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  • Red Meat Right - Waiting to Exhale

    Sand Rant In 2000, Rove and Company beat John McCain like a chained yard dog in a trailer park. It made no difference to Rove/Bush that McCain was a “POW”, it made no difference that McCain was a respected and long sitting United States Senator. He wasn’t their man and they [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 10:33am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Edwards - The Saddest Thing of All

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    Ok, the rumors that were whirling around Edwards’s head these last few months were true. He had an affair in 2006, and his wife and his God have forgiven him. Well, isn’t that convenient.   Here’s one thing that really gets under my skin; Edwards saw what happened with the feeding frenzy [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 9:04am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Krugman: GOP Is the Party for Fools

    How hard the mighty will fall. They had it all; the White House, majorities in both houses and when history reviews these last 8 years the greed, corruption, power grabbing, corporate protectionism and Constitutional trashing Republican Party of today will be viewed as a crimminal enterprise created to enrich the [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 7:39am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Low-Road Express

    What’s a soul worth? Seems that John McCain has set his price. Well, that certainly didn’t take long. On July 3, news reports said Senator John McCain, worried that he might lose the election before it truly started, opened his doors to disciples of Karl Rove from the 2004 campaign and the [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2008, 7:22am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Suck it up, America

    Nothing like some good morning snark with my coffee. Here, Simon takes off on yet another elitist and McCain advisor on us poor folk and how the cost of gas and milk is just a figment of our imagination…so stop whining. Thing is, Phil Graham is McCain’s chief economic advisor, [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2008, 7:26am EDT
    by George Sand

  • The Audacity of Listening

    The left wing of the left wing of the Democratic Party has its undies in a bundle. Seems they feel betrayed by Obama’s move to the center. Ok, I won’t forgive him for his FISA vote until he fixes it next year…I’ll wait and see on that one. Obama HAD [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2008, 7:15am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Impeachment - What’s the Point

    Well, this was reprinted in of all things, the DemGaz…either Greenberg is on vacation or wasn’t paying attention. Impeachment-What’s the Point? Well, there is a point, and give Kucinich credit for trying to make it. Each day, Americans are gaining more detailed information that suggests it was not so much erroneous intelligence [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2008, 8:16am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Eerie McCain, weird Bill - more Brummett

    Ok, it’s a good one this morning - Eerie McCain, weird Bill Let me warn you that today’s topics are not substantive. We’re not going to extend health insurance or lower oil prices today. We’re going to talk style and sex. Criticize if you must. Read if you please. Anyway, the way to [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2008, 9:17am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Obama?s ?I have a dream? speech

    It’s often joked that I have only one feeling and it’s almost impossible to reach. Not one to be emotional, it is a reasonable observation. When I read this the first time, the goose bumps appeared and my eyes watered. Yes, I was for Hillary all the way, and I [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2008, 7:39pm EDT
    by George Sand

  • War, What War? Sand Rant

    What War?   Just one mans opinion   It’s pretty clear to me that since Scott McLellen’s confirmation that indeed the Iraqi war was a wag the dog affair and that lies, innuendoes and half-truths were the vehicle in which a scarred shitless Congress and Press were complicit in the run up to the [...]
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    Posted: May 31, 2008, 9:50am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran

    Bob Cesca at the Huffington Post grabs a ball bat in this op-ed piece and beat the living hell out of the “liberal media” for letting the criminals in the White House run us into a never-ending war in Iraq. They should been doing their job, and he’s forewarning the [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2008, 5:33am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Obama campaign used party rules to foil Clinton

    The only thing I have to say is if Obama continues to hire folks that beat the Clintons at their own game, who do the research and understand the issues they are facing and plot a  winner course, we’ll be in good hands I think. Obama campaign used party rules to [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2008, 4:37am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Kansas City, Mexico

    Kansas City, Mexico She ain’t talking! She’s the “Christian” lady in Bryant who wants to make sure that if you’re Hispanic looking and your kid needs immunization shots – you better have his American DNA papers. Brumment explains that there is a reason that the Secure America point person stays [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2008, 4:16am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Immigration advocate OK with tuition edict

