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Daily Archives: October 27th, 2008

More false equivalency

Monday, October 27, 2008

From the Times: With heavy voter turnout expected on Election Day, both parties are amassing thousands and thousands of lawyers to keep an eye on the polls. Senator Barack Obama’s campaign is expected to send at least 5,000 lawyers to Florida alone. The first recruitment e-mail message the campaign sent out nationally received 6,000 responses […]

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Meanwhile, under the radar

Monday, October 27, 2008

The Bush Administration has entered full destructo mode. They have only two months left to complete destruction of everything. Most of us think they’ve already succeeded admirably, but there’s more to be done. For instance: At the Bush administration’s direction, the Environmental Protection Agency is working on a new rule that would weaken pollution regulations […]

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Students for Courtney

Monday, October 27, 2008

Brian Farber of the Courtney campaign asked, along (probably) with every other blogger in Connecticut, to post a video of a new Courtney commercial featuring 2nd District students. Unfortunately, the embedded video plays automatically, whether you like it or not, as soon as you come to this august location. So I deleted it right after […]

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I must be dreaming

Monday, October 27, 2008

Despite what seemed like the Justice Department’s best effort to screw up the case against him, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens went down today, convicted by a jury of his peers on seven counts of violating ethics laws. This is too much good news, and makes me suspect anew that I am being set up.

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Patriots in Indiana

Monday, October 27, 2008

Indiana is not a very enlightened state, but it leads the nation in one respect: robocalls are illegal. If you want to spread slime, you have to hire real people to do it. The only trouble is that real people, even the poorly paid folks who really need the money they make in what must […]

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