Eric Florack on January 25th, 2008

Anyone remember John Edwards?

I know… not lately.

He’s not going to the White House, unless they need an elevator operator.  By my read, he’s playing for some sort of appointment to a post in a Democrat White House. Notice…

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davidl on January 25th, 2008

Byran, Hot Air, points out that Mike Huckabee had an interesting point about rebuilding I-95 rather than sending out individual rebate checks:

Mike Huckabee makes some sense on the economic stimulus. He says, essentially, if we’re going to borrow

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Eric Florack on January 25th, 2008

I note with interest that Jonathan Martin has put up a post at Politico making note of the fact that the global warming business has all but disappeared from John McCain’s speechmaking. Apparently McCain has finally figured out it’s not

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Eric Florack on January 24th, 2008

Seen by Kucinich around Shirley McCaine's houseWord from th AP wire is Dennis Kucinich will announce he’s leaving the race. Reason is, he’s facing four.. count ’em… four contenders for his House seat. And, those are just the ones in his own party. He’s not

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davidl on January 24th, 2008

In this case, the shock is not what is being said about B.J. Clinton, but rather who is saying it:

I write this more out of sadness than anger. Bill Clinton’s ill-tempered and ill-founded attacks on Barack Obama are doing

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  • Yikes! How long did THIS take to set up? Clearly some engineering genius has far too much time on their hands. Rube had nothing on these folks.
  • The WSJ is saying that Obama is just now figuring out that the

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Michelle Malkin uses the Senate floor debate over FISA to sum up the difference between democrats and republicans:

The frenzy over FISA is a stark reminder of basic party differences on the War on Terror. The Republicans put security first.

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Eric Florack on January 24th, 2008

I see that Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans.

Let’s break out the spreadsheet.

NOLA has 484,674 residents. Broken down by person, that means each one gets paid $516,528.00

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davidl on January 24th, 2008

Mrs. William ClintonI have previously commented that Mrs. Clinton campaigns ugly.  The true nature of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is getting harder to simply sweep under the carpet.  Alec MacGillis and Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post, only officially hide their disgust:

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Eric Florack on January 24th, 2008

And so why would Soros be trying to move us toward Democrats here in the US?

Jawa has the answer:

During an interview with the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, billionaire leftist George Soros weighed in

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Eric Florack on January 24th, 2008

The Clintons play dirty when they feel threatened. But we knew that, didn’t we?
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The problem is not Hillary Clinton per se or the sharp exchanges and personal accusations that squeamish political reporters deplore. That’s what politics is always

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Eric Florack on January 24th, 2008

By way of OTB, I see that the Louisiana primary went down about as expected; Ron Paul beat Romney, but both of them lost to Fred Thompson. That a couple of comparatively liberal northeastern pols wouldn’t do well down

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davidl on January 24th, 2008

I’d go longer, but I don’t know what to make of it.   On Memeorandum, you have stories of the open race war between the Clintons and Barack Obama.  Meanwhile, a few leftsided bloggers are upset because a republican operative

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2008

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Mr. and Mrs. ClintonGood move, or bad move, Barack Obama knows where to attack the Clinton’s in the massive, and over inflated, egos.   B.J. Clinton is riled over Obama’s Reagan comments, Ezra Klein, American Prospect:

Bill Clinton’s take on this was that

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