Wall Street Journal celebrates Tea Party victory over Obama

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Monday August 01, 2011 · 10:53 AM PDT

2011/08/01 · 10:53

Just in case anyone still thought they could credibly spin this as anything other than a big victory for the far right and an embarrassment for Obama, here is Murdoch's Wall Street Journal doing a victory dance for the debt-ceiling deal:

A Tea Party Triumph

If the cuts hold, this would go some way to erasing the fiscal damage from the Obama-Nancy Pelosi stimulus. This is no small achievement considering that Republicans control neither the Senate nor the White House, and it underscores how much the GOP victory in November has reshaped the U.S. fiscal debate.
No wonder liberals are howling. They have come to believe in the upward spending ratchet, under which all spending increases are permanent. Not any more.

Of course they are celebrating. They are gloating because they somehow got a huge win for their side even though "Republicans control neither the Senate nor the White House".

Former Secretary of Labor (and current UC-Berkeley professor) Robert Reich hit the nail on the head:

The radical right has won a huge tactical and strategic victory. Democrats have proven they have no tactics and no strategy.

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 11:12 AM PDT

2008/10/29 · 11:12

Are you bleeping kidding me, CNN?

Could you be any more in the tank for McCain than this?

A free hour for McCain to respond to the paid Obama ad that you refused to let Obama buy?

From the cnn.com front page:

McCain's Next Stop

John McCain! Fighting an uphill battle for the presidency. What he has to say following Barack Obama's paid television address. Don't miss Larry King, tonight 9 p.m. ET

Link to "Larry King" page on cnn.com

That's right: Not only is CNN giving McCain an hour for free tonight, on its most-watched program, but CNN refused to air Obama's half-hour ad even though Obama is paying for it.

Really. Follow me below the jump.

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CNN: Is it any better than Fox News Channel?

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CNN: Is it any better than Fox News Channel?

CNN and Faux News are peas in a pod.

248 votes

Of course! CNN is good, honest journalism!

38 votes

CNN is bad, but not as bad as Fox and the rest of Murdoch's propaganda empire.

499 votes

At least Fox is honestly conservative. CNN lacks the courage to be honest about it.

576 votes

Klein: McCain is "the standard bearer of a failed ideology"

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 9:22 AM PDT

2008/09/05 · 09:22

Joe Klein's take on McCain's convention speech hits the mark by focusing on the disconnect between McCain's rhetoric and the reality of his record and the Republican record.

... he figures that the only way the country will elect a Republican after eight years of scandal and stupidity is to promise a completely different Republican party.

. . .

But there was little in this speech that indicated that he had any idea how to do that besides relying on his fierce sense of righteousness. And the Republican Party is what it is: an overwhelmingly Caucasian group of people — 93% of the delegates were white — who cheer more vociferously for tax cuts than they do for country.

This is the kind of reality check that the "traditional media" needs to deliver far more often, instead of just regurgitating today's GOP message without pointing out that it contradicts yesterday's GOP message.

(More after the jump.)

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So what did you think of McCain's RNC speech?

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So what did you think of McCain's RNC speech?

He made a strong case for his campaign that will move undecided voters to him.

0 votes

Ehhh. At least he didn't hurt his chances.

13 votes

He drove voters away from his campaign.

24 votes

That's not change. That's more of the same.

83 votes

A running mate he can trust

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Wednesday August 20, 2008 · 8:47 PM PDT

2008/08/20 · 20:47

OMG, not another Veep Diary!

Yeah, I know, nobody asked me, but...

... if I have to guess -- and like each of the 122,381 other Kossacks (approximate calculation) who have opined on this subject, I do have to guess -- I'm going with the same line of reasoning that Marc Ambinder mentioned yesterday in this post on his blog.

Ambinder relates some advice that John Kerry gave Obama about choosing a running mate:

Choose someone, he told Obama, that you trust completely. Don't expect the process to build trust. Don't choose someone with the expectation that you'll develop a trust.

