Eric Florack on May 19th, 2009

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This is the “Road to where?” edition

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I’ve given Michael Steele every chance. I’ve held my tongue, while I watched him bumble around as, I reasoned, newcomers to any position will.  But this Politico column of today is the final straw.

First, the Republican Party will be

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Eric Florack on May 19th, 2009

Unconfirmed as yet, but the story is making the rounds that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is to resign. More as we find.

 

Addendum: False Alarm.  Turns out to be a RedState pointmaker, and the person resigning isn’t Pelosi, but the

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davidl on May 19th, 2009

In the story that is being reported, bassackwards,  Johnathan Martin, Politico, breathlessly reports, “Palin camp eyed Clinton alliance:”

In an unusual attempt to forge an alliance between two of the most prominent families in American politics, John

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davidl on May 19th, 2009

The Bits Blog Obama Dog of the Day is Patricia McGuire, via Tom Jackman, Washington Post:

The controversy surrounding the appearance of President Obama at the University of Notre Dame’s commencement ceremonies reverberated through at least one local Catholic

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Eric Florack on May 18th, 2009

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

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Eric Florack on May 18th, 2009

Being WHAM/1180 is a local station, I normally wouldn’t post this, but with WHAM’s 50kw signal, and the huge coverage it had back before the FCC decided 750 miles was enough for one station, (Half the bleedin’ country…. literally) I’ll

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Eric Florack on May 18th, 2009

Interesting note from Don Surber this morning.

But the real inappropriate relationships in last year’s presidential campaign were between ACORN and the campaigns of both Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The Times ignored that story. Unlike the McCain affair,

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davidl on May 18th, 2009

The Vice President of the United States wages war on himself. reveals location of Vice Presidential bunker, Fox News:

Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to

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Eric Florack on May 17th, 2009
  • The real issue with Wanda Sykes is she correctly identified the mindset of her audience.  why are they laughing? #TCOT #HHRS #
  • @lileks Top Gun star= short subject.  #
  • @divadoll123 It’s now known that cheerioes with

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davidl on May 17th, 2009

Barack Obama verbally defecated on the former Catholic institution known as Notre Dame, from, from Julie Pace, Associated Press:

Obama acknowledged that “no matter how much we want to fudge it … the fact is that at some level,

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Eric Florack on May 17th, 2009

I consider this to be nothing short of a “See I Told You So” moment.

Glenn Reynolds, last night:

OBAMA IS LIKE BUSH: “I’m laughing at Obama, but I’m also thanking him for doing the right thing and reasonably tolerant

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Eric Florack on May 16th, 2009

You probably didn’t know this, because it is so seldom on calendars anymore, and the mainstream media reluctantly if ever makes reference to it. armedforcesday2009sm

That’s particularly interesting, given the politics of the man who established the day.  Its Armed Forces

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Eric Florack on May 16th, 2009

According to a story posted yesterday at the Denver Post, the Democrats are in trouble on yet another front;

WASHINGTON —Denver Post- Rick Strandlof, executive director of the Colorado Veterans Alliance and the man most colleagues knew as Rick

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davidl on May 15th, 2009

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Speaker Tablecloth, a/k/a Nancy Pelosi, has done something that President Barack Obama has promised to but on which he failed to deliver, to with Speaker Tablecloth has united the left and the right. First Speaker

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