Alberto Gonzales, When You Laugh at Me You Laugh at America

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Thursday August 10, 2006 · 12:43 PM PDT

2006/08/10 · 12:43

GHOST-WRITTEN by William Jefferson Ulysess Pleasanton farmer, low-power AM broadcaster, commentator, friend to some, enemy to...

Gonzo: Now that you are in the news today with this no fluids on the air planes bees-wax, I'm reminded of somethin' that really has been bothering me. Something I've been meaning to say. Something that the Main Street Media wouldn't touch with a ten-foot, something the bloggers ain't fussin around 'bout much. Today, I'm calling you on it.

You are laughing at me. And I know it. Read More

When They Said Sore-Loserman, They Were Half Right!

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Wednesday August 09, 2006 · 8:58 AM PDT

2006/08/09 · 08:58

GHOST-WRITTEN by William Jefferson Ulysess Pleasanton farmer, low-power AM broadcaster, commentator, friend to some, enemy to...

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Boy, Mr. Lieberman that was some speech last night. Speech-fying, I'd say!

Having seen you at yer particular craft in Florida in 2000, Reckon I was surprised to see you contest a free and fair election like that! Gave 'em hell you did, where "em" is defined as all the registered Democratic voters of the state many of 'em who worked their butts off to put you where you was and even tried once to put you in the 2nd highest office in the land!

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Monday August 07, 2006 · 9:54 AM PDT

2006/08/07 · 09:54

ALERT: Gun-jumping ahead. Rabid chicken-before-they're-hatched-counting ahead! Author unable to stop himself. Only you can. You may wish to save this jolly reading for Wed. Morning. No minors, and no actual CT primary voters allowed. Out of state residents only.

All right. I'm not jumping the gun on assuming the Connecticut Primary is over. Polls does not turnout make. Lot of work remaining, always possibilty of a last minute surge, people without phones could be voting for Lieberman, etc.

But gosh, those polls! And with Lieberman cancelling GOTV? At this point, there's one unresolved question in my mind, one that it would be nice to get an answer to before this primary is over:

Is Bill Clinton going to make that call? Read More

Snowe: "He didn't answer any questons!" NPR

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Thursday May 18, 2006 · 10:41 AM PDT

2006/05/18 · 10:41

Today I almost smashed my car into a telephone pole! Did anyone listening to NPR's broadcast of the Gen. Michael Hayden hearing hear this little snipet:

After Chairman Roberts for lunch, Snowe asked if she had more time. Then Chairman Pat Roberts said "He can answer your questions after.."

And Snowe complained, clearly into the microphone "He didn't answer any questions!"

I couldn't believe it. But I don't see anything yet about it on MSM or ALTM. Anyone else hear this? It was clearly audible. I know I'm not going nuts...I think I'm not going nuts. UPDATE: It was Fienstein.. thanks commentors! I guess TV does kill the radio star.

Dang It! Frame Delay Story Before a Martyr is Born!

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Tuesday April 04, 2006 · 8:20 AM PDT

2006/04/04 · 08:20

Somebody call the frame police!

Delay pulls a "I'll quit before you can fire me," the oldest trick in the book, as even GOP political experts were saying he stood a Texas-size chance of losing
the congressional election in what would otherwise be a fairly safe seat for Republicans.

Left to its own devices, the news media is giving Delay a pass here, and making it a story of the GOP 'moving on.' Republicans could cleanse themselves of previous support for Delay, while the Hammer sets up shop in Arlington to run the 2006 elections. It's almost a clean getaway for the Hammer.

What's a Democrat to do? Read More

Withdrawal? Not until 2009!

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Tuesday March 21, 2006 · 11:35 AM PST

2006/03/21 · 11:35

Bush today has made his position on withdrawal clear: the US will withdraw when an Iraq government asks us to (something a US supported government isn't likely to do) or when someone else is President.

This should make the policy difference of the two parties clear in a way that Reid, Pelosi, Warner, Clinton and Dean haven't. Continue Long-Term or End Narrow Term.

