Good gosh! McCain invented the Black-Berry

Seriously folks...

Pass the buck Perry - What's he hiding?

Texas Governor, Rick Perry attempts to blame all except himself over the media blackout on Hurricane Ike's most damaged areas.

Rumor has it there is big story here. Something big. People missing. The truth hidden.

Immigrants, HPV Vaccine and Choice

At $162 a dose, the Bush Administration prefers Merk over choice. You are next.

In July, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services quietly amended its list of required vaccinations for immigrants applying to become citizens. One of the newest requirements? Gardasil, which vaccinates against the human papillomavirus (HPV). From the agency’s press release.

This regulation goes directly against the advice of Dr. Jon Abramson, chairman of the CDC’s advisory committee on immunization practices. In Feb. 2007, Abramson said that he and other committee members advised that Gardasil should not be mandatory because HPV is not a communicable disease like chicken pox.

The problem with this regulation is that the HPV vaccine is not mandatory for U.S. citizens. Therefore, U.S. citizens are allowed to weight the costs and risks associated with Gardasil, but immigrants are forced to pay-out-of-pocket for a vaccine they might not want to take.

McSame will make Cheney look like Gandhi

It's creepy and it's pure insanity. The man is now claiming to be the Peace president.

Hat tip to Texas Kaos.

Lampson: Set the record straight

My gmail of the day.


Dear Friend,

Contribute today and Stop Pete Olson's Lies

Pete Olson has hired new hatchet men that share his disdain for fact and truth; and his appreciation for misleading the voters. We need your help to fight Pete Olson’s attempts to smear Congressman Lampson’s record of working hard for you.

The new attack ad, by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, distorts Congressman Lampson’s record of cutting taxes for the middle class and fighting to lower gas prices for consumers.

These attack ads do nothing more than lie to the voters in a shameful attempt to cover Congressman Lampson’s strong record of fighting for energy solutions and tax cuts.

It’s clear the Olson campaign strategy is to embrace the Delay-style politics of lie, lie, and lie some more.

Congressman Lampson’s record is clear:

* Won billions in tax breaks for veterans, teachers, and America’s middle-class by passing America’s Middle-Class Tax Relief Act.
* Fought to reform the IRS and improve efficiency, saving millions of Americas time and money.
* Rallied Congress to give stimulus checks to American’s struggling with high gas prices
* Pressed Congress to find common sense energy solutions that fund new types of energy without costing taxpayers a dime.

Please give $10 or more to help broadcast Congressman Lampson’s record of fighting for you and push back against the Olson smear machine.

With your help we will win!

What's worse than the McCain bullshit?

McCain-Palin MooseShit!

New Obama Ad: Whoa! You Liar

Best ad out in a long time. Give me more!

Hillary: No Palin

Lies to nowhere

Think Progress has a good thing going regarding her inaccuracies on her support for the Bridge to Nowhere.

What a great picture

Hat tip to the folks over at Texans for Obama.

How long before we learn she never shot a moose?

Frank Rich's latest opinion piece.

We still don’t know a lot about Palin except that she’s better at delivering a speech than McCain and that she defends her own pregnant daughter’s right to privacy even as she would have the government intrude to police the reproductive choices of all other women. Most of the rest of the biography supplied by her and the McCain camp is fiction.

She didn’t say “no thanks” to the “Bridge to Nowhere” until after Congress had already abandoned it but given Alaska a blank check for $223 million in taxpayers’ money anyway. Far from rejecting federal pork, she hired lobbyists to secure her town a disproportionate share of earmarks ($1,000 per resident in 2002, 20 times the per capita average in other states). Though McCain claimed “she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” she has never issued a single command as head of the Alaska National Guard. As for her “executive experience” as mayor, she told her hometown paper in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, the year of her election: “It’s not rocket science. It’s $6 million and 53 employees.” Her much-advertised crusade against officials abusing their office is now compromised by a bipartisan ethics investigation into charges that she did the same.

How long before we learn she never shot a moose?

Given the actuarial odds that could make Palin our 45th president, it would be helpful to know who this mystery woman actually is. Meanwhile, two eternal axioms of our politics remain in place. Americans vote for the top of the ticket, not the bottom. And in judging the top of the ticket, voters look first at the candidates’ maiden executive decision, their selection of running mates. Whatever we do and don’t know about Palin’s character at this point, there is no ambiguity in what her ascent tells us about McCain’s character and potential presidency.

