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Day By Day by Chris Muir February 24, 2008
Mike Huckabee has been hanging onto his “MIRACLE” for far too long and is pissing folks off in the GOP. His ten seconds of glory in the political arena has passed.
Maybe he can get a job as a televangelist after March 4th?
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links for 2008-02-24
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Why, of course because John McCain is old and has already had to fight off Melanoma.
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John McCain Watch: The New York Times Debacle
The Gray Lady by Michael Ramirez
The New York Times attempt to smear John McCain was a “thin” story and has been widely discredited. The Washington Post today has attempted to revive a lobbyist-business corruption angle of the story but EVEN that is in dispute.
The story is dead.
The BIGGEST LOSER = The New York Times
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Day By Day by Chris Muir February 23, 2008
McCain-Feingold is very poor legislation, not accomplished its goals of a less money driven corrupt politics and is coming around to bite the GOP, and John McCain in the ass.
The GOP’s only hope is for McCain to appoint conservative justices to SCOTUS that will rule McCain-Feingold unconstitutional.
In the meantime, George Soros, and the major unions feed the Democrat left with their 527’s.
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links for 2008-02-23
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So, Huckabee wants to be the TURD in the punchbowl? This will nOT play well with GOP voters. Did he shoot himself in his own foot?
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So, this is news for a United States Senator of long standing?
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McCain is starting already on the key battleground states for the November election.
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Success to Michael Kinsley is total withdrawal and American defeat in Iraq. No surge or Bush program would EVER be considered a success for him.
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McCain says he’ll ‘compete everywhere’ including California
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It IS over! Obama will be the Democrat nominee.
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Standard practice of being a US Senator – being lobbied.
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Antonio Villaraigosa Running Again for Mayor of Los Angeles
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is one of the rising stars in the Democratic party. He’s the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles in recent history and he also serves as a co-chairman to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
He discusses the state of the Clinton campaign after her losses in Wisconsin and Hawaii. He also discussed the dilemma that immigration reform poses to politicians across the country.Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says he intends to run for re-election in 2009.Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa informed a national television audience this week that he intended to seek a second term in the city’s top post while giving some of his most personal remarks to date about the political fallout from his extramarital affair.
But Villaraigosa, who informally has discussed his reelection intentions off and on for a couple of months, did not say directly whether he would run for governor in 2010, one year after the mayoral election.
In a wide-ranging interview with public television’s Charlie Rose on Wednesday — stemming from his support for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton — the mayor was asked about his gubernatorial ambitions.
Rose quoted an unnamed supporter of Villaraigosa who said the mayor “is thinking more about being governor than he is about being mayor.”
Of course, Mayor Villar will have to win re-election against Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky before entertaining any thought of running for Governor in 2010.
Flap’s bet is that the Mayor will have a difficult time in elective politics anytime soon.
Telemundo Channel 52 Poitical Reporter Mirthala Salinas announces “on air†her boyfriend, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s separation from his wife.
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Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Mirthala Salinas Transferred to Riverside
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Ana Garcia Spurned Reporter?
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Has Mirthala Salinas Moved into Getty House?
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Shoe Shopping with Mirthala
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Water Conservation – Setting an Example
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Telemundo Suspends Mirthala Salinas
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: The Source
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Still Waiting for Telemundo
The Miguel Contreras Learning Complex Pool Flap
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Pay to Play at LAUSD
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Villaraigosa Tries Again to Shift Focus
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: NBC Telemundo Expected to Announce Results This Week
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Corina Villaraigosa Speaks About Commitment
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Telemundo Ethics Probe of Mirthala Salinas Completed
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Mayor Heckled at Transportation Meeting
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Iran Nuclear Watch: IAEA Report – Iran Continues Uranium Enrichment
Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani is pictured at Tehran University. The top Iranian cleric has told the UN Security Council to stay out of the crisis over Tehran’s contested nuclear drive, ahead of a key report by the UN atomic watchdog.
The long awaited IAEA report on Iran nuclear program has just been released and it details Iran’s continuing uranium enrichment and development of centrifuges.
Flap will update as more details are available.
Update:
Iran more open on atom work, bomb fears remain: IAEA
Iran has shown new openness about nuclear advances earlier off-limits to U.N. monitors but not enough to prove the program is not geared to making bombs, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday.
