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Posts Tagged ‘midterm elections’

CONDOLEEZZA RICE

Daily Briefing: The Buck Stops at That Pervert Over There

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
  • Republican strategists accept possibility of losing control of Congress in midterm elections, but not the responsibility for it — that’s Foley’s fault. [WP, NYT]

  • FBI knew about Foley emails in July, concluded they “did not rise to the level of criminal activity.” [WP]
  • Independent spending by political organizations out paces candidates’ own campaign expenditures in closest races. [WP]
  • Bush happy to raise money for any Republican Congressional candidates that will have him. [NYT]
  • George Tenet did brief Condoleezza Rice about a “looming” (NYT) and “imminent” (WP) threat from Al Qaeda (NYT) or al-Qaeda (WP), in July 2001. [WP, NYT]
  • Lewinsky blowjob jokes once common among Capitol Pages, to be replaced by Foley anal sex jokes. [LAT, USAT]

CAMPAIGNS

Rumors On The Internets: The Five Letter “F” Word

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

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  • Foley’s replacement on the GOP ticket in Florida has never even heard of himself. [TPMMuckraker]

  • It wasn’t just teenage boys. Mark Foley also liked to “cut open illegal Ecuadorian immigrants and fuck their still pumping aortas.” [Rude Pundit]
  • Democrats send out email blast about Foley without even blog-level fact checking. [Washington Wire]
  • Ben Stein calls Democrats pedophile-enablers. [Hit & Run]
  • Supreme court upholds Texas ban on dildos; loophole exists if they’re used for, “legislative, judicial or law enforcement purpose .” [Pandagon]
  • Is Pennsylvania Congressional candidate Don Sherwood gonna have to choke a bitch? [YouTube]
  • Ah, Britain — where paging a terrorist to remind him to board a plane is still considered funny, not a felony. [YouTube]
  • How will Iraq, sex scandals, and the economy affect the midterm election? Just watch the share price — if anybody can see the future it’s coked-up Wall Street gambling addicts. [Tradesports]
  • In Gonzales’ Justice Department, anything goes. Seriously, margaritas at lunch and Friday’s No-Pants day. [Above the Law]
  • “Funny” Mark Foley t-shirts. [Spreadshirt, CafePress]

HILLARY CLINTON

Cartoon Violence Thinks It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This

Friday, September 29th, 2006

It’s time once again for resident curmudgeonly comics analyst the Comics Curmudgeon to take a stab at explaining Today’s Cartoons. Someone’s got to.

This week, metaphors! Learn why they should be left to the experts, after the jump. Also, there is semen.

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DEMOCRATS

Daily Briefing: Taking a ‘Stan

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Delayed due to technical difficulties/epic hangover

  • Terror detainee bill passes House, will “authorize the indefinite detention of non-citizens without access to courts - even if they are not charged with any crime.” [WP, NYT, LAT]

  • Democrats could win 6 seats and take control of Senate, “if the stars continue to align.” [NYT]
  • Jeb Bush talks smack about George Bush’s No Child Left Behind program, “not saying it’s bad, but needs to be better.” [NYT]
  • Bush “chaperoned” dinner for passive-aggressive Presidents Pervez Musharraf and Hamid Karzai last night. [BBC, NYT, CNN]
  • Kazakh president to be feted at White House state dinner Friday while accusations of rampant corruption, murder, and Borat obstructionism continue to hound him. [NYT, NYT]
  • Full NIE dealing with Iraq will not be released. [CNN, W$J]
  • Chelsea Clinton to host her dad’s 60th birthday party/fundraiser in New York. Guest list and activities humiliate the CakeLove cupcakes and six-pack you got. [WP]

GOSSIP

Insight Makes Shit Up, Matt Links To It

Monday, February 27th, 2006

So, while we’re on the subject of Matt Drudge, we just want to ask: MORE »


REPUBLICANS

Sadly, This One Came Without A Chart To Deface

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

GOP-Elephant.jpgCongratulations to Chris Lehmann, writing in the New York Observer, for pulling off a political journalism coup — getting a rank-and-file Republican (who isn’t MAVERICK RENEGADE LOOSE CANNON JOHN MCCAIN) to give an on-the-record criticism of his party! MORE »


DEMOCRATS

Entire Political Party Forgets to Study For Midterms

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Another day, another article full of on-the-record Democratic hand-wringing. Today’s comes from the New York Times, and features a handy graphic illustrating this week’s Major Problem With the Democratic Party: No effective party-wide leader! Under the faces of those with fairly legitimate claims to that title are lists of reasons — handily provided by the Democrats themselves! — why each one of the candidates isn’t effective in steering the party. But shit, that’s a lot of words. To save you a couple minutes, we’ve summarized both the article and the entire Democratic media strategy for the rest of the year:
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