No surprise there. It's no secret that Kerry was disappointed by John Edwards' performance as a running mate.

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Senator Obama's running mate will be...

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Senator Obama's running mate will be...

Governor Kaine

16 votes

Senator Reed

13 votes

Governor Sebelius

25 votes

Someone out of the blue that no one has been talking about

32 votes

Someone whom Obama doesn't trust

11 votes

Clinton donor helps China crack down on Tibet

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Sunday April 13, 2008 · 1:44 AM PDT

2008/04/13 · 01:44

The L.A. Times uncovers yet another sleazy donor to the Clinton Foundation.

This one, Alibaba Inc., is a Chinese internet company that is helping the Communist government to crack down on Tibetan activists.

Last month, the firm, Alibaba Inc., carried a government-issued "most wanted" posting on its Yahoo China homepage, urging viewers to provide information on Tibetan activists suspected of stirring recent riots.

Alibaba, which took over Yahoo's China operation in 2005 as part of a billion-dollar deal with the U.S.-based search engine, arranged for the former president to speak to a conference of Internet executives in Hangzhou in September 2005. Instead of taking his standard speaking fees, which have ranged from $100,000 to $400,000, Clinton accepted an unspecified private donation from Alibaba to his international charity, the William J. Clinton Foundation.

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Tuesday December 05, 2006 · 6:50 PM PST

2006/12/05 · 18:50

On November 4, 2006, the Saturday before Election Day, I wrote this diary in which I said

Gas prices are about to start going up, right after the election

. . .

Gasoline prices have fallen suspiciously far in the months prior to the election, following a wave of public discontent over obscenely high prices that corresponded with a free fall in GOP politicians' popularity.

So, how are we doing at the gas pump today?

If you drive a car, you know the answer: Only four weeks after the election, with no need to keep the prices down and the voters less angry at the GOP, we are already paying 10 to 20 cents per gallon more for gasoline than we were paying the weekend before the 2006 election.

Some statistics after the flip.

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The recent gasoline price fluctuations are due to

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The recent gasoline price fluctuations are due to

Free-market forces in action

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Jittery market-makers worried about an out-of-control Middle East

8 votes

Election-related manipulation by GOP-friendly oil companies

151 votes

Fluctuations in the price of PIE

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Gas price manipulation: Prices going up right after election

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Saturday November 04, 2006 · 1:38 PM PST

2006/11/04 · 13:38

We all know that gas prices have come down suspiciously in the months before the election. The average per-gallon price in most U.S. markets is today about a dollar below where it was in early August.

Have the oil companies been pushing prices down before the election as a favor to their GOP friends, to try and put a damper on anti-GOP voter sentiment?

Gas prices are about to start going up, right after the election:

Pump prices set to take off

The price of gasoline available to unbranded retailers rose sharply this week, prompting predictions that the long cycle of declining pump prices is ending.
Since Monday, the spot gasoline price for unbranded retailers in San Diego County has jumped about 20 cents a gallon, a dramatic increase even in an industry increasingly accustomed to volatility. The increase pushed the regional wholesale spot price to about $1.82 per gallon.
The spike has renewed suspicions among consumer groups that refiners held prices in check to defuse gasoline costs as an election issue, a contention vehemently denied by a national refiners trade group.

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Friday November 03, 2006 · 12:36 PM PST

2006/11/03 · 12:36

Got your tin foil hat on?

San Diego runs short of absentee ballots

Unusually high demand and a printing order that wasn't filled fast enough caused the San Diego County Registrar of Voters to run short of absentee ballots this week. About 5,000 photocopies were mailed out instead, said Registrar of Voters Mikel Haas.

Trust us, they say, we will copy your vote onto a real ballot and count it later!

When those ballots are returned, registrar's employees will copy voters' choices by hand onto regular card stock ballots that can be run through the optical scanners that count the votes.

And who is responsible for this snafu, you ask?

