Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

I wonder if we’ll see a press release that she needs to “spend more time with her grandson son” soon… John McCain running mate Sarah Palin misled Republican supporters – Telegraph The Governor of Alaska gave a misleading version of events over a controversial bridge project in her home state when she made her maiden [...]

Choosing Sarah Palin seemed like a serious hail mary play when it was first announced. An attempt to out-history-make the democrats. Choosing the Alaskan govenor gains John McCain nothing in the regionally-balancing-the-ticket game. She is so incredibly right-wing that she makes him seem like a socialist. Maybe the idea is that she could bring the [...]

A sports journalist asks all the hard questions, leaving a smirking Bush probably wondering what he got himself into. I love it! He sits down thinking he’s going to talk about basketball or some bs like that and Bob Costas gets into Darfur and the Russia/Georgia situation and GWB looks like an idiot yet again! [...]

Companies get OK to annoy polar bears (AP) http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004477335_appolarbearsoil.html Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas. The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week [...]

the democratic primary in 8 minutes

Wow, this op-ed from Frank Rich really summed up this point in the race for me and crystallized some vague thoughts around the race. Definitely worth a read Op-Ed Columnist – Frank Rich – One Historic Night, Two Americas – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com WHEN Barack Obama achieved his historic victory on Tuesday night, the battle [...]

(thanks Nate!)

Official’s Journey Ends in a Swirl of Accusations – New York Times In 2004, less than two months after his confirmation as housing secretary, Mr. Jackson told a House panel that he believed poverty “is a state of mind, not a condition,” provoking strong criticism. Two years later, he said in a speech that he [...]

As usual Maureen Dowd sums it up quite nicely. Soft Shoe in Hard Times – New York Times “You know, I guess the best way to describe government policy is like a person trying to drive a car in a rough patch,” he said. “If you ever get stuck in a situation like that, you [...]