While an IAEA report painted a more positive picture of Iranian cooperation than before, it also confirmed Iran was testing technology that could give it the means to enrich uranium much faster — in further defiance of demands to halt all sensitive nuclear activity or be hit with wider U.N. sanctions.
The IAEA findings, which also said Iran had failed to clear up all outstanding questions by an agreed February deadline, may be branded negative on balance by big powers and spur the U.N. Security Council to adopt more sanctions as early as next week.
So, in other words, Iran has NOT been forthcoming and has not cleared up any ambiguity whether they are developing a nuclear weapon. Look for an American and EU call for more UN sanctions which WILL be either watered down or blocked outright by Russia and China.
Key graph:
- “The (weaponization) studies is a matter of serious concern and critical to an assessment of a possible military dimension to Iran’s nuclear program,” said the confidential report, obtained by Reuters.
“The agency will not be in a position to make progress towards providing credible assurances about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran before reaching some clarity on the nature of the alleged (weaponization) studies, and without implementation of the Additional Protocol (wide-ranging, snap inspections).”
Without that, it said, there could be “no confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of the program.”
If Iran has clean hands they would immediately open up their nuclear program to inspections.
But, Iran won’t.
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- “The (weaponization) studies is a matter of serious concern and critical to an assessment of a possible military dimension to Iran’s nuclear program,” said the confidential report, obtained by Reuters.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir February 22, 2008
Michelle Obama is defining husband Barack’s message because he has none – just words and rhetoric.
Hillary has waited too long to attack Obama for being the EMPTY SUIT that he is. Instead of sending her hubby Bill out to racially attack Obama in South Carolina she should have been pounding Obama on issues since day one. Talk about a mismanaged campaign.
Flap is actually looking forward to the contrasts between Obama and McCain. The GOP may have an easier time than anyone thinks.
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links for 2008-02-22
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Why it is the New York Times……
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The story that started today’s political buzz.
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Please….Mrs. Huckabee could not get a better room?
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The New York Times has some explaining to do…..
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John Weaver seems to be the leaker here…..
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Wow! $42 mil on a failed candidacy…..
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Another big union endorses Obama. Will it make a difference to knock out Hillary?
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John McCain Watch: McCain Denies Lobbyist FLAP
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John McCain is denying he had an inappropriate relationship with a female lobbyist.
Remember the FLAP from last night regarding this New York Times piece.
John McCain at a news conference this morning in Ohio has denied the allegations in the New York Times and apparently the ones outlined in a similar but distinct piece in this morning’s Washington Post.
John McCain emphatically denied a romantic relationship with a female telecommunications lobbyist on Thursday and said a report by The New York Times suggesting favoritism for her clients is “not true.”
“I’m very disappointed in the article. It’s not true,” the likely Republican presidential nominee said as his wife, Cindy, stood beside him during a news conference called to address the matter.
“I’ve served this nation honorably for more than half a century,” said McCain, a four-term Arizona senator and former Navy pilot. “At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.”
“I intend to move on,” he added.
McCain described the woman in question, lobbyist Vicki Iseman, as a friend.
The newspaper quoted anonymous aides as saying they had urged McCain and Iseman to stay away from each other prior to his failed presidential campaign in 2000. In its own follow-up story, The Washington Post quoted longtime aide John Weaver, who split with McCain last year, as saying he met with lobbyist Iseman and urged her to steer clear of McCain.
Weaver told the Times he arranged the meeting before the 2000 campaign after “a discussion among the campaign leadership” about Iseman.
Well, someone is not telling the truth – either former campaign aide John Weaver or Senator McCain. In the meantime, Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times stands by his paper’s story and its timing of publication.
“On the substance, we think the story speaks for itself. On the timing, our policy is, we publish stories when they are ready.
“‘Ready’ means the facts have been nailed down to our satisfaction, the subjects have all been given a full and fair chance to respond, and the reporting has been written up with all the proper context and caveats.
“This story was no exception. It was a long time in the works. It reached my desk late Tuesday afternoon. After a final edit and a routine check by our lawyers, we published it.”
So, will this be the tip of the iceberg with other anonymous leaks from former campaign aides? Or will this story die from its own weight of being light on facts and most of which occurred almost ten years ago?
Flap believes the latter.
And, what about the New York Times and their OWN agenda which The New Republic chastises here?