Wonkette
- Trouble in the mortgage market is now translating to higher interest rates. [New York Times]
- Barack Obama wouldn’t just be a post-racial, post-partisan president; he would also be a post-Iraq president, as illustrated by his emphasis on Afghanistan and Pakistan in his visit abroad this week. [Washington Post]
- Barack talked with Barak, in Israel. [Los Angeles Times]
- Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, accused of all sorts of crimes, will not seek a pardon from President Bush. [The Hill]
- John McCain got money from an Oregon venture capitalist named Craig Berkman even though Berkman stole $5 million from his investment partners. [Washington Post]
- People short on cash are skipping preventive care, which translates to higher bills in the end. Many, many depressing anecdotes in this story. [Wall Street Journal]
DAILY BRIEFING
Of course, healthcare would be worse if it were single payer. Those awful screenings and horrifying visits to doctors. Instead it’s better for US America to just let people die.
McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said that Berkman’s problems were overlooked by a “[b]skeleton staff[/b]” that “was obviously focused on winning primaries.”
Holy crap! Does this mean Barack Obama is really Jack Sparrow in disguise?
skeleton staff
there… that’s better.
Off topic, but if you go over to nytimes.com right now there is a picture that proves once and for all that Barak Obama is neither a Christian nor a Muslim like he is always claiming to be, but is in fact a Jew! http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/us/politics/24obama.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1216818882-qFcHo40HJr5GoHmXLchenw
God, I loathe Tom Delay…
WTF?
He isn’t seeking one because he knows damn well he is going to get one anyway.
freakishlystrong:
I did a whole series of DeLay mugshots back in the day.
Serolf Divad: Shit! Thank you, usually I weep when I even see the name of that pompus asshat, (and the way Tweety fawns over him makes me gag), those are perfection!
A campaign stop at Yad v’Shem is better than two in West Palm Beach. Welcome, Baruch Obamaberg, our first Jewish president.
Of course McCain took money from a guy who embezzled $5M. Who else should McCain hit up, the guy’s business partners? They might be a wee bit short of cash.
Serolf Divad: SD - Think for a minute - Have you ever seen Barack and Johnny Depp in the same room?
Re: Healthcare - Last time I checked, a jog around the block was free. Americans just need to get up off their fat asses for a grand total of 90 minutes a week.
If a bag of Doritos weighed 15 pounds, we’d all be fit as fiddles.
MoodProcessor: Yeah, we’d all be fit as fiddles until we got hit by a car. This happened to me. I got in a car accident and had my ACL and meniscus torn in my knee. I spent 8 years with knee pain (plus re-injury every few months) until I went to school and had insurance to pay for surgery. It turns out that I developed bone bruises and spurs during the 8 years that made my surgery more difficult. Fun!
Yes, I’m bitter.