Random, Insane Rants

• Is anyone else sick of seeing Joe the Plumber talk all day about Joe the Plumber while politicians fawn over Joe the Plumber?

  Really. [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 7:40pm EST
  

• Stimulus Away

  It's almost certain that the White House had this timed to coincide with the signing of the stimulus bill by President Obama, but it is refreshing to see at least one promise project actually underway.
  
  Associated Press
  
  Mo. bridge project touted as first under stimulus
  
  TUSCUMBIA,' [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2009, 8:17pm EST
  

• Obama Hates Struggling Americans!

  If it hasn't been used already, some partisan hack will use it eventually.
  
  But it is funny, that, with the rush to pass the compromise stimulus bill through Congress on Friday, President Obama will not sign it into law until tomorrow.
  
  From The Business Review:
  
  President' [...]
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  Posted: February 16, 2009, 8:08pm EST
  

• Future Generations to US Leadership: Thanks a Trillion

  Whether one thinks the stimulus package is urgently needed or not, there should have been a little extra time for Congress, and the public, to review the bill as it came out of conference committee. No matter how many "shovel-ready" projects and immediate tax cuts there may be, they will [...]
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  Posted: February 14, 2009, 1:52am EST
  

• The Race for in the White House

  Whatever one may think about Barack Obama's decision to address the nation on race in the United States, there is no disputing that such an action had to be done. Throughout the whole campaign, the issue of race was ever present, albeit not on center stage, until his pastor's [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 6:38pm EDT
  

• We Paid $42 Million and All We Got Was This Lousy Letter

  The government has some fantastic news but the only way to tell you that is to spend $42 million to mail out letters to 130 million households. These letters tell you that the fantastic economy stimulus checks that will be arriving right to your door will be arriving not [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2008, 9:31pm EDT
  

• Resolving the Democrats' Primary Problem

  The national Democratic Party carried out its threat to strip the delegates of any states that moved their primaries ahead of any of the four approved contests for January. Michigan and Florida tested those waters and the national party acted. The Republican Party, for their part, will accept only half [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2008, 11:10pm EDT
  

• A Disgrace in the Senate

  The Senate voted overwhelmingly against a proposed moratorium on earmarks for the 2009 budget. It wasn't even close. Seventy-one senators voted against versus twenty-nine that voted for the one-year ban.
  
  If we cannot get the Senate to give up their pork barrel projects for even one year, what' [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2008, 2:56pm EDT
  

• A Perfect Plan for 2010?

  The conventional wisdom states that Lieutenant Governor, and, on Monday, New York Governor David Paterson was betting on a Hillary Clinton administration starting in 2009, thus paving the way for Eliot Spitzer to appoint him to the vacancy in the United States Senate.
  
  Although the chances of Mrs. Clinton [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2008, 7:33pm EDT
  

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  Suddenly there was a flashback to an earlier time.
  
  At this time, there is still no announcement on Governor Spitzer's plans to either resign or fight it out. The Republicans are seeking to put pressure on him' [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2008, 1:59pm EDT
  

• Eliot Spitzer's Ruined Governorship

  Only fifteen months after he rode a wave of public support as the Sheriff of Wall Street to change Albany for the better on "Day One" as the newly-elected Governor, Eliot Spitzer has fallen so far, so quickly.
  
  The latest scandal broke today, as he admitted his link [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2008, 5:20pm EDT
  

• Why I Hate Iowa

  His biggest pitch to supporters: Be sure to vote, and get others out there with you. "Call your friends," Romney said. "Get 'em out to the caucuses and make that difference. People are going to be listening to what Iowa has to say."
  
  "I'd like to win them," Romney [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 4:20pm EST
  

• The Partisanship Trap

  Throughout this decade, there has been much coverage of the intense partisan fights that have become the standard in Washington, D.C. and in many other places throughout the country. As nearly every single issue becomes a political football for politicians to fight over, observers wonder what happened to those "good" [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2007, 10:38pm EDT
  

• The Electoral Vote Scheme that Lets State Legislatures Decide the Presidency

  An effort underway in California would change the way that state would pick its choice for President. The plan would be to scrap the current system that awards all 55 of California's electoral votes to the statewide winner to a system where the winner in each of the state's [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2007, 9:00pm EDT
  

• The Campaign for President of 9/11 is Underway

  Much has been made about Rudy Giuliani's blatant use of the September 11th attacks in his campaign for the Republican nomination for President. Giuliani has thrown around 9/11 so many times that the satire that is The Onion declared "Giuliani To Run For President of 9/11."
  
  Yet it' [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2007, 1:11am EDT
  

• The September 11th Decision: Why a Rebroadcast Should Not be Aired (Plus an Open Rant on Our Behavior)

  
  
  The sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001 is upon us. Once again, those that were impacted through loss and/or those in the areas near where the attacks took place will have to remember the day and try [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2007, 12:27am EDT
  

• Bloomberg's Counting

  Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) once again rejected any notions that he would run for the presidency in 2008. As reported in The Hill, Bloomberg again laid out his publicized plan to remain mayor of New York City until December 31, 2009, when the term ends, then start his journey [...]
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  Posted: August 01, 2007, 2:08am EDT
  

• A Foreign Policy Blunder by Barack Obama

  Perhaps one additional positive outcome from the Democratic CNN/YouTube debate on Monday night is the battle between the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama camps regarding the answers that each candidate gave in response to a question asking them if they would meet with the leaders of countries such as [...]
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  Posted: July 26, 2007, 5:43pm EDT
  

• Can a Person Really Sue For This?

