Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

If you watched the Tuesday, Dec. 2, “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” on MSNBC, you saw Newsweek senior Washington correspondent Howard Fineman make a remarkable statement . . .

We’ve been on hold the past couple of days — watching, waiting, anxious and hopeful.
Results are starting to trickle in: Georgia, 15 electoral votes, goes for McCain, no surprise. But in Florida, the Tampa region is strong for Obama, a good omen.
And in North Carolina, NBC says, Democrat Kay Hagen has beaten Republican one-term Sen. [...]

The short of David Frum’s Washington Post op ed is that the GOP should abandon McCain and Palin’s botched campaign, concentrating instead on holding enough Senate seats to hobble Democrats.

“She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials. You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.
. . .”I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, ‘I look out my window and [...]

We once had a car radio that got terrific reception and sounded great, except when it went staticky and then cut out, going silent for awhile. That radio came to mind as we read David Brooks’ column, “Why Experience Matters,” today, only what went staticky and cut out was making sense, not audio.

Were Palin to become president, her handlers would make sure White House veterans such as Karl Rove . . . maybe even Dick Cheney were brought back to do the real policy-making and political strategizing. . . .The result would be the worst of the Bush administration reloaded, re-energized and turned loose to do their damnedest again.

“On national security, the Republican Party advocates continuing to force thousands of young Americans to risk life and limb refereeing Iraq’s civil war. Though the party’s slogan hearkens back to conservatives’ ‘America First’ isolationism, the GOP nonetheless supports spending $12 billion a month on the war — money needed at home.
“Same story on economics. In [...]

Gosh, maybe there’s hope after all that the mainstream media will do the right — as opposed to pro-right — thing over the next few weeks. Yes, any more that’s expecting a lot. But today we came across this, from the Associated Press . . .

A couple hours after publishing our previous post, “GOP senators highjack road funds bailout,” we learned the Republican senators blocking an $8 billion infusion of funds into the federal highway trust fund relented, allowing the bill to pass on a voice vote.

States and companies count on a steady flow of federal highway funds raised through an 18.4-cents-per-gallon tax on gasoline. Cut or stop that money and projects stall, and companies can’t pay suppliers. Worse, up to 380,000 workers could go without paychecks . . .