A totally biased and unreasonable list of blogs that I think you might enjoy reading.
Quoth the Redskins’ Philip Daniels:
We’ve all got family members that are not doing so well. Democrats would help them out, but Republicans would help us out.
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I used to be a Republican. I wanted Bush in there. The previous years I’ve been Republican because of what we make, but this year’s a little bit different. I [...]
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How long until a McCain/Palin audience lynches Obama in effigy?
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The LoC’s THOMAS has added permanent URLs for all bills, replacing the URLs of Death that they used to use. These little steps do wonders for open government.
Rep. Virgil Goode has refused to debate challenger Tom Perriello on TV. Fifth District Republican Chair and Goode’s long-time right-hand man Tucker Watkins had committed Goode to a televised debate, but then Goode claimed that NBC-29 should have known better than to accept a commitment from him. Man, has that got to be humiliating for [...]
I have found that I know significantly more than your average joe about the cause of the nation’s financial meltdown. That is wholly attributable to spending one hour listening to “The Giant Pool of Money,” This American Life’s May episode entirely about the topic. I recommend in the strongest possible terms that you listen to [...]
President Bush has hit a 70% disapproval rating, making him the most unpopular president in the history of polling. 53% of those polled believe that Sen. John McCain would move the nation in the same direction that Bush has. The folks who I know who still support Bush seem to do so impishly, figuring that [...]
Forbes.com asks why the bailout will cost $700B:
“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”
It’s like our government is run by dart-throwing monkeys.
(Via John Athayde)
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Halsey Minor says that he’s not, in fact, running for governor. He’d be as terrible a candidate for Virginia governor as I’d be for the fifth congressional district. (I adore the sporadic rumors that I’m going to run against Virgil. Have these people never read a word I’ve written about the race?) And, as Halsey [...]
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What can you say about somebody who says one thing in Philadelphia but another thing in Fairfax?
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I don’t mean to make this an all-video night here at Ye Olde Blog, but Katie Couric’s latest interview with Sarah Palin is just so stunning that I think everybody ought to see it.
Don’t miss the prior night’s interview, either—it’s just as jaw-dropping.
I’m pathologically incapable of witnessing uncomfortable moments. You know how sometimes the local [...]
I thought Jackson was stretching things with his comparison of John McCain’s stunt to Super-Grover, but after watching this video clip, I think it’s pretty hilariously apt.
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I don’t care what your politics are—that’s just funny. (Via Derek Powazek)
Sam Harris, in Newsweek:
What is so unnerving about the candidacy of Sarah Palin is the degree to which she represents—and her supporters celebrate—the joyful marriage of confidence and ignorance. Watching her deny to Gibson that she had ever harbored the slightest doubt about her readiness to take command of the world’s only superpower, one got [...]
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This bullshit* from the McCain campaign about John McCain riding into the Senate and saving the day is kind of stunning. It’s somewhere between hilarious and frightening—frightening insofar as anybody actually believes that McCain is some kind of a superhero who will swoope to the rescue of the helpless Congress, saving the planet from the [...]
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I just got a fundraising mass e-mail on behalf of Mark Warner from Jason Alexander, complete with “serenity now” and “summer of George” jokes. Really? George Costanza? With Warner up by by 40%, or wherever he’s at these days, this sort of thing seems unnecessary.
This bailout bill debate could be really bad for Joe Biden and, be extension, Obama. If talk turns to helping out struggling homeowners, and not just CEOs, it’s only a matter of time until somebody points out that Biden is responsible for their inability to declare bankruptcy.
I maintain that Sarah Palin was a terrible, terrible pick for VP. The three interviews that she’s dared participate in since her nomination have shown her as a naif, looking every bit the deer in the headlights, utterly unqualified to run a company, to say nothing of the country. Her scandals keep getting deeper and [...]
Is it possible that one of the most radically-right governments in ages is advocating one of the biggest step towards socialism that this country has taken in generations? President Bush has nationalized the nation’s largest mortgage provider and insurance company. (For contrast, imagine President Obama demanding that Congress approve the government take over and nationalize [...]
For the record, I think this financial bailout plan is scary and probably trouble. I have no patience for this business of giving unchecked power to the executive branch—I don’t care who wins this election. The rapidity with which this plan and this bill were put together makes me suspicious, in the same way that [...]
Reader FW writes:
I was curious about the stock market’s performance during the Clinton era vs the Bush era so I looked up historical Dow Jones Industrial Average data. I thought you might be interested in the results.
11/02/92 - Last market close before 1992 election 3262.21
11/06/00 - Last market close before 2000 election 10977.21
09/17/08 [...]