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From MSNBC this afternoon:

JIM MIKLASZEWSKI: Military officials will tell you, you know, it’s almost like the Rudy Giuliani approach to cleaning up New York. to clean up Iraq, you have to start at the bottom. and we’re seeing now that in Anbar province from the bottom up. and so, you start at the bottom with the police forces. if you don’t have a viable, reliable police force in place in iraq, there can be no fix to the security problems there.

And the Mayor has the track record and expereince to put accountability programs into place.

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Fred Thompson campaigning in Iowa Today

Quote of the Day from Jim Mills, former Thompson campaign spokesman:

“About the only people who haven’t worked in the Thompson press shop this summer are Larry Craig and that woman astronaut who wore those diapers cross country.”

OUCH!

Thompson communications adviser Mark Corallo has also left the campaign.

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A twisted tale of congressional earmarking

A twisted tale of congressional earmarking has taken another turn.

The U.S. Navy wants a business owned by the family of Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski to hand over a piece of high-tech equipment bought with some of the $9.25 million in taxpayer funds Kanjorski steered to the company.

Except no one seems to know where to find the equipment — a high-pressure pump.
The mystery of the missing pump, combined with newly unearthed evidence that federal investigators probed Kanjorski’s connections to the company, Cornerstone Technologies, has given new life to a story that seems unlikely to go away.

In a parody of the Larry Craig scandal, Michael Ramirez highlights the REAL crime Congress is committing.

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Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport Police arrest-booking photo of Sen. Lary Craig, R-Idaho

Sen. Larry Craig has all but dropped any notion of trying to complete his term, and is focused on helping Idaho send a new senator to Washington within a few weeks, his top spokesman said Thursday.

“The most likely scenario, by far, is that by October there will be a new senator from Idaho,” Craig spokesman Dan Whiting told the Associated Press.

The only circumstances in which Craig might try to complete his term, Whiting said, would require the overturning by Sept. 30 of his conviction for disorderly conduct in a men’s room at the Minneapolis airport, as well as Senate GOP leaders’ agreement to restore Craig’s committee leaderships posts taken away this week.

Those scenarios are unlikely, Whiting said.

Damn.

Is this Larry Craig FIASCO finally over?

Others say Craig should lawyer up and fight?

NO WAY……Good Riddance……..

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Police Sgt. Dave Karsnia is the officer who arrested Sen. Larry Craig.

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Ohio GOP NUTS:

REGISTERED REPUBLICANS................................
Sep 6   Aug 8   Jul 12  Jun 27  May 16  Apr 26  Mar 22
2007    2007    2007    2007    2007    2007    2007

Brownback                1       -       1       -       -       2       -
Gilmore                 na       -       1       -       -       -       1
Gingrich                 9       8       5       6       6       9       8
Giuliani                21      29      24      25      23      23      31
Hagel                   na      na      na      na       -       -       1
Huckabee                 3       1       2       2       2       -       1
Hunter                   1       1       -       -       -       -       -
McCain                  10      11      14      16      17      21      20
Pataki                  na      na      na      na       -       -       -
Paul                     2       1       1       -       -       -       -
Romney                   8       8       8       7      11       6       6
Tancredo                 1       -       -       -       -       1       1
Thompson, F.            15      11      18      17      15       8       6
Thompson, T.            na       2       1       1       2       -       1
SMONE ELSE(VOL)          4       2       3       3       2       4       1
WLDN'T VOTE(VOL)         2       4       2       3       2       1       1
DK/NA                   25      22      20      22      18      23      23

Pennsylvania GOP NUTS:

• Rudy – 32%
• McCain – 19%
• Romney – 13%
• Thompson – 12%

Rudy continues to be the frontrunner in these important states.

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Graphic Courtesy of California Majority Report

Another California initiative – “The Presidential Electors Initiative” changing the distribution of Presidential electoral College votes (winner take all to by Congressional district) was approved for circulation yesterday. Previously the Electoral Reform California Initiative qualified and is currently circulating for signatures.

The initiative is here and the complete text is here.

Two competing GOP sponsored initiatives with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger apparently opposed with lukewarm initial poll support and massive Democrat Party opposition yields this scenario:

1. Funds are raised from Presidential candidates and GOP donors to qualify the initiative(s) for the June 2008 California ballot.

2. Since support is so-so from the California GOP and voters, supporters will FEIGN a campaign forcing Democrats to spend campaign resources to “MAKE SURE” the initiative(s) do not pass.

Flap thinks both initiatives have merit and with a low turn-out election in June you never know.

But, Flap DOES know that the Democrats will spend mega-dollars on their media campaign and cause them grief and election angst.

Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean accused Republicans of trying to “rig” the 2008 presidential contest and vowed Wednesday to do “whatever it takes within legal boundaries” to stop a California ballot measure that would change how the state casts its 55 Electoral College votes.

Dean, who called the initiative a “Tom Delay/Karl Rove-type maneuver…”

Stay tuned…….

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North Carolina Ready to Change Electoral College Presidential Selection Rules for 2008

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, speaks as former California governors, Pete Wilson, left, and Gray Davis look on during a news conference Thursday Aug. 23, 2007 in Los Angeles. The three along with members of the Voices of Reform Coalition including Common Cause and League of Women Voters met to discuss ways promote a fundamental change in the way political boundaries are drawn to insure fairness and transparency in elections.

Garry South, a veteran political consultant who handled Gray Davis’gubernatorial campaigns, and who last year headed Steve Westly’s campaign for governor makes the case.

The Governator will paint the radically LEFT Boxer as a post-partisan obstruction to national consensus and will win going away – after a costly and dirty media campaign.

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