links for 2008-08-29
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The station, WGN, has made a stream of the broadcast available online, here, and it has to be heard to be believed. Obama’s robotic legions dutifully jammed the station’s phone lines and inundated the program with emails, attacking Kurtz personally. Pressed by Rosenberg to specify what inaccuracies Kurtz was guilty of, caller after caller demurred, mulishly railing that “we just want it to stop,†and that criticism of Obama was “just not what we want to hear as Americans.†Remarkably, as Obama sympathizers raced through their script, they echoed the campaign’s insistence that it was Rosenberg who was “lowering the standards of political discourse†by having Kurtz on, rather than the campaign by shouting him down.
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Every GOP lawmaker except Fair Oaks Assemblyman Roger Niello has signed the "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" this year, casting a shadow on budget talks by making any vote to raise taxes a potential career killer.
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Hannah-Beth Jackson endorses Proposition 11 to establish independent citizen’s commission to oversee state reapportionment
Former State Assemblymember and State Senate candidate Hannah-Beth Jackson today endorsed Proposition 11 on the November ballot. Proposition 11 would create a 14 member Independent Citizen’s Commission to conduct the state’s post-census political reapportionment.
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For the GOP, the mistake is sure to be fodder for their efforts to label Biden a gaffe machine.
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The McCain campaign Wednesday released a memo mockingly titled, “Proper Attire for the Temple of Obama (The Barackopolis),†a reference to the classical stage design in place for his speech. The campaign is already prepared to pull the trigger on ads spun out of the Invesco Field event, perhaps rolling out ads similar to the notorious spot featuring Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
“We’ll put it in play against him,†said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers.
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Republican strategist Karl Rove called Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) late last week and urged him to contact Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to withdraw his name from vice presidential consideration, according to three sources familiar with the conversation.
Denied by Karl Rove on Fox News
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The National Review bots are in the tank for Romney – who will be a disaster for John McCain and the GOP