How Much for Just the Democrat?

(Chicago Sun-Times)-He was “the man behind the curtain” whose pervasive influence in the Blagojevich administration stacked state boards and lined his pockets, prosecutors charged Thursday as they opened their highly anticipated corruption case against Tony Rezko. But lawyers for

Rochester Rocks, 13-WHAM.

Obama’s Weak in Review, RCP

Man bites Dog, George McGovern, WSJ:

Nearly 16 years ago in these very pages, I wrote that “‘one-size-fits all’ rules for business ignore the reality of the market

• Snowing in Rochester at the moment. Nothing newsworthy about that, particularly, except that the line of snow as this is being written runs from north and east of here to the south southwest, all the way down to New Orleans.

Hume, last night:

Two Ohio Democrats tell The Politico newspaper that superdelegates in the state are banding together to get what they want – withholding their endorsements from Obama and Clinton until they receive what is called a concrete proposal

Now, this is interesting.

It appears based on reports I’m seeing from ABC, that Tony Rezko is $50m in debt, and is living on handouts of $7500/mo.

So, the question becomes, how he was able to buy a bit

Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns have looked in the mirror and saw a monster. Gerri Peev, Scotsman:

HILLARY Clinton has been branded a “monster” by one of Barack Obama’s top advisers, as the gloves come off in the

Just so you know, Iran is anything but unified behind Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.

You will doubtless recall Hillary’s “Daisy” ad, where she raises the question about who is going to answer that 3am phone call.  Obama released a response ad last week, too.

But in a rare bit of honesty, the New

• It strikes me as amusing indeed that the plan that Hillary Clinton is using to win the Democratic Party primary is the very same plan Al Gore used back in 2000, in his attempt to win the election.  Namely, challenge

Much is being made just now, of the possiblity of the DNC making a ‘do-over’ in Florida and Michagan.  If I considdered oward Dean a principled man, I’d suggest he wouldn’t do it on the basis of principle. But these

It used to be ‘global warming’. Then a few dozen  enviro-nazi rallies got stopped by snowstorms. Kinda hard to claim global warming when you’re freezing your buttocks off.

Remember how it was vital we ‘save the whales’? Well, that’s out

The Business in Venezuela is getting worse. Chavez has closed the Columbian border. AFP is reporting:

A crisis between three Latin American nations worsened Tuesday when Venezuela said it was closing its border with Colombia, even as frantic diplomatic talks

When pols power is under threat, all that crap goes away to be replaced by sleeze and attack. I note a story this morning at MSNBC, which reports on the comments from Barrack Obama Campaign manager David Plouffe, who

Candidates is glass houses, the Obama campaign on the Clintons’  campaign, via MSNBC:

“As it relates to ethics and transparency,” Plouffe said, “we’re surprised that they would want to have an extended conversation about contributors and land deals and

Less than 48 hours ago, I posted a note from Bluto about the Lee Media Network.

Great news from Rusty…. They’re gone.

Keep up the fight, guys.  We’re with you.