That about sums it up for me.
[...]edited by: Judy Aron,
Connecticut Editor
That about sums it up for me.
[...]Heading to Yankee Stadium tonight for game two of the world series – here’s hoping things go better for the Yankees than they did last night.
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Great news for Hartford Whalers fans! Â According to Greg Wyshynski at Yahoo Sports, the recent expiration of the ‘Hartford Whalers’ trademark has paved the way for the NHL to allow the creation of new Whalers apparel as part of their ‘Vintage Hockey Program.’
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And so I said, "Housing boom?! What Irish housing boom?!"
Leave a comment with a possible caption for this touching moment captured between Vice President Joe Biden and embattled Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd during a recent trip to the nutmeg state.
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Gmail is now a trending topic on Twitter as news of today’s outage spreads.  For a company that aims to “organize the world’s information” I’ve been surprised at their lack of transparency in situations like this in the past.  While I realize they’ve kept Gmail in perpetual [...]
Easily my favorite online fund raising appeal of the 2008 cycle was this video promoting an event with Rep. Bob Inglis of South Carolina.
[...]Senator Lieberman sounds skeptical that a ‘public option’ for health care is the right approach.
With Al Franken declared the winner in Minnesota the Democrats may claim 60 seats in the Senate, but with disagreements like this its going to be difficult for them to effectively exercise the control of a [...]
The RNC is out with a new video exploring one aspect of the heath care debate that Democrats haven’t been too keen on discussing in much detail; how they’re going to pay for it all. The short answer is “revenue raisers” easily one of my favorite political euphemisms.
In something of [...]
Nearly as fast as yesterday’s tragedy at the Holocaust Memorial Museum could unfold here in Washington, DC came attempts to label the perpetrator within our left/right political spectrum. The obvious problem with this is that the individual in question is himself far outside the mainstream of politics in America. His [...]
In Connecticut at least, where Quinnipiac’s latest poll on baseball loyalities finds that 42% of Nutmeggers are Yankees fans compared to 38% who support the Red Sox. My siblings will not be pleased. No doubt they expected last year’s unprecedented result (41% Red [...]
I sure would like a new computer too.
[...]Always good to see the General Assembly getting coverage in a national publication like Election Journal. Particularly when its someone from my neck of the woods like Rep. Sean Williams of Watertown.
[...]While I continue putting the final touches on the post 2008 election relaunch of the site take a moment to enjoy U2 playing “Magnificent” off their new album live on the BBC’s London rooftop.
[...]With an expanded majority in the 111th Congress Speaker Pelosi has decided to revisit a fight she lost in May of 2007.
At the time it was only a few months into the new Congress, but Democrats had become frustrated with the Republicans success in forcing votes on tough issues. Unable [...]
You may recall former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney for a much publicized incident in 2006 where she assaulted a U.S. Capitol Police officer who attempted to verify her identity as she entered the Longworth House Office Building. Of course as her lawyer described it the Congresswoman was, “just a victim [...]
Apparently, former Connecticut Governor John Rowland was recently on the Mike Huckabee Show discussing corruption in politics. I still keep a picture I had taken with the man at a fundraiser years ago as a reminder that people can violate your trust. His children were a few years behind me [...]
I was briefly considering ditching the Whaler’s logo that I use on most social networking sites in favor of everyone’s favorite Muppet ‘Sam the Eagle’ when I came across this video.
While I ultimately decided to stay with my Connecticut centric branding (although it’s possible I’m the only person that sees [...]
This morning I noticed that both the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post included pieces devoted to the increasingly popular microblogging platform Twitter. So allow me to join the growing chorus and take this as a sign that that Twitter has in fact gone mainstream.
Even though I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, I’m still as skeptical of President-Elect Obama as the next Republican. However, I think we need to take a hard line when our people go off the reservation and wander into conspiracy theory territory. Rep. Paul Broun of [...]
It has been a long and frustrating evening as I’ve watched my hopes for a McCain victory evaporate. Having first voted for John McCain for President back in 2000 as a write in candidate when casting my first ballot at the age of eighteen, tonight’s loss is particularly heartbreaking. What’s [...]
