to be on record voting against funding for it could probably be swayed to at least try to […]
Whatshisface ‘08!
Thursday, January 11th, 2007So our very own Senator Chris Dodd announced his candidacy for president today, inspiring citizens across the state to say, “Really? Uh, alright,” shake their heads and go back to whatever they were doing.
It’s not that I dislike Dodd. I think he’s a decent Senator, at least grading on the extremely low curve we have […]
Escalation: The rare magical policy that’s as unpopular as it is stupid
Thursday, January 11th, 2007President Bush’s speech last night was pretty much what I expected it to be, but what a shoutout that really shouldn’t have been all that surprising. From the transcript:
Acting on the good advice of Senator Joe Lieberman and other key members of Congress, we will form a new, bipartisan working group that will help us […]