Video: AIP Vice Chair says Palin member before Mayor, all kinds of problems with ethics, infiltrate a major party

This of Dexter Clark is vice-chair of the Alaskan Independence Party at the 2nd Secessionist Convention making some very interesting comments regarding Sarah Palin and their cause. The AIP now denies the Palin membership and has issued a release. Somebody is Lying!! Rather strange.

ALASKA FIRST!

Until we as Alaskans receive our Ultimate Goal, the AIP will continue to strive to make Alaska a better place to live with less government interference in our everyday lives.

The Alaskan Independence Party's goal is the vote we were entitled to in 1958, one choice from among the following four alternatives:

1) Remain a Territory.
2) Become a separate and Independent Nation.
3) Accept Commonwealth status.
4) Become a State.

AP: "McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain?"

Poor, poor man...

Little Wingnut Annie

McCain: Change is coming...supports Obama

There is only one campaign that has talked about change since day one. That's Obama. McCain now is the new change agent? Do they think your stupid? I love it!

Alaskans: Palin is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”

By yours truly:

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively. More here.

Cockroach sighting

Tom Delay that is... and slimy as ever.

Give 'em Hell, Joe!

Buns and Guns = Free Drinks

If you happen to be in New york this weekend...

McCAIN-PALIN: A BRIDGE TO NOWHERE

Palin: Pipeline to nowhere

Truth Serum Alert:

PALIN: "I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence. That pipeline, when the last section is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.

THE FACTS: Palin implies that construction has begun on a major natural gas pipeline from the top of Alaska into Canada. That is not correct.

In fact, no building has begun and actual construction is years away, if it ever happens. This summer the Alaska Legislature, at Palin's request, passed a bill under which the state will issue a "license" to a Canadian energy company, TransCanada Corp., and pay it up to $500 million as an incentive to someday build this enormous project, which Alaska politicians have long sought with little success. The license is not a construction contract, and federal energy regulators have not yet approved the project.

What I got out her speech last night. Absolutely no substance, exaggerated story line and a string of lies. As a parent of a special needs child for over nine years now, I found her line of special needs advocacy...well offensive.

Why must Sarah Palin lie so much? Because they have nothing positive to run on. It really is all about the disastrous past eight years and more of same.

Is McCain the VP candidate now?

You would think so by looking at this McCain ad.

Bush "Same" Convention "Same"

I really love this ad. It's fits well with tonight's republican convention in many different ways. GW also gave the Democrats a free ad.

At your nearest grocery checkout line

Next: Palin wrestles ten foot Martian.

Hillary to Palin: Gloves off

From NY Times:

Advisers to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Sunday that Senator John McCain’s selection of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate would lead to a greater role for Mrs. Clinton as she campaigned this fall on behalf of her former rival, Senator Barack Obama.

Mrs. Clinton’s friends said she was galled that Ms. Palin might try to capitalize on a movement that Mrs. Clinton, of New York, built among women in the primaries. And Democrats used strong words on Sunday to rebut the notion: Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts said that women would not be “seduced” by the Republican ticket, and Guy Cecil, the former political director of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, said it was “insulting” for Republicans to compare Ms. Palin to Mrs. Clinton.

I'll show you reform!

ABC: GOP suspends most convention activities with hookers and blow

This is just to good. Pass it on.

As residents of New Orleans were fleeing Hurricane Gustav, top Republican party officials donned pink boas and swigged vodka shots at a wild whirl of corporate and lobbyist-paid parties this weekend in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Many corporate sponsors and their lobbyists carried through with plans for lavish entertainment of GOP lawmakers and others despite calls from the campaign of Sen. John McCain that Republicans should tone down the convention festivities.

"We will be contacting corporations and others to ask them to be respectful of events in the gulf," McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said Sunday afternoon.

Yet, last night lobbyists for the National Rifle Association, Lockheed Martin and the American Trucking Association put on a raucus six-hour party at a downtown bar featuring music by the band "Hookers and Blow." There was no evidence of any actual prostitutes or cocaine.

Congressman Bill Shuster (R-PA), a GOP House deputy whip, was seen meeting with a group of lobbyists who bemoaned McCain's call to tone down the parties which had already been paid for.

Shuster said he was praying for the people of the Gulf coast and said, despite Sen. McCain's call to "tone things down," there was no need to curtail corporate parties until after the Hurricane hit land.

