Tag Archives: election
Fox on Pox [updox]
GHWB demonstrates onset of senility by pimping son Jeb for the WH before the Chimperor has vacated. Prominent weblogs will no doubt upload the hegemon-pr0n video; we’ll settle for eroticism. [Update: OK, the soft-core. “You can go back to your, your, your, what do you call it, your Google, and you can figure out all [...]
“a template for 2012″
Shirky: “Dear Mr. Obama was music to Republican ears while being inert in Democratic hands; expect it to be a template for 2010.” Stalder preminds us: “To me, this is an indication of how constrained discourse has become, particularly in the US and particularly for the set of activist academics who like to think of [...]
Deathbed conversion
Daily Beast: “There have been many times I’ve regretted it,” [Roger] Stone told me over pizza at Grand Central Station. “When I look at those double-page New York Times spreads of all the individual pictures of people who have been killed [in Iraq], I got to think, ‘Maybe there wouldn’t have been a war if [...]
Quality time
Krugman, “The Obama Agenda,” NYT (7 Nov ’08): This year, however, Mr. Obama ran on a platform of guaranteed health care and tax breaks for the middle class, paid for with higher taxes on the affluent. John McCain denounced his opponent as a socialist and a “redistributor,” but America voted for him anyway. That’s a [...]
Electoral cleansing
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the WP’s Dan Froomkin wrote (“Who’s in Charge? Karl Rove!”, 15 Sep ’05): Rove’s leadership role suggests quite strikingly that any and all White House decisions and pronouncements regarding the recovery from the storm are being made with their political consequences as the primary consideration. More specifically: With an [...]
The Key to American conservatism today
Cognitive dissonance. At Wikipedia, ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny: Does. Not. Compute.
“Sitting Pretty”
So says an A-list blogger: Pretty funny.
Going through the motions
A-list blogger 1: (Desperate and Reckless: Ramp up Georgia crisis for votes; call off half the GOP convention; pick a demonstrably unqualified freshman governor to salvage his campaign; call for firing head of the SEC; now ask to have presidential debates delayed or canceled so he can politicize the bailout debate…) A-list blogger 2: Why [...]
Governing by the seat of his pants
John McCain, on the virtues of presiding while seated: Offshore drilling: “I’m sorry Congress is gridlocked again on offshore drilling,” McCain said. “When I’m president, we’ll all sit down together and work this out.” [Schmidt’s Sausage Haus und Restaurant, Columbus, OH, Jul ’08] Palin: “She stands up for what’s right, and she doesn’t let anyone [...]
Exporting democracy
Good news: Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:03:50 -0700 From: vim@duncan.cx Subject: States throw out costly electronic voting machines The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers. What [...]
McCain doesn’t want to win
but he can’t pull out, so the next best thing was to let the fundies pick an Eagleton-Ferraro-Stockdale hybrid for him. He loses, their fault: win-win. (When did he change his mind?) In the meantime (no volume necessary):
Surreal: scene of a GOP loss
Pray. (Flickr)
Election ’08: what if?
Cute: The entire world drafted an open letter to Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) today, asking him to drop out of the U.S. presidential race and concede the presidency to Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois). Scenario: McCain drops out of the election late, Obama wins uncontested, right-wing noise machine revs up the theory that “He isn’t really [...]
McCain vs Obama, round one
Mr. Kerrey: “Mr. McCain is getting an honorary degree. He was invited to speak. First was Barak Obama. Both say yes and/or both say no.” Jean Sara Rohe’s prebuttal of McCain’s commencement speech, and her later explanation. McCain chief of Staff Mark Salter: “The only person you have succeeded in making look like an idiot [...]
“the first documented case of election fraud in the U.S. using electronic voting machines”