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How About A Shout-Out To The People of Venezuela?

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:55am

There still is time to input new text into the teleprompter for tonight’s State of the Union address.

After throwing the Venezuelan people under the bus at the Summit of the Americas last April, now would be a good time for Barack Obama to give the people of Venezuela support as Hugo...

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Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 9:33am

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! (h/t daily timewaster via Daily Telepgraph):

Rescued eight years ago during a police drugs raid in Atlanta, Georgia, the three friends were only cubs at the time and barely two months old.

They had been kept as status symbol pets by the drug barons.

Delivered...

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NY Times New Business Strategy: NObama

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 7:31am

I’m actually enjoying reading NY Times columnists these days. The wonders never cease, this time from MoDo:

The New One is the shimmering vessel that we are pouring all our hopes and dreams into after the grave disappointment of the Last One, Barack Obama.

The only question left is: Why isn’t Scott Brown...

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Wake Me When It’s Over

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 9:01pm

We had Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

They now have the doofus triplets committing the sin of felony all over Mary Landrieu’s phone.

Thanks for giving comfort to the enemies of my enemies who therefore are my friends, just when they had nothing to look forward to except the faint glow of reconciliation...

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Why Is Paul Kirk Still Voting?

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 2:40pm

From Hotline On-Call (h/t):

Aides to Sens. Paul Kirk (D-MA) and Kay Hagan (D-NC) tell Hotline OnCall they will vote for Bernanke’s confirmation.

There is an elected and qualified successor to Paul Kirk. His name is Scott Brown. Martha Coakley has conceded...

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CBO: Stimulus Plan On Target To Increase Deficits

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 11:28am

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), commonly called the Stimulus Plan, is widely discredited as having done little to stimulate private sector job growth.

But one thing the Stimulus Plan has created is long-term deficits. The Congressional Budget Office just released a budget report which analyzes (at page 95...

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Where Have You Gone, Obamamania?

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 10:16am

Look who is asking, Who Is Barack Obama?

Americans are still looking for the answer, and if they don’t get it soon — or if they don’t like the answer — the president’s current political problems will look like a walk in the park….

Mr. Obama is in danger of being perceived as...

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Depends On The Meaning Of “Really Good”

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Posted by    Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 7:00am

We can agree on the one-term thing; the “really good” part we’ll have to talk about.
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A Special Guest At SOTU?

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Posted by    Monday, January 25, 2010 at 8:41pm

I’ve been preoccupied the past few weeks, so I have not followed closely enough the end of the saga in Honduras.

Manuel Zelaya, the one-term President of Honduras who wanted to be the forever-term President, will be leaving the country very soon:

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will end his four-month refuge in...
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The Transparency President Now Feels Your Pain

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Posted by    Monday, January 25, 2010 at 3:07pm

The transparency President is now the President who feels your pain.

According to the NY Times, in the State of the Union address Obama will unveil some highly targeted tax credits aimed at families, and some caps on student loan repayments:

By focusing on what one White House official calls “the sandwich generation”...
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Dems’ Strategy of Crazy

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Posted by    Monday, January 25, 2010 at 6:54am

What would one call a political strategy which depended upon portraying the majority of Americans as crazy extremists? The answer is: The current Democratic Party strategy which ignores the meaning of the Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts races, and focuses on smearing opponents as extremists and “Bir...

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Please Tell Me This Is Not So, Please

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Posted by    Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 7:01pm

Via Jammie Wearing Fool, Obama Needs TelePrompter to Talk to Schoolkids:


No matter what I have said in the past, I want this to be a bad PhotoShop. Honestly.

Update 1-26-1020: It’s kinda so, but not completely. Read the comments.

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Get Out of the Way While We Clean Up Your ObaMess

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Posted by    Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 6:33pm

I really have very little patience for the “oh, I didn’t realize what I was getting with Obama, he seemed so cool, and I was caught up in the hype, and now I realize that he talked a good game but doesn’t know what he’s doing, and I’m so smart and...

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Warning: This Politico Story Has Nothing To Do With Reality

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Posted by    Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 1:44pm

My new favorite source of screen shots has outdone itself, with this post and headline The first senator of the reality show era:


The text of the Politico post has nothing to do with...

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What Don’t You Understand About The Internet

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Posted by    Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 1:32pm

In order to justify China’s crackdown on free speech on the internet, including banning YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, a Chinese communist newspaper posed this question:

The People’s Daily editorial asked rhetoric...
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