Daily Archives: July 17th, 2007 «

 

Senate all-nighter quote of the evening: “Our enemies aren’t threatened by talk-a-thons …”

Posted by: ST on July 17, 2007 at 10:37 pm » 11 Comments

7/18 Updated post here: Miserable failures: Senate Dems fail to get the votes they need ——– “…and our troops deserve better than publicity stunts.” Thanks, Senate Minority Leader McConnell. Caption: A worker lays out a cot for U.S. Senators in the Lyndon B. Johnson room, just off the Senate floor, in the U.S. Capitol Building [...]

 

On this day in history …

Posted by: ST on July 17, 2007 at 8:05 pm » 8 Comments

Per my super-awesome Reagan Ranch calendar: Ronald Reagaon accepts Republican nomination for president (1980) Sigh. Memories … “As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; we will not surrender for [...]

 

Revisiting the various haircut “scandals”

Posted by: ST on July 17, 2007 at 7:42 pm » Comments Off

Marc Ambinder has a good point in his piece contrasting the differences between the story on Romney’s $300 makeup bill versus John Edwards $400 x2 haircuts: [...] John Edwards’s haircut was a valid story to cover, although its impact and signifiance were magnified beyond reason and sanity. But learning that Mitt Romney’s face powdered is [...]

 

Count me in in the “none of the above” column

Posted by: ST on July 17, 2007 at 7:12 pm » 2 Comments

A new AP/Ipsos poll shows that the option for “none of the above” won out over all the GOP candidates in response to a question regarding who do you support right now in the race for the nomination. Via CNN: The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that nearly a quarter of Republicans are unwilling to [...]

 

JetBlue sponsors “YearlyKos” convention

Posted by: ST on July 17, 2007 at 6:51 pm » 2 Comments

There’s tons of buzz in the blogosphere (a sampling can be seen here) over the news that the airline Jet Blue has decided to sponsor this year’s Daily Kos convention (better known as the “YearlyKos” convention). Not to be a party pooper, but I can’t get exercised about this. The only thing I can really [...]

 

Democrats, the MSM, and warped priorities

Posted by: ST on July 17, 2007 at 3:34 pm » 6 Comments

We all know by now how long it took for Democrats in the House and Senate to pass a non-cut and run funding bill for our military earlier this year, but there’s also at least one other part of our government that the Democrats would like to cut funding on, too, and it won’t surprise [...]

 

Tuesday open thread

Posted by: ST on July 17, 2007 at 10:44 am » 3 Comments

Enjoy, ya’ll – I’ll be back later today.

 

More on the Keith Ellison “Bush is like the Nazis” speech

Posted by: ST on July 17, 2007 at 8:35 am » 3 Comments

A video from Rep. Keith Ellison’s recent speech to a group of atheists in which he compared the President and his administration to Nazis has been released. I haven’t had the chance to view it yet, but Dan Riehl has, and provides this recap. Snippets: The Hitler remark wasn’t the first reference made to Bush [...]