Phil Gramm Thinks You’re Imagining Having No Money

Phil Gramm, John McCain’s senior economic advisor and architect of countless diastrous economic policies, told the Washington Post today that you are imagining being unemployed and broke. Oh, and he is also being sent to Belarus. Read more

John McCain’s Cindy Problem

Do we really have to put up with 120 more days of Republicans trying to paint the Obama’s as out of touch elitists?

First of all, I HOPE NOT Read more

Just A Coincidence? McCain in Columbia as Hostage mysteriously rescued (After 6 Years … mmm)

It seemed a little too convenient that the day John McCain visits Columbia that Colombian commandos spirited 15 hostages to freedom on Wednesday. Today we learn from the White House that the United States was involved in the planning of the operation and provided “specific support,” Read more

Barak’s Move to the Center Suppresses Fundraising

OH DEAR.

Since securing the title of presumptive nominee on June 3, Barak Obama has made a string of baffling pronouncements that have taken the wind out of the sails of his democratic base.

Could all the assumptions about this fundraising juggernaut prove wrong?

Could the blank slate candidate prove a little more blank than slate?

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The Two Guys Who Think Torture is a Joke … Where is the Media?

Yesterday the two leading architects of the Bush reign of torture made a breathtakingly arrogant and evasive appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. Today I kept my eyes and ears open for what should have been a flood of outrage – reporting perhaps? – on these two and the damage they have inflicted on America. The result? Read more

The 1984th Amendment

Democrats Angry & Bewildered by Failed Leadership on FISA Bill

Today in the Senate, Democrats are debating the merits of a deeply flawed FISA Amendments Act that should probably have never seen the light of day. Read more

SUPREME COURT RULES 5-4 IN FAVOR OF GUNS

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declared for the first time on Thursday that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to have a gun, not just the right of the states to maintain militias. Read more

Does Rove Seriously Think Obama is the Country Club Guy?

Karl Rove was impressed with Barack Obama when he first met him. But now he sees him as a “coolly arrogant” elitist. This was Rove’s take on Obama to Republicans at the Capitol Hill Club Monday, according to Christianne Klein of ABC News:

“Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”

Actually, that sounds more like W.

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Media Slow to Connect Oil Dots

IN BRIEF: Oil Prices in the United States have gone through the roof in the waning months of the Bush Administration.

• Why? How did we get here from there?

• Who benefits from these high prices?

• What can we practically do about it now? 5 Years? 15 Years?

• What do Senators Obama and McCain plan to do about it and will it help anytime soon?

• What is the “Enron Loophole” and why should we care?

• Isn’t Phil Gramm from the McCain Campaign directly linked to the “Enron Loophole”?

• Is the media doing their job and investigating all of the dots here?

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Lessons from 1984 …

Few years have been as infused with as many seeds of symbolism and consequence as 1984. In the year that the AIDS virus was identified by French immunologist Luc Montagnier and the first Apple Mac went on sale, a gallon of gas cost $1.10 in the US while Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, Michael Jackson and “Do They Know it’s Christmas” put an entertainment band aid on the troubles of the world. But behind the smile of two Olympic Games – LA in summer and Sarajevo in winter – trouble was indeed brewing. Read more

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