No non-Lieberman Democrat has advocated troops until 2009. Read More

Samara = Escalation

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Monday March 20, 2006 · 7:27 AM PST

2006/03/20 · 07:27

In ordering 'Operation Swarmer' and taking a new large-scale ground offensive against Iraqi insurgents in Samara, President Bush is doing for Democrats what they can't (Murtha excepted) do for themselves - he is delineating terms of a new debate on Iraq:

Withdrawal vs. Escalation
And that's good news for Democrats.
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Military Funeral Protests: A Set-Up?

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Tuesday March 07, 2006 · 7:34 AM PST

2006/03/07 · 07:34

I'm calling a Gladwell today.

Today on CNN I saw coverage of these 'military funeral' protesters.

Something struck me as strange. I can't put my finger on it, but I'll try: there was only a few of them visible, like five at the most. They had sunglasses on, all of them. Their clothes look like somebody made a hasty trip to Old Navy to get 'protest gear'. And they spoke with deep, deep accents. (OK, I know, you can't judge someone by an accent, and all anti-war protests are alike but I throw it in the mix with the other suspicious factors...it is strange to hear those type of accents completely dominate all members of a protest) And call me crazy but those signs, those signs look like the result of a well-funded organization, not scrappy protests.

If you are a reader of Malcom Gladwell's Blink you are aware of the concept of thin-slicing where you can look at something and it doesn't add up, and perhaps not explain why. Great art forgeries, he says, were detected this way. I'm calling a Gladwell here. This protest just doesn't 'look' real.
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Bush: Osama Helped Me Win and I Let it Happen!

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Tuesday February 28, 2006 · 11:28 AM PST

2006/02/28 · 11:28

In Bill Sammon's new book 'Strategery' (how much news did Sammon have to cover up to get this kind of access) he is going to say that Bush stated he felt Osama Bin-Laden's last minute videotape released right before election 2004, helped him.

And in the closest re-elect for an incumbent since Woodrow Wilson, anything that helps in the final days is by its nature critical; such an admission from the President is tantamount to saying that Bin Laden pushed him over the edge. And that his re-election, far from an endorsement of Bushonomics and his War on Terror, hung on a last-minute scare?

Certianly Kerry believed the tape had a huge impact.

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Sunday January 08, 2006 · 2:51 PM PST

2006/01/08 · 14:51

Who doesn't remember that ol' Little Rascal bit when the cement fell into the milk for the Rascals' mush, but yet they still had to eat it.

Well, the same thing is happening to Democrats right now. The Republicans, right wing talk radio and Fox News are trying to re-frame the Abramoff matter. And if Democrats aren't careful, they will end up eating the mush, cement and all... Read More

Who Let Bush Bury Social Security?

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Wednesday December 14, 2005 · 7:24 AM PST

2005/12/14 · 07:24

The answer is: Democrats did. And they shouldn't have. But there are at least four steps Democrats could be taking now to bring the issue back.

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Tuesday December 06, 2005 · 12:05 PM PST

2005/12/06 · 12:05

Scott McClellan and Ken Mehlman apparently didn't get the 'Legitimate Discussion' memo.
As you remember, Cheney said on November 21st that Jack Murtha was a patriot, and taking a "clear stand" on a "legitimate discussion."

Cheney then set down the rules: as of Nov. 21st it was Ok to talk about the war. But no talking about that pre-war intelligence. That would be 'reprehensible,' and not only that but "not legitimate," according to Cheney.

So imagine Howard Dean's surprise when he took the same position as Congressman Murtha -- that a win is not possible in Iraq -- and got this reaction: Read More

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Alberto Gonzales, When You Laugh at Me You Laugh at America

When They Said Sore-Loserman, They Were Half Right!

Will Bill Clinton Make THE CALL?

Snowe: "He didn't answer any questons!" NPR

Dang It! Frame Delay Story Before a Martyr is Born!

Withdrawal? Not until 2009!

Samara = Escalation

Military Funeral Protests: A Set-Up?

Bush: Osama Helped Me Win and I Let it Happen!

Don't Drink The Abramoff Milk; It's Spoiled

Who Let Bush Bury Social Security?

Um, Isn't This a "Legitimate Discussion?"