Our "friends" at Diebold, the same wonderful people behind the questionable electronic-voting machines that Election Day voters will use in San Diego County.

Haas said the ballots were to be printed by Diebold, the same company that makes the electronic touchscreen machines that will be used Tuesday. Diebold officials told him there had been problems with the printing press operation, Haas said.

Hillary Clinton SMACKS DOWN Condo-liar Rice

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Wednesday September 27, 2006 · 12:06 AM PDT

2006/09/27 · 00:06

Woo hoo! On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton delivered a forceful rebuttal to the lies that Condi Rice spouted about the Bushies and their (in)attention to terrorism before 9/11.

In unusually blunt terms, Senator Clinton questioned the current administration's response to an intelligence briefing President Bush received about a month before the 9/11 attacks. It mentioned that Al Qaeda was intent on striking the United States using hijacked planes.
"I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled `Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States,' he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team," she said during an appearance on Capitol Hill.

Yes! That's the message! Clinton tried; Bush didn't try.

"I think my husband did a great job in demonstrating that Democrats are not going to take these attacks," she said.

But wait, there's more! Read More

CA-50: Bilbray running anti-Busby push poll? I scared them away.

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Wednesday September 13, 2006 · 8:22 PM PDT

2006/09/13 · 20:22

A few minutes ago, I scared away a push-poller.

I was at home, my family and I had just finished dinner, when the phone rang. We live in CA-50, where Francine Busby is the Democratic nominee against GOP lobbyist Brian Bilbray, who is now the incumbent after winning a special election in June to replaced now-convicted Republican felon and federal prison inmate Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

The caller ID said the call was coming from 1-801-623-4628.

I answered the phone, and the caller, obviously calling from a call center, asked to speak to "the male in the household who is a registered voter". Since that would be me, I said so.

After the caller confirmed that I was likely to vote in the November election, I asked who she was calling on behalf of. She said she was calling on behalf of The Tarrance Group.

More after the flip. Read More

Echo of Vietnam: Iraqis Loot Base As British Troops Leave

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Friday August 25, 2006 · 9:04 PM PDT

2006/08/25 · 21:04

A Vietnam parallel slapped me in the face as I read about what happened when British troops vacated an Iraqi military base on Friday.

AMARAH, Iraq - Iraqis looted a military base vacated by British troops and stripped it of virtually everything removable on Friday, an indication of possible future trouble for U.S.-led coalition forces hoping to hand over security gradually to the Iraqi government.
Men, some with their faces covered, ripped corrugated metal from roofs, carried off metal pipes and backed trucks into building entrances to load them with wooden planks. Many also took away doors and window frames from Camp Abu Naji.
"The British forces left Abu Naji, and the locals started looting everything," 1st Lt. Rifaat Taha Yaseen of the Iraqi Army's 10th Division told Associated Press Television News. "They took everything from the buildings."

In the words of Yogi Berra: It's like deja vu all over again. Read More

Demonstrators picket "Duke" Cunningham's luxury home

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Saturday June 18, 2005 · 5:42 AM PDT

2005/06/18 · 05:42

The latest in the saga of Republican congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham and the graft he has taken from his benefactor, defense contractor Mitchell Wade: About two dozen demonstrators gathered outside Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's gated driveway Friday to protest his real-estate dealings with a defense contractor that they dubbed "Mansiongate."

The group chanted slogans and waved homemade signs that accused Cunningham of profiting from the war in Iraq and claiming his vote was for sale. They asked for Cunningham to disclose his financial transactions involving the defense contractor, MZM Inc., and some called for his ouster.

Many of the demonstrators linked their concerns about Cunningham's transaction with a defense contractor to the war in Iraq. Rodney Galloway of Ramona said he attended the noontime rally because he supports pulling the troops out of Iraq and to protest Cunningham's conduct.

More after the flip about "Duke" stuffing his pockets while diverting millions of dollars to his defense-contractor buddy. Read More

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