    The department said schools should take steps “in a good faith effort to comply with federal law.” University of Arkansas and the University of Central Arkansas had been offering students in-state if they had official transcripts from a state high school. The schools were not checking to see if the students [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2008, 4:04am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Looking ahead to an Obama presidency and the nuclear option

    Awe, poor David Sanders he’s just now realizing that elections have consequences. And in the politics of the playground…what goes around comes around. [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2008, 3:54am EDT
    by George Sand

  • No Laughing Matter

    Not the VP!!! Pardon the pun, but Huckabee shot himself in the foot - he’s alwa [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2008, 8:09am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Freedoms price

    My first reaction at the low voter turn-out Tuesday was a profound disappointment in my fellow American’s lack of understanding what our right to vote means. We can change the world, and we start with our votes. If we don’t we deserve the government we have (see last 8 years). [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2008, 7:22am EDT
    by George Sand

  • GI Bill Passes in a Landside - McCain says No

    75 Senators stand with Veterans For the 22 Senators opposing this crucial legislation, I can only express my disappointment. For them, partisanship came before patriotism. Senator John McCain, Mr War himself, didn’t bother to show up for this unpresidented and important vote. McShame would have had to vote against it and he [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2008, 7:06am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Its Our turn

    This a good read and because it’s the economy (stupid), it’s understandable for us who are not economist - and it’s talking to us 99%. It’s Our Turn  So there you have it: the great, neo-con economic experiment is over and the results are in. Outside of the top 1%, there’s less income growth [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2008, 8:06am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Six ways the GOP can save itself

    Things are so ugly for the members of the GOP right now, it’s worth pondering their political mortality: Put bluntly, can this party be saved? We talked to some of the smartest minds in Republican politics, and their prognosis is pretty grim. They think it will take pretty big changes — [...]
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    Posted: May 16, 2008, 6:55am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Want to reduce your taxes? Get rich

      Want to reduce your taxes? Get rich Duped. That’s the only thing I can say here. Republicans in general have been falling in line like lambs to the slaughter - yelling and screaming that the Bush “tax cuts” must be made permanent. See, Republicans hate tax increases…and they are going [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2008, 4:38am EDT
    by George Sand

  • As Losses Mount, GOP Begins Looking in the Mirror

    Let’s hope that Mississippi sends a message “better dead than red”. Expect this Republican stronghold seat to go D. The stakes in the 1st District special election couldn’t be higher, strategically or symbolically. The loss of a traditionally GOP seat to a Democrat would be the third in a special election [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:52am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Bush: Spend it, itll make ME look SMART!!!

    The so-called “rebates” are just a shell game. First, it’s taxable income. Yes, next year, if you owe taxes you’re going to pay tax on this little gift. But more importantly, Bush wants us to spend our newfound treasure and spend it on stuff. You see, that’ll bring an artificially induced [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2008, 6:13pm EDT
    by George Sand

  • Will Trade Gold for Gas or Food

    This is why talking about tax cuts for the rich (making over 200K) will cost McCain and the Republican Party the White House and substantially shrinking numbers of representation in both houses. This was an article in of all places - the bastion of Republicanism…Northwest Arkansas. Residents turn to pawn shops for extra money [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2008, 5:54pm EDT
    by George Sand

  • Hard Freeze hits the GOP in LA

    In the reddest of red Congressional Districts (06) in LA, a democrat takes the open seat. No Democrat has held that seat since 1970, 38 years ago. If the GOP can’t hold a Congressional seat in a reddist or red states in one of the reddist of red districts, they [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2008, 5:31pm EDT
    by George Sand

  • Who is the keeper here?