  Not long after the Con Edison steam pipe explosion at Lexington Avenue and East 41st Street, the New York Post reports that a woman "filed a $400,000 negligence suit against Con Ed yesterday, saying she thought she was going to die - the way her sister did on 9/11."
  [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2007, 3:09pm EDT
  

• CNN's YouTube Debate: A Mockery of Democracy? Part III

  So now that the actual format of the CNN/YouTube debate has been beaten around in talk shows and on the Internet in the hours since, how did the candidates take advantage of this new format? Did they use this opportunity to make themselves seem more accessible, more down-to-earth?
  
  Well, [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2007, 1:10pm EDT
  

• CNN's YouTube Debate: A Mockery of Democracy? Part II

  The CNN/YouTube debate between the Democratic candidates for President has ended and more important than analyzing whether there might be a change in the horse race was the performance given by CNN and YouTube for this new format of debate.
  
  The CNN/YouTube format will have another chance to redeem [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2007, 12:20am EDT
  

• CNN's YouTube Debate: A Mockery of Democracy?

  The eight Democrats currently running for the party's nomination for President meet tonight in South Carolina for a debate hosted by CNN and YouTube. The biggest draw to this debate, according to CNN and YouTube, is that the questions directed to the candidates will be from your average person, via' [...]
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  Posted: July 23, 2007, 2:51pm EDT
  

• Ethics? Who Needs That? Not Some Democrats

  A couple of key decisions made by Congressional Democrats this week have shed light on where the leadership truly stands on ethics in our government. Though many Democrats campaigned on the case that they would return ethics to Capitol Hill after the Republican leadership had thrown it out, now that [...]
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  Posted: May 25, 2007, 7:10pm EDT
  

• More Insane Questions for Mitt Romney

  Because reporting on the sexual history of Mitt Romney's ancestors and the polygamist fundamentalists that are no longer part of the Mormon church then tacking on those sins to Romney while boldly asking the American public "Given that his ancestors were polygamists, is America ready for Mormon Mitt Romney'" [...]
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  Posted: May 25, 2007, 5:35pm EDT
  

• Soldiers Asked to Pinch Pennies While Serving Our Country

  Although this country has suffered multiple years with hundreds of billions of dollars of deficits adding to our debt burden, a modest request for a pay raise for our soldiers is simply a few pennies too much, according to the Bush administration as reported in the Army Times on [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2007, 8:59pm EDT
  

• Romney's Mormonism and You: It Doesn't Matter! Stop the Attacks!

  SALT LAKE CITY - While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon church, the Republican presidential candidate's great-grandfather had five wives and at least one of his great-great grandfathers had 12.

  
  Stop the presses! This is news that will surely affect the country in 2008! Does [...]
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  Posted: February 28, 2007, 6:40pm EST
  

• Sharpton's Blood May Flow Through the Prominent Dixiecrat

  Fairly humorous but at the same time deals a stark reminder to the legacy of slavery in this country, Al Sharptongue may be a distant relative of the late longtime Senator, Dixiecrat, and fierce defender of segregation with a sharp tongue of his own, Strom Thurmond.
  
  Although this [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2007, 2:07pm EST
  

• Ten Months Before Primary Season, A Candidate Becomes a Casualty

  With over ten months before the Iowa caucuses kick off the 2008 presidential primary season, the campaign of former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack (D) has already been claimed.
  
  Vilsack attributes the end of his campaign for President solely to one cause: a lack of money.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2007, 11:01am EST
  

• The Urge to Ban Takes the State Senate by Storm

  In the latest installment of absolutely stupid laws that make a person laugh hysterically until he/she realizes that these legislators are serious, a bill was introduced into the New York State Senate that, according to the title, will prohibit "the use or sale of hubcaps which contain parts designed to [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2007, 8:34am EST
  

• The 110th Congress is Now in Session

  Yesterday, the Democrats took their position as the controllers of both houses of Congress. The first item on the agenda for the House was to elect the new Speaker of the House. As expected, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was elected as the first woman Speaker in the history of the [...]
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  Posted: January 05, 2007, 1:20pm EST
  

• An Early Disappointment

  It does not come as much of a shock to learn this, but perhaps that fact alone is proof of how far quality has slipped at Capitol Hill. Reported in yesterday's Washington Post (free login may be required) by Lyndsey Layton and Juliet Eilperin (who wrote about the collapse [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2007, 1:47pm EST
  

• Eliot Spitzer's Day One Address

  Yesterday marked the first day for the Eliot Spitzer administration in New York State. Anticipation has been growing for the day and the Spitzer team has helped the hype grow as throughout the campaign as well as the months leading up to the inauguration, they promised that on "Day One, [...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2007, 11:32am EST
  

• 2006: The Ending, the Beginning, and the Continuing

  It is interesting to take note of where things stand now compared to where it was one year ago, when my 2005 year-end post was written. Some things were predictable and went on as planned. Other things have since come and delievered us surprises that not one person could [...]
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  Posted: December 31, 2006, 6:09pm EST
  

• What's Under the Tree?

  Many gifts were exchanged throughout the country as millions of people celebrated this holiday season. Many of these people, either due to conflicts in schedules or just because they felt like it, exchanged those gifts early. Politicians and other important figures are no exception. Sorry, some of the gifts are [...]
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  Posted: December 30, 2006, 10:31am EST
  

• President Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006)

  The 38th President of the United States, Gerald Rudolph Ford, passed away on Tuesday, December 26, 2006. He was 93.
  
  Ford was, to date, the only person to have served as President without having been elected as President or Vice President. His path to the top of the executive [...]
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  Posted: December 27, 2006, 8:48am EST
  

• Merry War on Christmas!

  Belated it may be but the greetings and well wishes of the season should always be welcome. Therefore, hopefully everyone has had, or continues to have, a very Merry Christmas, a very Happy Chanukah, and/or a very wonderful holiday season.
  
  Whether one is on the side of Bill [...]
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  Posted: December 27, 2006, 7:48am EST