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You win Mr. President! Just like my policy of cut and run, I surrender!

Congratulations Madame Speaker…

you’ve accomplished nothing so we thought you might need a bigger tool to help you get your job done.

I’m not an economist (my father is about as close as I get, and he’s still a few steps shy of his doctorate) nor is P.J. O’Rourke, and that’s why I found O’Rourke’s most recent book On the Wealth of Nations (from the Atlantic Monthly’s “Books that Changed the World” series) so entertaining. The […]

News today that former DNC chair and current (as well as past) Clinton money man Terry McAuliffe will be headlining the local Democrats fundraiser at Pickwick and Frolic in June.
Given Pickwick & Frolic’s bent toward the theatrical, look for McAuliffe to do what he does best - tell stories that are so full of blarney […]

Democratic political consultant Bob Shrum has written a book that I have no intention of reading. A galley copy is sitting on my bookshelf and I’ve looked at it a couple of times - even opened it to check a reference that was made yesterday - but I’m not going to read it.
You see […]

I just saw this on CSpan -
Delaware Senator and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination Joe Biden said tonight on the senate floor that the United States should take unilateral action with or without the support of the UN in an international crisis…
in Darfur.
Apparently genocide is OK in Iraq, but not in Darfur. Thank […]

With the new addition to the Cheney clan, how could I ignore the revelation made in Bob Shrum’s new book that John Edwards is uncomfortable with homosexuals.
Isn’t Edwards the same guy who said this about the Vice President and his family as an effort to “out” Cheney during the VP debate at Case Western Reserve […]

Say what you will about the dark underlord of the right wing, but you can tell a proud grandpa when you see one. Congratulations to the Cheney family.

Last Sunday morning on the ABC-TV highbrow gabfest - This Week, host George Stephanopoulos interviewed Speaker of State Nancy Pelosi. During the interview, Stephanopoulos broached the issue of the Speaker’s “first 100 hour agenda” and how few of the things she talked about accomplishing last year while she was on the campaign trail […]

I don’t know if my endorsement would hurt him or help him, but Ryan Demro’s running for mayor of Lakewood, Ohio and anybody who lives there should give him a look.
You can visit his VERY fact-filled website here.
Knowing Ryan, he may be knocking on your door as I write this. Open the door, he’ll answer […]

No, it’s not three guys wandering into a bar as the preface for an off color punchline. It’s the three guys (Al Franken, Peter Agre, and Mike Ciresi) running for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Minnesota. Oh wait, maybe there is a punchline there.
Vote for Norm Coleman - I would.