Now that a cyber-security expert who is a Republican (and a former adviser to McCain) has come forward with evidence that Diebold (who since changed their name to Premier Election Solutions) used its electronic voting machines to throw the results of an election, will we finally get an actual investigation, and (hopefully) stop using their […]
Last week, NPR did a report on the economic proposals of McCain and Obama. McCain’s centerpiece is tax cuts for the wealthy, while Obama champions a tax cut for the middle class. NPR ignored the fact that McCain is now promoting the same plan that he opposed 8 years ago, and that Bush’s tax cuts […]
Wolf Blitzer asks South Carolina’s Republican Governor Mark Sanford if there are any “significant economic differences” between McCain and Bush. His response: For instance, take, you know, take, for instance, the issue of — I’m drawing a blank, and I hate it when I do that, particularly on television. Take, for instance the contrast on NAFTA. […]
© Mike Luckovich I have to add that it would have been worse if today’s media had presided during Watergate. Would Woodward or Bernstein be able to publish their exposé of Watergate today? UPDATE: See also Glenn Greenwald’s column that discusses this cartoon. UPDATE 2: Another column, this time in the Daily Kos, that is […]
Who is Phil Gramm? You might have heard his recent statement that America is a “nation of whiners” about the economy. He is a co-chair of McCain’s presidential campaign and arguably his main economic advisor — McCain once called Gramm his “financial guru”. So let’s look at Gramm’s economics: Gramm was responsible for the “Commodity […]
© Gary Varvel For the first time since they started tracking this, the approval rating for Congress has hit single digits.
The town of Scottsdale, Virginia has your typical Fourth of July parade, but here’s an interesting juxtaposition. In the first photo is challenger Tom Perriello, the democratic nominee for Congress, riding on a float pulled by a bio-diesel fueled tractor: Two floats later came the incumbent, Republican Virgil Goode, being pulled by… a Hummer. Just […]
The liberal blogosphere was aflame with new accusations that Obama is trying to win the 2008 presidential election. Here are just a few of the blog quotes: Obama is “betraying the Democratic Party’s losing tradition.” “Barack Obama seems to be making a very calculated attempt to win over 270 electoral votes. He must be stopped.” “Any […]
At a Fourth of July celebration at Monticello (Jefferson’s home) President Bush misquoted Jefferson. Here’s what Bush said: On the 50th anniversary of America’s independence, Thomas Jefferson passed away. But before leaving this world, he explained that the principles of the Declaration of Independence were universal. In one of the final letters of his life, he […]
This would be even funnier if it weren’t for the fact that bin Laden’s goals were actually to bankrupt the US and to drive up the price of oil. © Ted Rall
In 1998 Osama bin Laden complained that Americans have stolen $36 trillion from Muslims because they purchased oil from Muslim nations at low prices. Interestingly, he said that oil should cost $144 a barrel, which is just what it costs now. So what did bin Laden have to do to get the price of oil […]
If you don’t know what this is about, read this, or this. © Matt Wuerker
The McCain campaign (and much of the mainstream media) keeps trying to keep alive the myth of McCain the Maverick, but it is clearly on life support, and getting a bit crazy. In a conference call today, a McCain spokeswoman tried to compare McCain’s bipartisan cred with Obama’s, using the example of immigration reform: It’s […]
I’m not totally sure this isn’t a hoax, but there is a website out there encouraging people to vote for George W. Bush in 2008. How? By writing in his name. What about term limits? Why those pesky things are man’s law, not god’s. The God who parted the Red Sea is surely not worried about so-called […]
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