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From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Republicans Are The True Whiners

September 30, 2008

One of John McCain's bestest buddies, Phil Gramm, called Americans "whiners" not long ago. Look who's whining now.
John Boehner, R-OH, Eric Cantor, R-VA, and Roy Blunt, R-MO stood in front of microphones yesterday and told Americans that the reason Republicans let the country down by not voting for a bailout of Wall Street was because [...]

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Sarah Palin Watch

September 28, 2008

On September 11, 2008….National Review writer Kathleen Parker wrote this about the choice of Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate….
McCain can hardly wipe the grin off his face. He gambled and won — Big Time. His biggest score has been among white women, who have abandoned the Obama camp and hauled their teepees over to [...]

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Obama 1, McCain 0

September 27, 2008

Even in the opening handshake of the two presidential candidates last night, John McCain couldn't muster up enough class, or courage, to look Barack Obama in the eye.

If McCain can't look Barack Obama in the eye…how can he look world leaders in the eye?
The 90 minute debate last night at the University of Mississippi [...]

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Mighty Mouse McCain Here To Save The Day?

September 26, 2008

What's at stake if there IS a bailout on Wall Street….
"For the average American, this is what they will experience. The price of food and oil are going to skyrocket due to hyperinflation. The only way they can possibly pay for all these bailouts is to inflate the money supply. This means hyperinflation in America [...]

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Suspended Straight Talk

September 25, 2008

My friends, it's time for a little suspension of straight talk.
John McCain announced the suspension of his straight talk campaign for the presidency yesterday. Claiming that the Henry Paulson labeled "financial crisis" is just oh-too-crisis-sy, the Straight Talk Express driver has now called a temporary moratorium on the marathon of lies McCain calls his [...]

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Why Trust Paulson?

September 24, 2008

Quick….write me a check for $700 billion. No strings attached. No judge can question the transaction. I'll determine how the money is spent. And if you don't write the check quickly…..the world will end.
Why trust Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson? Why trust a guy who has said all of the following things just this year……
Feb. 14, [...]

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Reagan Conservatism Now Dead

September 23, 2008

At approximately 5 minutes in on the video below, Rachel Maddow cuts through Pat Buchanan's typical change-the-subject-when-you're-shown-to-be-intellectually-dishonest routine and says this about conservatism and the mortgage meltdown…..
"This is not a Democrat-Republican problem (financial meltdown) necessarily…it's a conservative problem…it is a tenet of conservatism that regulation is bad…markets ought to be left alone….conservatives' basic philosophy [...]

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Fighting Socialism

September 22, 2008

The CEO president…..our illustrious Decider Leader…America's Codpieced Commander Guy….the Mighty Socialism Slayer from Laissez-Faire Land….has drawn fresh blood yet again. I don't know about you, but I, for one, am thanking my lucky stars (or my Lucky Charms, I can't remember which) that this wildly successful private business CEO, George Walker Bush, came to Washington [...]

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Campaign As Farce

September 20, 2008

Last night on the Rachel Maddow Show, 9PM MSNBC, Ana Marie Cox from Time.com, who is traveling with the McCain campaign, said that "angry" is the best way to describe the current mood of the McCain campaign. "Angry."
When Maddow asked Cox about the many lies spoken by both McCain and Palin while on the [...]

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Insisting He Didn't Misspeak

September 18, 2008

During the campaign this year, John McCain has stated on 22 occasions that the "fundamentals of our economy are strong". That phrase, the same one George W. Bush has used repeatedly, is, obviously, a Republican talking point.
The fundamentals of our economy,…..and I confess I'm no economist but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn [...]

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