    Wright’s Remarks Irrelevant Is a presidential candidate his pastor’s keeper? Is Barack Obama in any way “responsible” for the opinions of Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Obama obviously doesn’t believe so - having denounced Wright’s most recent public performance as “a bunch of rants that aren’t grounded in truth.” and his campaign has to be [...]
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    Posted: May 02, 2008, 5:40am EDT
    by George Sand

  • The Empty Flight Suit

    Mary Mapes from the Huffington Post has a lot to say about the empty flight suit. Has it really been five years since we were treated to that breathtaking “Mission Accomplished” scene aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln? Yup, almost 4,000 dead and 28,000 wounded since Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” Besides, it is already [...]
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    Posted: May 02, 2008, 4:29am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Fair Play For False Prophets

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    Do white right-wing preachers have it easier than black left-wing preachers? Is there a double standard? Does a bear defacte in the woods? Rev. Wrights said shortly after 9/11 that “the chickens have come home to roost”, meaning our sins against many nations have caught up with us. Fawell and Robertson [...]
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    Posted: May 02, 2008, 3:58am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Clinton Has No Reason To Quit

    The Morning News up in NWA this morning answers a question; “Clinton Has No Reason to Quit”. I concure wholeheartedly with their assesment. Why won’t Hillary Clinton quit? That’s a question that keep lurking around the edges of the Democratic Party’s presidential contest, with the unspoken but implied message that she somehow [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2008, 5:05am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Clinton Smacks Obama

    Lord, Lucas Roebuck made some since this morning. Mind you he’s managed to throw the necessary red meat to the family, throwing Obama and Clinton under the bus, but he also has put a voice to what a good share of the Democrats in this state are seeing. Clinton is [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2008, 4:39am EDT
    by George Sand

  • Historys Verdict

    I wish the editorial writers at the Dem Gaz would take a lesson here, this is a great op-ed about how our country became a “terrorist” nation and how we?ll be judge unkindly by history for our nation’s torture policies…and it was said with 203 words, not 1000. Recently, the Associated [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2008, 4:21am EDT
    by George Sand

  • An Epitaph for the Religious Right

    Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, author of “Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right,” will be online Tuesday, March 11 at 10 a.m. ET to discuss his Outlook article about how the arc of the current primaries bode poorly for the continued influence of social conservatives — [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2008, 7:29am EDT
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  • Katrina nation

    Technically I agree with Pat Buchannan here, except for one thing that both the Republican and Democratic pundits never address. That is, this immigration mess will never be “fixed” until Mexico implements economic andenvironmental policies that guarantee that its citizens have jobs that pay well enough that they aren’t forced [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2008, 7:13am EDT
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  • Protecting Secrets

    Exactly Protecting Secrets Some believe the White House is anxious to win retroactive immunity for the telecommunications industry to protect itself, not the nation. Lawsuits brought against telecom companies that cooperated with the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program may be the nation’s best chance to find out the true scope of the surveillance [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2008, 6:52am EDT
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  • Absolutely no Credibility

    Couldn’t of said it better myself. President Bush is playing politics with the nation’s security, and as he has done many times since 9 / 11, he is proving himself willing to frighten Americans with the specter of terrorism to get what he wants. House Democrats are right to resist his efforts [...]
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    Posted: February 29, 2008, 5:30am EST
    by George Sand

  • Chief Justice Roberts Defends ExxonMobil

    Good Question!!! Great Answer!!! It appears our Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is more interested in protecting Big Oil and Corporate America (a Junior nominee) than he is in protecting America. Big Surprise. “So what can a corporation do to protect itself against punitive-damages awards such as this?” Roberts asked in [...]
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    Posted: February 29, 2008, 5:04am EST
    by George Sand

  • Does This Make George H.W. Bush Unpatriotic?

