Archive for August 13th, 2007
So You Think The Recently Passed Health Bill is Kosher?
Monday, August 13th, 2007It looks like pork to me and the last time I checked pork wasn’t kosher.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 — Despite promises by Congress to end the secrecy of earmarks and other pet projects, the House of Representatives has quietly funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to specific hospitals and health care providers under a bill passed [...]
Ney’s Chief of Staff Wore Wire, Was Key To Boss’s Conviction.
Monday, August 13th, 2007Speaks for itself.
When Will Heaton went to work for Rep. Robert W. Ney in 2001, he was 23 years old and still in awe of the members of Congress he had come to know years earlier as a congressional page. Within six months, the Ohio Republican promoted the fresh-faced neophyte to be the youngest chief [...]
Romney, `Misspoke’ About Sons’ Military Choice.
Monday, August 13th, 2007Speaks for itself.
Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) — Mitt Romney, who won the Iowa Republican straw poll yesterday, said he “misspoke” when he suggested that his sons’ work on his presidential campaign was comparable to serving in the military in Iraq.
I misspoke,” the former Massachusetts governor said today on “Fox News Sunday.” “It’s not service to [...]
Giuliani: I misspoke about ground zero
Monday, August 13th, 2007Speaks for itself.
Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he misspoke when he said he spent as much time, if not more, at ground zero exposed to the same health risks as workers combing the site after the Sept. 11 attacks.
“I think I could have said it better,” he told nationally syndicated radio [...]
Trouble on the Shuttle
Monday, August 13th, 2007In an eerily similar situation to the space shuttle Columbia, that burned upon re-entry a little over three years ago, the space shuttle Endeavour has a serious problem.
The other coincidence is this shuttle, like Challenger, has a teacher onboard.
Upon liftoff a chunk of foam broke off the fuel tank, and was probably frozen into ice [...]
One Down…
Monday, August 13th, 2007Tommy Thompson has dropped out of the presidential race.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saying he had no regrets, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson on Sunday dropped out of the crowded race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination after a poor showing in a straw poll in Iowa.
Thompson, 65, finished sixth in Saturday’s nonbinding mock election. He had [...]
Republican YouTube Debate Back On
Monday, August 13th, 2007With or without Mitt Romney the CNN/YouTube debate with Republican presidential candidates is on again.
This just in: The Republican CNN/YouTube debate, in limbo for the past few weeks, is on again.
But Mitt Romney, who won Saturday’s Iowa straw poll and has criticized the debate format, has yet to commit to the Nov. 28 event.
Romney, [...]
I Can’t Believe Someone Would Even Ask Hillary This Question
Monday, August 13th, 2007Senator Clinton, are you black enough?
The question usually aimed at her darker opponent from Chicago triggered a burst of laughter from Hillary Rodham Clinton. She recovered from the barb and proceeded by not answering it.
This campaign moment occurred Thursday before the Las Vegas convention crowd of the National Association of Black Journalists. CNN White House [...]
I Think This Was Meant to be Funny
Monday, August 13th, 2007I believe this Washington Post article by Monica Hesse was meant to be her version of funny, but somehow I find it unhumorous.
Titled Fred, Fred, Fred: Thompson’s Challenge Has a Name she goes on to make fun of his name as some stupid hick from the back woods of the South.
I suppose a lot of [...]