This is an excellent example, albeit an extreme one, of the unrealistic expectations I believe many Obama supporters have been harboring. They’re setting themselves up to be let down when hope and change don’t fall from the sky like manna from heaven on November 5th.
HatTip: DrudgeReport
[...]Very curious to see if anyone releases a longer clip because as it is this comes off as a half-baked idea at best. What on earth would a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just a strong, just as well funded as our armed forces look like [...]
This is just awesome, he should really make a run for the Senate.
[...]McCain should have never taken Rev. Wright off the table. In our hyper-charged political environment this was never going to be a respectful campaign, and besides that Wright is the jumping off point for many legitimate questions about Obama’s judgment and beliefs.
For all his instant celebrity, we [...]
Loss Souls, A Day of Reckoning Dawns for Denizens of Hedge-Fund Heaven reads the headline in the business section of today’s Washington Post. This lovely tale takes the reader on a journey through all the stereotypes of Fairfield Country including its obnoxious wealth, its McMansions, the unrepentant greed of [...]
As the saying goes ‘a stopped clock is right twice a day’ and thus I bring you an editorial form today’s New York Times.
After reports emerged in June about him having received favorable treatment on two home mortgages from the Countrywide Financial Corporation, Senator Christopher Dodd, a Democrat from [...]
As we await this evening’s Presidential Debate in Nashville let’s take a moment to reflect on the affect last weeks Vice Presidential Debate has had on the race.
In the weeks leading up to the VP Debate there were three broad issues consuming the coverage and discussion of the campaign.
I get something of a ‘28 Days Later‘ vibe off this latest ad from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) which attempts to explain the cause of the recent economic crisis that culminated today with H.R. 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 being signed into [...]
I’d say the debate was a success in that neither candidate did any substantial harm to their respective tickets. Biden did a surprisingly good job at keeping it curt, and despite an uncertain start Palin held her own. In fact given the conventional wisdom before [...]
Nothing like excoriating the opposition right before a controversial vote that requires their support to pass. The bailout was going to be a bitter pill in the best of cicumstances, but with Speaker Pelosi casting blame for the finacial crisis squarely on the GOP she certaintly didn’t encourage a bipartisan [...]
Senator McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign and return to Washington, DC in light of the current deadlock in Congress over a response to the economic crisis is simply unprecedented. While I realize that it may be met with skepticism and and derision by some it is clearly in keeping [...]
As a Nutmegger, I was glad to read the news that Barack Obama finally found something to keep Senator Dodd busy. Apparently, he’s been moping around with nothing to do but buy real estate in Ireland since ending his quixotic campaign for the presidency back in January. Hopefully, he [...]
At first I assumed that the Obama campaign’s initial response to the Sarah Palin announcement, one press release attacking while another offered warm congratulations, was simply the result of a rough morning after the late night festivities at Invesco Field. However, it’s quickly become clear that this wasn’t [...]
Looking forward to Rudy Giuliani’s speech to the Republican National Convention tonight.
HatTip: WAGOP.
[...]I’ve never had much respect for Keith Olbermann whose rants against the President I’ve always found grating and out of place on a news program, however if a Politico article outlining tensions at MSNBC is accurate I may need to start looking at Chris Matthews in a similar [...]
Maybe, but apparently Chris Matthews is still on the Barack Obama ‘love boat’ as he seemingly ignores Andrea Mitchell’s concerns about the lack of media access on the Afghanistan and Iraq legs of his overseas trip in this clip from BreitbartTV.
[...]Why would John McCain want your infant? Oh right, you’re still running with that ‘100 years of war’ argument where you take the senator out of context and accuse him of being some sort of wild eyed character straight out of Apocalypse Now. We don’t have a draft; no [...]
It all started with this exchange on the Today Show where Senator McCain reiterated his stance that it is casualties, not the deployment of troops, that upsets the American people.
A snippet of this exchange began making the rounds, rather disingenuously supporting the Obama campaign’s argument that Senator McCain [...]
You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt. You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s [...]
with this disingenuous ad from Florida Democrats? I’m with McCain, taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize those who want to live on expensive beach front property. Which is what a national catastrophic fund would do.
Furthermore, John McCain is not out of touch for highlighting his opposition to this legislation while in Florida. On [...]