    Does this make the old man not “American” enough? Huffington Post | February 25, 2008 at 05:55 PM The Conservative blogosphere says that Barack Obama isn’t patriotic enough to be President because he was photographed without his hand over his heart during the National Anthem. Here’s a photograph of George H.W. Bush at [...]
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    Posted: February 29, 2008, 4:44am EST
    by George Sand

  • The Last Yes, We Can Candidate

    If Obama is the nominee, and it looks like he is a train that Clinton cannot stop, then I concur with E.J. Dionne here. Obama will be the Democrats Reagan and a man McCain and the Republican Party in their arrogance will continue to dismiss at their own peril. One [...]
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    Posted: February 29, 2008, 4:15am EST
    by George Sand

  • Some Straight Talk - Hey?

    A Hole in McCains Defense? An apparent contradiction in his response to lobbyist story I am sure you have heard the dust up about the New York Times hit piece on McCain this week. It implied that McCain might have had an inappropriate relationship with a female lobbyist. However, the article was [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2008, 11:12am EST
    by George Sand

  • Why they cant vote for McCain

    This in a Northwest Arkansas paper - Why they cant vote for McCain Though he served on the commission for five years and made several attempts to meet with Mc-Cain to discuss the issues, Smith was rebuffed. The two did accidentally meet outside a hearing room in 2004 when they were [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2008, 8:21am EST
    by George Sand

  • The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama

    Good piece by Frank Rich this morning; The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama Trapped in an archaic black-and-white newsreel, the G.O.P. looks more like a nostalgic relic than a national political party in contemporary America. A cultural sea change has passed it by. The theory of the McCain candidacy is that [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2008, 8:07am EST
    by George Sand

  • The Obama Mystery

    The Obama Mystery “Why is the press going so easy on Barack Obama?” asks a prominent Democratic Party strategist, echoing a criticism frequently made by the Clinton campaign. It’s a fair question, and now that Obama appears to be the front-runner in terms of his delegate count, he deserves a closer [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2008, 7:45am EST
    by George Sand

  • Questions For John McCain

    Lord, you would think that a man who has made his living and well I might add would drag his lazy carcus out of Washington and talk the the “people” about how they feel about Iraq. Not his, “people”…the Washington establishment…I’d take the man a little more serious. Questions For John [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2008, 7:38am EST
    by George Sand

  • McCain: No Plans To Resign From The Senate Right Now

    See post below on McCains soul. If McCain and that’s a big if resigns from the Senate it won’t be because he needs to be on the campaign trail, this about not having to actually post a vote or be accountable for a vote that might not be palatable to [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2008, 3:08am EST
    by George Sand

  • McCain Sells His Soul

    I’ve been quoted for years now that “souls are cheap” when it comes to the business of politics. And there’s not a better example than this; McCain, a man who can’t raise his arms above his shoulders because of tortue, now thinks it’s oky doky fine…because that’s what the Republican [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2008, 2:21am EST
    by George Sand

  • Bush Aides Held In Contempt

    It is about time! I would rather see impeachment, but hey, with this worthless and spineless Congress it is something. Will it accomplish anything? Probably not, but lord have mercy, it is far past the time when those that work in the White House must abide to the same rules [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2008, 2:01am EST
    by George Sand

  • LR health care executive considering run against Sen. Pryor

    I am sure Mr. Formicola can count, then again maybe not. He simply needs to pull up the voter turnout on February 5th and he would see that the Democratic vote was almost 2 to 1 in Arkansas. For now, a Republican (especially one from the “health care industry”) could [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2008, 1:48am EST
    by George Sand

  • If Obama is passion, Clinton is bread and butter

    Frank Rich asks who do you want leading our country and seasoned counts. [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2008, 7:56am EST
    by George Sand

  • Obama - Be Careful What You Wish For

    I’ll let Paul Krugman speak here; he says what I’ve been feeling for quite some time. If there is a gun in the house, the Dems will find it and collectively shoot themselves. I wont try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2008, 7:44am EST
    by George Sand

  • When Reality Bites

    Read this - David Brooks, the New York Times employee and resident Republican lap dog talks about how the next President (dem) will fare IF they leave Iraq as promised in the first 12 to 18 months. But what’s more telling here, other than the typical drubbing you can expect [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2008, 7:37am EST
    by George Sand
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