Posts from ‘November, 2008’

Quote: “I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. . .”

What happened at that Wal-Mart was the triumph of bad upbringing — meanness, selfishness and complete lack of self-discipline — over all that is humane, decent and civilized.

Here’s wishing all who pass this way the best of Thanksgiving holidays.
May you count your blessings, and may you have many, many of them to count.
May your feast be sumptuous, those gathered for it cordial, your leftovers manageable and your weight gain minimal.
May your favorite teams win in exciting games. May you get [...]

What congressional leaders like Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., are talking about is a bailout loan to be repaid with interest, not a giveaway. What’s more, the loan will come with plenty of hard-nosed conditions, including no dividends, no huge bonuses and a certain measure of austerity for trustees and top executives.

Republicans aren’t just innocent victims of an election-year downturn in the business cycle. They’ve been cruising for a bruising for decades.

Sen. Ted Stevens, recently convicted on seven felony counts, has lost his re-election bid today — his 85th birthday.

Senate Democrats voted today to remove Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., from the Environment and Public Works Committee, costing him the chairmanship of a subcommittee.
The Senate Democratic Caucus could hardly have given the disloyal, selfish Lieberman a lighter penalty for having repeatedly voted against his party on Iraq, echoing Republican demagoguery about not supporting the troops [...]

S en. Joe “Turncoat” Lieberman is scheduled to speak tomorrow at a closed-door meeting of the Senate Democratic Caucus, explaining his despicable behavior during the presidential campaign.
Lieberman actively campaigned for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain. At the Republican convention, to the cheers of chickenhawk extremists, Lieberman savaged Barack Obama as being incapable of leading [...]

Pawlenty is either as poorly informed as his Alaska counterpart or — and this seems more likely — he’s deliberately trying to revise history so as to spread the blame onto Democrats, while simultaneously disappearing the first balanced budgets and budget surpluses in nearly a half century.

Only one Republican we know of, to his great credit then, joined in condemning Chambliss’ ad, calling it “worse than disgraceful” and “reprehensible.” That was Sen. John McCain. Does Chambliss, now destined for a Dec. 2 runoff with his Democratic challenger, Jim Martin, regret this 2002 attack ad?