Watch Brian Ross reporting on the Money Trail tonight from Minneapolis on World News with Charles Gibson.

Along the Mississippi last night, corporate lobbyists for the chemical industry were entertaining Ohio Republicans on two large yachts.

Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH), one of about 700 guests, said he "could not remember" who paid the costs of the river cruise.

Ohio Republicans later said $21,000 had been raised for relief charities during the evening.

Saturday night, 22 big corporations sponsored a pig roast and "booze cruise" for California Congressmen and delegates on Lake Minnetonka, west of Minneapolis.

There appeared to be no plans to cancel any of the lavish corporate parties planned for Republicans, although some lobbyists said they would invite Red Cross representatives and raise money for its relief efforts.

Many delegates at a party Saturday night for GOP convention CEO Maria Cino said they saw no reason to stop the good time because of events in New Orleans.

"Everyone goes through hard times," said Wisconsin delegate Jeff Larson.

More than a hundred people jammed a Minneapolis restaurant where waiters wore pink wigs and guests danced through the night as they wrapped themselves and their partners with pink boas.

Five pink spotlights were set up outside of the invitation-only party. ABC News reporters were told they could not enter.

Asked about the appropriateness of the gathering, Republican National Committeeman Tony Parker walked away from ABC News cameras, saying, "I don't want to talk with you."

Another Republican guest hid his face from cameras, wrapping a pink boa around his eyes and nose.

The executive director of the National Association of Manufacturers, Jay Timmons, a prominent Washington lobbyist, said, "I don't think it's a legitimate question," when asked if he felt funny attending the gala at a time of crisis in New Orleans.

"I think if the hurricane hits New Orleans there will definitely be a lot of change of plans," Timmons said.

At least 200 parties had been scheduled by corporate executives and lobbyists for the Republican gathering, much as they did last week at the Democratic convention in Denver.

Scarborough and Buchanan laugh at Palin pick

I found this little gem at Kos. Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan react to the Sarah Palin selection and validate Obama. It's a funny piece and a topic of conversion that most likely occurred at many kitchen tables this weekend. It did at mine.

New poll: Obama hits 50%

USAToday/Gallup: Obama 50%, McCain 43%.

OK, the folks at CNN can now dial back on the claim that the race is even.

Governor Palin took on Ted Stevens. If she can take him on, she can take on the Russians

I kid you not, this is the GOP's spin on their new candidate for VP. Lindsey Graham looks so lost and confused on how to respond to the experience issue. And what does this say about their own party. Republican = Russian.



Taking on Ted Stevens.

Despite her claims to be a reformer and “govern with integrity”, Palin has kept up her relationship with indicted Seanator Ted Stevens, the father of the bridge to nowhere. He endorsed her for Governor in 2006 and, on July 2, 2008, Stevens and Palin held a joint press conference on energy issues. As Steven’s hugged Palin she said “I have great respect for the Senator… He needs to be heard across America. His voice, his experience, his passion needs to be heard across America–so that Alaska can contribute more.”

Palin was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.

Truth Serum Alert:

The Alaska governor campaigned in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform, telling Ketchikan residents she felt their pain when politicians called them "nowhere." They're still feeling pain today in Ketchikan, over Palin's subsequent decision to use the bridge funds for other projects -- and over the timing of her announcement, which they say came in a pre-dawn press release that seemed aimed at national news deadlines.

Here is more to the McCain Lie/spin. Now that's a Maverick!

Update: If the above wasn't enough for you you...here's more.

Sarah Palin's record in office is facing increasing scrutiny after it emerged that she misled Republican supporters when she was presented to the nation as Senator John McCain's running mate.

The Governor of Alaska gave a misleading version of events over a controversial bridge project in her home state when she made her maiden speech as the presumptive nominee.

Mrs Palin told a cheering audience in Ohio that she had turned down an offer from the US Congress to build the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere", which would have connected Gravina Island with Ketchikan International, an airport in Alaska's southeast serving just 200,000 passengers a year. Mr McCain routinely cites the £100 million project as a symbol of wasteful central government spending.

As she introduced herself to Republicans and the American public on Friday, the virtually unknown Mrs Palin said: "I championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress ... 'thanks, but no thanks' on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said we'd build it ourselves."

However it emerged that in a 2006 interview with the Anchorage Daily News during her gubernatorial campaign, Mrs Palin had a different view of the bridge.

Asked "would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?" she replied: "Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now - while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist."